Flight

September 24 - January 2 2021

Curated by Lissa Hunter, Flight features Gayle Fraas, Duncan Slade, Kathleen Florance, Lin Lisberger, Lisa Pixley, Lissa Hunter, Paul Heroux, and Tim McCreight.

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EXHIBITIONSJohn DanosPAST
Soulful Stitching

February 6 - March 27, 2021

An exhibition of the handmade quilts of the Siddis in India, curated by artist and scholar Sarah K. Khan and Prof. Henry J. Drewal. The Siddis are descendants of African immigrants. While they have integrated many aspects of Indian culture, Siddis have also retained and transformed certain African traditions. In the visual arts, one tradition stands out: the patchwork quilts known as kawandi.

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George Lloyd: Amuse Bouche

September 17 - November 7 2020

Our first artist-in-residence, George Lloyd, has been hard at work, and we had hoped to exhibit the fruits of those labors this fall, but then a global pandemic hit. A full exhibition has been rescheduled to next year, but, in the meantime, we offer an appetizer - an amuse bouche.

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Distilled

August 20 2020 - October 17 2020

Featuring the captivating work of photographers Cynthia and John Orcutt, curated by Bruce Brown. The Orcutts beautifully document fragile spaces, both natural and manmade.

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Jon Imber Retrospective

August 6 - October 10 2020

A dazzling retrospective of the always brilliant and ever-evolving work of the late, great Boston and Maine based painter, Jon Imber (1955-2014). Early in my career, the content was the subject; the paint was the means to tell a story. Today, the paint itself is the conveyor of whatever it is that I need to say. ~Jon Imber, 2012

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Singular and Serial

July 9 - September 19 2020

Inspired by Catherine Kernan's book Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint, our eponymous exhibition, curated by Kernan, Chris Beneman, and Jane Goldman, brings the book into the gallery space, including monotypes and monoprints from two dozen artists featured in the book,

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Lin Lisberger: Gravity

June 11 - September 12 2020

Combining work from two of her series, Who’s the Victim? and Ladder and Bridge, Lin Lisberger explores fundamental forces that we often feel but do not fully understand, which more and more draw us into opposition.

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Architecture

June 11 - August 15 2020

Featuring David Clough, Jean Noon, Donald Peterson, Liv Kristin Robinson, Sarah Szwajkos, and Brian Vanden Brink, Architecture features beautifully constructed photographs of stunning and varied buildings. The exhibition is curated by Bruce Brown.

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Floriography: The Language of Flowers

June 1 - August 1 2020

Our first post-lockdown exhibition, a stylistically diverse burst of floral-themed works by four talented female artists, couldn’t feel more timely, more life-affirming, or more richly evocative of spring’s unwavering optimism and the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Artists: Eileen Gillespie, Beverly Hallam, Maret Hensick, and Marjorie Moskowitz.

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Gardenship: First Voyage

February 27 - July 3 2020

A vast, empty warehouse sat in the brown fields of Kearny Point waiting for someone with a vision to give it new life. An intrepid crew of thirteen Maine artists accepted the challenge, relishing the opportunity to build a new creative community out of an old navy yard. From little more than this notion and the space, Gardenship was created.

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Portland 2020

February 6 - June 6 2020

Our city, long noted for its rich and vibrant history, is developing a diverse and vital future and is thus the perfect subject to explore as we celebrate Maine’s bicentennial.

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Spotlight: Grace DeGennaro

January 16 - April 4 2020

Bridging Eastern and Western thought through ancient uses of pattern, symmetry and iconic symbolism found in traditional forms such as Byzantine mosaics, indigenous weavings and Tibetan mandalas, Grace DeGennaro’s work possesses a meditative quality evoking stillness, balance and harmony.

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Spotlight: Marc Leavitt

January 16 - April 4 2020

Informed by Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, Tantric art, and the writings of Krishnamurti, Marc Leavitt’s Mithuna Series is an ongoing sequence of abstracted figurative paintings of multinational same-sex couples. Marc regards this vibrant, boldly colored body of work both as a humanistic expression of love and “a taking away of boundaries and violence.”

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