Letter From The Editor

from Portland Monthly Magazine Summerguide 1993

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Recalled To Life

At 5 Milk Street is one of the Old Port's most exciting new attractions, Gleason Fine Art Portland, located across the corner of Milk and Silver Streets from the Portland Regency Hotel.

A stroll through the bright, multileveled spaces gladdens your heart as you see 1993 Dozier Bells and 1993Alan Brays aswell as bold new work by Halo Scanga. One of the Bells, "S~pper at Elsinore," is an emulsion of iron water beneath a barely representational stormy sky, the whole weighing down a dream human on his back at clam level or below, half there and three-quarters not, a legend, maybe, buried below all storms and disturbingly beautiful.

Now there's a fellow you wouldn't want to surf above.

Dozier Bell's paintings breathe in eat's paws, splash gulls out at sea when nobody's looking, capture with bombsight precision the black center of summer.

The black mass at the center of HaloScanga'spainting breatheswith the stone lungs of the 1866Portland Fire.It echoes postcard celebrations of the event,back whenJ. B.Brown's sugar refinery caught fire and all of the city smelled like aBakedAlaska, a tragedy exceeded only by the Halifax explosion. This was explained to me by aNovaScotiacab driver last summer after a visit on the Scotia Prince.

He'd had relatives in it. Hands and arms flying for miles away from the nitro-glycerine ship. So what does this have to do with contemporary art?

Pop artist Robert Indiana was at the Gleason-Portland opening, which included art luminaries from all over the state.Founded by Dennis and Martha Gleason, the gallery is located at the same sight that John Payson used for his Hobe Sound Galleries North a few years ago.

Other artists represented include Eric Hopkins, Fred Lynch,Joe Nicoletti, Johnnie Ross, Richard Wilson, Tad Beck, Mark Wethli, GregParker, Tom Higgins, Sandra Quinn, and Christopher Huntington.

I guess it is an explosion of sorts, moving out for miles. Gleason's telephone number is 879-0919.

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Please help us locate the following missing addressees:

A1amprese,Karen M. Anderson, Lynne Barbara, Janet A. Barton, Deborah J. Black, 5aI1yA. Boone, Lugene A. Bove, Mary Louise Branca, Lisa-Marie Bridges, Rhonda L Brown, Deborah J. 8ruIDn, Valerie R. Burrows. Pabicia L Cail, Susan M. Delaney, Pamela J. Emerson, Janice M. Enman, Janet A. EvereII, Debara J. Foster, Margaret L Greenwood, Dorolhy Jean Harradon, Joyce L Harriman, C8Ihy M. Hewey, Kathy L Jacobsen, Catherine Laflin, Joan E. Ledger, Katherine L LeOue, Frances T. Lee, Palricia R Lynch, KaIhryn J. McPhail, Bonnie L Mershimer, Brenda S. Miller, Debra A. Miller, Donna G. Millon, Eileen A. MiIcheIl, Deborah A. Nilsen, Robin L Noyes, Geraldine A. Parker, Susan C. Pedersen, Katherine A. Plummer, Joanne F. Rice, Barbara J. Richardson, Evelyn J. Roderick, Deborah J. Ryder, Debra J. Sargent, Karen Marie Sawyer, Mada/yne M. ScaJes,Sarah ~ Sk9IIoo, Marie C. Smilh, Beth E. Soule, Deborah J. Stanhope, Judith R Steen, Bebecca Welch; Kathleen M. WilletIe,.Jean A. Wilson, G'ayle H. Baker, Brian J. Bean, Richard T. Bishop, Robert F. Booth, Peter B. Carleton, Michael D. Carleton, Michael L DuMam, Frederick L Ekman, Brian J. Erskine, Dana A. Fahey, Michael S. Foster, Michael C. Gaudin, Glenn T. Harris, William L Hawkins, Mark A. Hilburn, Steven D. Huma, David A. Iezzi, DonaJd Jackson,~M. Johnson, Paul E. Jut, GaryJ. Karlen, Richard W. Laveault, Richard A. LeighIon, Michael K Ubby, Ray A. Malia, David J. Meredilh, Donald S. Nordstrom, Stephen R. O'Blanis, Keilh D. O'Brien, Stephen W. Parlin, Norman R Porter, Douglas J. Reynolds, Robert J. Robinson, Joseph E. Roche, Thomas P. Sargent, Alan L Schmerbeck, Robert C. Shackley, Michael A. Smith, Kendall D. Smith, Peter W. S1einhagen,William H. Stratford, Cary J. Trlus, John A. Vacca, Thomas M. Valente, Richard L Wong, Edward R. lazzara, Louis C.

Please contact us at (207) 773-6735 if you can help us locate these graduates.

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