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2024
SPACE Pop-Up Shop
November 22 – Dec 20
Proto-Farm Communities (What if we get it right?)
October 21 – Dec 1
Dinner on Congress
August 20 – Oct 8
Take a Load Off
August 2 – Oct 12
Dewdrop Cooties
July 19 – Jan 10
Nor’westers & Black Storms | কালবৈশাখী ও काली आँधी
July 5 – Aug 13
Re-Site 2024 | Ling-Wen Tsai – Ahead of Schedule
June 22 – Jul 28
Off Grid
June 7 – Jul 20
Re-Site 2024 | Rachel Alexandrou – Aggregate
June 3 – Jun 17
Gaza: Precious Lives, Stolen Dreams
May 13 – Jun 27
Re-Site 2024 | Ashley Page – Imagining Freedom
May 10 – Aug 16
Re-Site 2024 | Maya Tihtiyas Attean – Roots of Resilience: Echoes of Connection
May 5 – May 30
Re-Site 2024 | James Allister Sprang – Listening Sessions
May 4 – May 13
Celestial Branches
May 3 – May 25
Oasis
March 22 – May 6
improvisational sounds for liberation
March 10 – Mar 16
Everything Is Tied To Everything Else
March 1 – Mar 10
Ouroboros
February 23 – Mar 1
En Caul
February 16 – Feb 23
Tracing the Field of Wonder
February 9 – Feb 16
Bodies of Weather
February 2 – Apr 6
we wont miss u
January 20 – Feb 2
Blaze
January 2 – Jan 27
The 2024 Poetry Hotline
January 1 – Dec 31
2023
na(a)me
December 1 – Jan 14
AIGA Maine 2023 Poster Show: Design for Good
October 6 – Nov 14
Home / Safe
September 29 – Nov 17
Keams
August 18 – Sep 24
What’s Worth Saving
August 4 – Sep 16
Memories of Water
June 27 – Aug 11
bhasement
June 2 – Jul 13
Paradise Will Break Your Heart
May 12 – Sep 17
The American Dream/Renny’s Delicatessen (2017-2023)
May 1 – Jun 20
Evening Botanist
April 7 – May 13
Heptagonals
March 3 – Apr 24
Tiemperos del Antropoceno: TOLCHIKAUALISTLI
February 3 – Mar 19
Geocache
January 6 – Feb 24
2022
Being & Belonging
December 1 – Dec 27
Germination
November 16 – Jan 2
TECHNO WORLDS
October 7 – Nov 5
Assembly
July 21 – Sep 18
HOLY Mackerel!! The Halftime Show
July 18 – Sep 30
Untitled (Flags)
July 1 – Sep 17
Zoom Meeting
May 19 – Jun 30
Gathering; Moon Worship
May 6 – Jul 9
Paint Pals!
April 1 – Sep 17
Snake Hold
March 18 – Apr 26
GREENROOM
March 5 – Apr 23
Onstage / Offstage
March 4 – Apr 23
Luuk: of roots, adaptability and fragility
January 27 – Mar 11
The Perceiver and the Perceived
January 14 – Feb 28
Fracture
January 1 – Jan 27
2021
Dream Machine
November 5 – Dec 18
Fertile Ground and New Growth: Dreaming in the Plant Realm
November 1 – Dec 31
Reality Breaker
October 28 – Jan 14
Ancestralidad y Trance
September 21 – Oct 13
What Rhymes with Freedom?
September 11 – Oct 31
Abalone over LA
August 9 – Sep 17
Helpers
July 25 – Sep 4
Unearthly Expeditions: Mount Analog
July 15 – Aug 31
Performance I Portrait
July 9 – Aug 29
How to Forgive Death
June 30 – Aug 2
Shivering in the Garden
June 2 – Jul 17
TSA_PDF
May 24 – Jun 1
Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
May 20 – Jul 3
Abolition means learning new ways.
May 16 – Jun 27
2021 Poetry Hotline
April 19 – Jun 13
Distant Pleasures
April 10 – May 12
I will meet you on the other side of the plains covered in violet
April 4 – May 12
Give Black Folx Their Flowers (While We Can Still Smell Them)
April 1 – May 15
give me a tension!
March 17 – Apr 4
If I Waited & What has whiteness given you?/ what has whiteness taken from you?
