Emily Nelligan: A Memorial Exhibition February 16 – April 13, 2019 A survey of forty charcoal landscape drawings from the past thirty years, marking the gallery’s sixth show of Nelligan’s work, and the first since the artist’s death last year at the age of 94.

Emily Nelligan, 23 SEPT 05, 2005 , charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches

Emily Nelligan, 20 OCT 95 (1), 1995 , charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches Reclusive and private by nature, Nelligan made drawings for herself, rarely exhibiting and avoiding attention of any kind. Known only to a small circle of artist friends and colleagues, she exchanged or gave works to people such as Lois Dodd, Wolf Kahn, Hilton Kramer, Norma Marin, Richard Pousette-Dart and Meyer Shapiro. Such was her world until 2000 when the Bowdoin College Museum presented a summer exhibition of Nelligan’s drawings.  The show received a New York Times review, with excerpts as follows, and brought her national attention: Emily Nelligan’s charcoal drawings are almost all the same size: 10 inches wide by 7 inches high. Some are dark as a moonless night, some pale as fog. They all depict the same landscape: Great Cranberry Island, the southwest of Mount Desert Island in Maine. . . . In their minimal steel frames, they hang like sudden windows: instants of light and air translated into black and white. If Ms. Nelligan’s subject is the moment in its infinite variability, she also draws permanence: a summer place apart from chronology, where time is measured by seasons, tides and changing light.

Varujan Boghosian: A Selection February 16 – April 13, 2019 An small survey exhibition of twelve select assemblages from the artist’s personal collection and the gallery’s first show of Boghosian’s work. Reception for the artist on Saturday, February 16th, from 1 to 4 pm.

Varujan Boghosian , Valentine , 1986, mixed media construction, 15 3/8 x 12 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches

Varujan Boghosian , Adam & Eve , 2018, mixed media collage, 9 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches Sculptor, assembler, constructionist, builder – beachcomber, scavenger, collector, historian, conservator – Boghosian’s work is inspired by the past, by an appreciation of the legacy of myth, by people and objects that have gone before, and by a love of images and iconography that lasts. He gathers relics of our common experience, and transformed by imagination, these objects become poetic tributes. On the occasion of a 1989 Hood Museum retrospective, Robert M. Doty wrote: His art is part of a spiritual life, a means to reach out beyond the limitations of linear time, to expand the potential of individual consciousness. Each of his constructions, paintings and collages invite the mind to work simultaneously to make two approaches, one toward enjoyment from the readily apparent visual delights of texture, color and form, and the other through the obscure and latent resources of the psyche.

Lois Dodd,  Black Cohosh Seedpods , 2018, oil on aluminum, 5 x 7 inches Lois Dodd:  Flashings and Brett Bigbee:  New Paintings remain on view through tomorrow. Lois Dodd will be in the gallery tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon from 3 to 5 pm to visit with friends.

Just opened at the Sheldon Museum of Art:  John Walker: Moments of Observation . Join us to celebrate this exhibition with the artist and friends in Lincoln, Nebraska on March 5th! Museum Gallery Guide available from the gallery Link to Sheldon exhibition

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