For a detailed listing visit portlandartwalk.org Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. JANUARY 5, 2018 William Wordsworth BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR ... For a detailed listing visit portlandartwalk.org 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.” PhoPa Gallery | 132 Washington Avenue Lead Sponsor: Sponsor: 10 | THE DOGFISH BAR AND 17 | DOROTHEA AND LEO RABKIN 24 | MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM GRILLE FOUNDATION 267 Congress Street 128 Free Street 13 Brown Street Artifact and Artifice | Jeffrey Dogfish Staff & Friends Rethinking Watercolor: The Art of Ackerman A compilation of artwork through Leo Rabkin Primarily a painter and sculptor, multiple mediums put together Leo Rabkin made many creative Ackerman was also trained in by restaurant employees and uses of the traditional medium of furniture making, wood carving, friends around town. watercolor. Some are 3D, some and conservation. thedogfishcompany.com/ are pleated, some are in boxes, Hours and Days | Kathy Weinberg barandgrille many are just gorgeous. Come Weinberg is a painter, sculptor, see for yourself! and printmaker whose paintings 11 | ART HOUSE PICTURE FRAMES rabkinfoundation.org were included in the 2016 CMCA Creative Portland is not responsible for the accuracy or 61 Pleasant Street Biennial. Her antiques experience A Retelling completeness of listings. Submit your listing free online 18 | LEWIS GALLERY @ gives her artwork a familiarity Stop by to sip wine and view PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY at: portlandartwalk.org with a historical visual language. “A Retelling” by artist Maya 5 Monument Square Kuvaja. “The found materials Photos of the Year: The Photography 2017 Menorah Invitational Exhibition CREATIVE PORTLAND 5 | DAUNIS FINE HANDMADE are intertwined with my own of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Menorahs created by artists 84 Free Street JEWELRY painted images drawn from Sunday Telegram with a Maine connection Portland, ME 04101 616 Congress Street personal histories, dreams and Opening reception 5-7pm for including Jane Banquer, Randy 207 370 4784 Translucence and Color Fields experiences.” this new collaborative exhibit. On Fein, Lin Lisberger, Scot creativeportland.com Photographs by John Ripton, mayakuvaja.yolasite.com view through February 17. Vonnegut, and many others. [email protected] a poet, essayist, photographer arthousepictureframes.com portlandlibrary.com mainejewishmuseum.org and historian. His work has been exhibited in galleries in New 12 | SPACE GALLERY 19 | PUBLIC MARKET HOUSE 25 | PHOPA GALLERY York City, New Jersey and New 538 Congress Street 28 Monument Square 132 Washington Avenue ARTS DISTRICT England. Here/Now Love Life Andrew Crane | Antipodean Isles 1 | PORTLAND MONTHLY daunis.com An ASMR-inspired video series Eric Sorensen’s art is an extension Photographs shot on two islands MAGAZINE OFFICES on how to find comfort through of the freedom in his heart. He on opposite sides of the globe, 165 State Street 6 | CONGRESS SQUARE GALLERY synthetic mediation. wants to reach the viewer with Cheung Chau off the coast of First Friday Fiction 609a Congress Street Hong Kong and Vinalhaven off Each month, Portland Monthly Mendacious Veracity passion and a feeling of healing Artist owner and hope. the coast of Maine, approached Magazine hosts First Friday Dozens of new paintings and Incorporating draped textile forms by Liz Miller. publicmarkethouse.com as coupled macrocosms of Fiction with a Maine writer. prints of Portland by RN Cohen change. Experience the stories beyond The Same River and Stan Leiberman. 20 | GRANT WAHLQUIST GALLERY phopagallery.com our pages! Nick Carter layers flag-like congresssquaregallery.com 30 City Center, 2nd Floor portlandmonthly.com artworks in the window. Tad Beck: The accident 7 | SCHWARTZ BUILDING space538.org Beck pushes the boundaries 2 | AVON STREET GALLERY 602 Congress Street of photography, deliberately 11 Avon Street Arcs & Angles 13 | MAINE COLLEGE OF ART WOODFORDS Inventory Show! Blow-out Pricing! Little Village, creator of illumi- 522 Congress Street putting in play qualities that are traditionally considered An inventory sale of a large nated environment for various ARTISTS AT WORK CORNER undesirable. 26 | ABILENE selection of paintings by artist festivals & events, is pleased and #MECAmade 539 Deering Avenue Jan ter Weele. Available will be proud to present a holiday light A pop-up shop featuring selected grantwahlquist.com Places Unknown landscapes, abstracts, and figure display. alumni work, including goods paintings, ranging in size from Join us for drink specials and free Butterfly in a Snowstorm from the alumni co-founded hors d’oeuvres from 4pm-6pm! small to very large. design firm Might and Main. Please join us at 4:00pm when abileneportland.com avonstreetgallery.com Little Village will turn on a new meca.edu OLD PORT projection mapped installation 21 | DOBRA TEA 3 | COFFEE BY DESIGN to light the way in the depths of 14 | CREATIVE PORTLAND 620 Congress Street 89 Exchange Street winter. 84 Free Street Of Travels for Tea On the Island and By the River Best of Greater Portland - Fall 2017 New paintings by Nance Parker. Photographs from Ellen Kanner & PEAKS ISLAND 8 | PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART Juried Art Exhibit 27 | RICHARD BOYD ART GALLERY Acrylic on wood panels and Ray Marcotte’s travels for tea to 7 Congress Square Our first juried exhibition 15 Epps Street canvas inspired by life on Lesvos, Korea, Japan, India, China, Nepal Eliot Porter’s Nature showcasing a variety of works by Holiday Offering - 2017 Greece and in the woods of and more. Porter is credited for pushing over 20 local artists. All work is dobrateame.com An annual group exhibition Maine. color photography into the for sale. of original two and three- coffeebydesign.com field of serious art photography creativeportland.com 22 | DOCKFORE dimensional works of art 4 | THE PUBLICATION STUDIO and marrying his commitment 336 Fore Street including paintings, sculptures, to artistic expression with his 15 | UMVA GALLERY @ CTN Old Maine Themed Trucks and a broad selection of works 613 Congress Street 516 Congress Street Publication Studio Experiments in commitment to the conservation Works by Gene Whitney. in clay. of wildlife and wilderness areas. Prayers & Elegies: Found Narratives, facebook.com/dock.fore richardboydartgallery.com Mono Printing Combinatorial Artworks by Gregg Model Citizens: Art and Identity in We will be displaying the results Opening reception 5-8pm. The the United States, 1770–1830 of our investigations into the UMVA Gallery presents monthly A glimpse into how late 18th and mono printing process as well member group, thematic, and early 19th-century Americans as new T-shirt designs from a solo exhibitions. elected to represent themselves EAST END collaboration with an illustration umvaonline.org 23 | COFFEE BY DESIGN class at MECA. in private and public spheres. 67 India Street theartdepartment.me/publication- portlandmusuem.org 16 | MECHANICS HALL On the Island and By the River studio.html 519 Congress Street New Paintings by Nance Parker. 9 | BROKEN CROW COLLECTIVE Flashback Friday Acrylic on wood panels and 594 Congress Street, 2nd Floor Ongoing slide show featuring canvas inspired by life on Lesvos, Screwball Iceland and the Balkans - Greece and in the woods of As a reaction to decades of Romania and Bulgaria. Maine. art direction of his work, Mike mainecharitablemechanic- coffeebydesign.com Gorman decided to do a large association.com series of paintings for himself, devoid of outside commentary.