WVII, BDN report on current UMaine Museum of Art exhibits
WVII (Channel 7) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the winter exhibits currently on display at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. Brenton Hamilton: 20 years is a midcareer retrospective of the Maine-based photographer’s work, which uses old-fashioned techniques to create pictures with an antique and contemporary feel. “There’s now a resurgence of people that are working in photography in those early processes,” George Kinghorn, curator of the museum, told the BDN. “I think that’s certainly a response to the prevalence of digital. There’s so much digital photography, and this is kind of a counterbalance to that, investigating those old processes in a contemporary way.” WVII covered another exhibit, “The Life of David,” created by Jared Cowan. The exhibit allows viewers a glimpse into the ups and downs in the life of Emilio David Mazzeo a legendary marathon cross-country runner. In 1948, Mazzeo was the fourth American to cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon and was a member of the United States Olympic Team at the Summer Olympic Games in London. Later in life, he lost both his legs. Cowan based the exhibit on stories of Mazzeo’s life told by his family and friends, and made bronze casts from the prosthetics Mazzeo used, the report states. The exhibits is on display through May 6.