The University of New England’s (UNE) Portland Campus Art Gallery will present its spring exhibition, “The House of the Soul,” through June 14. An opening reception, free and open to the public, was  held at the gallery on Feb. 21.

Curated by Gallery and Exhibitions Director Hilary Irons, “The House of the Soul” is a wide-ranging exhibition that presents a unique look at medical and anatomical drawing in dialogue with artwork focusing on the human body in a more extended sense. Viewers from diverse intellectual fields will be confronted with the divergent and sometimes contradictory communicative aims of each visual artifact.

“The inclusion of intelligent contemporary work dealing with representations of the body’s physical form allows a deeper and more abstract reading of the scientific drawings, while, in turn, the scientific drawings highlight the power of conceptual idiosyncrasy in the contemporary work,” said Irons.

The 10 artists represented in the exhibit span a range of approaches, from direct, highly-articulated medical illustration, to conceptually-oriented space-based constructions.  According to Irons, the artists’ explorations “open a window into the diverse uses of figurative interpretation.”

These featured artists are: Anoushé Shojae-Chagorvand, Baxter Koziol, Ben Spalding, Bianca Beck, Evelyn Kok, Gretchen Halpert, Oran Suta, Philip Brou, Reggie Burrows Hodges and Stephen Burt.

UNE’s Portland Campus Art Gallery is located at 716 Stevens Ave. It is open to the public noon to 8 p.m. daily.

For more information, contact Irons at l hirons@une.edu or 207-221-4449. For more information about the UNE’s art galleries, visit https://library.une.edu/art-galleries/