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52 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine Honour Mack has an MFA from Yale University she is a professor of painting at MECA. Mack has been a visiting artist and critic at Colby College Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Massachusetts College of Art University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Pennsylvania. randomizing algorithm T his curated 48-page print feature Maine Painters A Catalog spills edgelessly into the internet by de- sign so it can keep growing. Its not a list but rather a startan opening remark in what we hope will be a great conversation across time. This catalog of Maine painters 1 isnt rigged. Artists or galleries have not paid to be listed. Moreover 2 the catalog has input from both scholarly and popular sources. This is not intended to be the last word but instead is to suggest a larger catalog that will develop and deepen across time a beach- head. We do not claim this is all-inclusive. Instead its a door flung open. Using mul- tiple sources we approached a synthesis of painters of consequence whose work has had an impact on Maine and on our psyche. We then forwarded this to curators Bruce Brown Honour Mack and Andres Verzosa asking them to add more names. We asked for new contemporary work to be consid- ered in addition to more traditional mas- ters. As for the size of the illustrations we let our column width make the determination. Art exists in great time beyond a single life span so we chose not to present the work of the artists in this catalog in chronologi- cal order to avoid the need to determine an artists relevance. As easy it would be to al- phabetize we wanted to free readers from the need to check off names as they read along. Go to Online Extras for a look-up guide. So just what is a randomizing algo- rithm As a test we put the days of the week through the randomizer and the random- ized new week started with Wednesday. Now were talkingmay all my weeks start with Wednesday Thanks to our randomiz- er contemporary work strikingly claims a space beside classic Maine artists viz. Sas- cha Braunig 32 and the late Bernard Lan- glais 1921-1977 appearing side by side. Meet the Curators Portland native Bruce Brown is a retired educator who has been collecting art for de- cades. His own collection has been exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art and Colby College Art Museum. Hes a curator emeritus of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and presently a co-founder of PhoPa Gallery in Portland. Andy Verzosa opened Aucocisco Gallery in Portland in 2000 and ran it for 14 years. He was a founder of the First Friday Art Walk and he is a board member of the Maine College of Art the Maine His- torical Society the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and the Tides Institute in Eastport. the term maine painter covers a wide territory. FromleFtDianeHuDsonDaviDwaDeangelaaDams