March 25, 2017
The University of Maine Museum of Art has acquired a painting by artist Isabel Bigelow. Isabel Bigelow’s 2016 oil painting on paper titled Waiting was acquired by the Museum for its permanent collection, which encompasses some four thousand artworks created after 1945.
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March 25, 2017
The University of Maine Museum of Art has acquired a painting by artist Lourdes Sanchez. Lourdes Sanchez’s 2016 ink painting on silk, Untitled, 2016 was acquired by the Museum for its permanent collection.
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The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired a series of seven drawings by Boston-based artist Shelley Reed. The artist’s 1993 series, “Men (after Van Dyck),” joined the Museum’s collection of prints and drawings as a gift after its exhibition as part of the Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print exhibition of 2016.
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Photolucida pick Top 50 Critical Mass photographers of 2016, including Tyler Haughey.
October 6, 2016 - Mara Williams
Luscious celebrates paint. It explores the myriad ways artists make conscious statements of painterly intent. Creating with a deep-seated belief in the beauty of paint, the 12 artists featured in the exhibit are in full command of their medium.
June 9, 2016 - Jaime DeSimone, MOCA Jacksonville
"The paintings of Australian-born Fran O'Neill rely upon a construction/deconstruction equation, where she uses her physical body to produce, alter, destroy, and recreate oversized gestures. Layer upon layer, O'Neill applies paint only to swipe, smear, and remove it with her body or another material. Her paintings are as much as an additive process as a subtractive one, where at times she reinvents imagery on the same canvas. In preparation for Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction, O'Neill answered a few questions about her process and the ideas behind her work."
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March 18, 2016 - Monmouth University Center for the Arts
This exhibit showcases the work of 2014-2015 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship winners in sculpture, crafts, and photography. Fellowships are highly competitive awards to New Jersey artists in 12 different disciplines, based solely on artistic quality, and designed to help artists produce new work and advance their careers.
Download Article (PDF)March 18, 2016 - The Art Institute of Chicago
"The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired a series of seven drawings by Boston-based artist Shelley Reed. The artist’s 1993 series, “Men (after Van Dyck),” joined the Museum’s collection of prints and drawings as a gift after its exhibition as part of the Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print exhibition of 2016."
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Download Article (PDF)March 20, 2015 - Souhad Rafey
New York, March 19, 2015 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the nine artists who will receive its 2015 awards in art. The awards will be presented in New York City in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The art prizes and purchases, totaling nearly $250,000, honor both established and emerging artists. The award winners were chosen from a group of 40 artists who had been invited to participate in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, which opened on March 12, 2015. The Exhibition continues through April 12, 2015, and features over 120 paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and works on paper. The members of this year’s award committee were: Lynda Benglis, Varujan Boghosian, Lois Dodd, Eric Fischl (Chairman), Yvonne Jacquette, Bill Jensen, Philip Pearlstein, Judy Pfaff, Paul Resika, and Terry Winters.
March 6, 2015 - Souhad Rafey
Paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by 40 contemporary artists will be exhibited at the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets) from Thursday, March 12 through Sunday, April 12, 2015. Exhibiting artists were chosen from a pool of over 200 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy, America’s most prestigious honorary society of architects, artists, writers, and composers.
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