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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.

Herakut In Lexington KY

 

Internationally known street artists Hera and Akut – together known as Herakut (http://www.herakut.de/) 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). They will paint for 6 days and give Lexington two new murals, artworks that people will travel from other cities to see.

Working collaboratively throughout the entire process, Herakut will make something that is magical, something that you want to see in the making!  Join Herakut for an artist talk and book signing on Wednesday evening, September 12 at the Farish Theater, Downtown Public Library, 7:00 pm.

Herakut is brought to Lexington through the effort and hard work of Kurt Gohde, Georgia Henkel, and Kremena Todorova, with the generous financial support of: Griffin Van Meter/Bullhorn Marketing, Lexair Foundation, PRHBTN, Morlan Gallery, Univ of Kentucky School of Art & Visual Studies, Morris Book Shop, Joseph Clay, Price & Kim Nichol, and Ellee Ven. Michael & Ann Lawyer donated the building on Market; Chad Needham donated the other.

You can also find the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/462825430424446/

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 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

Two Exhibitions Open in LexKY Tonight

Josh B Smith Exhibition

Come out and support the University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies Josh B Smith in his MFA thesis exhibition.

Friday, July 27 from 5-7 p.m.
Tuska Gallery, UK (Fine Arts Bldg./Rose St.)

Also Opening Tonight In Lexington, Kentucky

Kentucky.7

Kentucky.7 is a biennial survey of contemporary art produced in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its seven contiguous states: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Artwork selected is innovative in concept and execution, is culturally relevant, and addresses issues important to contemporary life.

This is the exhibition’s third cycle at the Lexington Art League.

Lexington KY Video Shoot

Hey Lexington, Kentucky… Theo Edmonds and Natalie Baxter want YOU… to participate in the video shoot for a short film that will be shown in New York City in September 2012.

We are seeking ALL ages, body types, genders, races and creeds for a video shoot of a spoken word opera that examines aspects of human communality in an age of divide and conflict. It intends to be a call for human fellowship that transcends labels.

You DO NOT need to be an actor, poet, artist or any other label to participate… you only need to be willing to share in this experience with others.

Orientation Meeting for Interested Participants (PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND THIS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING)
10am-11am
Saturday, July 28 @ Third Street Stuff & Coffee /
257 N Limestone #1 Lexington, KY 40507

Video Shoot / “Hustler’s Paradise II”
7pm-9pm
Monday, July 30
Downtown Lexington / Details Discussed at Orientation Meeting

Theo Edmonds www.TheoEdmonds.com
Natalie Baxter www.NatalieBaxter.com

Questions to: theoedmondsky@gmail.com

Read Full Description of Project Below

Hustler’s Paradise II approaches human communality on a variety of levels. Society and most human existence is based on some sort of communality, the more sophisticated the society, the more invisible and intrinsic does this communality seem to become. Our lives are woven into one texture, which we sometimes hardly notice and therefore take for granted. Until—for instance—disaster strikes. Suddenly we are moved back to the fundamentals of our lives. The sheer facts of being alive, of sharing pain, loss, uncertainty, despair, hope. For a moment we are forced together under one huge shared experience. We did not ask for it, we did not expect it. It came uninvited.

Hustler’s Paradise II deals with basic human conditions like life and death from very general and fundamental aspects. By approaching these issues, the film addresses our need to build hope, to construct images and symbols that can be used as tools to come to grips with our most painful experiences.

Hustler’s Paradise II is also intended as a manifestation against consumerism, assimilation, gentrification and dogmatism. It is a call for an open and inclusive society. It deliberately wants to stand out as a manifestation for the good in humanity and society, in a time when propaganda for destruction, dehumanization, and exclusion of groups and individuals has become commonplace.

The fact is we are not all the same but wonderfully different in living out our shared humanity. Most all of us, to varying degrees, are outsiders. The intention of Hustler’s Paradise II is to invigorate hope through radical acceptance of our differences. It speaks for human values and shared humanity. Hustler’s Paradise II will be a dignified participatory performance that wants to challenge and influence. It is propaganda for the good.

Hustler’s Paradise II will create an experimental situation and investigate the boundaries of our common human experience by focusing on community, tolerance, identity and how we develop shared language.

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!