Reviews from You Are Never Alone exhibition @ Waterfall Arts (2024)
Free Press Online:
“Sabino revels in Nature, especially the power of seeds to bring hope and renewal. She feels sentience in the natural world and feels surrounded by an intelligence with which we can be in constant celebratory communication. As a musician and drummer who brings the healing power of rhythm to her creative work, she feels the weaving together of rain, earth, growth, death, rebirth in an unending complementary cycle with the human condition. How could we be alone in such a world? In “Planting Day,” five black hands infused with seeds, pods, the very plants they are sowing, hover above a green mountainous landscape where clouds, earth, and sky are about to converge in a moment of new creation. In “Seeds of the Future,” one of many circular images, a black, lightning-energized sky merges through an hourglass shape filled with seeds and fruits of all kinds, linking earth below with sky above. Seeds, she says, may be dry, brown, crinkled with age, yet when wetted and nurtured, they may reincarnate, still viable with life.” –Alan Crichton, The Free Press 5/16/24
Lights Out Gallery Substack:
“Sabino’s work comments on our relationship with nature, depicting the way we interact with the natural world to either foster mutual success or engage in ignorant destruction. Her circular paintings on birch panels are reminiscent of medicine wheels, connecting the spirit of all life to the boundless energy of the universe. These elemental studies are a true testament to the notion that You Are Never Alone.” -– Karlë Woods, Lights Out Gallery, Substack 5/27/24
Last week’s artist feature
Interview with artist Chelsea Ellis, visiting shows from Norway to Belfast, Maine
2025 Dark Skies Exhibit
Portland Press Herald:
Sabino, who lives in Newcastle, said her research during the planning process helped inspire her own painting for the show. Her circular piece, titled “Seeds of the Future,” is inspired by the important role that nocturnal moths play in pollination in Maine. She also learned that the average person can take simple steps to reduce light pollution, such as using shields and motion sensors on lights.
“On a very practical level, it made me feel a little better,” Sabino said. “On a more poetic level, I just look up all the time now to see if I can see the Milky Way. Only a small percentage of Americans can see the Milky Way, and where I live, I can see it. I look up every night now when I’m outside and say, ‘Hello, Milky Way.’” -Megan Gray, Portland Press Herald, January 17, 2025
Art exhibition shines a light on the beauty of Maine’s night sky
The show is a collaboration between Waterfall Arts in Belfast, the Union of Maine Visual Artists and Dark Sky Maine.
News Center Maine:
Artists celebrate Maine’s dark skies at Belfast exhibit
With help from curators at Waterfall Arts Gallery in Belfast, several local artists are sharing what they find so special about the darkness of Maine’s sky.
WABI TV:
New England Living:
2024 / 2025 Talking Art in Maine:
Lincoln County News:
Boothbay Register:
David Estey and Emily Sabino ‘Talk Art in Maine’
Lincoln Theater is pleased to announce the return of the beloved program “Talking Art in Maine.” While the focus of the program remains the same as season’s past, welcoming notable Artists and Curators who have made a substantial contribution to the arts in the state of Maine, this season we do have an exciting change.