"Hungry Eyes" has opened at 49 Oak Street in Portland, Maine, featuring emerging artists Cam Fox, Bets Ondrey, Sophia Sutherland, and Tom Dailey. The group exhibition explores themes of appetite, the animal, and the sensation of consuming art through layered abstraction, figurative imagery, and mixed-media works such as stitched sugar packets on canvas. A public reception is scheduled for June 5 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
The exhibition matters because it is part of 49 Oak Street's mission to provide real-world professional experience for students from the Maine College of Art (MECA), who curate, install, promote, and staff the shows under mentorship. During the summer, the space shifts to alumni exhibitions, strengthening career networks. "Hungry Eyes" thus serves both as a showcase for new artistic voices and as a practical training ground for the next generation of arts professionals.