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Form to a voice

Questions for Carl Klimt
Only 24 years old, Klimt has transitioned from his studies at Bowdoin College to a life in Portland as a professional artist and an adventuresome alter ego that has traversed as far as Antarctica.

By IAN PAIGE | July 02, 2008

Meta-Networkers

Braving the risks of a technology fetish, the artists manage to ride a line of questions, not proselytizing.
Braving the risks of a technology fetish, the artists manage to ride a line of questions, not proselytizing.

By IAN PAIGE | June 25, 2008

Looking directly

Seeing what summer has to offer
OK, summer’s here and it’s time to please the visitors.

By KEN GREENLEAF | June 18, 2008

Out of the woodwork

Langlais's legacy is more than just animals
Bernard Langlais's work has spawned a cottage industry of imitators who mostly serve just to prove how much better he was at it.

By KEN GREENLEAF | June 11, 2008

Collective mentality

A conversation with video artist Kenneth White
"We wanted to expand our reach as wide as possible and from that field create a program of film and videos that explicitly address duration."

By IAN PAIGE | June 04, 2008

Concentration

What we can learn from studying "History"
This show has a subtle but relentless energy that emerges slowly.

By KEN GREENLEAF | May 28, 2008

Artistic anatomy

Molding discomfort in plastic
"There are three mahogany chairs chainlinked together. They have anus seats with hemorrhoids all over them."

By IAN PAIGE | May 14, 2008

A look back

A longtime Maine artist gets a mini-retrospective
“Integrity” is the word that comes to mind while walking through the Lois Dodd show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport.

By KEN GREENLEAF | May 07, 2008

Power + glory

The peculiar American brashness of George Bellows
The work of George Bellows has a peculiarly American brashness about it.

By KEN GREENLEAF | April 30, 2008

Myth-making

Constructing images in a fantasy world
The infusion of a personal panoply of mythological motifs allows Kinsella to create highly decorative pieces that still speak to the soul.

By IAN PAIGE | April 23, 2008

Image-ination

Changing our minds, and then the world
The Phoenix sat down with Jason Read, the film series’s curator and an assistant professor of philosophy at USM, to discuss how this revolutionary concept can still influence artistic practice.

By IAN PAIGE | April 16, 2008

Growing up

The mature art of longtime Maine artists
In the early ’90s the sleepy little Downeast town of Belfast had its 15 minutes of fame.

By KEN GREENLEAF | April 09, 2008

Introduced 30 years on

Reflections on Spindleworks in Brunswick
I am an indirect recipient of the legacy of Spindleworks.

By IAN PAIGE | April 02, 2008

Stillness

Floating in the world of Japanese prints
There’s a small jewel of a show nestled into a side gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick.

By KEN GREENLEAF | March 26, 2008

Painting My Bloody Valentine

Gideon Bok’s analogous responses at USM Gorham
Thump! The needle hits the record with an abrasive scratch and then the music begins.

By IAN PAIGE | March 19, 2008

Old items, new life

John Whalley's "Mementos" at Greenhut Galleries
At first look John Whalley’s work seems pretty straightforward.

By KEN GREENLEAF | March 12, 2008

Expanded within

A look at the newly re-opened Bowdoin College Museum of Art
On the inside, though, it feels like a much larger museum has been magically folded into the fine old neo-classical structure.

By KEN GREENLEAF | March 06, 2008

Gallery Lucida

Three approaches to photography at Whitney Art Works
Whitney Art Works for the next few days hosts the work of three Portland photographers exhibiting entirely different but complementary approaches.

By IAN PAIGE | February 27, 2008

An informal formalism

Jared Radding at the new Franklin Street Art Space
Recent Nevada transplants Tammy Ackerman and Russell Persson are riding the wave of rejuvenation taking shape in Biddeford.

By IAN PAIGE | February 20, 2008

Artists in landscape

Commemorating the Katahdin Lake purchase
It’s a modest work with gusto and charm.

By KEN GREENLEAF | February 13, 2008

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