Exhibits | WINDOW
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Bennett Morris: Intercept Archive Friday 11.04.2011 through Saturday 12.17.2011 Bennett Morris' artist statement: "As technologies escalate and expand surveillance capabilities they dictate how we percieve and act simultaneously. We are witnessing the creation of post-human vision that incorportates both the visible and invisible spectrums. This interminable vision has given us a false sense of control ans institutes a union of the real and the virtual. Our current stat eof anxiety, insecurtiy and unease propels us to amplify our pursuit of more expansive automonous systems that act on the immediacy of both actual and manufactured data. The reality of horror is deferred through the sterile views produced by this technology. Acting as global deterrents, these systems perpetuate an endless feedback loop suggesting the eventual breakdown of control, and ultimately, the decay of information itself." |
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Monday 10.17.2011 through Tuesday 11.01.2011 SPACE Gallery invites your voice and your artwork to participate in our #occupySPACE installation beginning Monday, October 17. The nationwide Occupy movement relies on people's voices being heard, and we want to use our public window space for public thoughts about our financial crisis and threats to true democratic process. We're looking for statements, slogans, drawings, hopes for the future, concerns, visions, epiphanies, pleas, and more. We are primarily interested in Maine voices, and will show as much of the work as we can. All work should be letter size or smaller and will not be returned; at the end of the installation we will collect everything in a binder for our archive. Please email printable lettersize pdfs to nat@space538.org or mail to / drop off work at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101.
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Free Range Planets: A selection of work from the windows of downtown Skowhegan, Maine Monday 09.19.2011 through Saturday 10.15.2011 The threat of global warming, the Gulf oil spill, the Fukushima meltdowns, the extreme weather: all heighten our awareness that we all share this planet. More and more we come to realize that our own fate is tied to the planet’s fate. The Globe Project invited over twenty artists to present their visions of our world. These globes were displayed in both empty and occupied store windows of downtown Skowhegan Maine during this past summer. |
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Friday 08.12.2011 through Saturday 09.10.2011 Celestial/Terrestrial is an ever-changing installation by Mariah Bergeron and Marieke Van Der Steenhoven. |
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Friday 04.01.2011 through Thursday 05.26.2011 Artist's statement:
I find manufactured objects to be marvelous participants in narrative constructions. The world of toys and their role in the stories we live by and tell each other and ourselves maps the realm of my art practice. Walter Benjamin wrote, "Children do not constitute a community cut off from everything else...their toys cannot bear witness to any autonomous separate existence, but rather are a silent signifying dialogue between them [children] and their nation." I find myself returning to the Benjamin quote over and over again in my writing, but in this body of work I have set out to manifest this ‘silent dialogue’ as deliberate objects. The conceit of the Dime Star work is the story of the (defunct) Mainline Toy Mfg. & Sales company of Chicago, Illinois. Mainline Toy apparently produced this series of character toys and ephemera. The Dime Star character appears to be a combination of spaceman, cowboy and police man and was perhaps meant to be marketed as one toy that could satisfy a multiplicity of children’s desires - or perhaps profit from three markets at one cost. It seems the Dime Star line of toys and products were not sold through toy stores but were sold direct to children via door to door salesmen, hence the company slogan on one end of the box, “Every door is a Dime Star store!” Randy Regier, 2011
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Friday 12.31.2010 through Saturday 01.29.2011 Sage Lewis. Interference Blue, 2010 needles, thread, netting, and fabric on wall This installation is part of a series of work inspired by diamonds and cut gemstones. Their geometric faceting augments my love of traditional, grid-based embroidery patterns, wherein the purity and structural integrity of the grid is married with a desire for beauty and ornament. Conceptually, my interest lies in diamonds as a model for ideas about strength and weakness. Their exceptionally strong crystal structure is the hardest substance known, and yet cleaves along zones of relative weakness forming the “brilliant cut.” Their engineered architecture of facets, shards, mirrored surfaces, and refracted light have proven to be captivating subjects for me. Another influence on this work is the practice of Dazzle Camouflage painting used by U.S. and British navies during World War I. Dazzle did not conceal the ship but rather, used bold geometric abstraction to create a visual distortion that would "dazzle" and mislead the enemy. Successful Dazzle Camouflage made it difficult for the enemy to estimate a ship's speed and direction purely by visual confusion. Similarly, a central goal in my work is to achieve spatial uncertainty, commingling seductive and disorienting qualities. The title refers to the optical properties of minerals and the behavior of light waves when they pass through a thin film, such as the netting used in this piece.
