First Friday Art Walk

Friday 08.06.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, FREE, All Ages

Ground Score opening reception, featuring special guests The Holster, a Brooklyn-based publishing project, who will be printing zines on-demand from the Demand & Supply series, including a new zine by Bill Daniel. Music by Brooklyn based Black Label Bicycle Club DJs Stache and Dirtyfinger. Ground Score traces the unpredictable 30-year course of Bill Daniel, a self-taught artist who claims as a starting point his participation in the early 1980s Texas punk scene.

In the window: Protective Coloration, new works by Crystal Cawley, combining her interest in the form and function of clothing with the possibilities of paper. She writes: "I savor the challenge of translating the technical details and methods of working with fabric to working with paper. I also love reusing things—all of these garments are made of materials that used to be something else."

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First Friday Art Walk

Friday 07.02.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages

New in the window: 

용기가 대단하세요! you are so brave!

by Korean artist Seokmee Noh.

In the gallery:

Burns Slower Paintings by Keith J. Varadi, Michael Kennedy Costa, and Tisch Abelow. 

INTERJECTIONS New works by Cassie Jones

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First Friday Art Walk: BURNS SLOWER + INTERJECTIONS

Friday 06.04.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

We have a dual art opening this week for the First Friday Art Walk, with two new shows:

BURNS SLOWER: New paintings by Tisch Abelow, Michael Kennedy Costa and Keith J. Varadi

Interjections: New work by Cassie Jones.

More info available on the exhibition pages for each.

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First Friday Art Walk

Friday 05.07.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

In the main gallery: All the Fame of Lofty Deeds
Jon Langford’s “song-paintings” fuse publicity-shot portraiture with imagery derived from folk art, Dutch still life, classic Western wear, and the cold, cold war—all instilled with sharp, sardonic wit and a Constructivist sense of the power of language.
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In the front window: Loaded
Andy Rosen's work is "a kind of addendum to the toys and model arrangements of my boyhood. I intend to create objects that feel like something I’ve seen in my dreams: full of worry and wonder. Sometimes they are inspired by other stories or tales, sometimes by actual events and sometimes I forget which is which."
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All the Fame of Lofty Deeds: Opening Reception

Friday 04.09.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

Jon Langford is a founding member of British punk band The Mekons and Chicago alt-country outfit The Waco Brothers, and a painter to boot. 

Langford’s “song-paintings” fuse publicity-shot portraiture with imagery derived from folk art, Dutch still life, classic Western wear, and the cold, cold war—all instilled with sharp, sardonic wit and a Constructivist sense of the power of language. He applies his completely distinctive style to the depiction of American music giants such as Bob Wills, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash, and also to more ghostly, marginalized figures -- blindfolded cowboys, astronauts, and dancers -- jerked around by the forces of success and exploitation, fame and neglect.

Sponsored by our friends at WMPG Community Radio.

More info on the exhibit here

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Ocean Mind opening reception

Friday 03.05.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

OCEAN MIND is a brand new multi-channel, electro/acoustic sound installation by Vermont musician/composer Greg Davis. The installation features 5 gongs (ranging in size from 12"-28") which are activated and sounded by small motors, creating a continuous wash of blissful metallic overtones. The electronic component of the installation consists of 4 loudspeakers and multiple handheld cassette players playing long loops of spectrally processed gong tones. The processed gong tones create ghost-like waves related to the acoustic gong sounds. All of the elements are spatialized around the gallery to make a multi-dimensional sound environment with infinite changing perspectives as the listener moves about the room. The sum of all the parts creates an immersive, meditative, deep listening space perfect for clearing one's mind and bringing us all back (or forward) to the present moment.

The opening of the sound installation will be followed by a rare live performance of analog synthesizer music by Greg Davis, Keith Fullerton Whitman & Ben Vida.

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First Friday Artwalk: Free For All 2

Friday 02.05.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

Free For All 2 is a noncurated experiment and a democratic effort to organize and present work from a wide variety of artists, culminating in a salon-style show including 150 artists.

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Free For All 2

Friday 01.22.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

SPACE once again opens the doors with an invitation to the world to exhibit work in a salon-style survey show. Free For All 2 is a noncurated experiment and a democratic effort to organize and present work from a wide variety of artists. It's a free for all.

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First Friday Art Walk: Distance Don't Matter

Friday 11.06.2009, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

SPACE has invited New York artist Swoon and her collaborators Ben Wolf, Greg Henderson, Conrad Carlson, Monica Canilao and Ryan Doyle to construct an installation of found materials, wheatpasted prints, paintings and more. 

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Distance Don't Matter

Thursday 10.15.2009, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

SPACE has invited New York artist Swoon and her collaborators Ben Wolf, Greg Henderson, Conrad Carlson, Monica Canilao and Ryan Doyle to construct an installation of found materials, wheatpasted prints, paintings and more. 

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First Friday Art Walk: The Pine Haven Collective presents Draw Your Face Off

Friday 10.02.2009, Doors at 5:00 PM, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

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Interrobang

Friday 09.04.2009, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

SPACE Gallery presents a typography-based show, including works from five artists who collectively portray a range of conceptual possibilities and uses of type in visual art.

