This Month At Your Museum: June 2024
Summer is in full swing this month as we open Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter, revel in Jeremy Frey: Woven, and Celebrate Pride and Juneteenth with free community days.
Isabella Howland (United States, 1895–1974), Peggy Bacon, undated, charcoal on laid paper, 16 1/2 x 11 9/16 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase with support from Roger and Katherine Woodman, 1988.20. Image courtesy Petegorsky/Gipe Photo
Exploring the humor and sharp wit of one of the most insightful visual and literary artists of the 20th century, Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter is a timely and noteworthy solo presentation of Peggy Bacon’s wry observations of her social, professional, and artistic networks during the 1920s and 1930s.
Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Dawnland, 2022, ash, sweetgrass, and dye, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Collection of Jim and Sara TenBroek. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Paul-David Young
As the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States, Jeremy Frey: Woven is a groundbreaking exhibition in contemporary and Indigenous art. Featuring more than 50 baskets, made from natural materials like black ash and sweetgrass, Woven presents a comprehensive collection that spans a career of more than two decades.
PMA Picks
Save a spot for these between the cookouts and beach days.
Community Days
PMA Films
Featuring everything from the first collaboration between Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach to from Cauleen Smith’s lively and elegant portrait of a confident Oakland art student to a stunning document of 1970s New York, urban alienation, striving, and familial bonds, join us as we kick off amonthlong series about female artists navigating their big city ambitions.
Also!
Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.
Anhell69 (Free Pride Month screening)
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre- production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is casted for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. ANHELL69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.