(Please see Calendar
for a full listing of upcoming exhibitions.)
March 23 – June 14, 2008
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This exhibition will focus on Harold Garde's small landscapes executed in his clever strappo technique. Named by the artist himself, this process involves the transfer of dried acrylic paint from a glass support onto paper or canvas. The resulting images in "Strappo Landscapes" have a lush lyricism that only evokes associations of landscape while remaining firmly rooted in abstraction. A looped video in the gallery will explain the technique and show Garde at work.
Harold Garde is an an eminent painter and printmaker based in Belfast and has received numerous recognitions of his talent and impact on the Maine art scene, including the production of a filmic portrait in the Maine Master’s Project series.
Reception: Friday, March 21, 5-8pm
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March 23 – June 14, 2008
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Friederike Hamann and Colin Sullivan-Stevens present "Light Plant," an exhibition comprised of environmental wall paintings and other objects, stimulating thoughts about the interaction between nature and imagination. Inspired by their time outdoors, Hamann and Sullivan-Stevens gather and collect impressions of the Maine habitat. They try to recreate an atmosphere inside the gallery that distills the seasonal, botanical, or geographical characteristics of the moment—thus intending to connect an interior space to a larger ecological image and diffusing the boundaries between architectural spaces and the outdoors.
Hamann and Sullivan-Stevens, are the founders of Field, a Portland based company that focuses on custom designed wall paintings, object design, and print work. Field creates monthly installations at their gallery space on 74 India Street, where their shows display an array of creative applications that range from painted walls and custom-made furniture to drawings and prints, sculptures and animation film screenings.
Reception: Friday, March 21, 5-8pm
Find out more about FIELD.
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April 26 – July 19, 2008
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Well-respected artist Lois Dodd is an extremely prolific painter who is interested in a wide range of subject matter from nudes to night scenes, and windows to woods. This exhibition of over 40 works pays homage to the artist’s curiosity by including paintings of all major subjects from different time periods, however, with a slight twist—the vast majority of works in the exhibition is of a small nature. These paintings, executed on site, possess very dynamic compositions and loose handling of paint.
Reception: Friday, April 25, 5-7pm
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Still Life |
April 26 – July 19, 2008
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For this exhibition CMCA invited found-object artist Jesse Gillespie to assemble items that usually inhabit artists’ studios and other creative people’s spaces. In gleaning these objects for our scrutiny, connections between the artist’s “regular” work and what they have chosen to surround themselves with will illuminate their creative process and allow viewers to see a more private and primal side of their imagination.
Reception: Friday, April 25, 5-7pm
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