Gallery Home Artists Gallery Info Exhibitions Contact Us GALLERY NEWS Exhibition of major sculptures by Robert Kantor to show at BSU Gallery artist, Robert Kantor, to be featured in a major show at Boise State University's Visual Arts Center from Sept 2 through Oct 17. Public opening on Friday, Sept 5, 6-8pm. Catalog, "Robert Kantor: The Hope Series and Other Sculptures" by Daniel Kany (CoCA Editions). Posted Aug 12,2008 CALL FOR CRAFT ARTISTS for Maine Crafts Association show at Daniel Kany Gallery The Daniel Kany Gallery is calling for submissions to a curated exhibition of works by members of the Maine Crafts Association. The exhibition is open to all fine craft artists who live in Maine and are members of the Maine Crafts Association (all artists may submit, but must join the MCA to be included). The exhibition is open to all fine craft media. The deadline for entries will be March 15th. The exhibition, titled MCA at Daniel Kany Gallery, will open on April 4 and run through May 24. For more information, click here. Posted Jan 29,2008 Re-View gets a review in the Portland Press Herald Philip Isaacson reviews and highly suggests a visit to Re-View which will be on view through February. Isaacson specifically singles out for praise the work of Heiko, Sylmor, Hopkins-Lisle, and du Houx. To read the review, click here. Posted Jan 27,2008 Re-View gets a review in the Maine Switch The Maine Switch is usually up to date on posting their reviews, but as of the first of the year, they have fallen behind while settling into new digs. It's a bummer for us, since the article about Re-View is excellent and features a couple of great images of photos by Dani Fazio and Michael Heiko. We will link to the article as soon as it goes live! Posted Jan 7,2008 Gallery Association announcement features insight from Daniel Kany In an article about the formation and expansion of the Gallery Association of Portland Maine, writer Bob Keyes features comments by Daniel Kany about Portland's new gallery group and its relationship to the national scene. Posted Jan 20,2008 Richard Whittaker article on Jane Rosen published in "Works & Conversations" Richard Whittaker writes about his conversations with Jane Rosen as he witnessed the artist bringing her powerful and popular drawings workshops from an idea to reality. The article has a couple of amazing illustrations of Rosen's studio and sculpture. Posted Dec 4,2007 Gallery Association of Portland Maine lauched kany.net designed site The Gallery Association of Portland Maine announced the launch of its web site, www.galleriesportlandmaine.com. The association features 16 members and the site includes a printable map, descriptions of the member galleries and links to their respective web sites. According to Portland life-style blogger, David Dearborn, "This might seem like a little thing, but it's what some of us have been impatiently awaiting for many years. We finally have enough excellent galleries to comprise an "A List" and we finally have a group dedicated enough to tell that to everyone in Portland. In fact, with their new web site, they're telling everyone in Portland, in Maine and in the rest of the world. Maine is a world-class destination for food, culture and humanity. This simple web site is a great addition to making Portland a better, more accessible, place." Posted January 2, 2008 Blomdahl & Coombs in glass exhibition at the Farnsworth Daniel Kany to moderate glass artist panel, Saturday, Nov 10th at 1pm A Gathering of Contemporary Glass at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine November 03, 2007 thru February 17, 2008 On Saturday, November 10th, Daniel Kany will moderate a panel of Maine glass artists--Benjamin Coombs, Eric Hopkins & Richard Remsen--in conjunction with the exhibition, A Gathering of Contemporary Glass. The exhibition is an examination of the Haystack School of Craft's role in the institutional history of the Studio Glass Movement. Among the 14 featured artists are Kany Gallery artists, Benjamin Coombs & Sonja Blomdahl. Posted NOv 2,2007 The Companion magazine features article on Reilly Jensen. Click here to read Richard Lawlor's insightful article about painter Reilly Jensen at www.thecompanion.info. Lawlor asks the artist about her paintings and her life. Posted Oct 13,2007 January 2008 exhibition, Re-View: