9th Biennial Portland Show review from the Maine Sunday Telegram
9th Biennial Portland Show review from the Maine Sunday Telegram
The paintings at Greenhut Galleries capture Portland’s sights and its history.
By Daniel Kany for the Maine Sunday Telegram, April 22, 2018
The 2018 “Portland Show” at Greenhut Galleries is not only the strongest “Portland Show” in years, it is one of the most muscular exhibitions of painting in the area in quite some time. It’s a huge show featuring scores of artists coming together on the theme of Maine’s leading city. To be sure, a place like Portland with its storied history of landscape and scenic painting might seem a conservative gathering point, but painting is very much alive and well in Maine. It is hardly a stodgy tradition mired in cliche; and this show – the ninth biennial in the series – reminds us, it teems with life, energy, observations and ideas.
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KATE EMLEN, Munjoy Hill (sold)
ROY GERMON Jay’s Lot
PAUL RICKERT, Evening Arrival (SOLD)
TOM PAIEMENT Disjointed Discourse Between Two Art Critics