March 16 – May 19
Letters to the Sun
February 24 – Mar 16
I Spy Maine Needs
February 22 – Mar 31
Fruition
January 31 – Feb 28
The Continuous Moment, Part 1
January 27 – Feb 16
We Blossom & Fade Like Flowers, Gather & Part Like Clouds
January 20 – Mar 8
Green Flash
January 8 – Feb 19
Bee Flowers
January 4 – Feb 21
2020
Semaphore Love Letters
December 9 – Dec 29
1968: L’historique d’une histoire faite de symboles / 1968: the timeline of a history of symbols
November 12 – Jan 3
Re-Site: A Slower Ontology After Dark
November 9 – Nov 21
Re-Site: historical silencing
October 27 – Oct 30
Re-Site: As American As Cherry Pie
October 24 – Nov 30
Re-Site: Dreamcatcher: A Heart as Big as the Ocean and as Bright as the Sun
October 18 – Oct 19
Re-Site 2020
October 16 – Nov 30
Post
October 7 – Nov 4
Black Lives Matter
October 1 – Nov 9
Instruction Manual for Giant Tents
September 28 – Dec 31
Mystery Pond
September 23 – Nov 3
Resilient Blossoms
September 9 – Nov 14
D R / F T
September 4 – Oct 2
Summer Reading
August 14 – Sep 30
WE ARE AUTHENTICALLY HUMAN
August 12 – Sep 9
You Can’t Unsee
August 5 – Sep 13
Mutual Aid is Life
August 4 – Sep 1
Printers Without Margins
July 10 – Aug 7
Be safe, vote by mail.
June 22 – Jul 17
Flow + Time, phrasing.
June 8 – Jul 21
SPACE House Shows
April 27 – Jun 9
Broadcasts
April 1 – Aug 31
Light Room: Practice
March 6 – Mar 14
North Stars
March 5 – May 1
Glowing Reserves
March 1 – May 23
Both Players Move
January 31 – Feb 28
Entry to the Oasis
January 10 – Feb 21
2019
We Survive In A Capitalist Ecology
December 16 – Mar 1
Hand-Some
November 25 – Jan 3
Extra Spectral
November 15 – Jan 11
Portland Terrain Biennial
October 10 – Nov 17
Our World
October 4 – Nov 2
Embrace Complexity
September 9 – Oct 5
Vintage Vibrato
August 21 – Oct 5
CARRY ME
August 2 – Sep 21
Queer and Trans Youth Demand Justice Not Jails
June 3 – Jul 20
Arena
June 1 – Jul 13
Second Hand
May 17 – Aug 3
Spirit Photography
April 29 – May 31
Athena Pennant Flag
April 15 – Jun 30
<3 <3 <3
March 20 – Apr 26
Hotline
March 1 – May 11
The Anatomy Lesson
January 28 – Mar 15
2018
Pink Moment: Improvisations of place, persona and perception
December 7 – Jan 25
People Like Me Exist
December 3 – Mar 10
For Freedoms 50 State Initiative
October 25 – Dec 2
Swamp Thing
September 28 – Nov 3
Relics
September 12 – Oct 20
La Vie en Rose
August 3 – Sep 15
The Water is Warm
July 20 – Sep 8
BYOB
July 13 – Jul 21
Pólvora
July 6 – Sep 22
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: Untitled (FLAG 2)
July 3 – Jul 31
BOHEMIAN SHOWROOM
June 19 – Jul 19
PORTLAND OUTRIGHT WINDOW TAKEOVER FOR PRIDE PORTLAND
June 10 – Jun 16
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: DIASPORA CLOUD
June 6 – Jul 3
CAMP SOLONG: ALMOST SEASON
June 1 – Jun 23
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: If You’d Like to See This Flag in Colors, Burn it (In Memory of Marinus Boezem)
May 16 – Jun 6
THE FRICTION COEFFICIENT OF ICE AGAINST VARIOUS MATERIALS
April 28 – Jun 1
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: FLINT, 1,462 Days and Counting Man-Made Water Crisis
April 25 – May 16
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: UNTITLED 2017 (fear eats the soul) (white flag)
April 4 – Apr 25
COSMIC LAG (ONGOING)
March 16 – Apr 20
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: WEEPING ANGEL
March 14 – Apr 4
ARRIVAL
February 2 – Jun 29
PAST TENSE
January 17 – Mar 10
WAITING ROOM
January 13 – Mar 10
2017
DAY WITH(out) ART: The AIDS Memorial Quilt
December 1 – Dec 2
THE SAME RIVER
November 3 – Jan 6
Mendacious Veracity
November 1 – Jan 6
Babel Revisited
October 6 – Oct 14
GARLANDING AND GUISE
August 25 – Oct 22
INVISIBLE CITY
August 9 – Dec 31
LANDSCAPE
June 30 – Aug 18
EXQUISITE CORPSE
June 8 – Sep 9
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June 2 – Jul 29
1 BUY 1 GET FREE
May 26 – Jun 24
GET READY WEEKLY
April 10 – May 1
BLACK ICE
April 7 – May 13
RETURN TO GREAT MOTHER’S INFINITY
January 6 – Feb 28
2016
GOODS AND SERVICES
December 2 – Jan 7
