ArtsWrite

Read here an article by ArtsWrite owner Katherine Aimone about the exciting new Center for Maine Contemporary Art! Congrats to the staff of the new CMCA.

Reborn In Rockland

Working on a show and catalogue for the new Greenville Center for the Creative Arts in South Carolina. Artists include Jay Zerbe, Margaret Glew, Galen Cheney, Matthew Dibble, Steven Aimone, and myself. The show is called Kindred Spirits, linking our work to the phenomenal change that happened in New York during the 50s/60s when the Abstract Expressionists found their voice, living their very Bohemian lifestyles. After being in Italy for three months, I realize clearly the impact that America had on the world of art in this relatively short period of time. Although there were predecessors of abstraction such as Picasso... and of course the non-objectivity of Kandinsky... Americans and the critics in America... brought the wide open nature of this country onto the walls and in Pollock's case... the floors... moving from the body and the intuitive psyche. Without those roots, I doubt I'd be doing the work I do today. Italy is still of course very tied to it's history in the Renaissance. And yet a few artists here in America, with the availability of large spaces, created another revolution of sorts. There seems to be nothing as lasting in painting as the AbX movement to me, since the Renaissance. Interesting to think about.