Friday Link Roundup: January 4, 2019

TONIGHT:

Current: an exhibition of the Southern Crossings Pottery Festival opens at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile tonight with a reception 6-9pm.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas opens at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

SATURDAY:

We Too Are Louisville - Collaborative Art Creation Workshop at 1619 flux Art+Activism

ONGOING:

The Carnegie Center for Art and History presents Biophilia Life; or, My Best Friend Has Four Legs and a Tail.

Deborah Whistler: “Follow The Rabbit” is at Moreman Gallery through January 19, 2019. 

Cletus Wilcox, Joshua Bleecker Suyun Son at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

Patricia Brock Photography Exhibit opens at KORE Gallery.

SewIn Qulit and Fiber Biennial opens across the river in New Albany.

Elsa Hansen Oldham "Muses" is at KMAC through January 27, 2019.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: January 3, 2019

Jason Bige Burnett & Steven Cheek came in the studio January 3 to talk about Current: An Exhibition of The Southern Cross Pottery Festival opening January 4 at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com every Thursday to hear artists speak with Keith Waits about their work.

Jason Bige Burnett is a potter and the owner of Jason Bige Burnett Studio and Mr. Benny’s Pot Shop. He graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2009 with a BFA in ceramics and BA’s in both printmaking and graphic design. After college Jason continued his education at Penland School of Crafts in western North Carolina as a core fellowship student for two years. Since then he has exhibited nationally, been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Jason was accepted as an Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Artist-in-Residence in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for the 2012-2013 year. He lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.

Steven Cheek received his MFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the University of Evansville. Steven is currently the Director/Artist in Residence at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Louisville. Prior to moving to Louisville, KY he was visiting professor at Georgia State University School of Art and Design, a sabbatical replacement and adjunct lecturer at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and an Artist in Residence at Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts in Asheville, NC. He has received several awards and recognitions and is included in many private and public collections. 

Friday Link Roundup: October 12, 2018

Painting by Susan Tolliver

TONIGHT:

Susan Toliver: Menagerie opens at Craft{s} Mercantile and Gallery.

When Elements Collide, new work from Casey McKinney, opens in The Pigment Gallery at Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center.

20 years after Matthew Shepherd’s death, Commonwealth Theatre Center opens a new production of The Laramie Project.

Deep in Vogue: Louisville’s Treasured Cinema is a series at Speed Cinema celebrating the heyday of the Vogue Theater for 20 years the city’s premiere art house cinema. Tonight they are screening Harold and Maude and King of Hearts.

SATURDAY:

Monster Mash - A Graveyard Smash by Harrison Fogle opens at Revelry Boutique & Gallery.

This and That, It’s All Abstract: new work by Karen Terhune opens at Kore Gallery in the Mellwood Art Center.

Louisville Artists: Carry On, an exhibit curated by John Begley, is on view at Louisville Visual Art from 12-4pm,

ONGOING:

Aleksandra Stone has a new solo exhibit, Fruits of Labor, at garner narrative.
Pyro Gallery, #MeToo "From Silent to Resilient" Paintings by Debra Lott - guests, Meg White, Sculpture and Rachel Gibbs, Painting.
Frac/tured An abstract introspection by Meredith Harber is at McGrath Art Gallery, Bellarmine University.
Jibade-Khalil Huffman Poems For Every Occasion is currently on exhibit at KMAC. 
Watching the Sky, Waiting for Signs: New Work by Emily Church is at Galerie Hertz.                .

LVA's Artebella On The Radio 8.30.18

On the August 30 LVA's Artebella On The Radio we spoke with three women artists who are opening exhibits on September First Friday: Jacque Parsley, Gayle Cerlan, & Meredith Harber. Tune in each Thursday at 10am to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com to hear Keith Waits talk to local artists.

Frac/tured An abstract introspection by Meredith Harber  
September 4-29, Reception September 7, 5-7pm
McGrath Art Gallery, Bellarmine University, Wyatt Center for the Arts, Norris Place

Frac/tured serves as an abstract expression of the seemingly disjointed sense of self, both individually and as a gathered community. Through fine lines, gestural marks, and bold colors, Meredith Harber creates a chaotic moment on the canvas that intends to capture the viewer and challenges them to make sense of what is before them. While each piece may serve as a playful distraction from one’s surroundings, it is the artist’s intent that one put each thematic motif into context as it relates to them personally and how it ties into the modern world.

Shared Vision-Gayle Cerlan and Jacque Parsley
September 7-30, Reception September 7, 6-9pm
Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile, 572 South 4th Street, Louisville

Gayle Cerlan has been an active member of the Kentucky arts community through her involvement as the creator and director of the Cityworks exhibition (1997-1998), and as curator of the DinnerWorks exhibition (1994-1997). She has served on the boards of Louisville Visual Art and the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft and has been an Adjunct Professor of Ceramics at Indiana University Southeast, Bellarmine College, and the University of Louisville. She founded Cerlan Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky (1997-2007) and established a fine arts school for all ages, ArtStudio (1997-2014). Cerlan has exhibited her ceramic art nationally and internationally and has won many awards and grants. Her work can be found in numerous public collections.

Jacque Parsley Using the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life, including a myriad of found objects, artifacts, ephemera, and vintage printed matter, I present an iconography that creates a dialogue between the permanent and the transient.

As Kurt Schwitters said, “The waste of the world becomes my art”.

As a child I embroidered, wove potholders, collected charms and played with paperdolls.  The influence of the fond memories have been integrated into my art by means of collage, assemblage and embellishment. Each work reflects a partly told tale, a moment in time that gives a nostalgic visual narrative of memories that have been recycled, and a past that has been reinterpreted.