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The Maine Artist’s Animals: Bernard Langlais at UNE

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

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

Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage

June 26, 2014 - September 28, 2014

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Sharon Arnold_01, 3/10/08, 1:54 PM, 8C, 6000x6906 (0+627), 100%, Repro 2.2 v2, 1/15 s, R126.1, G67.1, B81.0 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 [...]

2014 Art Department Faculty Exhibition

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

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 [...]

A Mountain Rises: The Art of Katahdin

A Mountain Rises: The Art of Katahdin

July 31, 2013 - October 27, 2013

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Co-curators David Little and Stephen Halpert mounted an exhibition of approximately 80 historic and contemporary works of art that represented Mount Katahdin and surrounding region. Included were works by Sanford Gifford, Jervis McEntee, James Fitzgerald, Marsden Hartley, Carl Sprinchorn, Maurice “Jake” Day, Vincent Hartgen, William Kienbusch, and many living artists, including Susan Siegel, Michael Boardman, Sam Cady, Alice [...]

Maine Women Pioneers III – Dirigo

Maine Women Pioneers III - Dirigo

June 22, 2013 - July 21, 2013

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Maine Women Pioneers III was co-curated by Anne B. Zill, Gael May McKibben and Andres A. Verzosa. This exhibition was the third on this subject in the history of this Art Gallery, striving for national impact in defining pioneering Maine women artists of our age. Dirigo  was the fourth and final exhibition of the Maine Women Pioneers III series, offering the works [...]

Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational 2013

Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational 2013

June 7, 2013 - October 31, 2013

Portland Campus Art Gallery

The 2013 Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational featured works by 10 artists that were placed around the UNE Art Gallery and Labyrinth area.  Artists included:  Nancy Nevergole, Jean Noon, Judy O'Donnell, Elizabeth Ostrander, Andy Rosen, Constance Rush, Patric Santerre, Antoinette Schultze, Cat Schwenk, Melita Westerlund and Carole Whelan.  The annual display of sculpture has been continuing for [...]

Maine Women Pioneers III – Homage

Maine Women Pioneers III - Homage

January 2, 2013 - March 3, 2013

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Maine Women Pioneers III was co-curated by Anne B. Zill, Gael May McKibben and Andres A. Verzosa. This exhibition was the third on this subject in the history of this Art Gallery, striving for national impact in defining pioneering Maine women artists of our age. Homage was the second of four exhibitions honoring 50 living Maine women pioneers. Homage  highlighted veteran artists [...]

Maine Women Pioneers III – Vanguard

Maine Women Pioneers III - Vanguard

October 12, 2012 - December 16, 2012

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Maine Women Pioneers III was co-curated by Anne B. Zill, Gael May McKibben and Andres A. Verzosa. This exhibition was the third on this subject in the history of this Art Gallery, striving for national impact in defining pioneering Maine women artists of our age. The series - Vanguard, Homage, Worldview and Dirigo - had four distinct conceptual frameworks. [...]