Area Gallery -
Woodbury Campus Center, Portland

Art Gallery -
Gorham Campus

Drawing Drawings

Visiting Artist Michael G. Moore
Jan 14-Feb. 29
Closing Reception, Feb. 29, 5-8 pm
Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland

Undergrowth
Pen and ink, 2007, 22" x 22"

Using traditional techniques of pen and ink on paper, Michael G. Moore makes drawings about drawing. Michael G. Moore chaired the USM Department of Art for many years and continues to be a widely known and admired artist and teacher. He is currently chair of the Post- Baccalaureate Program, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

USM Juried Art Student Exhibit

Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center Portland
March 7-April 4
Jurors' talk: Wednesday, March 5, 1 pm
Opening reception: Friday, March 7, 3:30-5:30 pm
Organized by the Art Student Union and Art Gallery

A juried exhibit open to all USM art students.

Drawn to Abstraction

Wolcott Dodge, Sean Hasey, and Ryan Wight
Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland
April 11-May 4
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 16, 5-7 pm
Artist talks at 6 pm.

Work by three art alumni painters (Dodge '86, Hasey '97, and Wight '07) engaged in various levels of abstraction.

Untitled, Wilcott Dodge
Acrylic on panel, 2003

Analog: Gideon Bok, Visiting Artist-in-Residence

Art Gallery, Gorham
February 26-April 6
The Gallery will be closed for break March 23-31.
Gideon Bok will be painting in the gallery on Wed., April 2, 2-4 pm
Closing Reception: Thursday, April 3, 5-7 pm

Gideon Bok's paintings become a dense visual tracing of the objects, pace, light, and people that inhabit the space he uses. This exhibit will feature a number of Bok's paintings and will also serve as a studio site and subject for the artist. Bok, a Maine-based painter, is represented by galleries in New York and Boston and his work can be found in numerous public and private collections.

Rockland Studio, 1998-2000
Oil on linen, 55 x 57 inches
Courtesy of Plane Space, NY

Organized by the Art Student Union the USM Art Gallery

B.F.A Exhibition

Senior Thesis exhibits by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts studio art majors.
April 11–May 4
Art Gallery, Gorham
Opening reception: Friday, April 11
6:00 - 8:00 pm

Lecture Series in the Visuals Arts

All lecture series events are held on Fridays at 1 pm, Burnham Lounge, Robie Andrews Hall, Gorham

Irina Danilova, Artist, Curator

Screening: February 8

Launched by Project 59 in 2005 in Tribeca, NY, the 59 Seconds Festival is an alternative festival and research media project. Artists submit 59 seconds-long works that incorporate number 59 in any manner. Works are being collected through open calls until the final collection of the best 59 videos are selected during a series of 59 national and international screenings. The most recent collection will be screened at USM.

Michael G. Moore, Visiting Artist

Artist talk: Feb. 29

Gideon Bok, Artist-in-Residence

Artist Talk: March 14