UMaine Exhibit Focuses on “Art of the ’70s
Contact: Laurie Hicks, (207) 561-3350; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Currently on exhibit in the Lord Hall Gallery through June 16, “Art of the 70s” is a collaboration of the UMaine Department of Art, the University of Maine Museum of Art and the National Poetry Foundation that features some of the defining art from the decade of the 1970s by the artists who created it.
The work is from the Museum of Art’s permanent collection in Bangor. The exhibit was curated to coordinate with the National Poetry Foundation conference June 11-15. Some of the conference events will be held in the Lord Hall Galleries.
The exhibit brings together a representative body of work that reflects the type of art created in the 1970s, says Laurie Hicks, UMaine art professor and interim director of the UMaine Museum of Art. Further, it represents the strength and richness of the University of Maine Museum of Art’s collection, Hicks adds.
“Art of the 70s” includes 27 works of art, including prints, photography, drawings and paintings, as well as a video installation by New York poet and author Bernadette Mayer.
The show also includes — coincidentally, Hicks notes — an aquatint print of renowned New York poet Ann Lauterbach by American realist Alex Katz, who had a long history of studying and painting in Maine. Lauterbach, also a professor of poetry at Bard College in New York state, is one of the keynote speakers for the National Poetry Foundation conference.
In addition to Katz, some of the other noteworthy artists on display at Lord Hall include Andy Warhol, George Tice, Jasper Johns, George Maciunas and Roy Lichtenstein, all nationally renowned.
Lord Hall Gallery is open weekdays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public.