'Making Headlines' is a new and unusual exhibition on view at Mathias Fine Art in Trevett.

11 artists, most of them from Maine, are showing artworks all of which have the same focus: the human head.

The show opened July 17 and will run through September 22. A reception for the show will be held on Saturday, August 3 from 4 to 7 p.m.

Among the 26 works on view, Robert Cariola's larger than life-size armed head entitled "Centurion," made from welded scrap-metal is in extreme contrast to award-winning artist Kimberley Callas' "Beekeeper's Wife," a half life-size head wrapped in wasp paper that is cast in plaster and has a wooden stick-like pipe protruding from its mouth.

John Lorence shows two striking bronzes that he has spared from his upcoming one-person exhibition in Waldoboro.

Drawings executed in charcoal by Peter Fogg and Wanda Norstrom with their obviously posed subjects, project a sense of the studio session; as does Paul Feyling's color photo of actor David Skillman in the stance of a seer.

Also in this group is a pair of drawings by M. Holland Bartsch. Included in this group by Holland Bartsch is a fine etching whose powerful tonal contrasts are based upon the deep hollows and smooth surfaces of the human skull.

Brenda Bettinson's two-panel piece “Paranoia” is highly charged and projects a strong ambience of fury and psychosis. Totally in contrast to this is Bettinson's larger than life-size head “The Banished Queen,” an abraded head of a rejected, once beautiful woman that communicates deep sadness and nostalgia.

Brigitte Keller's has introduced linear likenesses of the human head within the geometry of her abstract compositions. Patt Franklin shows a small oil painting of the head of a youthful male, so vital that it is almost satyr-like.

Maine's Robert Shetterly is showing three portrait heads from his great ongoing opus “Americans Who Tell the Truth.”

Within each portrait composition the artist has inscribed a brief quotation from a public utterance made by his subject.

The two other portraits by Shetterly included in this exhibition are of environmentalist Rachel Carson and Gerald Talbot, Maine’s first African American legislator.

The Gallery is located at 10 Mathias Drive in Trevett. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment.

For more information call 207-633-7404 or visit www.mathiasfineart.com.