GREENROOM Opening Night

SPACE currently requires masks and vaccination for all event attendees. Medical exemptions can be accommodated. Please refer to our health and safety policies for more information.

Join us as we kick off a year of looking back on SPACE’s history with GREENROOM.

GREENROOM presents an immersive floor-to-ceiling installation of SPACE concert posters in the gallery and kicks off the non-profit’s 20th anniversary year on Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. The exhibition is a time capsule of ephemera—an evolving community archive spanning SPACE’s first twenty years. Screenprints on view include selections from Kris Johnsen’s personal collection, and posters by Kristina Buckley, Max Hansen, Hannah Hermes, Zach Howard, Ryan LaMunyon, Reuben Little, Pickwick Poster Club, Lisa Pixley, Wing Club, Anabelle Souza, Sean Wilkinson, and many more. 

Also featured in SPACE’s back gallery is the first exhibition in Maine of musician portraits by New York City & Los Angeles-based photographer Shervin Lainez. Lainez’s career development parallels the timeline of SPACE’s formation, and he has documented many bands who have graced its stage in Portland, Maine (Lady Lamb, JD Samson of MEN and Le Tigre, Pearl and the Beard, Of Montreal, and Regina Spektor just to name a few). For his inaugural exhibition in Maine, Lainez has selected a handful of representative stills spanning his prolific career.

Shared Memories

During the GREENROOM exhibition and beyond, SPACE invites the community to contribute their own documentary photographs and memories of happenings at the non-profit arts venue since its inception in 2002. These shared images and stories will become part of the non-profit’s canon, and with permission, may find themselves in a future printed publication.

Interested in sharing some of your own SPACE memories? Send us an email with any related media items such as images, recordings, etc., that you might like to share.

SPACE extends a big thank you in advance to all collaborators and local historians who assist with this ongoing effort to archive the constellation of arts, artists, and ideas that makes SPACE the artistic hub it aspires to be.