Art Review: "Here & There," "Kindred"

BY JORGE ARANGO, PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

Oculus, Smoke (2017), Dozier Bell

Two exhibitions at Cove Street Arts take different conceptual approaches to their subject matter, both of which offer riches.

“Here and There” (through Sept. 11) is varied, often wonderful and sometimes quite heady and intellectual. Curated by painter David Row, it presents work by 16 artists who, like Marsden Hartley and John Marin, maintained lively connections to the New York art scene (there) but recharged in Maine (here).

“Kindred” (through Sept. 4) is all soulfulness and heart. It features three beloved Maine artists – Alison Hildreth, Lissa Hunter and Tom Hall – engaging in an exquisitely numinous conversation about the unity of all things. It is a balm for our current human predicament, where a sense of unity of any kind remains frustratingly, even dangerously, elusive.

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