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7 Congress Square
Feb 03 thru Jun 17, 2012.
Facebook friendships exist in the nebulous world of cyberspace. Social networking creates a forum where we may connect or reconnect deeply with dear friends or become acquainted with new ones on a superficial level. What happens when we reach across real time and space to physically connect with these same "friends"? In her new exhibition, Maine artist Tanja Alexia Hollander examines that question; she collapses the intangibility of cyberspace by traveling around the world on a modern-day odyssey to actually visit her 600 (and growing) Facebook friends. In this rich and multi-dimensional project, Hollander photographs her Facebook friends, prints images on paper, and exhibits the prints on gallery walls, causing her cyber-friend connections to become real and personal. Hollander's process will be explored by encouraging interaction through visitor comments and an ever-changing installation of portraits through the run of the exhibition. Are viewers supposed to acknowledge the artist's creativity, photographic skill, and role within the tradition of portraiture, or should we instead critique the management of her Facebook page? This exhibition is the fifth in a series of exhibitions. On Thursday, Apr. 5 at 12 p.m., Artist Tanja Hollander and Museum Director Mark Bessire will be in the fourth floor gallery answering questions from gallery visitors and via livestream. Event #7741 Map + Directions
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7 Congress Square
Feb 23 thru May 28, 2012.
Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist will be the first comprehensive exhibition at the Museum devoted to the 19th-century French master Edgar Degas and his works on paper. Comprised of more than 70 drawings, prints, pastels, and photographs as well as several sculptures, the exhibition will provide an insightful exploration of the oeuvre of one of the most skilled and complex artists in art history. In addition to masterworks by Degas, the exhibition will include a select group of rare works on paper by artists of his circle, including captivating works by Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. To add even greater depth to the exhibition, generous loans to the Museum from major benefactor Scott M. Black including Degas's Portrait of Alexis Rouart (1895) and from Les Otten including Degas's Fourth Position in front on the left leg will be part of the installation. Paintings and drawings by Jane Sutherland, a contemporary New England artist greatly inspired by Degas, will add yet another dimension to the exhibition. Event #7742 Map + Directions
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538 Congress Street
Apr 14 thru May 25, 2012.
Meggan Gould's photographs of film camera viewfinders and Billie Mandle's photographs of parking garages share a spare, abstract quality. Working with typically mundane subjects, both artists find ways to reframe our view, highlighting surface, texture and form where none is expected. Gould looks at the camera itself, separating the viewfinder's quirks from the world beyond and examining how these glass and plastic forms inform and shape our photographic visions. Mandle digitally removes parking lines and signs, to wonder if it is possible to turn places with a singular purpose into images that invite speculation. Free opening reception from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday Apr. 14. The Blind Spots exhibit runs through Friday, May 25. Note that we invite the public to a conversation with the artists Meggan Gould and Billie Mandle about their work on Tuesday, May 22 at 7 p.m. This will be preceded by a pre-talk reception with the artists at 6 p.m. for SPACE members only. Event #8831 Map + Directions
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7 Congress Square
Apr 21 thru Jul 15, 2012.
This exhibition will focus on Portland-born artist Mildred Burrage (1890-1983), who as a young aspiring painter traveled in the early 1900s to Giverny, France. There Burrage trained her eye on the landscape, creating oil paintings and filling sketchbooks with her Impressionist style. She wrote copious letters to her family back in Maine, detailing her adventures and providing vivid accounts of the artists, dealers, and distinguished figures whom she encountered, including French artistic legend Claude Monet and avid collectors Gertrude and Leo Stein. While Burrage was a prolific artist up until her death, this exhibition will celebrate these crucial, formative years (1909-1914) when she traveled abroad and was introduced and exposed to modern European movements. Comprised of approximately 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and never-before-exhibited letters, this exhibition will reflect a unique time of innocence, ebullience, and optimism in Mildred Burrage's life and career, and in the American and European psyche before the onset of the First World War. Event #7743 Map + Directions
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5 Monument Square
May 04 thru May 31, 2012.
The Lewis Gallery opens a new show, Portraits: An Exhibit of Photographs by Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest and Sean Alonzo Harris, for the First Friday Art Walk on May 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. "The focus of this show seeks a connection between two groups of Mainers" says Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest. "The face of Maine's population has also changed in the last fifteen years because of accelerated immigration. Maine still has relatively (as compared to other states) few immigrants but recently it has seen a remarkable increase in its immigrant population. One cannot walk the streets of either Portland or Lewiston without encountering people who certainly cannot be categorized as 'Traditional Mainers.' The face of Maine is changing. The interesting thing with the immigrant community in Maine is its diversity. Immigrants in Maine come from many different geographical, racial and economic backgrounds.' The show will be in the Lewis Gallery for for the month of May. It is open during Library hours which are Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Event #9074 Map + Directions
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Jun 01, 2012.
Portland First Friday Art Walks are free, self-guided tours of local art galleries, art studios, museums, and alternative art venues on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Event #5587 Map + Directions
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7 Congress Square
Jun 14 thru Sep 03, 2012.
