Tenacious: Opening Reception
February 10, 2023
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Curated by Tilly Laskey February 10 – June 11, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Featuring work by James Graham, Karen Jelenfy, James Bradley Marshall, and Ian Trask, “Tenacious” focuses on non-objective abstraction as a generative visual language. The artwork is contextualized through process, with themes of aging, chronic illness, mental […]
Opening reception for Home and Other Realms
October 21, 2022
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
October 21, 2022-January 22, 2023 Opening reception: Friday, October 21, 4 – 7 p.m. This two-part exhibition will highlight the recent work of photographer Michael Kolster in a solo exhibit, “Home and Other Realms”, in conversation with work from the Stephen K. Halpert Collection of Photography. An amalgam of three distinct series—self-portraits; architectural photographs of Lewiston’s […]
Lives of the Jewelers Artists' Talks
October 7, 2022
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
UNE Art Gallery in Portland, Maine will host an artist talk and closing reception, in conjunction with “The Lives of the Jewelers”, up through October 9th at the UNE Art Gallery in Portland. Several artists in the exhibit, including Ebenezer Akakpo, Aminata Conteh, Naomi Grace McNeill, and Sharon Portelance, will discuss their practices. Refreshments will be served; […]
Reception for The Lives of the Jewelers
July 1, 2022
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Curated by Maria Wolff & Hilary Irons July 1-October 9, 2022 Join us for an opening reception on Friday, July 1, 4 to 7 p.m. From the forms of the region’s plants and animals to global social and cultural histories, inspirations abound for Maine Jewelers, who use metals and other precious materials to embody their […]
Curated by Anna Queen and Justine Kablack February 18-June 12, 2022 This exhibit features contemporary sculpture and photography, thinking about the idea of the body’s response to physical space. An informal open house, free and open to the public, will be held Friday, February 18, from 12 to 7pm. An opening reception will be held […]
Open House
September 25, 2021
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Please join us for an Open House on Saturday, September 25, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. at the UNE Art Gallery on the Portland Campus. (Rain date: Sunday, September 26) Beginning Thursday, September 9, Portland Campus gallery hours will be Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Current exhibition extended to October […]
The Permanent Photography Collection: Recent Acquisitions in the Stephen K. Halpert Photography Collection at UNE
July 23, 2021
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
“The Permanent Photography Collection: Recent Acquisitions in the Stephen K. Halpert Photography Collection at UNE” opens July 23 at the UNE Art Gallery, Portland Campus. This omnibus exhibit will feature approximately 70 recently collected photographic works selected by Stephen Halpert, Curator of Photography, and steward of the Stephen K. Halpert Photography Collection at UNE. VISITORS WELCOME! Please […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
