(Image: "The Red Line" by Jeff Bye)

October 7 through October 30, 2010. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, October 7th, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

(Portland, ME) Whether Maine or New York City, Jeff Bye chooses places to paint that have character and history, whatever their current evolutionary status; they're all changing, and he wants to capture them now. Trained at the Maine College of Art and then Rhode Island School of Design, this artist is inspired equally by the ancient facades of Italy and the edgy graffiti of New York City. Aggressive angles and an agile perspective interact with brush, palette knife, and hand to create tactile, colorful surfaces through which the artist expresses his fascination with contemporary locations and subjects full of energy

For more information or to see more images of Jeff's work, please visit the Greenhut Galleries website.

(Image: Painting by Wally Reinhardt)

At the Bates College Museum of Art, October 8 - December 18, 2010

(Lewiston, ME) This exhibition focuses on Reinhardt’s long devotion to painted interpretations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Since the 1980s, Reinhardt has vividly and playfully depicted many of the favorite characters of classical mythology. His gouache paintings have been included in many important exhibitions including in the Queens Museum, the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, the ICA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the James A. Michener Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Reinhardt visits Bates to discuss his work in a free public lecture on Wednesday, October 13th at 6:00 pm in Olin Room 104.

For more information or to see additional images of Wally Reinhardt's work, please visit the Bates College Museum of Art website.

(Image: "Sunrise I" by Barbara Goodbody)

(Camden, ME) The exciting upcoming photography exhibition at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, entitled "Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later", is sure to provide an amazing variety of photographic styles and media to view. With 150 photographers in the show, most current and historic printing processes, including digital printing, will be represented.

Over a dozen clients of Nickelson Editions will be featured in the show, and these artists illustrate the breadth of state-of-the-art fine art digital printmaking. Never before have so many fine art papers suitable for digital printmaking been available to artists, and these photographers have taken advantage of papers suitable for their own particular work. Photographers Arla Patch and Susan Guthrie each use Epson Velvet Fine Art for their work because of its lovely surface, high dynamic range, and visual punch.

(Image: "Blues" by Susan Guthrie)

Barbara Goodbody's Sunrise series takes advantage of the smoother, velvety surface and bright tones of Canson Infinity Rag Photographique (which is achieved without the use of optical brightening agents). Amy Wilton's image is printed on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag, a wonderful cotton rag paper that utilizes a platinum printing paper base with a special inkjet coating to provide a beautiful, lightly stippled surface, great feel in the hand, and phenomenal dynamic range and color reproduction capability. These are just a few of the digital printing papers that will be represented in this show, and combined with all of the other processes that will be on display, makes the CMCA show a must see for all fans of photography in Maine.

You can find out more about these papers, and many others, as well as other provided services at www.nickelsoneditions.com. Nickelson Editions fine art digital printmaking is based in Camden, Maine and works with clients across Maine and the United States.

The show runs September 18th through December 12, 2010.

(Portland, ME) Combining a masterful technique with sly, witty historical and personal references to American life from 1870 to 1910, today John Haberle (1856–1933) is considered one of the most accomplished American trompe l’oeil (meaning to “fool the eye”) painters. This exhibition will feature approximately 20 paintings and drawings from the New Britain Museum of American Art. Alluding to the moral and political issues of the time, Haberle’s paintings juxtaposes newspaper clippings, tickets, and money with objects such as a pocket watch, playing cards, and rosary beads. The slight but ingenious details make each of Haberle’s paintings exceedingly complex. He spent most of his life in or near his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut, where he worked as an engraver, draftsman, lithographer, and as a custodian and preparator at Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. This exhibition is part of the new series called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine.

For more information, please visit the Portland Museum of Art website.