On Friday, July 11, beginning at 4 p.m., galleries and art museums throughout Rockland will be celebrating the third First Friday Art Walk of the season. Though most First Friday art walks take place on the first Friday of the month, this July, museums and art galleries have decided to skip the July 4 holiday and celebrate on the 11th. Here are some highlights of exhibitions and events taking place, provided by Rockland Main Street.

• The Landing Gallery (409 Main Street) will be open until 8 p.m. and is pleased to announce the opening of Maine Landscapes: Personal Expression, an exhibition of new paintings by Russel Slocum, Liz Prescott, Christopher French, Michael Weymouth, Roberta Bauman, and Bruce Bosko. The artists will be on hand for the opening celebration.

• The Farnsworth Art Museum (16 Museum Street) will open its doors free of charge from 5-7 p.m. For their July First Friday event, the Museum invites the public to enjoy their newest exhibition, Finding Maine: The Wyeth Family of Artists. Plus, enjoy seasonal treats from Laurel’s Dolce Vida and celebratory bubbles from Downeast Bartending.

• Art Space Gallery (405 Main Street) will be open from 4-7 p.m., showcasing works by Laurie Lofman Bellmore, Heather Newton Brown, and Ann Rhinehardt in their front room. The exhibition will recall memories of boating adventures, picnics, and summer festivals.

• Caldbeck Gallery (12 Elm Street) will be open from 4-7 p.m. with five exhibitions:
  Meghan Brady TIMEKEEPERS, Stew Henderson COMMON ALLEGORIES, Frederic Kellogg WIND AND STORM, Sam Cady PRINTS, and Jill Madden SUMMER SELCTS. The exhibitions will continue through July 27.

• Steel House Gallery (639 Main St.) will be open 4-7 p.m. presenting The Tradeswomen of Maine, an installation of “huge” black and white photographs taken by Maine Photographer Erin Tokarz. Erin guides you on a journey of women working in the trades. You will notice the stillness of swinging hammers, experience the glide of a paint brush, and internalize the intense focus of the tradeswomen in the pix.

• Triangle Gallery (8 Elm St.) will be open from 5-7 p.m., and will feature three shows:
  Susan Groce: Land(e)scapes, Jessica Straus: Homesick, and a group show of Triangle Gallery artists.
  Susan Groce / Land(e)scapes displays both the continuity and shift of her visual language. Groce works “to create fragile environments that are ephemeral and elusive, as though glimpsed on the very edge of visibility”. This exhibition will be on view until July 20.
  Black humor, longing, and regret are at play in Jessica Straus’s exhibition “Homesick”. With a sense of irony, Straus depicts Earth as a resource-hungry planet wandering the universe, unable to recognize and protect its most fragile and precious natural resources. Straus takes the journey even further, to a future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far-flung, arid worlds. Her masterfully carved figures are stand-ins for everyman and everywoman who gaze longingly earthward from the moon, Mars, and the starfields. Straus makes us wonder if we must arrive at the “End Times” to get ourselves to focus on the most critical of human issues, the survival of our habitable planet.
  The main gallery downstairs will reflect a season-long, ever-changing exhibition of work by gallery artists. July’s show includes work by Anne-Marie Nolin, Ed Nadeau, Linda Packard, Abbie Read, Cynthia Selinger, Susan Metzger, Judith Daniels, Carter Wentworth, Marc Leavitt, George Pearlman, Karen Jelenfy, Carbery Morrow, Kingsley Parker, and Talya Baharal. This collection will be up through July 27.

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