HOUSE WHETHER
October 7 – Dec 10
GIVE AND TAKE
September 21 – Nov 4
GROWTH/PROLIFERATION
August 29 – Oct 25
SPACE STUDIOS SUMMER SHOW PART TWO
August 4 – Sep 3
THE GENUINE ARTICLE
June 23 – Sep 23
SPACE STUDIOS SUMMER SHOW PART ONE
June 17 – Jul 28
PERCEPHONE IN THE LATE ANTHROPOCENE
May 6 – Jun 3
PARALLAX
April 13 – Jun 3
THIS NOTHING MIGHT MATTER
March 18 – Apr 16
MAPS (Maine-Aomori Printmaking Society)
March 17 – Apr 1
TRAIL OFF
January 22 – Mar 12
2015
FREE FOR ALL 5
December 2 – Jan 13
WHOOP DEE DOO
September 26 – Nov 7
LAST DAZE
July 24 – Sep 4
TREE LINED STREET
June 4 – Sep 14
WE ARE STAYING – نحن باقون
May 26 – Jul 11
BATTLE FOR THE SWEETLANDS
April 25 – Aug 7
REANIMATION LIBRARY CONGRESS STREET BRANCH
March 5 – May 1
CRASH KISS
February 6 – Feb 14
THE INVISIBLE MAN
January 17 – Feb 28
2014
SOON THIS WILL NOT MATTER
December 17 – Apr 30
GOODS AND SERVICES
December 5 – Jan 24
THE IMMORTALS
November 7 – Jan 16
STANDARD
October 11 – Nov 21
WE BUILD EXCITEMENT
October 3 – Dec 5
MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
September 17 – Oct 25
OFRENDAS FLORALES
September 5 – Sep 12
INTER LITHICS
July 12 – Aug 29
STAYING PUT
July 11 – Sep 6
FACE OFF
June 21 – Sep 5
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
May 2 – Jun 21
UNTITLED PATIO WITH BENCHES AND PLANTER
April 27 – Aug 29
LONG DISTANCE
March 28 – Jun 6
LAST PLACE EVER
March 14 – Apr 25
LET OUR LOVE GUIDE YOU FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT
March 12 – Apr 23
FREE FOR ALL 4
January 18 – Feb 22
2013
IIIX9MEOW
November 8 – Dec 21
WATERFRONT VISIONS 2050
November 1 – Dec 21
EMBERS
October 11 – Nov 15
STEADY WORK
September 4 – Oct 19
KATAMARI
August 30 – Oct 5
FLUSHED
July 19 – Aug 23
HORNS
July 5 – Aug 16
POPSCAPES
June 26 – Aug 16
SCAVENGER
June 11 – Nov 2
THE SPEED OF GESTALT
June 7 – Jul 13
I WAS DREAMING THIS
May 3 – Jun 21
SURFACE TENSION
April 19 – May 24
MOON MOVES (SO SLOWLY)
March 1 – Mar 29
X-RAY (SPACE)
February 20 – Apr 6
WORLD BANKSTERS
February 13 – Apr 29
PROJECT 35 part 4
January 16 – Feb 1
ITISWHATITIS
January 11 – Feb 15
CREATOR/CREATIONS
January 9 – Feb 13
2012
WORKS ON PAPER
December 7 – Jan 12
SURRENDER
December 6 – Dec 31
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
November 10 – Dec 20
Portland || Portland
November 2 – Dec 1
Limitless Range
October 5 – Nov 17
Godzilla Attacks
October 3 – Oct 27
Beautiful Possibility
August 29 – Oct 13
Rum Riot Press
July 20 – Aug 23
RGB: The Jungle
July 18 – Sep 14
Sunny Side Up
July 14 – Aug 31
The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour
July 12 – Jul 14
Eyes Used for Tooth Support
June 1 – Jun 23
Seek Alt. Routes: Recording Bicycle-Powered Experiences
May 4 – Jun 2
Blind Spots: New Work by Meggan Gould and Billie Mandle
April 12 – May 25
Project 35 part 3
April 11 – Apr 18
Portes
March 21 – Apr 7
Petrichor
March 14 – Apr 7
Free For All 3
January 25 – Mar 2
2011
Composite Materialism
November 18 – Dec 17
Bennett Morris: Intercept Archive
November 5 – Dec 17
Wall Drawing / Covers
November 4 – Dec 16
#occupySPACE
October 17 – Nov 1
Cursed New England
September 29 – Nov 5
Free Range Planets
September 19 – Oct 15
Zone
September 2 – Oct 28
Celestial/Terrestrial
August 12 – Sep 10
Pulled: An Exhibition by Mike Perry
August 10 – Sep 16
Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball & Tatiana Simonova: Drawings
July 1 – Aug 5
Project 35
June 22 – Jul 22
Draw Your Face Off
June 1 – Jun 17
Slack Water: Photographs of the Portland Waterfront
April 7 – May 26
Dime Star
April 1 – May 26
The Sketchbook Project
March 30 – Apr 2
Four and Twenty Black Birds
March 1 – Mar 31
Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo
February 4 – Mar 24
2010
Interference Blue
December 31 – Jan 29
Polyhedra
December 28 – Jan 28
A Fire In My Belly (1986-87) 2010
December 14 – Dec 20
Eternity
November 5 – Dec 9
The Hellfire Story
November 4 – Dec 9
Some. Things. Curious
September 3 – Oct 22
Protective Coloration
August 1 – Aug 29
Ground Score
July 30 – Aug 26
You Are So Brave!
