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Slideshow: Portland Museum of Art 2009 Biennial

The 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, April 8 to June 7, 2009

By PHOENIX STAFF | April 24, 2009

For it’s 2009 Biennial, the Portland Museum of Art whittled down 970 applicants to just 17 Maine (or at least Maine-affiliated) artists. The resulting exhibit, which gives a snapshot of local art now, runs through June 7.

Pictured: Ethan Hayes-Chute (Berlin, Germany, and Freeport, Maine, born 1982), Hermitage, 2009, mixed media, variable. Lent by the artist.

Read: “Growing Pains: The 2009 Biennial steps awkwardly forward” by Ian Paige.

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Growing pains
Although no one piece in this spartan biennial is lacking in value, the collective effect is one destined to get lost in the Rolodex.
Touring the PMA's Biennial
The Portland Museum of Art 2011 Biennial features 65 works from 47 artists in an effort to showcase the best from today's local art scene.
Hope and energy
As we launch into the next decade with a collapsing economy and apocalyptic themes bleeding into every facet of culture, it's particularly hard to be optimistic about the arts, as yes, they are often the first to go.
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Growing pains
Although no one piece in this spartan biennial is lacking in value, the collective effect is one destined to get lost in the Rolodex.
Touring the PMA's Biennial
The Portland Museum of Art 2011 Biennial features 65 works from 47 artists in an effort to showcase the best from today's local art scene.
Hope and energy
As we launch into the next decade with a collapsing economy and apocalyptic themes bleeding into every facet of culture, it's particularly hard to be optimistic about the arts, as yes, they are often the first to go.
Growing Maine art
Long ago an art critic of my acquaintance remarked that New York was a border town to Europe, and until fairly recently that was true. Artistic ideas would be born in Europe, often France, and migrate slowly across the Atlantic and take root.
Cut it out
"Collage: Piecing it Together" at the Portland Museum of Art is a somewhat rambling look at a process that came into use in the beginning of the 20th century as a cubist process bringing images, colors, and shapes together that were previously used elsewhere.
Arc printing
For more than 50 years David Driskell, in his art and his distinguished academic career, has been a creative force in the intersection of modernist art and the African diaspora.
Rain check
We have just the thing to cure your summer-vacation blues: Maine, from the inside.
...And the living is easy
Fellow Portlanders, we have about three months until we return to our caves for hibernation.
Contemplating relationships
A decidedly Yankee sincerity surfaces in the absence of any flippant, art-world insider plays on culture.
Re-structuring
Three large oil paintings overwhelm the lobby at the Portland Museum of Art, introducing the show "Division and Discovery: Recent Works by Frederick Lynch," a beautiful and meditative collection found on the fourth floor of the museum.
What goes around...
The list of heavyweight masters showing at the Portland Museum of Art should be sufficient to lure you into the gallery.
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