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MAUREEN MULLARKEY Congress Street Gallery
NORIKO SAKANISHI Congress Street Gallery
MILDRED JOHNSON Congress Street Gallery Please click images above for full view.
Maureen Mullarkey is an artist and art critic. In this, her first exhibit in
Maine, she rescues old books and transforms them into collages that have
been described as close in spirit to Joseph Cornell boxes. About her
materials she says "I love books--the look, feel, smell and weight of them.
And I cherish old paper--letters, pages of diaries and ledger, anything with
the mark of a hand. Resonant with memory, these are the ephemeral stuffs of
connection between generations. The beauty of typeface and patterned
end-papers reminds us of the elegiac aspects of typesetting and bookbinding
in an electronic age..." Maureen Mullarkey has exhibited widely in galleries and museums and her articles on art and culture have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Sun and The New York Times to The New Criterion, The Nation and
Hudson Review.
Noriko Sakanishi has been exhibiting at June Fitzpatrick Gallery for 15
years. Her collages, like the constructions she is more known for, are
geometric and based on the grid. The collages incorporate scraps from
materials at hand, pieces of her larger work, fabric from the remains of a
favorite pillow, a fragment from her mother's kimono. A recipient of a
2005-2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Noriko Sakanishi has, for more
than 25 years, exhibited in significant galleries and institutions in New
England and New York. More work by Noriko Sakanishi
Mildred Johnson graduated in 1948 with a degree in Architecture from the
University of Oregon. She has been a full-time artist for several decades
and while her greatest passion is rusty metal her interests range from found
object assemblage and altered books to weaving, watercolor painting and
collage. This exhibit features early work, or as Mildred refers to it,
"ancient history." The collages are small, 4"x5", and incorporate fragments
of torn paper and paintings, crayon, paint, ink... the fullest expression of "mixed media." More work by Mildred Johnson
High Street Gallery
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