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Opening Reception | 2025 Winter Exhibitions

February 1 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST

Saturday, February 1st| 3-5:00pm
Free and open to the public

Join us in welcoming our 2025 Winter Exhibitions with a celebratory opening reception including refreshments in the lobby. We hope to see you here, and bring your friends too!

On View

i forgot to remember | Katarina Weslien
September 28 2024 – May 4 2025

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition i forgot to remember, featuring the work of Katarina Weslien. Drawing on a four decade-long multi-disciplinary practice, artist Katarina Weslien has created a large-scale and expansive exhibition for the Main Gallery at CMCA. forgot to remember is immersive and experiential reflecting the artist’s “deep, on-going interest in the tactile and metaphoric power of cloth; how mute objects speak; and how objects elicit memories, emotions, and embodied imaginations in the face of impermanence, disorder, and displacement.” Curated by Maine-based writer and independent curator, Suzanne Weaver, i forgot to remember opened on September 28, 2024, and runs through May 4th, 2025.

The Sun, Trying to Disappear | Group Exhibition
February 1 – May 4 2025

The Sun, Trying to Disappear is a show that speaks of entanglement. The images in this exhibition flutter between icons and mistrusted memories; dumpster-found advertisements; and miracles of moments that feel fully divine. As we all wade through systems that try to engulf us, the six featured photographers (Sara Cwynar, Kate Greene, Ian Kline, Lieko Shiga, Elle Perez, + Carmen Winant) use their imaginations as a way to survive above the flames. They may be above them, but they’re looking directly at them. The Sun, Trying to Disappear will be on view in the Bruce Brown Gallery until May 4th, 2025.

From the Collection of Lord Red | Kyle Downs
September 28 – May 4 2025

From the Collection of Lord Red is the first Maine solo show of artist Kyle Downs, taking place in the Marilyn Moss Rockefeller Lobby + Karen and Rob Brace Hall. Downs presents wall sculptures made from strips of discarded basketballs, referencing post-production practices, pop culture and the psychology of collecting. Kyle Downs is a sportsman, and to see his basketball-strip tapestries, one might guess that his sport of choice is Basketball. In truth, Downs channels his athleticism through the thrill of the hunt, searching junk shops and flea markets for sturdy materials, rare records, and surprising objects with unlikely surfaces. Downs relishes the heightened state of intentional searching and the discovery of diamonds in the rough, reframing collecting as an act of material obsession to a more wholesome meditation on the quality of attention and honoring craft. Through dedicated hours of careful cutting, gluing, and rearranging, Downs transforms the recognizable object of a basketball, remixing a known cultural signifier into something surprising and new. Curated by South Portland, Maine-based artist and curator, Tessa Greene O’Brien, From the Collection of Lord Red runs until May 4th, 2025.

Fruition | Allison Cekala + Nate Luce
February 1 – May 4 2025

Fruition brings together the paintings and photographs of Allison Cekala and Nate Luce, two interdisciplinary Midcoast artists and frequent collaborators. Their work plants the seed for self-reflection by showing us the artificial boundaries between art, work, and life; between the profane, humorous, and profound. They blur conventional boundaries and hierarchies to teach us to see the sacred in the humble. Fruition will be on view in CMCA’s Guy D. Hughes Gallery until May 4th, 2025.

 

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Date:
February 1
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
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Venue

CMCA
21 Winter Street
Rockland, ME 04841 United States
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Phone:
207-701-5005

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