Chris Crosman
Chris Crosman primarily writes about living Maine artists for his local Maine newspapers. He is the former founding chief curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas and former director of the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine for seventeen years.
Maury Colton is among the Maine masters of contemporary art. For more than fifty years he has explored the gap between representation and abstraction with work reifying a childhood-born wonder at nature’s life-filling tidal pools at Willard Beach in South Portland.
Nicole Wittenberg, with summer exhibitions in Maine and Paris, is having a long, and for admirers of pure painterly hedonism, a moment of what curator Suzette McAvoy rightly describes as unabashed beauty.
Donald Moffett's recent exhibition, Nature Cult, Seeded, at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) was organized by former CMCA director and independent curator, Suzette McAvoy. The casual visitor looking to escape urban heat for sea breezes and shade trees in Maine will not likely find respite in this unruly show.
