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Tanja Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend? - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

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. Open reception is on Friday, Feb. 3 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Event #7741   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Arts & Artists of the Cities on the Saco - Engine Exhibit Space

265 Main Street
Biddeford, Maine 04005
 Phone: (207) 229-3560

          

Apr 06 thru Jun 10, 2012. Engine is pleased to co-host the Saco Museum's biennial exhibition of work by artists associated with Saco, Biddeford, and Old Orchard Beach. Work will be shown at both the Saco Museum and Engine at 265 Main Street in Biddeford. Artists selections will be announced the week of February 6. The exhibit opens on April 6 and runs through June 10. Event #8073   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage's Years in France - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

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   |   Report Update

The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860-1960) - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

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   |   Report Update

Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

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   |   Report Update

Wolfe's Neck Farm Art Fest

184 Burnett Road
Freeport, Maine 04032
 Phone: (207) 865-4469

          

Jun 18, 2011. You are invited to the 6th Annual Wolfe's Neck Farm Art Fest! The works of over 50 New England artists will be featured - painters, fiber artists, jewelers, potters, photographers, glass makers, and many more. A plein air auction will feature 8 works painted by local artists on the farm property. There will be live music, artist demonstrations, children's activities, and the Recompence Campground Snack Shack will be serving food. Free admission. A fun day for all ages! Free admission. Event is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Event #3663 |   Report Update

9th Annual Piper Shores Resident Art Show

15 Piper Road
Scarborough, Maine 04074
 Phone: (207) 883-8700

          

Jun 18, 2011. Piper Shores, a non-profit lifecare retirement community, is set to host the Annual Summer Solstice Resident Art Show, which will take place on Saturday, June 18th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Great Room at Piper Shores. A very popular event with many residents of Piper Shores as well as the area art community, the Summer Solstice Art Show will feature works from a variety of Piper Shores' residents. Throughout the afternoon, the artists will also be on hand to discuss the origin of each piece as well as the artistic journey. The Art Show is free and open to the public. Event #5861 |   Report Update

Sidewalk Art Sale in Wiscasset

15 Warren Street
Wiscasset, Maine 04578
 Phone: (207) 882-7511

          

Jun 25, 2011. Sidewalk Art Sale in the same lovely, historic, neighborhood as the Strawberry festival and the Antiques Alfresco events. Make a day of it! Original Maine arts and crafts on the gallery lawn from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Event #6114 |   Report Update