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You’re invited to join us Friday, August 2 at Richard Boyd Art Gallery for the opening of a group exhibition of visual arts comprised of works across multiple genres. The show contains more than forty works by 15 artists with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and interests, joined by their love of creating visual art. Whether you’re drawn to contemporary abstracts or traditional realism, the exhibit includes works in a variety of styles and mediums by featured artist Amy Bickford – cityscapes and landscapes; and artists’ Patricia Chandler - landscapes, abstracts, and still life; Carrin Culotta - landscapes; Kevin Daley - landscapes; Randy Eckard - architectural landscapes; Jane Herbert - landscapes; Scarlet Kinney - landscapes; Jen Pagnini - abstracts, and landscapes; Roy Perkinson - landscapes, and still life; Bob Santandrea - plein air landscapes; Felicity Sidwell - plein air landscapes; Wilson Stewart - landscapes; Susan Tan - landscapes; Charles Ellithorpe, DVM limited edition bronze sculptures and works in clay by Richard Boyd. The exhibit is open free of charge between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily through August 29, 2019. Open to 8:00 p.m. on the first Friday of every month. Richard Boyd Art Gallery is located at the corner of Island Avenue and Epps Street on Peaks Island in Portland, ME. For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone at (207)-712-1097, via email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website at www.richardboydartgallery.com . To view images of works selected for the current month’s exhibit click on Https://richardboydpottery.com/current-exhibit/ . Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery . Follow us on Instagram #richardboydartgallery . Image: Amy Bickford ~ ‘Tall Ships’ ~ Watercolor and Gouache on Paper 20” x 26” Copyright© 2019 Richard Boyd Art Gallery All Rights Reserved

Munjoy Hill's local parish provides a gorgeous space to enjoy art of all kinds. The sanctuary is open for artists with ample room to display and for guests to enjoy the creative arts. The setting is a peaceful and a perfect backdrop for visual arts with its rich history. Delectable refreshments and wine will be served for our guests.

Meet the artists at Bridge Gallery, the working studio/gallery of Rhonda Pearle and Gary Perlmutter. Gary is a classical realist painter, creating beautiful realistic still lifes. Rhonda is an expressive painter, using brilliant colors and moving paint strokes to convey feeling. See where they work, how they work, and how these two very different styles compliment each other!

Classic Works from the 1960s and 1970s by Leo Rabkin. An array of modernist painting and sculpture from the artist's classic period including plexiglass boxes, large scale watercolors and mixed media constructions. Rabkin emerged from the ethos of the New York School to challenge its heroic swagger with intimate and even delicate works offering an kindly closeness to everyday experiences. See how modernism became post-modernism in the art of a New York artist whose legacy now lives in Portland.

Come one, come all to Trueline’s “First Friday” art show this Friday, August 2, at our newly renovated Trueline Gallery @561, located at 561 Congress Street in Portland. Our August show is called “First Light,” and will showcase the art of four local creators. 100% of all art sales will be given back to the artist. Formerly the home of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, our space has a proud history of championing local art—a tradition we intend to continue. So please come out and show your support for these amazing artists. Dave Wade is a longtime Portland-based photographer and host of Juke Jive ‘n Jazz on WMPG whose portfolio features beautiful images from Portland’s waterfront. Chris Morse, another Portland-based photographer, specializes in detailed renderings of fatigued paint on old cars. Also featured will be Joanne Arnold, a Falmouth-based photographer, and South Portland’s Peter Dransfield, a bronze sculpture artist. Wine and light snacks will be offered. In addition, we’ll be giving away one free hour of business consulting to all guests that leave a business card with us!

Maine Craft Portland is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of Maine’s most unique sculptural ceramicists around! Jonathan White of Odd Inq and Carolyn Judson of Judson Pottery will be showing us sculptural forms remarking on the nature of industrial objects to elements from outer space! A show of sculpture not to be missed! This opening will also entertain your ears with the musical talent of guitarist Alejandro Graciano.

In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 explores how an experimental school in rural Maine transformed art, craft, and design in the 20th century and helped define the aesthetics of the nation’s counterculture.

Casco Bay Artisans is honored to present an exhibition years in the making with Kim Radochia’s Shimms. Radochia’s work is the nexus where innovation, materials, technique, and vision transform into contemporary fine art. Her sense of color and movement creates dynamic and immersive imagery that changes with the light over the passage of a day. This work is not to be missed. Shimms: Artist Statement Much of my work is a meditation on movement in nature, whether it be the circular weave of a birds nest, the dance of smoke, or, in this most recent body of work, Shimms, the undulation of water. My conceptual preoccupation is with the study of ‘Li’, an ancient Chinese practice of gathering and organizing the extraordinary patterns found in nature on every scale. Water currents and water lines, patterns of flocking birds called murmurations, and geological formations collect and disperse on these worked surfaces. Shimms are paper and acrylic pieces in which the process of creating the work, the painting and tearing of paper and then the fixing of each shred onto the surface, reflects actual movement the piece creates. The slow, steady ritual of making this recent body of work has also become a symbol of my energy and endurance for the past five years. My method of making these dimensional artworks was discovered through trial and error with the goal of pushing one simple material in my studio, paper. Thousands of meticulously painted and hand torn pieces of paper converge and disperse in each sculpture, pulling our gaze along, radiating movement and energy. The static becomes kinetic with the viewer’s participation, as color and form shift dramatically alongside our own movements. From each angle, the paper creations transform into seemingly new works of art. - Kim Radochia

