Art review: ‘Green Flash’ series reflects on light, through a window at Space
View Mai Snow s paintings and poem from outside on Congress Street through Feb. 19.
By Jorge S. Arango
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Mai Snow’s series “Green Flash” is on view from Congress Street through a window at Space in Portland.
Photos by Carolyn Wachnicki
Let me be perfectly honest. When I first saw Mai Snow’s installation, “Green Flash,” in the window of Space (through Feb. 19), I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
IF YOU GO
WHERE: Space, 538 Congress St., Portland; viewable from outside
WHEN: Through Feb. 19
I knew I mostly liked it for its color and boldness, but it bore no resemblance to any of Snow’s previous work. The eight paintings gathered here have a graphic, flat quality to them that was unlike the multiple gossamer-like layering of color and imagery I associated with Snow.