June 2024
Ann Dawkins | Feeling is a Skill |May 31 - July 19 Feeling is a Skill, uses personal narrative surrounding pain, illness, and trauma to connect to universal human vulnerabilities. With the language of thick oil paint, Ann Dawkins describes exposed, neglected, and partially consumed fruit as a representation of the fragile and uncontrollable physicality of the body. Playing close attention to the historical connection of fruit to the perception of women, their sins, sexuality, and ability to produce life, Dawkins’ paintings explore both objectification and physical dysfunction.
Visit Ann's website, www.anndawkins.com |
Graham Allen | Untold Tales of Untamed Tension | June 7 - July 26 Originally from Indianapolis, Graham Allen has been a Graphic Designer, Artist, and Muralist in Kentucky for 25 years. While melding textures, scattered collage and ‘weathered character’ often seen in found objects and ‘ghost signs’ (old hand-painted advertising, often preserved on buildings and barns), his more recent body of work is inspired by urban arts and pop-culture as well as nostalgia and early advertising. Built using combinations of acrylic, wood, stencils, earth, markers as well as both found references and original characters, his unique narratives include witty typography and ‘gritty’ compositions loosely influenced by concepts dealing with today’s social landscapes as well as humorous and thought provoking, self-made scenarios.
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Nick Walters | Time Is Irrelevant | May 31 - July 19 Centuries pass and technologies come and go, but the elements of the human experience remain. The time period in which one lives does not change our basic wants and needs. People will always be searching for love, lust, entertainment, adventure, friendship, and happiness. My paintings are based on found photos from different periods and seek to display the core of the human spirit no matter what point in history the subject resided.
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Shaena Neal | I Dreamt We Spoke Again | May 31 - July 19 After suffering a loss, we often experience phases of grief, finally reaching a point of memorialization. However, how do we cope with and orient ourselves when living through a drawn-out process of losing? The series featured in this exhibition, I dreamt we spoke again, examines the struggle with an ongoing loss through the staging of plant portraits. Though ecological uncertainty and environmental disorientation are the predominant motivations for these photographs, a broader questioning of grief, desire, and its impacts on identity are presented. The human form interacts with these dying flowers in a reactionary (self-modeled) performance to this seemingly inevitable loss. The peripheral human presence and portrayed plant life mutually reveal and obscure each other, blurring the boundaries between the self and the shifting landscape.
Visit Shaena's website, www.shaenaneal.com |
Sonja A. Brooks + Anne B. Brooks | Brooks + Brooks: Sum of the Parts | June 7 - July 26 Brooks + Brooks: Sum of the Parts features new collage work by two artist/art educators who formed a friendship 17 years ago. Anne Brooks, an avid gardener, collects organic shapes which she draws, paints and assembles onto boards or canvas. Sonja Brooks assembles realistic and abstract works from layered bits and pieces, including postage stamps, old book pages, discarded art projects, hand painted and handmade papers, images from children’s books and vintage ephemera.
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