Jonathan Frost Gallery opens with “Beebe and Beebe: A Mother – Daughter Show.”

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Barbara Beebe, “Spring Flowers with Burmese Embroidery”

The Jonathan Frost Gallery in Rockland will open for its sixth summer season with the exhibition “Beebe and Beebe: A Mother – Daughter Show.”  The public is cordially invited to a gala Artists’ Reception from 5 – 8 p.m. on Friday May 25th, featuring live music by Steve Lindsay and Friends.

Barbara Beebe and her daughter Susan have been creating art for decades, sometimes apart, but often together.  Their work shares a joyousness of color and freedom of spirit as well as a love of place.  Barbara’s paintings travel far afield, to Italy, Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, and the artist’s native North Dakota, while many of Susan’s focus on Maine’s Friendship Long Island, where in 1985 the pair settled into an old farmhouse.  “The island is my favorite place to paint,” says Susan.  Susan trained as an artist at Boston’s Museum School, but Barbara is largely self-taught and came to painting after a highly successful career as a jewelry designer (something she still does); she started drawing as rehabilitation after injuring an arm in a fall on the island ice in 1987.  Since then, both Barbara and Susan have worked together in artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and shown their art in numerous exhibitions throughout the Maine Midcoast and elsewhere.  Susan is also a well-known and popular teacher of art, both with children and adults, as well as an equally well-known professional gardener and environmental activist.

Susan Beebe, “Foxgloves”


Susan and Barbara’s subject matter in this exhibition ranges from striking still lifes to intense florals and evocative landscapes.  Barbara shows a dozen works on paper in brilliant gouache, while Susan exhibits sixteen oils on canvas, as well as two linocuts, one of a Cooper’s hawk with nestlings, and the other a dramatic large image of a snowy owl in flight.

Throughout the season, the Jonathan Frost Gallery presents work by two dozen artists in all media, including Siri Beckman, Phoebe Bly, Rachel Burgess, Carolyn Caldwell, Jonathan Frost, Kathryn Frund, Liz Gribin, Gints Grinbergs, Hugh Gumpel, Peter DeCamp Haines, Alison Hildreth, Constance Kiermaier, Richie Lasansky, Mary Lennox, Steve Lindsay, Edward Mackenzie, Ann Makuck, Holly Meade, Jessie Pollock, Mimo Gordon Riley, Phil Schirmer, Gretchen Dow Simpson, and Joseph Wheelwright.

The “Beebe and Beebe: A Mother – Daughter Show” will run through July 4. FMI, visit jonathanfrostgallery.com or call 596-0800, Nan Mulford, Gallery Director.

Courthouse kicks off 2012 season with Open House,

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William Irvine, “The Harvest”

Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth kicks off their 2012 season with an Open House, 10 – 5 p.m. Sat. May 26, and a group show highlighting selected works by gallery artists, as well as works by several artists who are new to the gallery roster, including June Grey, Linda Packard, Paul Hannon, and Ragna Bruno.

Participating artists in the show are Judy Belasco, Ragna Bruno, Tom Curry, Philip Frey, Harold Garde, June Grey, Paul Hannon, Alison Hildreth, Kazumi Hoshino, William Irvine, Mark Kindschi, Ed Nadeau, John Neville, Linda Packard, Colin Page, Stephen Porter, Alison Rector, Jesse Salisbury, Robert Shillady, David Vickery. FMI, call 667-6611 or visit courthousegallery.com.

New Era Gallery opens with “Winter Works”

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Carol Petillo, hand-hooked rugs

New Era Gallery on Vinalhaven will open for the 2012 season with an artists’ reception entitled “Winter Works” which provides a first look at work done during the winter months by gallery artists.  The public is invited to an Artist’s Reception from 4 – 7 p.m. Sat. May 26 at the Gallery.

New work includes watercolor and acrylic paintings by John Wulp, hand-hooked rugs by Carol Petillo, mixed media work by Diana Godfrey and Elaine Crossman, and photographs by Joan Wright. The Windy Way Barn, located directly behind the gallery, will concurrently feature the work of the late Joan Wye.  Wye was an important figure in the Vinalhaven arts community, and this is the first retrospective to show works in the various media she used throughout her lifetime. Included will be ceramics, mosaics, wood-carvings and constructions, monotypes, and the paintings for which she is best known.“Winter Works” runs through June 20. FMI call 863-9351 or visit neweragallery.com.



