Portland Press Herald features ‘Way Stations’ at UMMA
As part of its statewide fall visual arts preview, the Portland Press Herald highlighted the Joan Belmar exhibit “Way Stations” at the University of Maine Museum of Art. “Way Stations,” which opens Sept. 13, features new abstract paintings, including a pair of 92-inch tondos that Belmar created for the show. Belmar gravitates toward circular forms, populated with textural passages, lines, dots, grids and generically identifiable elements, according to the article. His circular logic evokes otherworldliness as though peering through telescopes, microscopes, portholes or more metaphysical portals.