Studio Notes - September 2021
Sometimes, you just get lucky. That’s how I feel about my relationship with Cove Street Arts, a relatively new gallery and arts center in Portland, Maine. The owners and directors, Kelley Lehr and John Danos, are smart, kind, energetic and totally committed to the arts. This show, Kindred, with friends Tom Hall and Alison Hildreth, has been pure joy.
To see: For some reason, I had never encountered the work of Robert Longo, though his name has been somewhat familiar for a long time. But recently, NPR online had an interview by Susan Stamberg along with a video. The work is amazing, once you get onto the fact that it is charcoal drawing, not photography, and he is articulate and wise. Worth the time.
To do: There is enough to do these days, so I’m not going to add to your list, except to suggest that you be kind to yourself. Forgive. And carry on.
To read: OK, so this is totally self-serving, but here are two reviews of Kindred, the exhibition at Cove Street Arts in Portland. I list them here not only because they are favorable reviews, but because they each have an interesting point of view about the show. So often reviewers only describe or try to prove their own erudition without really connecting the reader to the work. I actually learned something about my own work from these reviews. Kindred continues until September 4, 2021.
Review from the Portland Press Herald.
Review from the Portland Pheonix.
Coming up:
September 25, 26, 27 (Rescheduled) Adornments: Objects of Beauty, Status and Ideas. Workshop at LexArt in Lexington, Massachusetts.
September 22-December 19 Interwoven. Exhibition at Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Massachusetts. Reception October 8.
October 1-30 MCA/MAC Craft Apprenticeship Program Capstone Exhibition, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, Maine. Reception October 1.
November 6-27 LexArt Instructors’ Show, Molly Harding Nye Gallery, LexArt, Lexington, Massachusetts
The theme that Ashley Page, my fellow artist in the Craft Apprenticeship Program, and I have decided upon for our work for the October Capstone Exhibition is “duality”. Seems appropriate for life these days…good/bad, stop/go, yin/yang, joy/grief…in trying to achieve our own sense of balance. Keep on keeping on, my friends.
All best,
Lissa