July 2 – Jul 29
Burns Slower
June 5 – Jul 22
Interjections
June 4 – Jul 21
Loaded
May 7 – May 31
All the Fame of Lofty Deeds
April 9 – May 21
Semantics
April 1 – Apr 30
Katy Fischer: Paintings
March 6 – Mar 26
Ocean Mind
March 5 – Mar 26
Free For All 2
January 22 – Feb 18
2009
Distance Don’t Matter
October 15 – Dec 18
Draw Your Face Off
October 2
Interrobang
August 7 – Sep 19
Expanded Marks
June 5 – Jul 23
Untitled (White Botehs for Amy Butler), 2009
April 4 – May 23
Carving the Floors
April 3 – May 23
one / another
March 6 – Mar 21
Studio Walls
March 5 – Mar 21
Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism
January 9 – Feb 21
Host
January 8 – Feb 21
Windowkammers
January 2 – Feb 2
2008
Time Warp: Thirty Years at Spindleworks
November 25 – Dec 20
Constant Quarry
October 3 – Nov 13
A Marker Drawn to Completion
September 16 – Sep 30
houseboat
September 5 – Sep 26
Detached Sentiments
June 25 – Aug 2
The Brothers When Connected
June 16 – Aug 2
Third Annual SPACE Gallery Polaroid Auction
June 6
The Past Is A Ghost
May 19 – Jun 13
The New Constructionists
March 21 – Apr 25
Matter
January 11 – Feb 22
2007
Free For All
December 5 – Dec 20
The Wonder Gaze
October 5 – Nov 16
New Projections + Installations by the Portland Film + Video Artists Collective
September 5 – Sep 27
Powerlines
August 14 – Aug 29
A Time And A Place
July 5 – Aug 9
Clearance: The Four Horsemen
June 28 – Aug 9
Everyday Inside Out
May 22 – Jun 21
2nd Annual Polaroid Print Auction
April 25 – May 4
Cannonball Press: Donkey Balls
March 2 – Apr 19
Rural Vernacular
January 5 – Feb 22
2006
Projection Rooms
December 1 – Dec 30
The Innocents
October 19 – Nov 24
The Arts Formally Known as Prints
September 1 – Oct 13
The Ostrich Diaries and Other Stories
July 15 – Aug 17
Living Mobile
June 19 – Jul 12
Salvage + Assemble
April 7 – May 25
Plugged In
March 3 – Mar 24
Worknot
January 6 – Feb 24
2005
New Works by Cassie Jones and Michael Zachary
December 3 – Dec 23
Kids With Cameras
November 3 – Nov 24
Reclaiming Space
September 9 – Oct 21
The Steel Yard
July 23 – Aug 13
Vendetta Retreat
July 21 – Aug 13
The Daily Post
July 1 – Apr 30
Animals R Us
June 21 – Jul 8
Boy’s Life
June 3 – Jul 8
What Haunts
May 31 – Jun 20
Beehive Design Collective: Cross Pollinating the Grassroots
May 6 – May 26
Zack Kane 1:96
March 4 – Apr 14
Light In the Dark
January 7 – Mar 25
2004
Small Works
December 3 – Dec 23
States of Heads: Unauthorized Portraits
October 23 – Nov 27
Beautiful Mutants, Mark Mothersbaugh
September 3 – Oct 16
Material Field
July 2 – Aug 30
Pat Corrigan and Doghaus
April 2 – May 28
Work… Ethic
April 1 – Apr 30
Patrick Schmidt/Untitled 003
March 22 – May 26
Discreet Symbols from a Finite Set
March 5 – Mar 31
Touch
January 2 – Feb 27
2003
25 Years of Spindleworks
November 7 – Dec 19
Tin Conspiracy
October 3 – Oct 29
Weighing My Options
March 7 – Apr 29
2002
Opening Exhibition
September 6 – Oct 28