Past Exhibits

Turtle/Television Island

 September 24-November 10, 2010

Living on opposite shores of this continent natives call Turtle Island, James Luna, a member of the Puyoukitchum (Luiseño) tribe based in La Jolla, California, and ssipsis, a Penobscot from Maine, make art challenging notions of contemporary identity. On display are Wabanaki birch bark artifacts and Ssipsis’s objects that revive and innovate on this tradition; Luna’s photographic pairings of himself in evocative relation with ancestors and masks, video utilizing innovative storytelling formats, and objects creating humorous commentary.

STUPA DUPLICATOR

February 26- April 4, 2010

SIMPARCH, an artist collective that creates experiential installations, will explore ancient iconography and sacred architecture through contemporary methods and materials.

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

Canopy: Michelle Forsyth, Visiting Artist-in-Residence

February 24 - April 8, 2009

Favoring the formal elegance of pattern and the visceral qualities of the handmade, Forsyth's work is a reflection on the onslaught of images of suffering in contemporary life.

Worldviews and Molas

September 9 –November 9, 2008

The forty-five ceramic, jade, and stone artifacts in this exhibit, produced by Mayan scribes and artisans during the classic period, contain a wealth of information about Mayan ideology including religion, beliefs, and cosmic concerns. On loan from the William P. Palmer III Collection, Hudson Museum, The University of Maine.

Analog: Gideon Bok, Visiting Artist-in-Residence

February 26-April 6, 2008

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.