Art Review: Cove Street Arts Coming Into Its Own

BY DANIEL KANY, PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

“After the Show,” Roy Germon. Photos courtesy of the artists

“After the Show,” Roy Germon. Photos courtesy of the artists

I am enjoying watching Cove Street Arts trying to figure out what it will become. That’s not meant to be critical. Cove Street is a huge space that is far more elegant than any other art venue in Portland. It’s like watching a professional athlete stumble in a game, like a bit of grace excitingly knocked about.

One of the most important players in making Cove Street a success is Roy Germon. Germon is a mid-career emerging master of a certain category of Maine landscape painting – those brilliantly though frugally brushed scenes of hardscrabble landscape. His mark-making is extraordinary – bold but intelligently understated and breathlessly succinct. When I make my shortest of short lists of Maine painters to watch, he’s always near the top.

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