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New shows at Center for Maine Contemporary Art open May 24
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art will open its three summer exhibitions Saturday, May 24. An opening reception is from 3-5 p.m. Saturday. The exhibitions are “Cheek to Cheek” by Nicole Wittenberg, May 24 through Sept. 14; “the shape of memory” by Carlie Trosclair, May 24 through Sept. 7; and “Leaf Litter” by Elizabeth Atterbury,…
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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures – a rich and witty retrospective that smells like chocolate
A bubbling Jacuzzi-sized fountain of molten chocolate greets visitors at the entrance to Life Pleasures, a major retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick at the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield. The piece, named Cacao, was made in 1994, two years before the artist’s sudden death of a heart attack aged just 42. The installation encourages visitors…
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Miller Foundation kicks off Round Two of its $1.5 million artists’ Spark Awards
Playwright Sara Jean Accuardi’s 2024 Spark Award helped her complete her new play The Storyteller, which just completed its world-premiere production at Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre. Above: Victoria Alvarez-Chacon stars as the magical Lady in Accuardi’s play. Photo: Philip J. Hatton Time for some good news: The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation has…
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David Canright’s ‘Built Environments’ explores the architecture of the imagination
Each of the easel-sized framed ink drawings in David Canright’s show “Built Environments” at Conduit Gallery takes a single subject, such as All-Inclusive Resort (2025), Section 416 G of the Transatlantic Cable (2025) or the medical care facility of Treatment Center (2024), and imagines it in fantastic, brain-melting detail, as if it were a beehive-like…
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How one local artist is helping others around the world get their creative juices flowing
Every artist, no matter the medium, has faced a moment where the inspiration just won’t come. Fifteen years ago, writer and book sculptor Jenny O’Grady had one of those moments. “It was a bunch of creatives sitting in a basement at UMBC, and everyone started complaining: ‘I should be painting. I should be writing, I…
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How one local artist is helping others around the world get their creative juices flowing
Every artist, no matter the medium, has faced a moment where the inspiration just won’t come. Fifteen years ago, writer and book sculptor Jenny O’Grady had one of those moments. “It was a bunch of creatives sitting in a basement at UMBC, and everyone started complaining: ‘I should be painting. I should be writing, I…
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Hillcrest High School student wins 7th District Congressional Art Competition
A ninth grader at Hillcrest High School earned first place in the 2025 Congressional Art Competition for Alabama’s 7th Congressional District. Victoria Hardin’s artwork, “Bama Beams Ahead,” won over 44 entries submitted to U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell’s office, according to a news release. This year’s theme was ‘Picturing a Future for Our Historic District.” Part of…
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#39 NY Profile
Music in your work plays an important role. Your long-time collaboration with Jason Moran is a testament to it. How do you approach a new music score? The music becomes part of the work. In the case of Empty Rooms, it was Jason’s contribution to the projected image. I work with the music, with its…
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See the new sculpture coming to City Hall Plaza in Portland
Artist Gillian Christy will install “Winged Kelp” at City Hall Plaza in Portland in June. Pictured here in a rendering, the sculpture will be blue and will stand 12 feet tall and 16 feet wide. Image by Rob Adams To Gillian Christy, blue just made sense. The artist is making a 12-foot-tall sculpture that will…
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Pete Mauney Talks Fireflies, Photography, and Obsession at CPW on May 22
If you’ve ever driven a backroad in June with the windows down and the radio off—just you and the soft strobe of fireflies winking above the roadside scrub—then you’ve felt the spell Pete Mauney has spent the last 13 years trying to bottle. Or maybe “trap in silver halide” is more accurate. The Tivoli-based photographer,…