Special Memorial Day Weekend First Friday Art Walk at Eric Hopkins, others

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Eric Hopkins cutout



Eric Hopkins Gallery and select galleries  of Arts in Rockland are having a special Memorial Day Weekend First Friday Art Walk from 5 – 8 p.m. Friday May 25. Eric Hopkins Gallery is showing new cutouts by Eric, like “Islands, Clouds and Wind Patches” pictured above. Many other AIR Galleries will be open for the Art Walk including Jonathan Frost Gallery next door. FMI, visit erichopkins.com.

“Karen Tusinski: New Paintings,” Gala Opening, at Gleason Boothbay

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Karen Tusinski, “Linear Tulip Garden”

 

Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor opens its summer 2012 season with “Karen Tusinski: New Paintings.” The gallery is hosting a Gala Opening Reception for Tusinski from 5 -7 p.m. Sat., May 26, at the Gallery on Townsend Ave.

Just a decade and a half after earning her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, artist Karen Tusinski has rocketed to the top of collector lists as a young artist to watch. Tusinski’s process involves working in layers, with each layer left partly exposed. The result is a rich, sensuous surface that verges on the three-dimensional.

Tusinski’s palette is bold and uninhibited, alternating between intense reds and oranges, creamy whites, and deep blues. Her subject matter is often botanical.  Red poppies angle sinuously up and across the canvas, or spill riotously out of bowls. Robust tulips sway on narrow stems. Lush, red rose hips tumble across a white canvas.

Tusinski’s painted world is a jungle of forms and colors, but it is a jungle managed by an artist who is both sure-handed and filled with joy by her own creations. Her many fans couldn’t agree more.

“Karen Tusinski: New Paintings” runs through Sat. June 23.  FMI, call 207-633-6849 or visit gleasonfineart.com.

New haunting and graceful works at Harbor Square Gallery

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Brian Mark, “Absolution”


It’s not often that someone creates an entirely new mode of self-expression. Most people are stuck within the confines of tradition or certain stylistic tendencies, be it in writing, film or fine art. Brian Mark, on the other hand, is one of the select few to have transcended convention, using an innovative method of pouring acid on stainless steel. This bold medium allows for an experience that is wholly unique and deeply mesmerizing. The Harbor Square Gallery in

Rockland is now showing Mark’s Haunting and graceful works. The collection features three series of Mark’s steel pieces that functions, in the artist’s words, to dignify the human experience. Visit the Harbor Square Gallery, right next to the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. FMI, call 594-8700 or visit harborsquaregallery.com

Barn Gallery open for another exciting season

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Kathi Smith, “Dooryard”

 

The public is invited to join Ogunquit ‘s Barn Gallery for another exciting season of art exhibitions, programs and workshops by artists of the Ogunquit Art Association, starting with a Gala Reception, 5 – 8 p.m., Sat. May 26.

The Opening Exhibitions include ‘OAA Expressions’ in the Main Gallery with work in a wide variety of subject and medium.  In ‘My Backyard,’ in the Lower Gallery, OAA artists explore very local subject matter. Three-dimensional work by Invited New England Sculptors will fill the outdoor Sculpture Court. Small works of art are available in the Collectors Gallery. Painter Kathi Smith and Painter/Printmaker Rose Sielian Theriault will have Showcases in the North Gallery. Join them for a free Gallery Talk about the way they work with different imagery and experience on Thursday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. FMI, visit barngallery.org

First Fridays Free at the Farnsworth

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The Farnsworth Art Museum is pleased to announce that for the third consecutive year, The First, N.A., will sponsor First Fridays at the Farnsworth. During First Fridays, the museum will open its galleries free of charge to the public from 5 to 8 p.m. The First Friday dates, which are part of the Arts in Rockland First Friday art walks, will be June 1, July 6, August 3, September 7 and October 5.

Harlow Gallery announces Indiegogo campaign in support of CSA

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Kate Barnes working on a painting of Grassland Organic Farms for CSA

Harlow Gallery in Hallowell has announced the start of an Indiegogo campaign in support of CSA: Community Supporting Arts, a project partnering 14 artists with 13 CSA farms in and around central Maine. The campaign aims to raise  $3,000 by July 1.  The Harlow Gallery invites the public to invest in a ‘share’ of Community Supporting Arts through this grassroots internet fundraising tool; art and farm related perks are available to project supporters at various giving levels. Indiegogo.com is a global crowd-funding site that supports a creative community that embraces collaboration, fearlessness and authenticity. Please visit the campaign at www.indiegogo.com/CSA-Community-Supporting-Arts  to find out more or to make a pledge. A video by participating artist Scott Minzy of Pittston is featured prominently in the campaign.



Schoodic Symposium names sculptors, sites

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The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) has named the sculptors for each of the eight sponsor sites that will receive artwork made during this summer’s symposium, which is being held in partnership with the University of Maine.

