The Paintings of John Calvin Stevens
April 21, 2015 - July 19, 2015
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Today John Calvin Stevens is remembered for his distinguished six-decade career as Maine’s leading architect of the Shingle and Colonial Revival styles. From 1880 to 1940, Stevens designed hundreds of homes and buildings throughout Maine, as far south as Virginia, and as far west as Colorado. Overshadowed by these professional achievements is Stevens’ lifelong passion for […]
Color Fields Printed Paintings
February 3, 2015 - April 12, 2015
Portland Campus Art Gallery
A new resident of Maine, Joan Busing has had an illustrious career in New York, and this exhibition on the Lower Level of the UNE Art Gallery will introduce this artist to our state. Several bodies of work are on display, including her Moon series, for which she studied the phases of the moon for many […]
A Gateless Garden
January 20, 2015 - April 12, 2015
Portland Campus Art Gallery
The exhibition, edited by Dr. Liza Bakewell, director of Maine Women Write, pairs 53 quotes by Maine women writers with black and white images by photographer Kerry Michaels. The quotes are letterpress printing by Scott Vile of Freeport, Maine. The book, A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers, accompanies the exhibit and contains 100 quotes and 100 […]
Write Again Soon: Letters from World War II
December 4, 2014 - April 15, 2015
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
An exhibit created by UNE undergraduate history students opened at the Biddeford Campus’ Jack S. Ketchum Library on December 4, 2014. The exhibit features images and letters from World War II, with interpretive text researched and written by students. It encompasses three different themes: The Homefront; Frontlines; and Romance and relationships in WWII. Students researched primary […]
Coyote Connections
October 9, 2014 - January 15, 2015
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Featured guest: UNE professor Noah Perlut Coyote Connections features works by 31 Maine artists celebrating the Coyote and its relationships with the wild, the land, fellow wildlife, prey, families—mates, pups and parents—and with us humans as well. Included are sculpture, drawings, photographs, prints and paintings created in styles both figurative and abstract. Our Native People […]
The Maine Artist’s Animals: Bernard Langlais at UNE
September 15, 2014 - December 2, 2014
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
The Maine Artist’s Animals gathered paintings, drawings and sculptures that together highlight a powerful concern in his work: how to explore the aesthetics of form through animal representation. Whether in paint, pencil or pen as well as with paper, formica, wood and nails, the artworks chosen here from the Kohler Foundation’s 2014 gift to UNE’s permanent […]
13th Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational
June 6, 2014 - October 31, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
The 13th Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational at the University of New England is scheduled to open June 6, 2014 and run through October 31, 2014. An Opening Reception, free to the public, will be held on Friday, June 6 from 4-6 p.m. Works of sculpture by 16 artists will be placed in the UNE Art Gallery’s Vestibule […]
Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage
June 26, 2014 - September 28, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Collage, from the French ‘coller (to glue),’ has been with us since the Chinese invented paper in 200 BCE, through the middle ages, into 17th century Venice when découpage (from découper, to cut out’) became fashionable, right on through to the present day. But modern collage as a formal artistic technique is considered to have […]
2014 Art Department Faculty Exhibition
February 5, 2014 - February 23, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
A biennial tradition since 2002, the exhibition highlights the diverse studio practices of UNE’s teaching artists. Recent works and works in progress are presented in a representative range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, 3D printing and illustration. The following faculty members will display work: Stephen Burt, Corliss Chastain, Jen McDermott, Sarah Gorham, Holly Haywood, Joe […]
Joe Guertin: A Graphic Designer Remembered
November 6, 2013 - January 26, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Joe Guertin (1940-2010) was highly involved as a teacher and graphic designer in the art and design community of Portland from the early 1970’s onward, serving as head of the Department of Graphic Design at the Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art) and on the advisory committee for the Payson Building at […]