The northern coast of France, and Normandy in particular, proved to be an artistic crucible for French and American painters during the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Geographically convenient to Paris, accessible by train, with dramatic cliffs and rock formations, and picturesque and active ports, Normandy was an attractive haven. Realists, Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, Fauves, Cubists, and Surrealists all gravitated to the area. Spanning roughly 100 years (1860-1960), this exhibition will chart the coast's significance and will showcase the ways in which the landscape was rendered by a spectrum of artists. This exhibition will explore the importance of the towns and villages of Honfleur and Le Havre, and will feature more than 40 works of European and American art, mostly paintings and works on paper, from the Portland Museum of Art and from the private collection of Scott M. Black. Event #7744 Map + Directions
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7 Congress Square
Jun 30 thru Sep 30, 2012.
Nineteenth-century landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church first traveled to Maine in 1850 inspired by the portfolio of drawings his teacher Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. During the next few decades, Church visited the Maine coast and rocky islands near Mount Desert and trekked inland focusing on the area around Mount Katahdin. Maine provided sensational sunsets, robust waves crashing on rocky shores, and an abundance of wilderness arousing the dramatic vitality of nature that Church's paintings embody. Organized by Olana Traveling Exhibitions and curated by John Wilmerding, the exhibition will focus on 23 of Church's small oil sketches of Maine's two most majestic natural landmarks. Event #7745 Map + Directions
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538 Congress Street
Jul 11 thru Jul 14, 2012.
The 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour makes a stop at SPACE Gallery. Come browse hundred of sketchbooks submitted by people from all over the world. Event #8508 Map + Directions
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7 Congress Square
Sep 22 thru Dec 30, 2012.
In celebration of the opening of the newly restored Winslow Homer Studio, the Portland Museum of Art will showcase the exhibition Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine. Comprised of 35 major oils and watercolors painted during Homer's tenure in the Studio, the exhibition will introduce new perspectives on Homer's life and work. Weatherbeaten will feature works from museums throughout the country including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Event #7746 Map + Directions
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7 Congress Square
Oct 06 thru Jan 20, 2013.
In conjunction with the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio, the Museum will present an exhibition of contemporary photography made with a variety of historic processes available during Homer's lifetime. From tintypes to platinum prints, cyanotypes to gum bichromate prints, these historical processes in the hands of today's photographers simultaneously evoke the past and capture the present. The Museum has commissioned a group of photographers for this project including Abelardo Morell (camera obscura), Keliy Anderson-Staley (wet-plate collodion), Brenton Hamilton (cyanotype and gum bichromate), Tillman Crane (platinum prints), and Alan Vlach (salted paper prints). Images of the Homer Studio will include architectural studies, views of the landscape, interior scenes, and even still-life subjects of the few objects that survive from Homer's day. This exhibition is the sixth in a series of exhibitions called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine and beyond. Event #7747 Map + Directions
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Tanja Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend? - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Blind Spots: Meggan Gould & Billie Mandle Photography Exhibit - SPACE Gallery
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 828-5600
From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage's Years in France - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Photographs by Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest & Sean Alonzo Harris - Portland Public Library
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 871-1700
Portland First Friday Art Walk
Portland,
Maine
04101
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The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860-1960) - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour - SPACE Gallery
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 828-5600
Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Between Past and Present: Historic Photographic Processes and the Winslow Homer Studio - Portland Museum of Art
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
 Facebook friends. In this rich and multi-dimensional project, Hollander photographs her Facebook friends, prints images on paper, and exhibits the prints on gallery walls, causing her cyber-friend connections to become real and personal. Hollander's process will be explored by encouraging interaction through visitor comments and an ever-changing installation of portraits through the run of the exhibition. Are viewers supposed to acknowledge the artist's creativity, photographic skill, and role within the tradition of portraiture, or should we instead critique the management of her Facebook page? This exhibition is the fifth in a series of exhibitions. On Thursday, Apr. 5 at 12 p.m., Artist Tanja Hollander and Museum Director Mark Bessire will be in the fourth floor gallery answering questions from gallery visitors and via livestream.
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 and from Les Otten including Degas's Fourth Position in front on the left leg will be part of the installation. Paintings and drawings by Jane Sutherland, a contemporary New England artist greatly inspired by Degas, will add yet another dimension to the exhibition.
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, who as a young aspiring painter traveled in the early 1900s to Giverny, France. There Burrage trained her eye on the landscape, creating oil paintings and filling sketchbooks with her Impressionist style. She wrote copious letters to her family back in Maine, detailing her adventures and providing vivid accounts of the artists, dealers, and distinguished figures whom she encountered, including French artistic legend Claude Monet and avid collectors Gertrude and Leo Stein. While Burrage was a prolific artist up until her death, this exhibition will celebrate these crucial, formative years (1909-1914) when she traveled abroad and was introduced and exposed to modern European movements. Comprised of approximately 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and never-before-exhibited letters, this exhibition will reflect a unique time of innocence, ebullience, and optimism in Mildred Burrage's life and career, and in the American and European psyche before the onset of the First World War.
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 few immigrants but recently it has seen a remarkable increase in its immigrant population. One cannot walk the streets of either Portland or Lewiston without encountering people who certainly cannot be categorized as 'Traditional Mainers.' The face of Maine is changing. The interesting thing with the immigrant community in Maine is its diversity. Immigrants in Maine come from many different geographical, racial and economic backgrounds.' The show will be in the Lewis Gallery for for the month of May. It is open during Library hours which are Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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