Tagged: Department of Art

UK Open Studio Set for Nov 30, 2012

LEXINGTON, KY  − The University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies throws open its doors to the public again this holiday season. The Bluegrass community is invited to come discover UK’s talented young artists at the popular Open Studio event. See what the university’s student and faculty artists have been creating and shop for one-of-a-kind items from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, November 30, at Reynolds Building Number 1, located at 349 Scott St.

During the annual Open Studio, the public can visit UK student and faculty artists’ studios in the huge former tobacco warehouse. The event gives individuals an opportunity to see the various media of artwork created by UK’s undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty. Media on display will include metalwork, fiber, paintings, photographs, drawings, ceramics, plaster casts, printmaking and woodwork.

Open Studio also features the Carey Ellis Juried Student Art Exhibition, featuring nearly 100 pieces of art by graduate and undergraduate art students.  Guest curator for this year’s exhibition is Louis Zoellar Bickett II.

The awards program for winning art in the Carey Ellis Juried Student Show will be presented during the Open Studio event at approximately 8 p.m. in the facility’s Barnhart Gallery.

The School of Art and Visual Studies, at the UK College of Fine Arts, is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the fields of art studio, art history and art education.

A donation of $5 to the UK Department of Art is suggested for entry to Open Studio. Proceeds go to various programs provided by the Department of Art. Free parking for individuals attending Open Studio can be found nearby on both Broadway and Scott Street. To find out more about Open Studio, contact Dmitry Strakovsky, assistant professor of new media, at (859) 257-2727.

Jonathan Hale’s “OTHERKIN”

Friday, November 16th from 5-8 pm for the closing reception of Otherkin: An Exhibition of Work by Jonathan Hale, University of Kentucky MFA candidate. The show is located in the Tuska Gallery at 465 Rose Street, Lexington, KY.

The Jamaica-Lexington Connection

Photo Credit: SAVANT Ltd

 

Kingston Shottas is an upcoming documentary film that will tell the story of three remarkable artists from Jamaica who use photography as a medium for telling their stories of life in contemporary Kingston.

It is in this milieu that we meet three artists: O’Neil Lawrence, Ebony G. Patterson and Marvin Bartley – friends, all Jamaicans, all in their thirties, all graduates of Jamaica’s Edna Manley College of Art and successful within their own rights; and each one with a different story to tell of life in Jamrock.  Read full story on SAVANT Ltd blog here.

So, what is the Lexington connection to this new film?  Ebony G. Patterson is a professor at University of Kentucky School of Art & Visual Studies.  This Lexington-based artist has had an amazing summer!  Just a few of Ebony’s activities over the past few months include:

  • travel to Denmark for discussions with peers at Karen Blixen Museum about contemporary discourses around Identity, Religion and Independent Politics in the Arts
  • a second major NYC museum show at the Studio Museum in Harlem (Caribbean Crossroads Exhibit) complete with a great review in New York Times
  •  a show in Canada
  • a show in Holland
  • a full project feature in Small Axe Magazine
  • and, finally she was just chosen to receive a Musgrave Award which is one of Jamaica highest honors for achievements in the arts and sciences.

Big props to our friend and colleague!  We are proud of you!

UK School of Art Presents: Art & Capitalism

What is the relationship between art and capitalism? What role does the art world play in reinforcing neo-liberalist economic policies in the United States? In her talk, Blithe Riley will address how artists are confronting these questions through the Occupy Wall Street movement, where she has been primarily working since October of 2011. Riley will address her experience as part of two main groups, OWS Arts & Labor as well as Occupy Museums. She will also discuss the history of her collaborative art practice, and how the movement has influenced her approach to art making in general.

Blithe Riley is an activist and artist working with video, performance and installation. Her work investigates how labor influences identity and regulates everyday life. Her solo and collaborative projects have been shown in public, private, and common spaces internationally. Some of these include Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and P.S.1 MoMA in New York City, and Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ and Overgarden Museum in Copenhagen.  She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

When: Wednesday, September 5th, 5-6:30 pm

Where: Briggs Theater (first floor Fine Arts Building) on University of Kentucky campus

Occupy Museums (http://occupymuseums.org/)

Arts and Labor (http://artsandlabor.org/)

Blithe Riley (http://www.blitheriley.net/)

UK Visual Studies Forum (http://www.artworlds.org/artworlds/vsf/)

UK Art Professor Doreen Maloney

Kentucky is known for a lot of things, but, let’s face it, contemporary art isn’t really one of them.  That is rapidly changing.   Over the next few months, CPN Regional Editor, Theo Edmonds (UK MFA ’13) will introduce you to some of the artists and organizations who are dedicated to performance and are helping to shape the conversation far beyond the borders of the Bluegrass.  First up is University of Kentucky School of Art & Visual Studies professor Doreen LaMantia Maloney.  Click here to read full article on the Contemporary Performance Network.

