Review: "Activated Spaces"

Nancy Margolis Gallery’s pop-up exhibition in Portland, Maine, Activated Spaces, was reviewed by Jorge Arango for the Portland Press Herald.

“Activated Spaces” is, curatorially speaking, about the objects, color and light that the four artists on display – Sarah Lubin, Mark Milroy, Brian Rego and Gail Spaien – select and how they “activate” the spaces of their canvases. Yet the space itself is what intrigues me the most about this show.

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GAIL SPAIEN, Observed Landscape 7, 2022, acrylic on linen, 48 x 48 inches

MARK MILROY, Still Life with Snake, 2020, oil on linen, 19 x 15 inches

SARAH LUBIN, Esplanade, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

BRIAN REGO, Fishing Day, 2021, oil on canvas, 14 1/4 x 18 inches