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Sara Crall climbs a staircase to the heart

Sara Crall's expert hand is on show at Franklin Street Art Space
Viewing Sara Crall's new show, "observations of," at Franklin Street Art Space in Biddeford is like listening to a musician interpret her own song.

By: IAN PAIGE | November 19, 2008

Interview: Artist Chad Verrill

An interview with Chad Verrill of CVIC works
Chad Verrill, 34, makes drawings and prints at his home in Portland, where he's lived since he arrived in 1992 for a short-lived stint at the Portland School of Art.

By: IAN PAIGE | November 12, 2008

Works from Karsh, Christenberry, and at the PRC

Photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.

By: GREG COOK | November 14, 2008

Elements + islands

Dennis Pinette's identity is on display at CMCA
Dennis Pinette, who was born in the Penobscot Bay town of Belfast and lives there still, makes completely contemporary paintings whose roots extend back through those epic early days of American painting.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | November 05, 2008

Photos: Warhol Pop Politics

Andy Warhol: Pop Politics, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, September 27 – January 4

By: | November 05, 2008

Visible Silence gives limited voice

A new film examines Marsden Hartley’s life
Everyone has their own Marsden Hartley. That happens with great painters, and Hartley was one of the greatest of 20th-century American artists.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | October 29, 2008

No man is an island

“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.” _Allan Kaprow
When Allan Kaprow presented his first performance at New York’s Reuben Gallery in 1959, the conception for the first Happening was tightly scripted.

By: IAN PAIGE | October 22, 2008

On what ground?

Greg Parker and Noa Warren at June Fitzpatrick
The experience gap between Greg Parker and Noa Warren makes their joint show at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery at the Maine College of Art all the more exciting.

By: IAN PAIGE | October 16, 2008

A shadow world

Lauren Fensterstock’s unsettling installation
The centerpiece of Lauren Fensterstock’s installation at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art is what appears to be a large black pool with giant lily pads.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | October 09, 2008

New discoveries

What the Impressionists can still teach us
The show presents works by artists that influenced the Impressionists and artists who were, in turn, influenced by this most powerful of artistic movements.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | October 02, 2008

When ordinary is extraordinary

Gil Corral’s questions and answers in Biddeford
Biddeford artist Gil Corral seems to be one of those people whose surreality often seemS detached from everyday matters, but who can at times distill that perspective to simple truth.

By: IAN PAIGE | September 25, 2008

Off on a tangent

Jeff Kellar’s latest work is pared to austerity
Over the years Jeff Kellar, whose work is currently on view at Icon Contemporary Art in Brunswick, has been assiduously paring his work down.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | September 17, 2008

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By: PHOENIX STAFF | September 12, 2008

Water portraits

What Jessica Gandolf chooses to show
Despite their small size, Jessica Gandolf’s paintings have always had a large-scale operatic background informing their imagery.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | September 10, 2008

The jury's out

Finding some distinct voices at the CMCA
Juried shows are a terrible idea.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | September 03, 2008

Animal collective

Strength in numbers in Brunswick
!nd!v!duals (a group comprised of Dom, Meers, Col!n, and Luke O) has overrun Brunswick’s Coleman Burke Gallery with an impressive display of giant beasts toting weapons.

By: IAN PAIGE | August 27, 2008

Searching for the self

Yeshe Parks explores the junkyard at Whitney Art Works
At Whitney Art Works, Maine-based artist Yeshe Parks reveals to us this trajectory of translation with a collection of recent work.

By: IAN PAIGE | August 20, 2008

No accidents

Jon Imber knows just what he’s doing
There is nothing inherently emotionally expressive about paint being loosely smooshed around on a canvas.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | August 27, 2008

Whole in two

William Manning’s abstract continuum
It’s as if Bill Manning and his work are a small, coherent universe of its own that exists somewhere, and periodically others get to visit it for a while.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | August 05, 2008

Divine service

An interview with Oscar Mokeme
Oscar Mokeme is the Director of Portland Maine’s Museum of African Culture, which he co-founded in 1998 with Hannaford executive and collector Arthur Aleshire.

By: IAN PAIGE | July 31, 2008