'VERVE: Art & Energy'

xpect exuberance, color, tension and flow at this exhibition, on view from September 11 to October 4 at the Kent Museum in Calais. As Galen Cheney, one of more than a dozen artists in the exhibit, writes in her artist statement, “I like my paintings to exist on a tightrope, right on the edge of coming apart.” The show features inventive sculptural works, abstract paintings and installation by Michele Ratté, Ethan Bond-Watts, Brenda Garand, John Haynes, Marina Epstein, Maggie Neale, Alisa Dworsky, Mickey Myers, the late Lucinda Mason, Paul Gruhler, Ashley Veselis and more. Also part of VERVE is a series of poetry readings at the Old West Church, on September 13, 20 and 27, with receptions to follow at the Kent Museum.