PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 13, 2021
The artists Timothy Wilson and Michael Vermette have spent much of the pandemic outdoors. The painters immersed themselves in remote locations across Maine. Wilson, who lives in Portland, traveled the coast for “Maine Coast Sojourn,” a year-long plein air painting residency at Maine Coast Heritage Trust preserves. Vermette, who lives in Indian Island, completed a two-week Allagash Wilderness Waterway Visiting Artist residency, bringing him the remote reaches of inland Maine. On Thursday, Wilson opens the exhibition “Maine Coast Sojourn” at Cove Street Arts in Portland, on view through Dec. 13. Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor is hosting “Michael Vermette: 50 plus One” through September, a title that references both the 50th anniversary of the creation of Maine’s Allagash Wilderness Waterway and the number of paintings Vermette completed during his residency.