Photo Credit: Hannah Sieben

UK Art Faculty Praised by New York Times

Photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Ebony G Patterson, faculty in University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies, has made UK proud.  In today’s New York Times, respected art critic Holland Cotter praised our friend and colleague.  In part, here is what Cotter wrote:

“And there’s a knockout collage portrait, finished last year, by Ebony G. Patterson, who divides her time between Jamaica and Lexington, Ky., of a young black man with a masklike white face. The image refers to the often-against-the-law world of Jamaican dance-hall culture, and specifically to its fashion for skin-bleaching as a cosmetic means of both attracting attention and — playing around with the idea, dating back to slavery and forward to Michael Jackson — determining social status based on skin color.”

This is a well deserved honor for Ebony and a great day for UK.  Read the entire article.

 

 

 

Pre-show NGAUK5

Great Launch Party!

Awesome launch on Thursday night at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville!  From Penny Arcade’s live internet feed & performance from her NYC digs where she sang My Old Kentucky Home while Theo clogged for the crowd… to the audience participation dance party in the middle of the installation and on to the many other points of awesomeness including Natalie Baxter’s killer video piece which featured a musical score by Emily Hagihara and choreography by Stephanie Harris… NextGenArt UK is off to a wonderful start.  Thanks to all the members of the tribe who came out to join in the fun.  And, also big thanks to the UK faculty adviser on the NGAUK initiative – the one and only Dimtry “Dima” Strakovsky!

To give you a taste of the art, here are a few pre-event photos of Theo Edmonds’ installation Nanabozho.  More photos of the event to come soon.  Thanks again to everyone who is contributing to the success of this initiative.  Let’s keep it up so we can reach our goal in the next couple of  weeks.

UK Art Rocks It Out!

This week big events in Louisville and Lexington!

Thursday, April 19 / NextGenArt UK Launch & Exhibition

On April 19, the University of Kentucky Department of Art will host a fundraiser and launch for the NGA-UK Initiative at the Land of Tomorrow Gallery, 233 West Broadway in Louisville, KY.  The event will take place from 7pm – 10pm and will feature the work of Theo Edmonds (UK MFA ’13).

Present invitation at door.  Click here to print out your free invitation.  Click here to learn more about NextGenArt UK.

 

 

Friday, April 20 / Lexington Gallery Hop

Land of Tomorrow, Lexington, in coordination with the University of Kentucky Fine Arts Department, is pleased to announce dontmindifido. an exhibition of recent graduate level artwork by Theo Edmonds, Colleen Toutant, David Martin, Lora Hufton, Abdul Al-Jumaily, Andrea Clark and Natalie Baxter. The exhibition will open on Friday, April 20th with a reception from 7-11pm.

dontmindifido. is a collection of work that speaks to the exchange of ideas between artists who practice within a variety of disciplines and concepts. Shared studio space facilitates continuous discourse that provides threads of connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work.

Promo Video: http://vimeo.com/38943199

APRIL 20

UK Intermedia Does Gallery Hop / 5p-10pCity Gallery, Downtown Arts Center | 141 East Main Street | 5:00-8:00 pm | Free & Open

An exhibit of digital prints from students in the UKCore course, A-S 200, Digital Media Space & Time, will be in the City Gallery at the Downtown Arts Center from 5-8pm—the large-scale images explore metaphoric self-portraiture and commentaries on landscape/land-use, expressing a broadness of aesthetics and perspectives from talented students—both Art Majors and non-Art Majors.

5/3 Pavilion | West Main Street | 9:00-10:00 pm | Free & Open

Later in the evening, from 9-10 pm, students in Doreen Maloney’s A-S 345, Advanced Video, course will ‘video bomb’ the Lexington Art League’s pARTy in the Fifth Third Pavilion. Using pocket-sized projectors, students will throw videos created specifically for this event into the environment, wrapping the available walls, objects, and even people with moving imagery.

http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/artstudio.php
http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/

 APRIL 20

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Also, don’t forget that UK Theater Department opens a new show this week too!

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

Click here to visit site.

By Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan
Music by Jeanine Tesori / Lyrics by Dick Scanlan Directed by Russell Henderson

Show Time & Place:
April 19, 21, 26, 27, 28 at 7:30pm
April 22, 29 at 2:00pm
Guignol Theatre in the Fine Arts Building

Upcoming Exhibitions

Below is the most up to date listing of art exhibitions by UK graduate students.  For additional information about UK Department of Art, please visit our website by clicking here

 

LOTS MORE FALL 2012 LISTING OF EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST TALKS COMING SOON

Wednesday, September 5th, 5-6:30 pm in the Briggs Theater (first floor Fine Arts Building) on University of Kentucky campus

What is the relationship between art and capitalism? What role does the art world play in reinforcing neo-liberalist economic policies in the United States? In her talk, Blithe Riley will address how artists are confronting these questions through the Occupy Wall Street movement, where she has been primarily working since October of 2011. Riley will address her experience as part of two main groups, OWS Arts & Labor as well as Occupy Museums. She will also discuss the history of her collaborative art practice, and how the movement has influenced her approach to art making in general.

Blithe Riley is an activist and artist working with video, performance and installation. Her work investigates how labor influences identity and regulates everyday life. Her solo and collaborative projects have been shown in public, private, and common spaces internationally. Some of these include Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and P.S.1 MoMA in New York City, and Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ and Overgarden Museum in Copenhagen.  She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

HERAKUT
Internationally known street artists Hera and Akut – together known as Herakut will be in Lexington from September 11-September 16. Stop by to see them as they create a large mural at 156 Market Street (just north of the downtown farmers’ market) and a smaller mural on the corner of Sixth and North Limestone (on the building of the old Spalding’s Bakery).  Join Herakut for an artist talk and book signing on Wednesday evening, September 12 at the Farish Theater, Downtown Public Library, 7:00 pm.  You can also find the event on FB:  https://www.facebook.com/events/462825430424446/

 

METTLE: UK ART FACULTY EXHIBITION
September 16 – December 23, 2012
Admission: FREE

Curated by Lisa Dent, this exhibition of the University of Kentucky Fine Arts faculty artists includes Ruth Adams, Sarah Ammerman Van Meter, Garry Bibbs, Roger Boulay, Jeremy Colbert, Rob Dickes, Beth Ettensohn, Gerald Ferstman, Valerie Fuchs, Rae Goodwin, Sharon Lee Hart, Marty Henton, Marty, Hui Chi Lee, Doreen Maloney, Matt Page, Ebony Patterson, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Bobby Scroggins, Robert Shay, Brandon Smith, Hunter Stamps, Dima Strakovsky, Lynn Sweet, George Szekely, Sarah Wylie A. VanMeter, and James Wade.

Image Credit: ARTURO ALONZO SANDOVAL, Circling Back Series # 12, iInterlaced and machine stitching, repurposed UK HealthCare construction wall digital vinyl images, multi-color threads, museum mattes, museum acrylic, and painted wood frames

September 26 / Brooklyn, NY / The Q Show / Theo Edmonds

Some people get blown into bedazzled, hourglass lands.  Like Dorothy, they become stuck between two worlds.  Neither truly of their own making.

These in between places cultivate the ultimate combination of optimism and fear; of revolution and reverence;  of make believe and memory… it is called desire.  Desire is Q.  Art is Q.

While Theo’s painted and constructed Q work navigates a quasi-biographical narrative, the interplay of live performance and video unfolds ideas beyond the specific and anecdotal limits of his own Q journey.  The goal is to encourage a broader dimension of meaning which encompasses the experience of many contemporary outsiders in ways that reach beyond easy labels and convenient classifications.

More info: http://www.residencyunlimited.org/activities/2012/09/ru-exhibition-q-by-theo-edmonds/

 

April 19 Launch Info

April 19th, 2012  /  7p-10p / Free Event
Art Exhibition, Fundraiser & Launch Event
Land of Tomorrow, Louisville KY

On April 19, the University of Kentucky Department of Art will host a fundraiser and launch for the NGA-UK Initiative at the Land of Tomorrow Gallery, 233 West Broadway in Louisville, KY.  The event will take place from 7pm – 10pm and will feature the work of Theo Edmonds who is currently in UK’s MFA program.  The fundraiser’s art exhibition and sale is entitled Nanabozho after a Native American trickster spirit and shape-shifter who takes the form of a rabbit when entering the human realm.

Nanabozho includes a large-scale installation and short performance exploring “outsider” positioning within the dominant cultural narratives. The politics of representation, Native American mythology, cabaret and unflinching street poetry flow together into a glittery ritual of release.

The 15 minute performance piece premiered at NYC’s Armory Show Week in March 2012 and the installation (which includes painting, sculpture, works on paper and various ephemera) will be publicly shown for the first time at the fundraiser event.  View a promo for the performance piece by clicking here.

Select pieces will be for sale with ALL the proceeds going to the NGA-UK.  Visit Land of Tomorrow’s website by clicking here.

Event is FREE but does require you to PRINT & PRESENT your invitation.   Click here to get your invitation!