Véronique Plesch – Introduction Fall 2024: The Portrait and Beyond
For this fall issue, we invited our contributors to tell us not only how they approach the figure and the role it plays in their work, but also to reflect upon the idea of portraiture. We hoped to read how the genre (including self-portraiture and portraits of places)...
Introduction: Spring 2019
Home Fires: Activist Art In Maine (or, You Had To Be There) — By Lucy R. Lippard and Natasha Mayers
Maine Arts Journal Introduction: This essay was originally commissioned to appear in Maine Art New, a selection of essays and artist profiles edited by Edgar Allen Beem and Andres Verzosa and to have been published by the University of Maine Press. After a long,...
Creating Art and Community — Elizabeth Jabar and Sean Alonzo Harris Pursue an Art of Civic Engagement, By Edgar Allen Beem
In a bleak, empty American Legion hall on the edge of downtown Waterville, an unseen rock band is rehearsing. It is a rather uninspiring space, but printmaker Elizabeth Jabar and photographer Sean Alonzo Harris are busy setting up their studios here. Two of the most...
The Khashoggi Story, an interactive installation by Kenny Cole
There have been hundreds of journalists murdered in the modern era. What makes the Kashoggi murder any more significant? In the experiment that is our corporate democracy, this must now be the first time that a leader of our country has publicly shrugged his...
Joan Proudman—Discovering Dance
As a child, I enjoyed playing with ColorForms, those flat, rubber figures that stick to landscape scenes. Paper dolls were also a favorite. I worked out my feelings this way, manipulating figures on an imaginary stage. Since I was shy and anxious, I enjoyed...
Martha Miller — Sanctuary
Tessa Greene O’Brien’s Studio-to-Be by Daniel Kany
“A lot of my paintings are about the ideas of home and memory and what the notion of home means.” --TGO Tessa Greene O’Brien’s 2018 exhibition at Elizabeth Moss Galleries was a success on every level. It was not only good work but it marked a step forward for the...
Julie K Gray — 8 Oak Drive
above: Gray, “Waiting Room”, papier-mâché, acrylic, oil paintings, needlepoint, paper, fabric, yarn, wood, etc., 16x2x10 feet, 2018 8 Oak Drive is not only a source of endless inspiration for me, but it has been the home of my grandmother, Valerija Kuceris since 1977....
Kris Sader : The Winter Garden — Christine J. Higgins
Kris Sader’s Installation at the University Of Maine Lyle Littlefield Ornamentals Garden A winter garden: a garden whose plants serve as decoration all winter. Wikipedia I have been a lifelong gardener and my gardens have always been a sanctuary for me. They are my...
Carl Little — The Sanctuary of Poetry and Privilege
“There are places I remember.” --John Lennon In 1954, the year I was born, in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, my parents bought what had been a chicken farm in Water Mill on Long Island. The farm had been owned by the Balserus family; next door were the...
Sanctuary Seas: Olga Merrill’s Pictorialist Photography by Daniel Kany
Olga Merrill’s landscape photography has taken on a wide range of subjects, but one recent body of work has coalesced around a particularly strong set of images showing boats at harbor on the Maine coast. Several of these have been published recently in Spain, New...
Three Artists—Singular Visions by Kathy Weinberg
An essay written for the Artists talk "Who Do You Love?" at the CMCA Biennial 2018-19 Samuel Palmer- Romantic Visionary born in 1805 died 1881, (before the 20th century) The first time I saw the works of Samuel Palmer, I was an exchange student at Goldsmiths College...
Sanctuary, Refuge — Alan Crichton
Poetry — Marcia Brown
Poetry — Dawn Potter
Poetry — W.J. Herbert
Women’s Worlds — Jane Bianco
Citizen Science and Art — Serena Sanborn
Phillip Jayson Lasker — I Married An Artist
Checking In with Andy Heck Boyd by Kenny Cole
I’ve never met Andy Heck Boyd in person, but have been fascinated to watch his creative output online on his Instagram account. He has had solo shows at BUOY in Kittery Maine, where I too have exhibited. It is through BUOY that I was introduced to his work and told...
Members’ Showcase: Greg Mason Burns, Gail Wartell
Greg Mason Burns My sanctuary is in the abstract. I started out as a journalist, believing with my heart that the truth was real, and that objectivity was a worthy goal. Of course, I grew up and understood there is no truth, only subjective realities that I preferred...
Members’ Showcase: Dave Wade, Clara Cohan, Karen Merritt, Gina Sawin
David Wade I see Sanctuary as a place of safety, quiet, and reflection. We live in the Information Age, a time of instant connectivity; with so much information it makes it hard to think. Sanctuary is an isolated spot, physical or mental, where all the noise and...
Members’ Showcase: Kathleen Noyes, Roland Salazar, C E Morse
Kathleen Noyes The sanctuaries in my life are like a series of nesting dolls encompassing one another. I found an overarching sanctuary when I first came to Maine from California, from city life in San Francisco to the rural coast of this state. I was enveloped by the...
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