Flight

Curated by Lissa Hunter

Tim McCreight, Take Off! (2020)

July 15 - September 11, 2021

Opening Reception, July 15th, 5-7 p.m.

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About The Show

Flight.   

Moving through air, real or imagined.  

A first airplane flight is a curious thing.  It’s a curious thing especially if one is a child.  No feeling of wind in your face.  No vertigo.  No getting small as the plane diminishes when seen from the ground.  It actually feels, surprisingly, rather bland and unremarkable.   

But when Peter Pan and Wendy flew over the Tower of London in the Disney movie of 1953… well, that was flying.  Nothing bland or unremarkable about that.   That was my first true memory of flight.  

For a passenger, an airplane holds none of the freedom of the swooping, curving, three-dimensional path Wendy and Peter navigate, arms stretched out to their sides.  In fact, an airplane feels constricting and decidedly not free compared to their voyage to Neverland.  

As with many words, there are meanings other than the first to come to mind.  Birds, certainly.  Airplanes, of course.  Rockets.  But also a fly ball in baseball, a flight of stairs, a fly in the ointment, fly by night.  There are so many ways to look at flight.  And each of them might take us, or at least our minds or our memories or imaginations up… and away.  

Eight Maine artists present work based on their individual interpretations of flight.  Arrows.  Sledding.  Space.  Freedom.  Super heroes.  Escape.  Butterflies.  Fleeing fear. And, yes, birds.   ~ Lissa Hunter, Curator   

Read the review in Art New England here.

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