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First Friday opening: Vox populi

Friday 07.03.2009, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

SPACE presents Expanded Marks, a show featuring work by 15 members of Vox Populi, a Philadelphia-based artist collective.  Curated by Vox Populi’s Executive Director, Andrew Suggs, this exhibition takes “drawing” as a starting point to investigate a range of_contemporary works across media.

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First Friday opening: Vox populi

Friday 06.05.2009, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

SPACE presents Expanded Marks, a show featuring work by 15 members of Vox Populi, a Philadelphia-based artist collective.  Curated by Vox Populi’s Executive Director, Andrew Suggs, this exhibition takes “drawing” as a starting point to investigate a range of_contemporary works across media.

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First Friday Art Walk Exhibit opening

Friday 04.03.2009, Starts at 5:00 PM, free, All Ages

Come and witness firsthand the results of a project by artists Andrea Sulzer, Professor Anna Hepler and here Bowdoin College, Advanced Printmaking Class. Given 20 hours to work, the group carved, inked and printed the floors of two entire rooms from the old Brunswick High School, soon to be demolished.  Photographs and video of their process will also be on display.

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First Friday Art Walk

Friday 03.06.2009, Starts at 5:00pm, Ends at 8:00pm, , All Ages

For the month of March, SPACE has invited a group of artists to recreate an area of their studio/work-space walls in our main gallery. The idea for Studio Walls grew out of our interest in the consciously curated, shrine-like accumulations of visual materials that exist in a studio – postcards, trinkets, notes, magazine clippings, sketches, lists, prototypes, books, snapshots – and how these objects influence and inform an artist’s work. All of the artists in the show live in Maine and make work in a range of disciplines, including sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, illustration, and large-scale installations. Featuring installations by Greta Bank, Melinda Barnes, Amy Stacey Curtis, Meggan Gould, Friederike Hamann, Joe Kievitt, Scott Nash, Patrick O’Rorke, and Colin Sullivan-Stevens.

In the front of the gallery, we are pleased to present one / another, a performance-based video by Deborah Wing-Sproul and Ling-Wen Tsai, which marks the formal beginning of a series of collaborations between the two artists, who come from different cultural backgrounds but share similar approaches to work and life. Instead of embracing a polar stereotype of East/West, Ling-Wen and Deborah collaborate out of an empathy for one another and the world at large. The video documents their respective physical explorations of a single interior environment with one half of a split screen focuses solely on Ling-Wen, the other half on Deborah. one / another is part of international exhibition series, curated by TransCultural Exchange, that include collaborative projects between at least two artists from different countries.

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First Friday Art Walk: Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism

Friday 02.06.2009, Starts at 5:00, Ends at 8:00, free, All Ages

"Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism” is curated by Gideon Bok as part of SPACE’s annual “Artists Curating Artists” series.

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Opening Reception for Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism

Friday 01.09.2009, Starts at 5:30pm, Ends at 9:00pm, free, All Ages

“Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism” is curated by Gideon Bok as part of SPACE’s annual “Artists Curating Artists” series.

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First Friday Artwalk -- Time Warp: Thirty Years at Spindleworks

Friday 12.05.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8::00 PM, free, All Ages

Thirty years ago, Nan Ross, a weaver from Bath, Maine, began working with six individuals from Independence Association, an agency that helps children and adults with disabilities achieve full and inclusive lives in their chosen community.

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First Friday Art Walk: Tod Seelie Constant Quarry

Friday 11.07.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8::00 PM, free, All Ages

NYC photographer Tod Seelie is a relentless documenter of city life who manages to capture all the vibrant grime, grit and magic of underground parties, sweaty rock shows and urban bike culture.

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First Friday Art Walk: Tod Seelie Constant Quarry

Friday 10.03.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages

Tod Seelie, a young NYC photographer is a relentless documenter of city life and manages to capture all the vibrant grime, grit and magic of underground parties, sweaty rock shows and urban bike culture.

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First Friday Artwalk: houseboat

Friday 09.05.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Free, All Ages

On view for the month of September in SPACE’s entrance gallery is houseboat, a show of new drawings by Kyle Durrie. The works originated from a night Kyle spent with an atlas, tracing every single road she has traveled in North America.

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Vialka with Crank Sturgeon and bad bus

Thursday 07.24.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, Free, 18+

What's better than an art opening? A non-opening. We re-celebrate Corrigan's gallery show with music from self-described "turbo folk micro-orchestra", French guitar-and-drums duo Vialka.

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Gallery Opening: Patrick Corrigan

Wednesday 06.25.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages

Artist Patrick Corrigan is a local renaissance man, working out of his Bayside studio Fort Awesome on a variety of music projects, paintings, mixed media pieces, silk-screened prints, illustrations and hand-painted custom guitar pedals.

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Reverb: Presented by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Friday 05.16.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:30 PM, Free, All Ages

Have you ever wanted to know more about someone you cross paths with every day? At Salt we search for the extraordinary story in each of us.

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Gallery Opening: The New Constructionists

Friday 03.21.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages

SPACE Gallery is pleased to present The New Contstructionists, a drawing show featuring new work by Meghan Brady, Jena Derman, Gina Siepel, and Zoë Wright.

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MATTER Opening Reception

Friday 01.11.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages

Matter heralds the revitalization of sculptural textiles for a new era, bringing together six artists who reside in the Northeast and Midwest who have created contemporary sculptures that are visually complex and compelling, grounded in ideas that transcend the traditions of craft.

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