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50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art
5600 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 859-5600
Aug 23 thru Feb 21, 2010. The Colby College Museum of Art celebrates its 50th anniversary with a museum-wide exhibition of its collection. Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art features artworks from the museum's collections of American, European, Asian, and contemporary art, and is accompanied by an audio tour and a richly illustrated book of collection highlights, with essays by a wide range of scholars and artists. Map + Directions | Report Update
Jay Connaway and the Landscape of New England - Portland Museum of Art
7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Sep 19 thru Dec 06, 2009. Bold brushwork and a subtle palate served as hallmarks of Jay Connaway's (1893-1970) unique style of masculine impressionism. Featuring 25 paintings, this is the first major museum exhibition of Connaway's work since his death. Born in Indiana, Connaway studied in New York under William Merritt Chase and in Paris at the Academie Julian before returning to native soil and landing in New England. A student of the sky, waves, and snow-covered hills of Maine and Vermont, Connaway belonged to the generation that presented the region as timeless and quiet in the face of modernity and ensured that the image of New England maintained a prominent role in the American imagination. For info phone (207) 775-6148. Map + Directions | Report Update
"Ordinary Life" - Center for Maine Contemporary Art
162 Russell Avenue
Rockport, Maine 04856
Phone: (207) 236-2875
Sep 19 thru Dec 19, 2009. In this exhibition, five photographers find unexpected beauty in the ordinariness of middle-class daily life - the casual encounters we have every day, the spaces we inhabit, food we eat, objects we collect, and children who grow up around us. The artists are Michael Kolster, Jessica Rodrigue, Sarah Szwajkos, Jessica Watson, and Amy Wilton. Map + Directions | Report Update
"High Risk": Isaiah Pottle - Center for Maine Contemporary Art
162 Russell Avenue
Rockport, Maine 04856
Phone: (207) 236-2875
Sep 19 thru Dec 19, 2009. High Risk, a new series of exhibitions from CMCA, aims to encourage promising talent and to introduce fresh ideas from established artists who are exploring new directions. Isaiah Pottle, age 21, is the first artist featured. The artist's craftsmanship is superb and is paralleled by an impressive scope of imagination that delves into supernatural and spiritual sides of human existence. Map + Directions | Report Update
Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine - Portland Museum of Art
7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Oct 10 thru Jan 03, 2010. Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. The exhibit will feature 20 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent watercolors from 1998 depicting the woods that surround his home in Tenants Harbor. These two bodies of work, although separated by decades, are related in conception and are the result of DuBack's response to the landscape of Maine. This is the Portland Museum of Art's first exhibition devoted to that seminal period when New York post-war modernism arrived in Maine. For info phone (207) 775-6148. Map + Directions | Report Update
Printmaking by David C. Driskell - Portland Museum of Art
7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Oct 29 thru Jan 17, 2010. This exhibition highlights for the first time the prints of David Driskell, artist, art historian, collector, educator, and one of the most respected names in the world of African American art and culture. With more than 75 prints, as well as several works on paper, Evolution provides insight into Driskell's artistic process and development, as well as the influence of African art on American modernism. He has been a practicing artist since the 1950s and his works are in major museums throughout the world, including the Portland Museum of Art. In 2000, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Driskell maintains a deep connection to Maine, as he has summered here for decades and is active at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. For info phone (207) 775-6148. Map + Directions | Report Update
Debating Modern Photography - Portland Museum of Art
7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
Phone: (207) 775-6148
Sep 30 thru Dec 05, 2010. In the 1930s, a small group of California photographers challenged the painterly, soft-focus Pictorialist style of the day. They argued that photography could only advance as an art if its practitioners exploited characteristics inherent to the camera's mechanical nature. This small association of innovators created Group f/64, named after the camera aperture which produces great depth of field and sharp focus. The exhibition revisits this debate and includes images by photographers in Group f/64 such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Sonya Noskowiak, and Willard Van Dyke, as well as images by such Pictorialists such as Anne Brigman, William Dassonville, Johan Hagemeyer, William Mortensen, and Karl Struss. With more than 100 works by 16 artists, Debating Modern Photography offers a feast for the eyes while illustrating both sides of a high-stakes debate. Outstanding examples of the clean edges and bold forms of Group f/64 stand in sharp contrast to the romantic, hand-crafted Pictorialist work that includes elegant portraits, tonalist landscapes, and allegorical studies. Map + Directions | Report Update