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Exploring new and old landscapes
Having it all
The nature-inspired work of Lydia Badger, Hilary Irons, and Erik Weisenburger, on display at Rose Contemporary under the name "The New Landscape," is undoubtedly new — powerfully conceived, refreshingly innovative, and scrupulously executed — but the three are also happy to be part of a long tradition.
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BRITTA KONAU
| March 13, 2013
Natasha Mayers’s wide-ranging vision
Postcards from the conscience
For outspoken artist and activist Natasha Mayers, art, politics, and life are seamlessly interconnected for mutual benefit.
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BRITTA KONAU
| February 13, 2013
Cynthia Davis uses space, line, and the color of cartography
Mapping a trajectory
Geographical maps describe space — its qualities, boundaries, hierarchies, ownership, and ways of traversing it.
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BRITTA KONAU
| January 16, 2013
Recalling the year’s most notable shows
In the rearview mirror
Looking back over this year's art exhibitions, some of the most exciting shows could be discovered at uncommon venues.
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BRITTA KONAU
| December 19, 2012
Luc Demers on the edge of light and darkness
Between knowing and seeing
Photographer Luc Demers does not so much explore what light makes visible, as what borders on light — darkness.
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BRITTA KONAU
| November 20, 2012
Exploring a state between analog and digital
Hybrid translations
For many artists digital and analog image-capture and production seem to force a choice.
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BRITTA KONAU
| October 24, 2012
Occupy, perceive, manipulate, and experience
Bodies in space
Grand vision tensely coexists with tight control and attention to details in Amy Stacey Curtis's installation "SPACE."
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BRITTA KONAU
| October 18, 2012
A roster of excellent shows at CMCA
In twos and solos
A two-person show can be very tricky, raising the possibility of both bodies of work vying for attention, edging each other on, or inviting negative comparisons.
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BRITTA KONAU
| August 29, 2012
Wegman’s world of lateral and literal logic
Thinking sideways
Wegman's World has taken over the hallowed halls of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
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BRITTA KONAU
| July 18, 2012
Lines of steel and graphite
Spare and strong
It's daunting to engage the cavernous space that is Brunswick's Coleman Burke Gallery.
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BRITTA KONAU
| July 03, 2012
Extreme reduction yields to openness
Balancing shapes of color
Encountering Martha Groome's paintings forces one to slow down, observe coloristic and spatial relationships, and ultimately tune in to the works' quietude.
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BRITTA KONAU
| June 13, 2012
Printmaking continues to matter
Paper, ink, and pressure
Essential to printmaking, and non-digital photography, is the frustrating, annoying time lapse between the creation of the matrix and the final image.
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BRITTA KONAU
| May 16, 2012
A contemporary artist shows one way forward
Painting past and future
There are many different ways to talk about Lesley Vance's paintings, yet we don't really have the right words yet.
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BRITTA KONAU
| April 18, 2012
Negotiating femininity in photographs
What is real?
Myths are inventions, not based on truth.
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BRITTA KONAU
| March 14, 2012
‘Amplified Moments’ of power and knowledge
Pensive musings
Power and intellect don't need to be opposites but often appear locked in reciprocal suppression and propagation. Bates College Museum of Art shows an excellent selection of works by Chinese artist Xiaoze Xie in which he muses on this complex relationship.
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BRITTA KONAU
| February 15, 2012
Time travel in miniature
What the future holds — or was it the past?
Although comprised of only six photographs, "Lori Nix: The City" at the University of Maine Museum of Art is a show not to be missed.
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BRITTA KONAU
| January 25, 2012
A year-long celebration winds down
Drawing to an end
Throughout 2011, June Fitzpatrick has done more than her share in highlighting the medium of drawing in the context of the state-wide project "Where to Draw the Line."
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BRITTA KONAU
| December 14, 2011
They, and Gideon Bok, are nothing but subjective
Time and perspective
Commonly artists prefer to work away from public scrutiny, shielded from revealing the awkward phases of creation, to emerge with a finished work of art that will last, if not for eternity, at least for quite a while.
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BRITTA KONAU
| November 23, 2011
Intricate works on paper by one of Maine’s best abstract artists
Complete in themselves
Geometric shapes like rectangles and circles have been the formal ingredients of some of the most sophisticated abstract art.
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BRITTA KONAU
| October 26, 2011
Abstract artists look at craft
A show of hands
Abstraction is currently getting a lot of attention in Portland.
By:
BRITTA KONAU
| September 28, 2011
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