{"id":4620,"date":"2017-02-17T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:10:10","slug":"makin-my-way-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/02\/17\/makin-my-way-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Makin\u2019 My Way \u2018Downtown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe University of Maine at Presque Isle\u2019s Reed Art Gallery has been known for having beautiful and unique art exhibitions.\u00a0 The photography collection \u201cDowntown\u201d by Heath Paley is no exception.\u00a0 It contains 32 pictures of downtown settings all over the state of Maine, although not all 32 are shown in our gallery.\u00a0 The collection shows how beautiful Maine urban areas are, even though some people might not consider the area to be \u201cUrban.\u201d \u00a0It represents the state well and hopefully will be seen nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of interesting.\u00a0 As I unpackaged the ones, I kind of liked how they talk and have a dialogue with each other and show different regions of the state as well,\u201d Hyrum Benson, Reed Art Gallery director, said.<\/p>\n

Benson picked which of the 32 to display, basing it on their size.\u00a0 He wanted to use larger photographs and make an impression.<\/p>\n

The collection took two or three years for Paley to complete.\u00a0 He has been a photographer for about 10 years and brings a unique twist to photography. \u201cThe pictures are taken in a rather unusual manner.\u00a0 They\u2019re put together: they\u2019re actually composites,\u201d Paley said. \u00a0\u201cThere are multiple shots that overlap a little bit, so that\u2019s why the resolution is as high as it is.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of a grid, and the pictures are put together in Photoshop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The collection is unique compared to anything that has been displayed at the Reed Art Gallery in the past.\u00a0 \u201cWe haven\u2019t really had, since I\u2019ve been here, any urban settings for photography work,\u201d Benson said. \u00a0\u201cI think it\u2019s great to have this kind of intimate, urban setting that we all kind of know and understand in a way.\u00a0 But then we see them in different perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

This collection first appeared in the State House in Augusta as a part of the Maine Arts Commission.\u00a0 It was also at the University of Maine at Orono in the art department for several months.\u00a0 Paley was very happy to find out that UMPI was interested in displaying his collection.<\/p>\n

The exhibition runs from Jan. 17 to March 24, 2017.\u00a0 The public is invited to attend the gallery reception on March 3 from 5-7 p.m.\u00a0 It will include a gallery talk with Paley.\u00a0 For more information on this event, this collection or the art gallery, contact Hyrum Benson at hyrum.benson@maine.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Maine at Presque Isle\u2019s Reed Art Gallery has been known for having beautiful and unique art exhibitions.\u00a0 The photography collection \u201cDowntown\u201d by Heath Paley is no exception.\u00a0 It contains 32 pictures of downtown settings all over the state of Maine, although not all 32 are shown in our gallery.\u00a0 The collection shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}