Year: 2024 | Art Galleries

Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery

Spark of Life opening reception

November 13, 2024

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

November 13, 2024-February 16, 2025 Opening reception Wednesday, November 13, 5-7 p.m. The UNE Art Galleries and UNE’s Histology and Imaging Core present Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery. The work on view centers around the photography of the University’s imaging lab, in conversation with contemporary artwork. Emphasizing the materiality of abstraction, the artwork in this exhibit […]

Studio Ecosystems: UNE Visual Art Faculty Show 2024

Studio Ecosystems opening reception

November 7, 2024

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

November 7, 2024 – February 9, 2025 With this exhibition of work from UNE faculty in the visual arts, the unique creative climate of each individual studio practice is honored. The creative process builds its own systems and psychic environments in a different way for each artist, based on research; material relationships; and narrative, and in Studio […]

Ultrasound Dance

September 26, 2024

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

SPACE Gallery

“Ultrasound Dance” uses light, choreography and music to elevate the intensely personal experience of the ultrasound. This human-scale representation is presented as part of UNE Art Gallery Biddeford’s exhibition “Light and Shadow: Motherhood, Creativity, and the Discourse of Ability”, on view through October 20, 2024, in collaboration with SPACE Gallery. Though the heavy moments of […]

The Numbers Game

June 7, 2024

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

June 7-October 13, 2024 Opening reception Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. Mathematics is the foundational, abstract system we use to find order in the world and in theory, by examining the workings of numbers. For artists, processes such as measuring, counting, segmenting, and responding to symmetry are methods that grant numbers a primary place in the […]

Light and Shadow: Motherhood, Creativity, and the Discourse of Ability

Opening reception for Light and Shadow

May 31, 2024

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

May 31-October 20, 2024 Opening reception Friday, May 31, 4 – 7 p.m. Including the work of five artists and text by art historian Virginia Rose, “Light and Shadow” highlights the creative practices of artists who are also mothers of children with developmental or physical differences. The exhibit focuses on creative processes as part of […]

Tidal Shift: Work from the Searsport EcoArts Residency

January 19-May 20, 2024 Closing reception Thursday, April 25, 4 – 6 p.m. The UNE Art Gallery in Biddeford presents work from the first suite of artists-in-residence at the Searsport EcoArts Residency (SEAR), in conversation with our School of Marine and Environmental Programs. SEAR is the first residency in Maine that is focused on exploring ecology, and provides […]

Recent Acquisitions in the Stephen K. Halpert Collection of Photography at UNE

February 16-May 19, 2024 Opening reception Friday, February 16, 5 – 8 p.m. Join us to celebrate the new acquisitions in our collection. The display showcases new photographic works procured by Stephen K. Halpert, curator of photography at UNE, in his signature narrative curatorial style, focusing on his longstanding interest in work that documents diverse […]

An Evening with Irises

January 18, 2024

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Join artist-florist John Sundling and UNE Education and Outreach Archivist Cathleen Miller for a fun, casual talk about art, taking van Gogh’s “Irises” as a starting place for uplifting conversation about the nature of beauty. Followed by a closing reception for “Seeking Light”, up through January 21.