Not able to travel to campus? Don’t miss out on our current exhibit Cut with the Kitchen Knife by artists Cecilia Ackerman and Devon Kelley-Yurdin with our new video tour of the exhibit space.
Category: Exhibits
Cut With the Kitchen Knife
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 […]
Virtual gallery tours
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
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 […]
The House of the Soul
The House of the Soul
February 21, 2020 - June 14, 2020
5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
UNE Gallery, Portland Campus
UNE Gallery’s spring exhibition, “The House of the Soul”, will present a unique look at medical/anatomical drawing in dialogue with artwork focusing on the human body in a more extended sense. Viewers from various intellectual fields (from medicine, to critical theory, and beyond) will be confronted with the divergent and sometimes contradictory communicative aims of […]
Dress Codes
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 Complete City: Imagined
The Complete City: Imagined
October 24, 2019 - January 31, 2020
Since 2017, The Portland Society for Architecture has been using blank maps of Portland, Maine as a tool for citizen engagement. This project, called “Mapping Portland: The Complete City,” provides the platform to collect ideas and inspiration about our city: what we love, what we don’t, and what we can imagine. To date more than 350 maps have been collected […]
The Art of the Comic
The Art of the Comic
July 10, 2019 - October 6, 2019
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Featuring the work of 28 local comic and sequential artists, illustrators, and professional doodlers, “The Art of the Comic” explores the diversity of styles and subject matter that characterizes comics and related media. The exhibition also showcases the comic series The Pirate Ship, a collaboration between comic artists Bob Bergeron and UNE alum Katy Finch (M.S.W. ’18) […]
The Dolphin Brain
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
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 […]