This series is an attempt to capture the impression of space and light.

Artist Statement: My paintings have taken on a more personal significance as I explore content that has importance to me; moving beyond the figure and still lifes. I am striving to obtain composition, balance and color relation while experimenting with textures. Even though my intuitive responses occasionally stray from color accuracy, I want to maintain precision with perspective and proportion. I have come to the realization that I am not a narrative artist, but would like my viewers to experience a sense of escape. My work has taken on new directions through the inspiration and study of artists that have made an impact on me, especially from the Impressionist era. Monet, Renoir and Corot have enlightened me on how to really capture a moment in time in a simplistic manner. They give just enough indication and detail to portray a mood. Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi’s realism and extensive technique have helped me enhance my style and progress as an artist. Modern painters such as the Wyeth family have provided me with motivation and insight. My more recent paintings contain elevated complexities with composition, lighting and contrast. The main focus is the distortion of images within water that converses with the concrete physicality of its surroundings. Rather than being inclusive of the standard formula of distribution between sky and land, I prefer to mostly deny the sky to allow water to be the primary element. Artist Bio: When I was six years old my family and I relocated from Riverside, California to Portland, Maine. This is where I spent most of my life until I went to college in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Marywood University became my home for seven years and where I earned a BFA in Art therapy and minor in psychology. I had decided to remain at Marywood to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Painting degree. During the seven years I had studied abroad for two semesters in Florence, Italy, where I was trained in oil and fresco painting which I plan to continue in the states. Europe was a life altering experience that I would definitely do again if given the opportunity. Being able to study the masters from Musee Marmottan Monet, Louvre, Uffizi and others have broadened my skills and highly influenced my work. Since completing my master's degree in May 2012 I have returned to Portland, Maine.

Visit our historic sanctuary and see various artists display works in oil, acrylic, and fiber. Wine and refreshments are served. Located on the corner of Congress and Locust. Entrance on Locust street. "Originally founded in 1763 and since the War of 1812, Saint Paul's has enjoyed serving as the Maritime Church for the local seagoing community. This includes all who serve and work on the world's seas and their families. One of Saint Paul's more notable members was Commodore Edward Preble, Commander of the USS Constitution".

Second Hand closes on August 4th. Using acrylic paint on paper and collage, Meghan Brady has created a new wall-sized painting installation at SPACE. Incorporating multiple languages of paint and approach, Brady continues to explore the area between structured and free-formed large-scale painting. "These paintings came about as a response to my restlessness and desire to see my paintings on shaped surfaces, as well as the technical freedom to change the piece at nearly any given point (something that painting on stretched canvas makes difficult). Within these boundaries, I find a space where I can use direct, saturated colors to generate loose compositions that reference ceramic vessels, clothing, and gesture -- in other words, I am indirectly referencing the human body through an everyday kind of abstraction. My aim is to make paintings that are generous in spirit but also find a way to occupy their space and time in a frenetic, irregular, and ultimately surprising way." Photo Credit: Joel Tsui