Each sponsor committee reviewed the portfolios of the eight artists and then selected its top three choices of sculptors that the sponsor felt best matched the site and the spirit of the community. SISS art director Jesse Salisbury made the final match selections.

“This time, as in past symposia, we were able to match each artist with a community that selected that artist as one of their top choices,” Salisbury says. “The final matches are always exciting. There are an amazing variety of artistic styles represented each time, but also the sites for the finished work are very unique and the committees involved all have their own character. Somehow, this merges in the matching process and we are able to match our artists with sites that suit their work and committees that respond to their unique style.”

The sculptor-sponsor matches are as follows: Acadia Hospital – Andreas Von Huene (Woolwich, Maine) City of Bangor – Koichi Ogino (Japan) Husson University – Hwang Seung-Woo (Republic of Korea) City of Old Town – Ton Kalle (Netherlands) Town of Orono – Shan-Chi Teng (Taiwan) UMaine campus (Oxford Hall) – Lee Zih-Cing (Taiwan) UMaine campus (Nutting Hall) – Tim Shay (Old Town, Maine) University of Maine Foundation – Johnny Turner (New Zealand)

This year’s symposium will be held July 22-Aug. 30 and is a partnership between SISS and UMaine. The sculptors will work during their six weeks at UMaine from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. most days of the week in the steam plant parking lot off College Avenue in Orono. The site is free and open to members of the public who want to watch the sculptors at work. FMI, please contact SISS project manager Tilan Langley at 267-6057 or tilan@schoodicsculpture.org.

 

“Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan” at the Farnsworth

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Jamie Wyeth, ”Jenny Whibley Sings” 2008; oil on board, 25 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.; ©Jamie Wyeth; collection of Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth

 

On Saturday, May 12, a major exhibition entitled “Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan” will open at the Farnsworth Art Museum ’s Wyeth Center in Rockland.

Jamie Wyeth’s connection to Monhegan dates to the late 1950s, when he first went there with his father, and he has continued to paint there ever since. His connection to fellow artist Rockwell Kent goes back nearly as far. Early in his career Wyeth bought several pen and ink drawings by Kent used as the sources for his illustrations to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, one of Kent’s most renowned book illustration projects. Subsequently, Wyeth acquired what was Kent’s last home and studio on Monehgan, and then bought several of Kent’s paintings from his first period on the island around 1907. This exhibition will focus on works by the two artists done on Monhegan, and how the scenic island has inspired their work.
The exhibition opening will be celebrated on Friday, May 11, at a members-only preview and reception from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the museum’s Wyeth Center at the corner of Union Street and Grace Street, in Rockland. In association with this exhibition the Farnsworth will present the following lectures and talks: on Saturday, May 12, at 2 p.m., Fertile Ground: Rockwell Kent on Monhegan Island with Scott R. Ferris; on Friday, July 6, at 1 p.m., Gallery Talk with Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky; on Thursday, July 12, at 6 p.m., Wyeth Day Lecture with N.C. Wyeth biographer David Michaelis; on Wednesday, July 25, at 5:30 p.m., Realism and Resonance: George Bellows Paints the Urban Landscape and the Sea, with independent scholar Marianne Doezema; on Friday, August 3, at 1 p.m., Gallery Talk with Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky; on Tuesday, August 14, at 5:30 p.m., A Conversation with Jamie Wyeth and Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky; on Wednesday, September 5, at 5:30 p.m., Rockwell Kent’s Illustrations for Moby Dick, with Elizabeth Spear, Fellow in Curatorial Practice, Colby College Museum of Art.
The Farnsworth Art Museum celebrates Maine’s ongoing role in American art. It offers a nationally recognized collection of works from many of America’s greatest artists, with 20,000 square feet of gallery space and over 10,000 works in the collection. The Farnsworth has one of the largest public collections of works by sculptor Louise Nevelson, while its Wyeth Center features works of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Two National Register historic sites, the Farnsworth Homestead and the Olson House, and Julia’s Gallery for Young Artists complete the museum complex.

“Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan” is scheduled to run through December 30, 2012. Please visit farnsworthmuseum.org for more information on current exhibitions, programs and events.

“A Murder of Crows” at Åarhus Gallery

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Susan Amons, “Fire Crows II”

The public is invited to an opening reception Friday May 4th, 5-8 p.m. for a show entitled “A Murder of Crows” at Åarhus Gallery in Belfast. The show runs May 3rd through the 27th.

