With Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder opening on September 30, 2022, we’re excited for a photography-filled fall with programs you won’t want to miss.
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Co-organized by the Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; and the Reykjavík Art Museum, the inaugural North Atlantic Triennial was billed as “the first exhibition devoted entirely to contemporary art of the North Atlantic region.”
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“Surrealist Play Gone Astray” at the Portland Museum of Art (through Oct. 23) is a jewel of a show about this emphatically eccentric movement, which was concentrated mainly in Europe, but spread worldwide, notably to Mexico.
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After devoting the spring and summer to contemporary art in the form of the North Atlantic Triennial and the superb Katherine Bradford exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art is delving into the past in a serious way with a trio of fall exhibitions featuring gifts and loans from some of its biggest patrons.
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Learn how visual art and narrative medicine are improving patient care and the mental health of their providers.
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Thirty years of canvases—likable, honest, and lively to a one—justify themselves on the museum walls of the PMA’s “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”
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In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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Check out visitors Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher’s review of Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford on the art blog Two Coats of Paint.
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We at the PMA are grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to work with Jim and will miss his quiet humor and his friendship.
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“A day never goes by that I am not mindful of my ancestors and their efforts to protect and preserve our traditions. It’s what has afforded me the opportunity to practice a traditional art and do what I love for a living.” —Sarah Sockbeson
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Opening Nov. 4 (through Mar. 5) is “Kathy Butterly: Out of one, many/Headscapes.” It’s an apt follow-up to Bradford in that Butterly’s work often exemplifies our unceasing state of transformation.
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Portland Museum of Art treated its Contemporaries and Director’s Circle members on Aug. 10 to a playful, colorful and bold Summer Party, loosely inspired by the exhibit “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”
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“Portland is bursting with creativity, arts, and culture and it can’t wait to inspire you. While the Portland Museum of Art is the largest and oldest art museum in the state of Maine, it truly offers guests a great outlook on World Art.”
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Anjuli Lebowitz, The PMA’s Judy Glickman Lauder Associate Curator of Photography, is on the judging panel for Maine Magazine’s up-and-coming Maine artists feature.
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Discover more about the vibrant painting Turtle Knows Your Name by Ashley Bryan, now on view on the fourth floor of the Payson Building!
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How does a superhero become superhuman? Friedrich Nietzsche can offer some guidance: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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“Full circle” is the phrase that comes to mind apropos Katherine Bradford’s exhibition Flying Women at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized by Jaime DeSimone, these forty or so paintings span twenty-two years of her life as an artist, an existence that began much earlier in Maine when she was a wife and mother of young twins.
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The artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.
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In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
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