Whitney Art Works; loveme, hateme, its all good.

This is Gallery Talk your window into the Portland world of art with host Lars.

Ethan Hates-Chutes

What's your world like?

Is it clean?
Is it cluttered?
Are you social being ?
Are your a loner?

What's your brain like?
Is it clean ?
Is it cluttered?

Sometimes art can help you find the answers.

If you are searching then look no further than the center of Portland Arts Downtown.Conveniently located on the main drag   ( 420 Congress st) is the             Whitney Art Works Gallery http://www.whitneyartworks.com/index.shtml.
Some Galleries are known for their Maine landscape oil paintings, or perhaps they have a stable of talented photographers,  always a winner with the folks from away are the galleries that feature paintings of a classic Maine Lighthouse perfect in any room, any decor, less I digress...

Yeshe Parks

The Whitney is known for taking risks and thank goodness for that.  Art that provokes as much as evokes is the norm at Whitney,   I've attended numerous shows at the Whitney and personally I have hated more shows than I have liked, but that is what makes "The Whit" special to me. It's the surprise that keeps me going back time and time again.  The current exhibition Assembled Thoughts is "a keeper" and features the work of two Maine artists:
Yeshe Parks http://www.yesheparks.com/ &
Ethan Hayes - Chutes  http://www.ethanhc.com/
Each artist has some serious stuff going on in their collective squashes and they release it on paper and canvas in a variety of forms:  Paint, ink, graphite, collage & collection. From isolationist to pour it on the page mind freak, these two artists solve as many questions as they ask us and this is good.

Hurry down to the art works gallery the exhibit is in its final days and will be removed this Saturday the 28th.  Whitney Art Works is located right in the center of the Portcity at 420 congress street, or web'sters can surf theWhitney and the works of Yeshe Parks & Ethan Hayes - Chutes at whitneyartworks dot com.

Why go to the Whitney to see the brainmelts of Yeshe parks & Ethan Hayes-Chutes because your good mind needs good art!

The Gallery Talk blog is the text version of the art rant heard every Thursday at 7am, 5 & 8:30pm on WMPG college and community radio
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