It may have taken a congress of baboons to come up with ‘murder’ as the collective noun for a flock of crows, but knowing how congress can act like a colony of vultures at times, it’s not surprising. What also may not be surprising is the range of interpretations the precocious crow can elicit, which is likely why they’ve found a place in myth, magic and folklore for centuries now. Indeed crows are intelligent, social creatures, often displaying more sense than some of us, and family values as strong as any warren of wild turkeys. Is all this why Åarhus is doing a show on crows? You bet your blackbird they say! Not to mention it could look really great with a murder of crows on those big white gallery walls.

Featured artists include; Susan Amons, kdb-Karen Dominguez, Sallie Findlay, Stephen Florimbi, Mia Kanazawa, Mark Kelly, Mark Kindschi, Elena Kubler, A. C . Kulik, Richard Mann, Holly Meade, Ivan Rasmussen, Rebekah Raye, Abbie Read, Wesley Reddick, Willy Reddick, and Susan Webster. FMI call 338-0001 or visit aarhusgallery.com where a slideshow of the current works is available.

“2012 Invitational” at the Landing Gallery

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Nancy Linkin with bronze sculptures

 

 

The public is invited to the “2012 Invitational” and artist reception opening Friday, May 4th, 5-8 p.m. at the Landing Gallery in Rockland.  Over 100 new works by 25 gallery Artists will be featured in this exhibit.  Five new artists for 2012 include Susan Amons, Jerry Cable, Gifford Ewing, Monique Lazard and Nancy Linkin.   Please meet all of our artists and see their new work for 2012 while enjoying light refreshments.  Artists in the exhibit include Naomi Aho, Susan Amons, Robert Birbeck, Bruce Busko, Irma Cerese, Jerry Cable, Lewis Cisle, Gifford Ewing, Sarah Faragher, Diana Godfrey, Michael Kahn, Judith Krischik, Monique Lazard, Nancy Linkin, Elizabeth Kelley, Brian Krebbs, Dorothy Simpson Krause, John LeBlanc, Janet Ledoux, Roberta, Rebecca Rivers, Björn Runquist, Ken Sahr, Suzanne Siegel, and David Smus.

Arts in Rockland, AIR, will also be hosting its’ First Friday Art Walk on Friday, May 4th, from 5-8 p.m.  Come, celebrate and enjoy art at the Season Opening. All of the galleries in town will be open until 8 p.m.  We will look forward to seeing you in the galleries.

“Primavera: The Maine Fine Art Figure Exhibition” at Galerie Dufour in

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Martha Lynne Allen, "Watched"

Galerie Dufour in downtown Belfast is proud to host “Primavera: The Maine Fine Art Figure Exhibition.”  The show features modern interpretations of the nude, the classic genre in art, by Maine artists.  Fine art nude drawings, photographs, paintings, and original prints will be featured in what promises to be a memorable exhibit.

Award winning Maine artists David Estey and Charles Laurier Dufour juried the entries and were impressed with the varied interpretations.  “When you leave it to the artists to interpret ‘the nude’ as they envision it rather than simply how commercial and social convention does,” explains Dufour, “then individual styles dictate the outcome and you end up with quite an impressive, varied, and interesting collection of works.”  Selected artwork for Primavera comes from artists ranging in age from 20 to 92 years and from around the pine tree state.

Galerie Dufour will host an opening reception for the public on Saturday, May 5, from 5 – 8 p.m.  Food for the adult reception on Cinco de Mayo will be provided by La Vida Mexican Restaurant of Belfast.  Awards for the show will be announced at approximately 6:30 p.m.  Tell your friends and don’t miss this show which kicks off Galerie Dufour’s 9th season in Belfast!

Primavera will be exhibited at Galerie Dufour until the end of May.  FMI, call 338 – 6448 or galeriedufour@gmail.com.

Susan Barnes opens 5th solo show at Greenhut Galleries

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Susan Barnes, “Moon”

Mixed media artist Susan Barnes opens her 5th solo show “New Work” at Greenhut Galleries in Portland, May 3 – 26.  Her evocative landscapes combine elements of photography, collage and painting with a fluidity of motion expressed through her passionate hand.  The sense of place Barnes creates is both expansive and introspective, much like the landscape she experienced during her youth spent in Alaska and Montana.  Barnes’ thirty year tenure as an artist has brought her here to Maine where she creates unique and moving vistas using the mediums she loves; paint, collage and photography. FMI, greenhutgalleries.com

 

2012 Season Opening Reception at Carver Hill Gallery

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Ted Keller, “NY Fantasy”

The public is invited to the 2012 Season Opening Reception on May 4 at Carver Hill Gallery in Rockland. Featured is a First Friday Art Walk solo show by watercolorist Ted Keller. The upstairs gallery will feature monoprints from a series of subway drawings entitled “Faces: New York” by Mark Lindsey.  Other artists in the gallery stable will be featured upstairs, as well.  Ted Keller will be flying in from his home in Taos for the opening and for an artist’s talk the following day, Saturday May 5, at 2:00.

