Kate Gilmore, Buster, 2011 video/installation, 7:45 minutes. University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida Selected Exhibitions 2017-2018 Rona Pondick, Wallaby, 2007-12, Stainless steel 2/3, Edition of 3 + 1 AP 24 x 44 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches. Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris/ Salzburg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, and the artist. Through October 7, 2017 Kate Gilmore: In Your Way This exhibition features ten performances by Kate Gilmore ‘97--nine performance-based videos and one live performance/sculptural installation, commissioned by the museum, that invites audience participation. Gilmore’s videos focus on herself or several women, wearing stereo- typical feminine clothing and footwear while persistently performing difficult, labor-intensive tasks within self-constructed spaces. In works that are provocative, entertaining, and sometime humorous, Gilmore explores feminist themes, modern and contemporary art tropes, and relent- less determination. Robert Feintuch, Another Assumption, 2014 19 x 23 3/4 inches. Polymer emulsion on honeycomb panel. Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, and the artist Through October 7, 2017 At Home and Abroad: Works from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection Marsden Hartley began and ended his remark- able life in Maine. Born in Lewiston in 1877, after a lifetime of traveling, he returned to Maine, and died in Ellsworth in 1944. Drawn from the museum’s renown collection of the artist’s works and his personal collection of objects, photographs, ephemera, and select loaned works, the exhibition explores aspects of and influences on Hartley’s itinerant life and astonishing creativity, from his childhood in Lewiston, Maine to his year’s abroad. October 27, 2017 – March 23, 2018 Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying This exhibition brings together sculptures by Rona Pondick and paintings by Robert Fein- tuch. A couple since the mid-1970s, the artists share interests in making work that uses the body to pursue psychologically suggestive meanings. For many years, Pondick and Feintuch have each created work that focuses on using the body to pursue psychologically suggestive meanings. Each uses their self extensively in their work, though neither makes traditional self-portraits. Both believe that the body speaks and both pay close attention to heads, hands and feet. This is the first exhibition to present a substantial body of each of their work together. Pondick and Feintuch have exhibited exten- sively in the U.S. and abroad. Feintuch is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Visual Culture at Bates. Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943) Intellectual Niece, 1938 Oil on canvas 21 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches 2017 Museum purchase, acquisition in progress Selected Exhibitions 75 Russell Street, Lewiston, Maine 04240 Programming information: bates.edu/museum 207.786.6158 Facebook: on.fb.me/bates_bcma Sept-May: 10am-7:00pm Mon, 10am-5pm Tues-Sat. Summer: 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, and open by appointment. Closed during college holidays and between exhibitions. June 12 - October 24, 2015 Points of View: Photographs by Jay Gould, Gary Green, David Maisel and Shoshannah White Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale – from great distance to very close-up, the contemporary photographers in this exhibition explore different aspects of the interrelationships between human populations and the natural world. This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Davis Family Foundation. June 12, 2015 – March 26, 2016 Maine Collected This exhibition features works by some of the many contemporary artists represented in the permanent collection who live in or are connected to Maine. This exhibition includes work in most media and in a wide variety of themes and styles, many of which have not been on view in the museum previously. Maine Collected, and The Painter of Maine are companion exhibitions of Director’s Cut: The Maine Art Museum Trail at the Portland Museum of Art from May 21 – September 13. November 6, 2015 – March 26, 2016 The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye): Photographs by Jeffery Becton A photographer and image-maker who lives on Deer Isle, a rocky and forested island off the coast of Maine, Jeffery Becton constructs images about his surroundings, from extraordinary sweeping coastal views to internal life, both house interiors and the introspective space that enlivens one’s imagination. Funded in part by the Friends of Bates Museum of Art Please visit the website for programming information and updates June 12 - October 24, 2015 The Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden Hartley Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), a na- tive son of Lewiston Maine, is recog- nized as one of the most important American modernists. This exhibition focuses on images of artist, from anonymous toned photographs of him as a young man to images taken by George Platt Lynes the last year of Hartley’s life. The photography exhibitions are part of the Maine Photo Project (mainephotoproject.org), a statewide photography collaboration in 2105. The Maine Photo Project is organized and supported by the in- stitutions of the Maine Curators’ Forum and is generously sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the Colby College Museum of Art, with fiscal management provided by the Maine Historical Society. The Maine Photo Project is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commis- sion, an independent state agency support- ed by the National Endowment for the Arts. Jeffery Becton, The Keeper’s House, 2008, digital montage realized as archival pigment print Gary Green, Untitled (Terrain Vague), 2015, black and white photograph Photographer unknown, Marsden Hartley, 1908-09, toned black and white photograph Funded in part by the Friends of Bates Museum of Art Please visit the website for programming information and updates