2004 guide: galleries museums & artists

Art in America, August, 2004

Maine

BANGOR

2594. Clark House Gallery

128 Hammond St 04401

(207) 942-9162

Tue-Sat 10-3 or by appt Dir: Susan Maasch

Specializing in contemporary regional and national artists in styles ranging from realism to abstraction. Paintings, photography, drawings and sculpture. Fine art consulting, with a focus on building important regional collections. G/C

Artists exhibited: Harold Garde, June Grey, Tom Higgins, Penelope Jones, Squidge Liljeblad, Ed Nadeau, Nils Obel, Dennis Pinette, Paul Plante, Sally Stanton, Barbara Sullivan, Diana Young

2595. University of Maine, Orono Museum of Art

Norumbega Hall, 40 Harlow St 04401-5102

(207) 561-3350, fax (207) 561-8351

Tue-Sat 9-6, Sun 11-5 Dir: Wally Mason

Exhibitions and collection of American and European prints and paintings. U

Artists exhibited: Berenice Abbott, Jonathan Bailey, Jim Dow, Jessica Gandolf, Al Held, George Lloyd, John Marin, Melville McLean, Marguerite Robichaux, George Tice

BLUE HILL

2596. Leighton Gallery

Parker Point Rd 04614

(207) 374-5001

Late May to late Oct: Mon-Sat 10:30-5:30, Sun 1-5

Dir: Judith Leighton

Contemporary art, large outdoor sculpture Garden. G

Artists exhibited: Ragna Bruno, William Irvine, Majo Keleshian, Bernard Langlais, Cabot Lyford, Jacque Rochester, Gary Haven Smith, Sherry Streeter, Laura Von Rosk, Lynn Wessel, Melita Westerlund, Jim Zasoski

BOOTHBAY HARBOR

2597. Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Inc.

7 Townsend Ave, PO Box 124 04538

(207) 833-2703

Art center for mid-coast Maine. N

2598. Gleason Fine Art, Inc.

31 Townsend Ave PO Box 540 04538

(207) 633-6849, fax (207) 633-0878

E-mail: info@gleasonfineart.com

Web site: www.gleasonfineart.com

Tue-Sat 10-5 and by appt

Dir: Dennis & Martha Gleason

American art, 19th-century through contemporary, with an emphasis on paintings and sculpture related to Maine and Monhegan Island. G/C

Artists exhibited: Mitch & Kathleen Billis, Jay Hall Connaway, David Dewey, James Fitzgerald (estate), Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Eric Hopkins, Don Justin Meserve, Andrea Peters, Fairfield Porter, Helen St. Clair, Andrew Winter

2599. Gold/Smith Gallery

41 Commercial St 04538

(207) 633-8252, fax (207) 633-6252

Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5

Dir: Karon Swartsberg

Contemporary nontraditional Maine and Italian art and one-of-a-kind jewelry. Winter address: Via Lunge Est, 11, 51014 Collodi Castello (Pt), Italia. Phone: 011-39-0572-429459. G

Artists exhibited: Laura Bianchi, Lorella Ciampelli, Bill Curtsinger Albin Elskus, Marie Francesconi, Jean Swan Gordon, Heather Lander, Claudio Stefanelli, Karen Swartsberg, John Vender, John Wissemann, Garter Zervas

2600. Parry Gallery and Studio

102 Ocean Point Rd (Route 96) 04538

(207) 633-7827, fax (207) 633-7827

E-mail: rmparry@gwi.net

Web site: www.parrygallery.com

May-Oct: daily 11-5

Dir: Ronald R. Parry/Monique Parry

Fine representational oil and watercolor paintings. Seascapes, landscapes (including local Maine motifs), florals and still lifes. G

Artists exhibited: Monique Parry, Ronald R. Parry

BRUNSWICK

2601. Bayview Gallery

58 Maine St 04011

(207) 729-8500, (800) 244-3007

Web site: www.bayviewgallery.com

Dir: Susan Start

Contemporary American impressionist and realist Paintings. G

Artists exhibited: Barbara Applegate, Tom Hughes, Janet Laird-Lagassee, Gayle Levee, Scott Moore, Charles Movalli, Stefan Pastuhov, Dale Ratcliff, Todd Reifers, Robert Spring, Don Stone, Paul Stone

2602. Bowdoin College Museum of Art

9400 College Station 04911-0849

(207) 725-3275, fax (207) 725-3762

E-mail: artmuseum@bowdoin.edu

Web site: www.bowdoin.edu/artmuseum

Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5

McKim, Mead & White building of 1894; European and American art; Assyrian, Greek and Roman sculpture and ceramics; Oriental ceramics; temporary exhibitions. M/U

2603. Rose Marie Frick Contemporary Fine Art

272 Maine St 04011

(207) 729-4306

E-mail: rmfrick@suscom.maine.net

By appt Dir: Rose Marie Frick

Independent curator; consultant to collectors; "Living with Art," space design incorporating works of art. D/C

2604. Icon Contemporary Art

19 Mason St 04011

(207) 725-8157

Mon-Fri 1-5 Sat 1-4 Dir: Duane Paluska

Year-round changing exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and established area artists. G

Artists exhibited: Katherine Bradford, Tom Chapin, Leonard Craig, Martha Groome, Duncan Hewill, Jeff Kellar, Frederick Lynch, Anne Minich Garry Mitchell, Johnnie Winona Ross, Claire Seidl, Andrea Sulzer, Mark Wethli

CAMDEN

2605. Bayview Gallery

33 Bayview St 04843

(207) 236-4534, (808) 244-4534

Web site: www.bayviewgallery.com

Dir: John Starr

Contemporary American impressionist and realist paintings. G

Artists exhibited: John Atwater, Bradley Hendershot, Janet Laird Lagassee, Scott Moore, Donald Allen Mosher. Charles Movalli, Nicholas, Stefan Pastuttov, Dale Ratcliff, Todd Reifers, Sergio Roffo, Don Stone

DAMARISCOTTA

2606. Round Top Center for the Arts

Round Top Art Gallery

Box 1316, Business Rte 1 04543

(207) 563-1507, fax (207) 563-6485

E-mail: info@roundtoparts.org

Web site: www.roundtoparts.org

Mon-Sat 11-4, Sun 1-4 Dir: Genetta McLean

Visual and performing arts, sited along the Damariscotta River on a 19th-century dairy farm: summer concerts and year-round art exhibitions; classes in painting, printmaking, ceramics, libel, drawing, and sculpture; lectures in the arts and humanities; faculty exhibitions. N