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A Korean-American Artist’s Search for His Family’s Past

by Carl Little May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Young Sun Han’s art explores sometimes painful, sometimes revelatory aspects of his family’s narrative and Korean history more generally.

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Extraordinary Paintings of Ordinary Birds

by Carl Little September 7, 2019September 6, 2019

Ann Craven’s painted birds, set against a soft-focus background, have a kitsch quality, but with a provocative edge.

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An Artist’s Maps of Imperialism and Greed

by Carl Little August 10, 2019August 9, 2019

Dan Mills delves into the devastating numbers of threatened populations around the world and then converts them into chaotically beautiful cartographies.

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John Bisbee’s Fearless American Steel

by Carl Little September 16, 2018September 14, 2018

Bisbee has never been outspokenly political in his work, but, going by the work in this show, he has decided enough is enough.

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The Center for Maine Contemporary Art Presents American Steel, an Exhibition of Work by Sculptor John Bisbee

by Center for Maine Contemporary Art June 26, 2018

Bisbee uses poetic language, narrative imagery, and potent emblems to express his concern with our country’s direction.

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John Moore’s Fabricated Realities

by Carl Little June 9, 2018June 8, 2018

“In paintings that resonate with post-industrial America, Moore rearranges the world.”

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Breaking Down Boundaries Through Poetry and Photography

by Carl Little May 12, 2018February 25, 2019

In their collaborative project, Boundaries, Richard Blanco’s poems run parallel to Jacob Hessler’s photographs, often adding a narrative to the wide-open image.

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A Painter’s Theater of Destitution

by Carl Little October 28, 2017October 27, 2017

The fifteen realist paintings in Linden Frederick: Night Stories take us on a tour of small-town Maine.

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A Maine Painter’s Private Realm of Becoming

Avatar photo by Chris Crosman August 19, 2017August 18, 2017

John Walker has led a resurgence of abstract painters who look to nature, emotion, and, especially, place.

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Don Voisine’s Universe of Shapes

by Carl Little October 22, 2016October 22, 2016

Don Voisine’s pieces demand attention; you need to study them up close and from a distance to fully appreciate the illusions the artist creates by way of a handful of shapes and a limited but resonant set of colors.

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Jon Imber: Tangled Up in Hues

by Carl Little June 29, 2014June 27, 2014

ROCKPORT, Maine — It’s a late, sunny Wednesday afternoon in mid-June at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) and, aside from a docent at the front desk, I have the whole Jon Imber: Force of Nature show to myself.

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