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BRITTA KONAU

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Printmaking continues to matter

Paper, ink, and pressure
Essential to printmaking, and non-digital photography, is the frustrating, annoying time lapse between the creation of the matrix and the final image.

By: BRITTA KONAU | May 16, 2012

A contemporary artist shows one way forward

Painting past and future
There are many different ways to talk about Lesley Vance's paintings, yet we don't really have the right words yet.

By: BRITTA KONAU | April 18, 2012

Negotiating femininity in photographs

What is real?
Myths are inventions, not based on truth.

By: BRITTA KONAU | March 14, 2012

‘Amplified Moments’ of power and knowledge

Pensive musings
Power and intellect don't need to be opposites but often appear locked in reciprocal suppression and propagation. Bates College Museum of Art shows an excellent selection of works by Chinese artist Xiaoze Xie in which he muses on this complex relationship.

By: BRITTA KONAU | February 15, 2012

Time travel in miniature

What the future holds — or was it the past?
Although comprised of only six photographs, "Lori Nix: The City" at the University of Maine Museum of Art is a show not to be missed.

By: BRITTA KONAU | January 25, 2012

A year-long celebration winds down

Drawing to an end
Throughout 2011, June Fitzpatrick has done more than her share in highlighting the medium of drawing in the context of the state-wide project "Where to Draw the Line."

By: BRITTA KONAU | December 14, 2011

They, and Gideon Bok, are nothing but subjective

Time and perspective
Commonly artists prefer to work away from public scrutiny, shielded from revealing the awkward phases of creation, to emerge with a finished work of art that will last, if not for eternity, at least for quite a while.

By: BRITTA KONAU | November 23, 2011

Intricate works on paper by one of Maine’s best abstract artists

Complete in themselves
Geometric shapes like rectangles and circles have been the formal ingredients of some of the most sophisticated abstract art.

By: BRITTA KONAU | October 26, 2011

Abstract artists look at craft

A show of hands
Abstraction is currently getting a lot of attention in Portland.

By: BRITTA KONAU | September 28, 2011

Multiple layers of looking

One beautiful head and another's questions
Dan Dowd's installation "Anna Hepler's Head" fills the cavernous space of the Coleman Burke Gallery with photographs and three-dimensional objects that light-heartedly ask serious questions about artistic observation and the transmission of visual information in general.

By: BRITTA KONAU | August 31, 2011