Big Art needs Big Space! The Coleman Burke Gallery

Fort Andross Mill home to businesse, Farmers markets & the Coleman Burke Gallery

The Coleman Burke Installation Gallery is a space for big art! Not your itty bitty hole in the wall gallery or a coastal Maine art gallery constrained by the fact they have to sell a lot of lighthouse art each week to pay the rent, The Coleman Burk is located in Brunswick Maine's Andross Mill, the space is subsidized by mill owner Coleman Burke and curated by sculptor John Bisbee and painter Mark Wethli of the Bowdoin College faculty.  It is a huge space that challenges installation artists to explore, expand and create unique art "one of a kind" or "one of a time art"

Repetition of sections create the massive 16' x 18' work by George Mason 

The current show is one entitled  MULTIPLES, this group exhibition features three Maine artists that employ multiple and similar elements in assembling the overall structure of their final creations.  The repetition created for me a feeling of familiarity and was unknowingly meditative. Mildred Johnson (found objects) , George Mason (mixed media and wall reliefs) and Elizabeth Pelissier (Metal Works)  don't seem like kin you would expect in the same space, but there works differences create that weird tension and in the end strengthen the neighboring pieces.  

WHY EXPLORE THE EXHIBIT MULTIPLES AT THE COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY IN BRUNSWICK's ANDROSS MILL 

You could go because it's a nice warm place to visit 
on a Saturday after you go to the regionally famous
Saturday Morning Brunswick Winter Farmers Market 

or 

 

GO BECAUSE YOUR GOOD MIND 
NEEDS GOOD ART! 

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