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A great joy of traveling for me is exploring galleries in different cities and towns. It enables me to connect with the local culture and get a sense for the aesthetic sensibilities of the place. This summer, we have visited galleries in Newport, RI, Martha's Vineyard, and the coast of Maine. One of my favorite galleries is Star Gallery in Northeast Harbor, ME (pictured above). It is a seasonal gallery with a sophisticated roster of artists.
I hope that this August you are able enjoy time away, while also staying connected to your wonderful local cultural offerings available throughout the season.
- Hadley
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Exclusively painting spheres for over 25 years, John Gibson says, "I don't really care that much about them. Of course I'm attracted to them just like anybody else; I admire their endlessness and mystery. I paint balls because they are the most simple and fundamentally different thing from the flat surface of a painting that I can think of. I like that elegant opposition of forces." In each painting, Gibson tries to paint a "real" three dimensional ball utilizing the flat surface, the actual impossibility never deterring his goal.
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Kate Holcomb Hale's installation work subverts traditional boundaries of drawing and painting, merging paper, charcoal and paint with architecture. There is a tremendous physicality to the spaces that they transform and fill up. Drawing is the foundation to her work, with each installation beginning with a large-scale charcoal drawing. The work develops as she builds lines and marks, erasing, blending, tearing and cutting away to create forms. Once the drawing is situated on the wall, she brings in acrylic paint to expand the drawing onto the surrounding walls and ceiling. Hale's work was most recently on view at Assemblage FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA. Her studio is located in Arlington, MA.
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Lucy Kim casts parts of the body and expands them -- creating relief paintings that are slightly ambiguous and provocative. In her studio, you see the materials and molds she has used to create her work. A cast limb, eerily sitting on a shelf, then goes through many transformations before we see it hanging on the wall.
Lucy received her BFA in Painting from RISD in 2001 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2007. She is the recipient of the 2017 James and Audrey Foster Prize and the 2015 Boston Artadia Award. She was a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer Program and the MacDowell Colony, as well as a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
A professor art at Boston University, Lucy is also an Artist in Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard where she has been engaging with scientists to learn about their research and relate it back to how the human body is imagined and visually represented.
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Special Exhibition
Nick Cave's Augment comes to Boston with Now + There
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Boston Public Art non-profit Now + There is bringing Augment, a dynamic new public artwork by internationally acclaimed artist Nick Cave, to Boston. Created to reflect on moments of shared happiness, the power of community and collective memory, this multi-faceted project will create conversations about our shared values and how fostering joy and togetherness can help us confront a social moment fraught with division.
- Augment opens August 8 at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End.
- Free Public Viewing Hours
- 10 am to 8 pm, Friday
- 10 am to 6 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
- August 8-22, August 27-September 3, September 12 & 13th
- September 14, the installation will move to Upham's Corner in Boston's first-ever art parade. The inflatables along with other artists, performers and participants will relocate the sculpture. It will be re-imagined and re-installed in a city-owned building in the neighborhood through April 2020.
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Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
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Exhibitions this summer along the coast of Maine
- Portland Museum of Art, Open-Ended, New Acquisition at the Portland Museum of Art, until October 20, 2019, Portland, ME.
- Caldbeck Gallery, K.Min, Alan Bray, Richard Saltonstall, Fred Kellog, Rockland, ME.
- Star Gallery, Spencer Verney, Geoff Disston and Claire Cushman, opening reception August 8, 5-7pm, Northeast Harbor, ME.
- Artemis Gallery, Roberta Amina Greany, Josh Hurst, Paul Kelly, Robert Pollien, Robert Wellings, opening reception August 8, 5-7pm, Northeast Harbor, ME.
- The Gallery at Somes Sound, Blue is the Color: Janis Sanders, August 28-September, 10, 2019, Mount Desert, ME.
- The Gallery at Islesford Dock, Islesford, ME.
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