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HiLo Art: In the Studio: Daniel Anselmi

In most Maine cities and towns, above the street-level shops, restaurants, stores and galleries, there are artists in their studios working away at painting, sculpting, and making photographs, drawings and prints. It’s far more usual to see ...
HiLo Art: “Storyforms”and “Confluence” at Waterfall Arts in Belfast Through November 15

There are two exceptional and highly unusual exhibits currently on display until November 17 at Waterfall Arts: “Storyforms” and “Confluence: Stories from the Village Canoe Project.” Curated by the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) ...
HiLo Art: “Animalia,” a Group Exhibit, at Betts Gallery, 96 Main Street, Belfast Through October 26

A little conundrum to begin: Betts Gallery has two fronts and one back. How so? Located in the front space of The Belfast Framer, Betts has an even bigger front in the separate adjoining business, Yo Mamma’s Home ...
HiLo Art: Alan Magee — Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, September 6 to 28; “Alan Magee: Art Is Not a Solace,” Strand Theatre, Rockland, September 27

Alan Magee has been one of America’s best-known and -loved artists since the 1980s when he began to produce literally hundreds of covers for magazines and novels that entered the national imagination almost subliminally ...
HiLo Art: Maine Farmland Trust 20th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibit Through October 11

This exhibit, billed as a retrospective selection of works shown over the last 10 years, showcasing founders, members and protected farms, features works by Avy Claire, Julie Crane, Lynn Karlin, Leslie Moore, Jacinda Martinez ...
HiLo Art: William Manning, “Water Is Wide,” Yvette Torres Fine Art, Rockland Through September 22

Once, at a Boston jazz club, I heard the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon field a question from the audience: “What are you thinking, Dexter, just before you play one of your solos?” Gordon paused a quick moment....
HiLo Art: Freddy LaFage, “All Over,” Perimeter Gallery/Chase’s Daily, Belfast August 2 to September 29

I am probably not alone in looking at a Perimeter Gallery exhibit as merely an interesting backdrop to the customers delighted with the beautiful produce, breads, pastries and meals at Chase’s Daily, with which the gallery shares space....
HiLo Art: John Winship, Ted Keller and Ingrid Ellison at Carver Hill Gallery July 25 to September 1

All anyone can ask of an artist is, “Convince me that what you’re showing me is somehow real. I don’t care how you do it.” There are as many ways to do this as there have been artists. How do artists keep all the parts of a painting living ...
HiLo Art: Lois Dodd; “Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine”: Melanie Essex; “Above us only sky”: Sam Cady; “Here and There” at Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland

Beneath every word written is the truth that art does not need writing, but writing does need art. With both, discovery comes through looking and doing, and there is no other way. Art is sensual and intellectual, not made in any vacuum ...
HiLo Art: Through a Magic Mirror: Breehan James and Alexae Levin at Perimeter Gallery in Belfast

In the Chase’s Daily Perimeter Gallery, bustling with people and produce, hangs an exhibit of paintings by two very interesting Maine artists, Breehan James and Alexae Levin. On first glance, their two approaches couldn’t be more ...

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