Portland Museum of Art

Upcoming exhibits

Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine

October 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010

Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. This exhibition will feature 20 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent watercolors from 1998 depicting the woods that surround his home in Tenants Harbor. These two bodies of work, although separated by decades, are related in conception and are the result of DuBack’s response to the landscape of Maine. This is the Portland Museum of Art’s first exhibition devoted to that seminal period when New York post-war modernism arrived in Maine.

Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell

October 29, 2009 – January 17, 2010

This exhibition highlights for the first time the prints of David C. Driskell, artist, art historian, collector, educator, and one of the most respected names in the world of African American art and culture. With more than 75 prints, as well as several works on paper, Evolution provides insight into Driskell’s artistic process and development, as well as the influence of African art on American modernism. He has been a practicing artist since the 1950s and his works are in major museums throughout the world, including the Portland Museum of Art. Since 1977 Driskell has also served as the cultural advisor to Camille and Bill Cosby and is the curator of their collection. In 2000, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Driskell maintains a deep connection to Maine, as he has summered here for decades and is active at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

This exhibition is organized by the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Presentation at the Portland Museum of Art is made possible by the Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund and The Bear Bookshop, Marlboro, Vermont. Additional support is provided by Jane Costello Wellehan. Media support is provided by WCSH 6 and Mainebiz.

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