Our next exhibition:

life forms

January 16 – February 15

Selected previous exhibitions

2024

under/current

October 3 – December 6

One tool from each student in the 2024 BFA/BA Exhibition

2024 BFA/BA Exhibition

April 11 – 27

Holding Space: The 2024 Juried Student Exhibition

March 7 – March 30

An image of a painting of a radiant sun with tree covered mountains and a choppy ocean in the foreground.

(T)HERE BUT NOT

January 25 – February 15

2023

Embodying Softness/ Excavating Delight

October 12 – December 9

An image of a grey hall with photography hanging

Todd Webb: Photography Across New York, New Mexico, and France

Aperture Gallery, Glickman Library

March 23 – December 11

Many coils of fabric in different shades of black, some reflective fabrics, some velevet, and some braids snake together

Veronica A. Perez: shadow / echo / memory

May 11 – July 29

A colorful pop up book

Maine Art Education Association Exhibition

Lewiston Atrium Gallery

February 16 – April 24

An image of a Gallery with artwork on the walls.

2023 BFA Show

April 6 – 29, 2023

A gallery with white walls and painting, drawing, and prints on the walls. Wooden floors.

Parallel Convergence: The 2023 Juried Student Exhibition

March 9 – 25

An image of a pop up book, open, with roses

Hidden Stories

January 18 – February 18

2022

A grid of 2 rows of 3 squares, each with artowrk. There is one square creating a third row in the first column, next to which it reads "Pulped Under Pressure."

Pulped Under Pressure

September 8 – 
December 10

An image of a broom hanging on a gallery wall. it is small and handmade. A painting of a mountain sunset is in the background, and tires in the corner.

Re-Emergence: Art Department Exhibition

January 27 – February 24

An image of a gallery with artwork on the walls. At left a sign reads "2022 JURIED STUDENT SHOW". To its right, a woman reclines.

Juried Student Exhibition

March 10 – April 3

A 3x3 grid of images of different rooms. Each room has a desk, chair, and lamp. Each room is color coordinated to a particular color.

Amy Stacey Curtis: The Color of Memory

22 Foster Street,
Westbrook, Maine

March 26 – April 22

BFA Exhibition

April 7 – 29

2021

An abstract painting composted of overlapping geometric triangles. The background is an ever expanding left-pointing arrow. The foreground has a rectangular frame with a center vertical rectangle, also all composed of triangles.

USM Art Faculty & Staff Online Exhibition

Virtual exhibition

A drawing of three overlapping glasses with reflections on a yellow ground.

ON THE LINE: The 2021 Juried Student Exhibition

Virtual exhibition

An image of a wall with artwork on it. In the foreground at left is a large abstract painting.

Restoration 2021: Works by Graduating BA and BFA Art Students

Glickman Library

April 7 – September 30

A gallery with wooden floors, one white wall, and one purple, ceramics are on a table in the foreground in abstract forms, and obelisk watercolors in a pyramid on a wall at left.

Call/Response: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein

October 13 – 14

2020

A series of four images of artwork, all abstract.

2020 BFA Exhibition

Virtual exhibition

A turquoise computerized image of a fractal resembling a virus in its composition

Lusus Naturae

January 30 – March 12

2019

2019 BFA & BA Exhibition

April 11 – May 1

An image of a woman whosse face is covered in smile stickers of different colors. They are overlapping and form one sheet. She is beginning to peel the sheet off from the left-hand side.

Juried Student Exhibition

March 14 – 31

An abstract painting of pastel tones

USM Art Faculty Exhibition

January 21 – March 3

2018

A gallery filled with people. A wall on the right has a series of painted small scrolls on it. A table in the foreground also has scrolls.

Cross–Pollinating the Grassroots: Collaborative Works Inspired by the Beehive Design Collective

January 22 – March 29

A large, red sculpture with many spikes coming off it. Vaguely shaped like an anatomical heart and about 5 feet tall.

Student Juried Exhibition

March 8 – April 1

A series of four artworks collaged together.

2018 BA & BFA Exhibition

April 11 – 29

An image of a print hanging on a wall. The wall has drawn wooden wallpaper. The print has a series of planetary-like designs and their orbit. It reads "EXPAND THE FEMININE SPECTRUM."

Eulogy for the Dyke Bar by Macon Reed

AREA Gallery

September 4 – December 7

An image of a gallery with primarily blue-palette portraits on the walls. A structure resembling a house, painted black, sits in the foreground. Its left wall reads "OTHERED"

OTHERED: Displaced from Malaga by Daniel Minter

October 4 – December 9

2017

An image of a gallery with a large drawing of a mountain on the wall

Clint Fulkerson: Fluid Geometry

AREA Gallery

January 17 – March 31

A photograph of three small stones balanced atop one another. They rest on a large boulder that goes out of the bottom of the frame. In the background is a beach with waves.

Portals: Work by Maine Art Education Association Members

January 25– March 2

An image of a print of women drawn in yellow. They are each wearing a military uniorm.

Why We Fought: American WWI Posters and the Art of Persuasion

August 28 – December 8

An image of a gallery with paintings on the wall. The painting in the foreground at left seems to be leafy reflections on blue water.

Resonance and Memory: The Essence of Landscape

October 5 – December 8

2016

An image of a gallery. Three drawings are on the wall. In the foreground are cardboard cut outs of flames

Natasha Mayers– Pay Attention! It’s Independence Day!

AREA Gallery

January 18 – March 24

An image of a print with many nonsensical letters matched together and triangular traditional quilt patterns behind in blue on a white gorund.

Gina Adams: Its Honor is Here Pledged — Broken Treaty Quilts

August 29 –
December 9

An image of a gallery with a large, colorful painting of a fish on the adjacent wall.

George Longfish: Indian on Indian

October 6 – December 9

2015

An image of a shadowy, blurry silhouette of a person with their arms raised. White writing is over the photograph.

Constructing Identity

February 23 – May 1

A black and white photograph of a man walking, wearing a trench coat. His back is to the viewer. It is raining and there are reflections of the man at right and reflections of lamposts at left.

Todd Webb: Historian with a Camera

USM Area Gallery
August 31 –
December 9

An image of a gallery with wooden floors and white walls. In the froreground a photographer with a tripod has his back to the viewer, facing him is a woman in a dress standing in front of a green wall.

Picturing Maine – The Way Life Was?

September 17 –
December 11

2014

An image of a flyer advertising the exhibition. It reads "OPPOSING GESTURES"

Opposing Gestures

September 23 –
December 10

2013

An image of an extremely large piece of paper rolled and sprawling out over a gallery space with marker drawings

Astrid Bowlby: EVERYTHING

USM AREA Gallery
January 24 – March 6

An image of four blurry photographs with orange tints. Three are indecipherable; the top right has two apples, one at left is golden and the one at right is red.

Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran

September 17 –
December 8

2012

An image of a woman in a room wiht white walls and a grey floor. She wears red flats and a yellow dress. On her head is a large, rectangular box, obscuring her head and neck. Her hands reach up onto the box's sides; she cannot reach its top.

The Myths

March 2 – April 14

An abstract painting. The bottom half of the paper has a circular form

Verge: New Work by Andrea Sulzer

September 4 – October 16

An image of eight circles on a page in primary colors. The bottom of the page has blue waves. Some circles are held up by two lines, as if they had crude legs.

Sampler: The USM Teaching Collection

September 27 –
December 9

An abstract picture with a red diagonal line running through its center and a green diagonal ground beneath.

Zuihitsu: Look Only At The Waves

October 24 – December 9

For exhibitions prior to 2012, please contact the Gallery at usmartgalleries@maine.edu.