Area Gallery
Woodbury Campus Center, Portland
Mapping the Empty: Jennilie Brewster, Visiting Artist
September 18 - November 1, 2009
Large-scale paintings on paper exploring open spaces within nature, industry, and the imagination.
Call and Thoreau: Spirit of an Age
November 5 - December 12, 2009
Historic images by photographer Bert L. Call (1866-1965) document specific sites described by Henry David Thoreau in his book The Maine Woods.
Call's photos, portraying how the Northern Woods of Maine looked only thirty-five years after Thoreau visited, may help people better understand the rapid changes happening there today.
Curated by Frank Spizuoco and on loan from Dexter Historical Society.
Art Gallery
Gorham Campus
HORIZON: Poetics of the Post-Heroic Landscape
September 24 - November 8, 2009
The juxtaposition of Jennilie Brewster's strangely powerful avalanches of trash and Honour Mack's elegant, diminutive paintings offer insight into the ways in which contemporary worldviews have transformed the idea of landscape.
Organized by USM and UMF Art Galleries. The exhibit will be on view at UMF November 19 - December 13.
Juried Student Exhibition
November 17 - December 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lecture Series
in the Visual Arts
HORIZON Panel Discussion
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 1:00 PM in the Art Gallery, Gorham, followed by an opening reception 2:30 - 4:00 PM
A discussion on the poetics of the post-heroic landscape moderated by Carolyn Eyler with HORIZON co-curator Elizabeth Olbert, art historian Donna Cassidy; and exhibiting artists Honour Mack and Jennilie Brewster.
Visiting Artist: Barbara Sullivan
ArtTalk: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 1:00 PM, Burnham Lounge, Robie Andrews Hall, Gorham
Simultaneously satirizing and celebrating everyday rituals such as eating, Barbara Sullivan's sculptural frescos give an ancient medium a new ironic twist.
Visiting Scholar: George Smith
ArtTalk: Manet and the Feminist Postmodern Style
Friday, October 30, 2009, 1:00 PM, Burnham Lounge, Robie Andrews Hall, Gorham
George Smith teaches philosophy and theory at The Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in Portland, Maine. He has written widely on the relation between the visual arts, literature, and philosophy.
