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The Paintings of John Calvin Stevens

The Paintings of John Calvin Stevens

April 21, 2015 - July 19, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

John Calvin Stevens, Lucien Clark ca. 1900. Photographic print 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. [...]

Color Fields Printed Paintings

Color Fields Printed Paintings

February 3, 2015 - April 12, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Joan Busing, Veils and Circles II 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 [...]

A Gateless Garden

A Gateless Garden

January 20, 2015 - April 12, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Kerry Michaels, White Peonies 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 [...]

Write Again Soon: Letters from World War II

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

Coyote Connections

October 9, 2014 - January 15, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Carole Drinan Whelan, The Shaman. Framed oil on canvas. 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 [...]

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

Bernard Langlais. Grasshopper. Carved Wood Relief. 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 [...]

13th Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational

13th Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational

June 6, 2014 - October 31, 2014

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Carole Drinan Whelan, Biosphere, Stainless steel wire, copper, acrylic, PVC, concrete. 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 [...]

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, Joker. Collage, 2008. 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 [...]

2014 Art Department Faculty Exhibition

2014 Art Department Faculty Exhibition

February 5, 2014 - February 23, 2014

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Sarah Gorham, Reflection 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 [...]

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 [...]