Place and Narrative in the North Atlantic
April 7, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
UNE Art Gallery at the Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library
Join UNE North director Holly Parker for a panel conversation with artists Ingunn Milla Joergensen & Alice Jones on the topic of a sense of place in the North Atlantic region’s different nations. As part of the UNE Art Gallery’s ongoing series of interdisciplinary public talks revolving around gallery exhibitions and academic overlap, this talk […]
January 21-June 3, 2022 Featuring work by artists from across the North Atlantic Region and writing from our community, this exhibit highlights a cross-section of artwork and voices from the region. Featuring the artwork of Diana Furukawa, Ingunn Milla Joergensen, Alice Jones, and Adele McFarlane Wile, the paintings, photography, and text in Bright Horizon will […]
Alphabet City: Art, Culture, and Letterforms
October 8, 2021 - January 7, 2022
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Kifah Abdulla, Mark Jamra, and Neil Patel October 8, 2021-January 7, 2022 Painter Kifah Abdulla’s work merges Modernist abstraction with Arabic calligraphy, bringing script into a place of intense visual expression. Originally from Baghdad, Iraq, Abdulla is a Maine-based painter, poet, and educator. The design collaborations of Mark Jamra and Neil Patel, of the Portland-based design […]
String Revolution: Textile and Visual Artifact
May 21, 2021 - September 24, 2021
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Co-curated by Elizabeth DeWolfe and Hilary Irons “So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth.” Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years “String Revolution: Textile and Visual Artifact” […]
Cut With the Kitchen Knife
October 16, 2020 - January 18, 2021
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Cecilia Ackerman and Devon Kelley-Yurdin Referring simultaneously to nature, science, society, and transcendence, the artworks of Cecilia Ackerman and Devon Kelley-Yurdin use precise, intricate material construction to explore themes of change, embodiment, and connection. The exhibition’s title refers to Hanna Höch’s groundbreaking Dadaist photomontage of the same name, made in 1920 in the midst of extreme […]
The coronavirus pandemic has necessitated the closing of theaters, cafes, clubs, bookstores, libraries, performance spaces, art galleries, and other gathering places across the U.S. and around the world, bringing much of our cultural life to a screeching halt. It has sparked endless debate over what activities are deemed essential to a functioning society. To gallery […]
Sanctuary
January 15, 2020 - May 15, 2020
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
SANCTUARY is a traveling art installation to be exhibited in medical centers, hospitals, art galleries, and academic sites across the US. Writer Emily Rapp Black, and artist Carrie Scanga, will interpret viewers’ stories of medical circumstances in visual and textual forms in an ever-changing paper installation accompanied by written text. In each venue, viewers are […]
Dress Codes
October 1, 2019 - January 6, 2020
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
“Dress Codes” is an exhibition and collaboration with artist Nancy Grace Horton coming to UNE this fall. Nancy Grace Horton is a photography-based artist who embraces both analog and digital techniques to create bold narrative fragments informed by her background in photojournalism. Her MrMrs series taps into her interest in gender and culture and visually explores men who […]
The Dolphin Brain: The Peter J. Morgane Research Collection on the Cetacean Brain, 1962-2004
July 8, 2019 - September 26, 2019
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
The Peter J. Morgane Research Collection on the Cetacean Brain, 1962–2004 Throughout history, the results of scientific research have been expressed through the lens of artistic interpretation. Such artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Vesalius expressed complex visible and hidden anatomical and physical structures of humans, animals, and natural phenomena. This exhibition shows some of […]
No One Fights Alone: World War II in the Pacific
April 26, 2019 - June 15, 2019
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Using the archival collections of the University of New England’s Library Services Department of Special Collections, specifically, the Randall J. Cushing Collection of War Letters, history professor Elizabeth DeWolfe’s HIS 290: History Hands On students have built a professional-level museum exhibit open to the public. “No One Fights Alone: WWII in the Pacific,” was researched, designed, and installed by […]
