Gallery 170 opens for the season on Saturday, June 28 with an exhibit of paintings by Winslow Myers at the gallery's new location in a historic church at 123 Borland Hill Road in Damariscotta Mills.

A reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on opening day.

Gallery 170 and the Mason Studio present the exhibit of Myers paintings from 2005 to 2008. Included are several large diptychs, studies drawings and smaller works done in the past three years.

Myers, a native Mainer, has this to say about his latest work,

"In a book on Braque, it pleased me to find this statement by Pierre Reverdy: "The poetic image is born of the bringing together of two more or less distant realities, between which only the spirit grasps the relationship." Some works of Braque embody this principle literally, by means of a bisected canvas, which helped inspire my series of diptychs. I call these diptychs 'Passages' because the word has a multiplicity of meanings associated with voyages, change, death, and contrast, like the contrast between tropic and temperate out of which Wallace Stevens made poetry."

He continues,

"Two conditions or weathers or lights can be juxtaposed in a way that they become one, something greater than the sum of their parts. I'm interested in whatever can help me to discover the "poetry" within the "prose" of everyday appearances, at which point the representational becomes the "presentational." When a painting reads more as an image or sign than a resemblance, its autonomous life derives as much from the uninhibited application of paint itself, from discovering something in the very act of making, as it does from the ancient impulse to mimesis."

Myers has had exhibitions in galleries and museums in Barre, Shelburne, Marlboro and Stowe Vermont, Worchester. Andover and Boston MA, Guilford CN as well as in New York, Rhode Island and Maine.

Publications include: "Alumni Drawings," Boston University, 1995, "Sixty American Paintings," catalog, Kennedy Galleries, April 1980, "Four Figurative Painters," catalog, Fitchburg Art Museum, 1975 ,"Three Object Painters," catalog, Lamont Gallery, April 1971.

"In addition to our featured artist we will be showing gallery artists throughout the summer." says Gallery 170 owner Yvette Torres.

Gallery hours will be 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.

Gallery 170's new exhibition space is at 123 Borland Hill Road.. From Route 1 take exit 129-130 and continue straight onto Route 215 about two miles to Damariscotta Mills, left on So. Main Street (215), the first right is Borland Hill Road. From the north take the Newcastle exit and turn right onto Route 215..