Ted Keller taught art courses for the University of Maine for twenty years. Formerly a sculptor and clay artist, Ted spends most of his time painting now. His images are loose, rich in color, and full of life and humor.  The subject matter varies, but most of the paintings are about people in interesting environments. Some scenes are representative of a real place, others are imaginative. Ted says that he feels enormous love for the people he paints, hence the name for this show. He wants the viewer to understand that though his work can appear caricature-ish, he is absolutely showing reverence for his subjects. FMI, carverhillgallery.com

 

 

“From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France”

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Mildred Giddings Burrage “A November Day: Brittany”

 

The Portland Museum of Art is showing “From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France” through July 15. This exhibition will focus on Portland-born artist Mildred Burrage (1890-1983), who as a young aspiring painter traveled in the early 1900s to Giverny, France. There, Burrage trained her eye on the landscape, creating oil paintings and filling sketchbooks with her Impressionist style. She wrote copious letters to her family back in Maine, detailing her adventures and providing vivid accounts of the artists, dealers, and distinguished figures whom she encountered, including French artistic legend Claude Monet and avid collectors Gertrude and Leo Stein. While Burrage was a prolific artist up until her death, this exhibition will celebrate these crucial, formative years (1909-1914) when she traveled abroad and was introduced and exposed to modern European movements. Comprised of approximately 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and never-before-exhibited letters, this exhibition will reflect a unique time of innocence, ebullience, and optimism in Mildred Burrage’s life and career, and in the American and European psyche before the onset of the First World War.

Artists work to be critiqued in Hallowell

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Artists are invited to bring up to three pieces of their own original work to an art critique with Abbott Meader on Sunday afternoon, May 20th from 1-3pm.  The critique will be held at the Harlow Gallery, located at 160 Water Street in downtown Hallowell, with a suggested donation of $3 at the door.  Art2012, the Kennebec Valley Art Association’s 17th annual juried art show will be on view during the critique.  Meader will share his insights on the jurying process (which he has experienced from both sides), and on being accepted and rejected as an artist in general.

A consummate academician, Abbot Meader of Oakland was graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth and then with an MFA from University of Colorado and is now Professor of Art, Emeritus of Colby College. He is also a filmmaker and has traveled, lectured and studied widely in his lifetime. As an avid flyfisherman, he comes to the Katahdin region to fish and paint regularly throughout the year. He brings to his work the understanding of someone who is not merely an observer but often lives within his subject for periods of time, working with an urgency to report that familiarity.

“Lessons from an Island” at Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery

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Henry Isaacs, “View from Great Cranberry to Mount Desert”

 

The public is invited to an opening reception for “Lessons from an Island”, a show of work by Islesford artist Henry Isaacs, to be held 5 – 7 p.m., Friday, April 20, at Archipelago Fine Arts gallery in Rockland. Food for this reception will be provided by the Islesford Dock Restaurant.

Over the last 30+ years, Henry Isaacs has focused on both the natural and the inhabited landscape as subjects for his painting, creating abstract as well as realistically defined images. He has curated and coordinated several special arts projects, and has many paintings in collections around the country. After earning degrees in printmaking from the Slade School and in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, Henry has enjoyed a long and successful career, and has received many honors for his bold, lively, impressionistic works, including honors from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Boston Globe Foundation, the Hitachi Foundation and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
In a 2009 interview for the “Maine Art Scene” online magazine, Henry provided some insight into his artistic process: “I paint from both location and from my memory of place. I use observation very carefully to construct my images. I never take photographs. All of my canvasses are started on site, and none of them are ever finished out in the landscape anymore.

There’s something that happens in the studio that allows me to complete the thought more completely than the strict observational approach that I once followed. In the studio I can recognize the job again, and understand that I am creating a unique two-
dimensional reality.”

Henry has generously offered to donate half of the proceeds from this show to the Outer Islands Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC).  This initiative by teachers from Islesford, Matinicus, Monhegan, Isle au Haut, and Cliff islands has created a virtual classroom community where teachers and students have access to a rich and supportive inter-island peer network. To learn more about the Outer Islands TLC, please visit outerislandstlc.org.

An image gallery of Henry’s work can be found at thearchipelago.net. The show will run through Friday, June 22.