Art2015 opening reception. Staff photo by Allison McKeen
On view: May 13-June 18, 2016
Opening reception: Friday, May 13 from 5-8pm, prizes announced at 6 pm.
On Tuesday, May 3rd curator Bruce Brown judged Art2016, the Harlow Gallery’s 21st annual juried art exhibition. 56 works of art by 56 Maine artists were selected to be included in the exhibition out of a total of 387 works submitted by 141 artists. The exhibition is on view May 13-June 18, 2016. Click here for a list of prizes and sponsors. The opening reception is Friday, May 13 from 5-8pm, with prizes announced at 6 pm. The public is invited to meet the artists and to experience a diverse mix of high quality artwork from all corners of Maine.
Click here for a list of Art2016 prize-winning artists.
Bruce Brown, is a true leader in Maine’s art world. The Portland native and resident served as curator at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport for twenty years beginning in 1987 where he curated more than 200 exhibitions promoting Maine visual artists before retiring as curator emeritus in December, 2006 to become an independent curator. In February 2013 he became a partner of Portland’s PhoPa Gallery in Portland specializing in Maine photographs and works on paper with photographer Jon Edwards and the Maine Media Workshops and College in Rockport where he has been on the Advisory Committee since 2006. Read more about Bruce Brown here: http://harlowgallery.org/
A list of artists accepted into Art2016 by town:
Augusta – Paula Anastasio and Rebecca Singer
Bangor – Page Eastman
Bar Harbor – Robert Haskell
Belfast – Charles Laurier Dufour and Gilbert Welch
Biddeford – Rachel Eastman
Bowdoinham – Howard Solomon
Bridgton – Maya Kuvaja
Brunswick – Burke Long, Judith Long, James McCarthy, Micah Webbert and Catherine Worthington
Buxton – Peter Bennett and Michele Caron
Cumberland Center – C.E. Morse
Farmingdale – Scott King
Freeport – James Chute and Vanessa Nesvig
Gardiner – Janet Favor and Allison McKeen
Georgetown – Amy Peters Wood
Hallowell – Karen Allen, Nancy Bixler and Joe Klofas
Lewiston – Claude Bergeron
Livermore Falls – Cindy Langewish
Manchester – Bruce Armstrong
Mount Vernon – Nancy Holland
Newton, MA. – Marcus Parsons
Northport – Terry Hire
Oakland – Abbott Meader
Phillips – Rick Osterhout
Pittston – Judith Schuppien
Plattsburg,NY. -William Crosby
Portland-Larinda Meade, Karen Merritt, Ellie Porta-Barnet and David Wade
Richmond – Jane Frost
Rockland – Kathleen Florance, Ronald Frontin and Leith MacDonald
Saco – Tanya Fletcher
Scarborough – Christine Beneman
Somerville – Nathan Allard
South Thomaston – Jamie Wiggin
Tenants Harbor – Hannah Nelsbach
Topsham – Maureen Block
Waldoboro – Linda Mahoney
Wallagrass – Therese Provenzano
Washington – Joan Freiman
Winslow – Michelle McCutcheon
Woolwich – Ellen Golden and Martha Miller
Art2016 is sponsored by Eaton Peabody, Levey, Wagley & Putman, Karen Johnson, CPA, and Mendall Financial Group.
The 2016 exhibition season at the Harlow Gallery has been made possible by our season sponsors:Capitol Dental Care, Camden National Bank, the City of Hallowell, the Jennings Family, Kennebec Savings Bank, Rosemary Presnar, Scrummy Afters Candy Shoppe, and by grant funding from the Quimby Family Foundation.