artists have been selected and will be listed on the exhibition page. Curator Brendan Bullock has completed juroring artists for the exhibition Re-View that will open at the Daniel Kany Gallery in January 2008. The exhibition will feature photographers who live or work in Maine. Click here for the exhibition page and press release. Updated Nov 8,2007 Radio interview of Daniel Kany by Anthony Anderson from September 8 Cafe des Artistes on WERU. Interview of Daniel Kany by Anthony Anderson aired September 8, 2007 on Cafe des Artistes. click here for the podcast. Anthony Anderson, publisher of the Maine Gallery Guide and host of the weekly radio program, Cafe des Artistes, talks with Daniel Kany about the September exhibition, Benjamin Coombs: Nautical Still Life and Kany's essay Art and Craft in Postwar America published in the September issue of Maine Home + Design. Posted Sept 30,2007 The "GO" section of the September 6th edition of the Portland Press Herald features Ben Coombs at Daniel Kany Gallery With the headline, "Getting nautical Kany's way with glass sculptures", the Portland Press Herald presents Benjamin Coombs: Nautical Still Life as Portland's featured September exhibition. Posted Sept 6,2007 September issue of Maine Home + Design features essay by Daniel Kany: "Art and Craft in Postwar America". Daniel Kany's essay "Art and Craft in Post War America" in Maine Home + Design will be available on newsstands throughout New England through September 2007. The text of the essay will be available on www.kany.net thereafter. In the essay, Daniel Kany discusses the growth of the American Craft Movement and the status of craft in relation to art in America as opposed to Europe. Posted Aug 29,2007 Avery Yale Kamila of The Maine Switch review Nancy Callan's exhibition, Wobble & Bob "Conical glass forms bursting with rich colors define the Nancy Callan “Wobble & Bob” show...." Posted Aug 23,2007 The Best of Portland: Daniel Kany Gallery The Daniel Kany Gallery as seen on Christine Bohler's television program "The Best of Portland" has been aired weekly during summer 2007. Posted July 24 6,2007 Daniel Kany Gallery Featured in ARTnews (Summer 2007) The Daniel Kany Gallery is featured in the Summer 2007 ARTnews (vol. 106 no. 7). The article by Bob Keyes runs on pages 122-127 and features images of works by Stephen Rolfe Powell and Emily Leonard as well as an image of the gallery. Michael Kessler's August exhibition at Daniel Kany Gallery is also seen on a full page. Posted July 15,2007 Daniel Kany photo and comments about Lino in Portland Press Herald "His glass runneth over at Haystack" by BOB KEYES, Portland Press Herald,July 15, 2007 Lino Tagliapietra, a giant in the world of glass art, returns often to Deer Isle to teach and learn. This article features several comments and quotes by Daniel Kany. Click here to see the article. Posted July 17, 2007 Click here or on thumbnail for link. Photos of Lino working at Haystack posted on kany.net Click here to link to an essay by Daniel Kany about Lino Tagliapietra and his work along with photos of him making a Mandara and detailed descriptions of the process. Posted July 11, 2007 Click here or on thumbnail for link. Daniel Kany Gallery featured in Mainebiz magazine See "House of Glass," a feature article and interview in Mainebiz magazine (July 9, 2007; Vol. 13 no. 16; p. 26) by Kerry Elson. Posted July 8, 2007 Santa Fe artist Michael Kessler to give artist talk at Daniel Kany Gallery on August 4. Click here for information about the Santa Fe painter's major august exhibition. Imperfect Geomtery features 15 acrylic paintings on panel. Michael Kessler's work is held by over 30 museums and more than 100 public collections. The recipient of the prestigious Pollock/Krasner award and the Rome Prize, Kessler will be giving a gallery talk on Saturday, August 4 at 2pm at the Daniel Kany Gallery. Nancy Callan at Daniel Kany: Wobble & Bob to opens August. Noted Seattle glass blower Nancy Callan will open a show of her new work in August at Daniel Kany Gallery. Wobble & Bob will feature two major wall pieces and 7 sculptures by the Seattle artist. Callan, who will be teaching at Haystack Mountain School in 2008, is widely published and consider one of most significant emerging glass talents in the country. Click here or on thumbnail for link.