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A Fire In My Belly (1986-87) 2010 Tuesday 12.14.2010 through Monday 12.20.2010 P.P.O.W and The Estate of David Wojnarowicz have granted us permission to present David Wojnarowicz’ A Fire in My Belly in reaction to the Smithsonian’s removal of this work from their exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
Two versions of “A Fire in My Belly” will be posted on P.P.O.W’s Vimeo channel and on our website’s news page: Vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/17457052 P.P.O.W News Page:http://www.ppowgallery.com/news.php |
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Friday 11.05.2010 through Thursday 12.09.2010 Alicia Eggert and Mike Fleming's "Eternity" is a wall-mounted sculpture that employs 30 electric clock movements and 36 hour and minute hands. Once every twelve hours the hands align to spell the word ETERNITY, which in this case only lasts a mere split second. |
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Friday 09.03.2010 through Friday 10.22.2010
Ms. Mr. Mrs., silkscreen on polystyrene, with light fixtures and mdf, 2010 Devon Berger and Brendan Mullins are a collaborative couple based in Brooklyn, NY, and both are graduates of the Maine College of Art. Devon works as a freelance graphic designer and Brendan teaches fabricating to industrial designers at the Pratt Institute. They incorporate these disciplines in their approach to fine art. For more information, visit devonberger.com |
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Sunday 08.01.2010 through Sunday 08.29.2010 Crystal Cawley's new work combines her interest in the form and function of clothing with the possibilities of paper. "I savor the challenge of translating the technical details and methods of working with fabric to working with paper. I also love reusing things—all of these garments are made of materials that used to be something else. Family Tree Apron is made of pages from a 1960s parenting book called Mothercraft. I used chopped up art postcards collected from museums and galleries or sent to me by friends for Cold Comfort Coat, and Love Letter Sweater is knitted and woven from letters sent to me by my partner when we didn’t live in the same state." |
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Friday 07.02.2010 through Thursday 07.29.2010
Seokmee Noh is a painter, illustrator, and designer. Born in Korea, she studied visual art at the Hongik University in Seoul, Korea and since 1994 she has participated in many group shows and held six solo exhibits. Site: nohseokmee.com
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Friday 05.07.2010 through Monday 05.31.2010 Andy Rosen's new work Loaded will occupy our front window for the month of May. "I know that fantasy is probably a human construct to make the world and all its chaos easier to swallow. But what if escapism is our best quality? What if making stuff up is the best thing we can do for ourselves, our way to escape our biology, if only for a moment? What I make is a kind of addendum to the toys and model arrangements of my boyhood. I intend to create objects that feel like something I’ve seen in my dreams: full of worry and wonder. Sometimes they are inspired by other stories or tales, sometimes by actual events and sometimes I forget which is which." |
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Thursday 04.01.2010 through Friday 04.30.2010 This month, Spindleworks and YES Art Works collaborate to highlight the work of two talented artists who elevate everyday structures and happenings to another plane entirely. For Richard Moore of Litchfield, it’s a literal raising of his eyes to observe and capture all that resides overhead: telephone poles, ceiling tiles, and contrail lines. Dynamic pen and ink lines carefully pulled from one edge of the page to the other draw the viewer into a tense, yet meditative, space. For Tom Ridlon of Alfred, certain buildings and vehicles he passes each day on the way to his studio in Brunswick etch into his mind. With no drawing, plan, or photo, Tom creates meticulous architectural models from the most basic of supplies—cardboard and construction paper, transforming a simple trailer home into a miniature castle. This month SPACE gallery’s window gallery features a selection of Tom’s models and Richard’s telephone pole drawings, bringing attention and new perspective to aspects of American daily life. |
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Friday 03.05.2010 through Wednesday 03.31.2010 Lisa Pixley: Four and Twenty Black Birds Installation, 2009 Red Rose Tea and Charcoal on Paper. Black Drafting Tape. Four and Twenty Black Birds is a three dimensional illustration of the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Six Pence". |
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Friday 01.09.2009 through Saturday 02.21.2009 Kyle Downs: "My work focuses heavily on form, construction, and the preservation of raw materials. In my experimental, mad scientific-state I treat each piece with a simple system; exploration, extrapolation, transformation. Host essentially is the parasitic transformation of plywood that feeds off of harsh living conditions. Suffocated by white walls, bright lights, and its current glass chamber, Host remarkably remains resilient in this introduced environment." |
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Friday 01.02.2009 through Monday 02.02.2009 Windowkammers |
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Monday 06.16.2008 through Saturday 08.02.2008 In the SPACE front window local artist Colleen Kinsella brings color, dimension and life to Charles Gocher's memorial with an installation using paper as sculpture to create Kinsella's view of Sun City Girls live. "The Brothers When Connected " opens on Monday June 16th. Keep your eyes open. The rest is a secret. |
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Tuesday 08.14.2007 through Wednesday 08.29.2007 With this video project, I am most interested in exploring new ways of conveying an idea or experience as a narrative. In particular, the |
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Thursday 06.28.2007 through Thursday 08.09.2007 Greta Bank's Clearance: The Four Horsemen was inspired by mankind’s path of destruction. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The False Leader, War, Famine and Plague are individually showcased within antique giltwood chairs accompanied by matching upholstered panels. Nearly fifty separate narratives flood the panels’ Baroque patterning, using scatological metaphor taken from topical events and problems that threaten our existence. Classical iconography, merged with popular culture, plays out a number of sad truths.
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Monday 06.19.2006 through Wednesday 07.12.2006 Artists Sarah Andrews and Lydia Paiste present a fabuous window installation which features live plants and mosses and clay sculptures of yellow warblers in flight.
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Thursday 07.21.2005 through Saturday 08.13.2005 "Where else can one turn for a creative and non-violent alternative to revenge? Vendetta Retreat makes explicit the benefits of creative sublimation within a collaborative environment. There are eight highly interactive phases so far, each of which requires collaboration to varying degrees. |