We Got Ink!

After over two years, we have our first art review by the Portland Phoenix. Now, we're not ones to bite the hand that feeds us, but we feel some things were overstated and many were understated.
Here's the link to the article:


http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/116455-catching-up-with-time-at-sylvia-kania-gallery/

Check out some of the images and decide for yourself:


Blake Hitunan: Attrition
Blake Hitunan: Under Her Majesty's Summer Gown
Bridget McAlonan: Lunar Tango (details)



Seth Mullendore: Six Years (with detail)


Jess Lauren: Sommes Nous let Jouets du Destin (installation view) and yes, she is aware of the misspelling. This is why she needs an assistant sometimes.

Cheap Art Show

call for entries!

Show runs: March 23 – May 7^th

^{Sylvia Kania Gallery 566 Congress St}

Submissions: due March 15^th

$50 to participate

All works must be priced under $50

Gallery keeps 10% of sales

Bring as much work as you want!

The gallery prefers original works of art but prints are acceptable. Artists may only show their own work.

Art does not have to be expensive!

Art is not only for the wealthy!

Art feeds our souls!

Send submission inquiries to: SKGmanager@gmail.com

or come into the gallery

Wed – Friday 12 – 5 Sat 12 – 3

find the event on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=174466055932945

February Show: It's a Matter of Time

For Immediate Release:

Portland, Maine – February 2011

It's A Matter of Time

February 9^th – March 19^th

“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.” Francois Rabelais Sylvia Kania Gallery's February show explores experiences of time through multiple angles documenting it's passage. We welcome guest artist Blake Hiltunan who's work utilizes natural materials that have been re-contextualized to question man's relationship between self imposed social hierarchies and the natural forces occurring in the world. The large beeswax relief “The Aesthetic Beauty of Labor II” (pictured left) is a relic of of the artistic process and the time it takes to create a single work. Hiltunan also explores the decaying nature of time with sulfuric acid and marble leading to the creation of calcium carbonate. Gallery artists Seth Mullendor and Bridget McAlonan each present new works as well. Mullendor's piece “Six Years” is a time-delayed self-portrait. Six pictures were taken, one from each year for the past six years and cut into a grid of squares. The fragments were then blindly reassembled into new grids to form the six pieces that comprise the series. McAlonan gives us the “Lunar Tango”, a study of phases of the moon with respect to image and the imperfect math that was developed by older men in power centuries ago that has lead to the creation of leap years and other recalibrations to create validity.

Jess Lauren's Obsessive Tendencies series presses on with the third installation “Somme Nous les Jouets du Destin” (we are the puppets of destiny) . This piece consists of multiple teacups existing in time and place together. Each will have it's own life cycle in the company of others, much like our own experiences.

New new new

So If you haven't heard yet, SKG has moved to 566 Congress St! We have a crisp, clean, new space. . .lots of new art work and soon to have a new website. Come check out our new digs and follow us on facebook to stay up to date on what we have planned!

last show on High St.

SKG is in the process of hanging our last show at 148 High St. Yep, that's right. . . .we are moving to Congress St! Starting July 1st you will find us at 562 Congress St, right next to Two Points Gallery (if you haven't been there yet then GO, Two Points is one of our favorite new galleries in Portland)! Until then, come check out our last show in a space that has helped us grow in so many ways! June 4th (1st Friday Art Walk) we will have Beat Box perform for us along with our usual wine, treats, and titillating conversations with the artists of SKG!

Imagining Spaces

Please join us for "Imagining Spaces," the work of MECA seniors Elise Bothel, Ashley Curry, Melissa DiPaola, Jacquelyn Eftink, Angela Haven, David Long, Jenny Maas, Brittany Marcoux, Jason Turgeon, Katie Uffelman, Stefani Wirth, and Diane Wren. This wonderful show featuring photography and sculpture will host an opening event at SKG on April 29th from 5:30 to 7:30 and of course on First Friday and will close on May 15th. This is a short show so make sure you swing by and see some fabulous work by Portland art scene "up and comers"!

UGLY/Beautiful: the show

For this Friday's "1st Friday Art Walk" we will be opening our UGLY/Beautiful show. This is a culmination of our 1st cycle of studio time where we spent the past 6 weeks producing work in the gallery space for anyone to come in and see/discuss/participate, all based on the theme of UGLY/Beautiful. This exhibit shows the works created by gallery artists based on this topic. Each artist took the theme in a completely different direction with everything from boobies to viruses as the subjects used to define our ideas surrounding the concept of beauty.