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Kent Maxwell Places Unknown

Join us for the First Friday opening of Kent Maxwell’s “Places Unknown.” We’ll have drink specials and free hors d’oeuvres from 4pm-6pm! Eliot Porter “The intention behind my artwork is to transport viewers to worlds unseen, while imbuing them with a Eliot Porter’s Nature sense of nostalgia or mystery. My process draws on Andrew Crane color, pattern and texture from familiar elements in Eliot Porter (United States, 1901-1990) is one of nature, which I arrange through paint and encaustic Andrew Crane | Antipodean the best-known and most-beloved photographers techniques into visuals of unfamiliar places. I veer away in the American tradition. Brother to painter and from the detail presented in traditional landscapes and Isles critic Fairfield Porter, whose work is also on view hyperrealist scenery, and instead highlight universal on this floor, Eliot Porter is credited for two major visuals through an impressionistic focus. In this way I “I have spent the last two years working, living, achievements: pushing color photography into aim to paint a porthole to another world, not a view and shooting on two islands on opposite sides of the field of serious art photography and marrying out the window. The effect is liberation from the world the globe. In 2016, I lived for ten months on a small his commitment to artistic expression with his we inhabit in the present moment, and an escape to a fisherman’s island off of Hong Kong called Cheung commitment to the conservation of wildlife and place with the eerie familiarity of a lost memory.” Chau, after which I returned home to the coast wilderness areas. Porter worked extensively with the of Maine and began shooting the second half of Sierra Club, publishing hundreds of images in books Abilene | 539 Deering Avenue the project on the island of Vinalhaven. I chose to and portfolios in the 1960s and 1970s. As a result, his approach the islands as coupled macrocosms of photography was hugely popular among American change, isolated communities continually being audiences, although he struggled to achieve the same sculpted and reformed by the tides of industry and levels of renown from his peers in the community of technology. Both island communities sustained American art photographers during the same period. themselves over past centuries with their fishing fleets, only to experience in recent decades declines in fish Portland Museum of Art | 7 Congress Square population and a burgeoning demand for island real estate. Combined with an influx of tourism from the mainland, these two islands have struggled to maintain and redevelop what it is that defines their sense of islandness.”

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