Grant Wahlquist Gallery is pleased to announce “Technique/Support,” Tad Beck’s second exhibition with the gallery. The show will run from June 29 through August 10, 2019. The gallery will hold an opening reception on Saturday, June 29 from 4 – 7 pm. Please note that the gallery is open by appointment only July 3 – 6. “Technique/Support” features selections from two recent photographic series and a new multi-channel video installation that use re-photography and repetition to both elucidate and complicate their architectural, erotic, and performative concerns. Continuing a strategy from Beck’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, each body of work is hung at a unique height; as with a chamber music score, the installation allows each to function semi-autonomously while also forming part of an ensemble. In the aggregate, “Technique/Support” demonstrates Beck’s pursuit of photography’s edges, to stretching its capacities by doubling down on its most basic attributes. It develops and adopts forms of expertise—“technique” is multivalent, equally applicable in photographic, choreographic, and sexual contexts—to test what a photograph can do. In his ongoing series “Blanks,” Beck begins by photographing a white sheet of glossy photographic paper, capturing reflective traces of the studio environment and camera. The photograph is printed and re-photographed under glass, occasionally embellished with white spray paint. This process is repeated a number of times such that the resulting image is a composite of multiple photographs. Beck begins with an empty subject and dilates the photographic moment until the studio itself functions as an apparatus for the creation of a new abstract space. While the “Blanks” owe much to modernist painting and structuralism—they at turns recall Alvin Lucier, Robert Ryman, Cy Twombly, Jan Dibbets, and Michael Snow—they toggle between digital and analog, painting and photography, system and accident, and image and architecture with an elegant insouciance. These are “pictures of nothing” that are nonetheless documents of specific times in specific places with a specific quality of light. “Colby” addresses how context changes the meaning of a pose. Beck worked with pornographic film star and artist Colby Keller. After capturing body positions from his films suggestive of other forms of performance, Beck had Keller carefully recreate these poses in his studio, solo and in dance tights. The images isolate the original poses against a black studio floor, blurring the lines between choreography and sex. The series explores both the importance of context in understanding what a body “means” as well as the choreographic nature of even the most (biologically) basic of movements. Condenser is a multi-channel video installation featuring Maine-based artist and dancer Riley Watts that extends a strategy developed in Beck’s photographic project “Double Document.” Beck took still photographs and video of Watts performing from above. He printed and placed select images on the floor and Watts re-executed the original movements on top, distressing and tearing the prints. Beck backlit the distressed prints with the original video footage, re-filming the prints with a video camera directly opposite the projector, a setup that evokes a darkroom enlarger (a condenser compresses light en route to a negative). The finished work is projected on suspended plexiglass. Like “Double Document,” Condenser explores photography's relationship to performance and the abstract body, incorporating a new form of duration to expand on its blurring of flat and sculptural space. Tad Beck received a B.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York and an M.F.A. in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He lives in Vinalhaven, Maine. In Summer 2019, his work will be featured in “Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall” at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Beck’s solo exhibitions include: Grant Wahlquist Gallery; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles; Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York; Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York; and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport. Two-person exhibitions include collaborative works made with the artist Jennifer Locke at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and an exhibition with Diana Cherbuliez at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn. His work has recently been featured in group exhibitions at: Grant Wahlquist Gallery; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland; FotoFest, Houston; Spritmuseum, Stockholm; the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Portland Museum of Art; and the Worcester Art Museum. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Portland Museum of Art; the Worcester Art Museum; and the Addison Gallery of American Art. The gallery is located at 30 City Center, Portland, Maine. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm, and by appointment. For more information, visit http://grantwahlquist.com, call 207.245.5732, or email info@grantwahlquist.com.

Join us as we celebrate the power of music with Kate Beever, owner of Maine Music & Health (Small Business Administration’s Maine Micro-Enterprise of the Year in 2017) in our Power of Potential exhibition gallery. Kate is a talented musical therapist who brings comfort and pain relief to patients at Maine Medical Center each week. Please stop by to experience and participate in the incredible healing power of music from Kate while enjoying our Power of Potential, Doing Good: Medical Stories of Maine, and Holding Up the Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art exhibitions!

Friday, August 2nd, 7PM First Friday at Mechanics’ Hall Reading Series: Writing with Wit: Three Maine Women Share Their Writing and Publishing Experience. A partnership event co-hosted by Print: A Bookstore, Maine Authors Publishing, and Mechanics' Hall. Kathy Eliscu, NOT EVEN DARK CHOCOLATE CAN FIX THIS: Somewhere in Maine, a middle-aged woman is having a serious temper tantrum. “Tink” Casawill is drowning in family and work demands, hormones, a fiancé oblivious to another woman’s flirtations, and…her doctor tells her to cut out caffeine. (WHAT?!?) While attempting to do a good deed, Tink’s life spins out of control and now, “Not Even Dark Chocolate Can Fix This Mess!” https://maineauthorspublishing.com/not-even-dark-chocolate-can-fix-this-mess/ Lew-Ellen Hughes, MAINE STORIES: This book is a collection of award-winning true tales of life, family, and the people, places, and lifestyle of rural Maine. Born in California and raised in the military with deep Maine roots, award-winning columnist and author Lew-Ellyn Hughes has had a life she describes as being abnormally fabulous and insanely unconventional. She writes about her life and the lives of her fellow Mainers. She has been published in several Maine publications, including Down East Magazine. https://maineauthorspublishing.com/maine-stories/ Patsy Baldus, LOVE, LUTEFISK AND LEMON ZEST SNEAKERS: What do yellow sneakers, a gecko, a visit to the vet’s, and a memorable seven-course Swedish meal all have in common? Why, calamity, of course! Romp through these humorous and sometimes poignant adventures as the author reveals the joys and comedic pitfalls of everyday experiences, including vacations, family pets, moving, and dealing with the neighborhood kids. https://maineauthorspublishing.com/love-lutefisk-and-lemon-zest-sneakers/