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Sophia Narrett’s update on the Romantics

Dreams in paint and thread
Sophia Narrett has created "embroidered paintings" since 2011.

By: BRITTA KONAU | May 30, 2013

Andy Verzosa’s re-thinking at Aucocisco

Changing parameters
Owner and director Andres Verzosa is showing 13 three-day two-person shows this season. Verzosa is perfectly aware of the disappearance of hierarchy and authority that I would maintain is not only taking place in the art world, but has already happened in art criticism and publishing.

By: BRITTA KONAU | May 09, 2013

Small scale yields big impact

Little drawings deliver deeper truths
Medieval towns, towers and turrets, flocks of birds, and blazing fires could easily be the subjects of fairytales or kitsch. Not so in the hands of Dozier Bell, who has plunged deeply into her imagination and masterfully realized what she found there in visual terms.

By: BRITTA KONAU | April 18, 2013

Small scale, big impact

Little drawings deliver deeper truths
Medieval towns, towers and turrets, flocks of birds, and blazing fires could easily be the subjects of fairytales or kitsch. Not so in the hands of Dozier Bell.

By: BRITTA KONAU | April 10, 2013

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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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."

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: BRITTA KONAU | April 18, 2012

Negotiating femininity in photographs

What is real?
Myths are inventions, not based on truth.

By: 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.

By: 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.

By: BRITTA KONAU | January 25, 2012

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