The Portland Museum of Art has had remarkable success with its exhibition “Bright Common Spikes: The Sculpture of John Bisbee.”

The show, which closes March 23, has drawn more than 23,000 visitors since it opened in late January. While that figure is not a record – an Ansel Adams photography exhibition drew more winter visitors – it is impressive.

Dan O’Leary, museum director, said daily attendance at the Bisbee show often has been double that of attendance during the same time last year. At last Friday’s First Friday Art Walk, more than 5,000 people attended.

Bisbee, who lives in Harpswell, will speak about the show at 2 p.m. March 22 in the museum auditorium.

“This exhibition has had such a broad appeal and achieved major success for us,” O’Leary said in a press release. “We are thrilled with the response to an exhibition by an extremely talented contemporary Maine artist.”

The exhibition is an overview of Bisbee’s work. He is known for making sculpture from brads, nails and spikes.

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