Next Gen | Cove St. Arts

Portland, ME

FEB. 1 - MAR. 16 2024

Next Gen features compelling work by nineteen of Maine’s emerging wave of makers.  Combined, their work does not present a single, coherent perspective as to where Maine contemporary art is headed but instead demonstrates the rich tapestry that Maine contemporary art is and will continue to be.  This next generation is carrying on Maine’s storied tradition while shaping the next chapter with their own unique and exciting voices.


 

The Portland Show | Greenhut Galleries

Portland, ME

MAR. 9 - APR. 22 2023

Greenhut’s 12th Biennial Portland Show celebrates the dynamic and rapidly evolving city. With a single subject matter of the Portland, ME, this long-running exhibition consistently surprises with its diverse display of styles, media, and approaches. This year’s Portland Show includes work from 43 Maine artists, each offering a unique perspective on the city.


 

Nightdrive | TALON Gallery

Portland, OR

OCT. 21 - NOV. 28 2023

Nightdrive is a solo exhibition of nocturnes by Mike Howat. The series of architectural paintings pulls from imagery of highways, small towns and vacant storefronts. The exhibition captures the quiet strangeness of small town Americana.


 

Teetering Between | Catamount Arts

St. Jonsbury, VT

MAR. 28 - JUN. 4 2023

The exhibition of paintings, photography, and sculpture shapes a journey by layering familiar pictures to transport viewers, via light, form, and composition, to a mysterious dreamlike setting. The selected artists consider a liminal space, prompting onlookers to teeter between dimensions, their idée fixe unraveled by a single thread, and luring them to deeper engagement. Curated by Sam Eckert. Works by Mike Howat, Melody Boone, Linda Bryant, Harrison Halaska.


 

Angels in the Architecture | TALON Gallery

Portland, OR

APR. 28, 2022 - MAY 28 2022

Angels in the Architecture group exhibition, showcases artists who have a particular focus on architecture, furniture and the built environment in their works. Whether immaculate or dilapidated, static or mobile, simple or sprawling, our built environments and the manufactured objects we adorn them with offer reflections on society, expressions of personality and shelter from the world we inhabit.


 

Objectivity | Gallery 263

Cambridge, MA

NOV. 4 - DEC. 4 2021

This exhibition presents the work of 20 New England-based artists whose art engages and subverts the still life genre. Using painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, multimedia, and digital rendering, the featured artists engage with contemplations of the past and the future, depicted through objects. objectivity is juried by artist Josephine Halvorson.


 

Plain Air | Carrie Secrist Gallery

Chicago, IL

MAY 29, 2021 - JUL. 17, 2021

The group exhibition Plain Air featured nine artists exploring the traditional genre of landscape. The exhibition plays the tradition of plein air painting with landscape as the ideal and original muse for artistic interpretation.