An important pioneer in video art, William Wegman created a series of short performance-oriented videos between 1970 and 1978, which are now considered classics in the field. He began experimenting with the new medium in earnest in 1970, while living in Southern California, where he taught for a year at California State College, Long Beach. Working
Find out more »The second iteration of our Screen series, focusing on video works, will feature the work My Body is Your Body is Everybody is Nobody by Pop Killed Culture. My Body is Your Body is Everybody is Nobody are a series of videos in which participants are encouraged to mark the performer with charcoal for three minutes,
Find out more »For more than two decades, artist John Walker has been painting the view from his property at Seal Point, Maine, and his tough, lush, muscular paintings from this place have been described as “existential images.” Seal Point is for Walker what Mont Saint Victoire was for Cezanne, a subject to be revisited time and again
Find out more »Opening in conjunction with the CMCA Summer Gala on the evening of Friday, August 18, is the exhibition Linden Frederick | Night Stories, featuring fifteen new paintings by the Belfast, Maine-based artist, created in collaboration with fifteen outstanding American writers, including: Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See) National Book Award-finalist Andre
Find out more »CMCA is presenting The Smallest House in the World, an art installation by sculptor Jeff Smith in its courtyard at from September 14 to 17, 2017. Presented concurrently with the Camden International Film Festival, The Smallest House in the World includes a short documentary video about the project screened in its interior. Part sculpture, part experimental living project,
Find out more »Free with admission Join artist Jeff Smith for a talk on his art installation, The Smallest House in the World. Presented in CMCA’s courtyard, concurrently with the Camden International Film Festival, The Smallest House in the World includes a short documentary video about the project screened in its interior. Part sculpture, part experimental living project, at 25 square feet, this
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