April 2024
Brian Connors Manke | For Crayon Out Loud | April 12 - May 31
For Brian Connors Manke, crayons are simply the medium that he never grew out of. He still loves to color pages in a coloring book, but for the last 17 years he's been melting and manipulating those childhood favorites into his modern artistic visions. Sometimes he is drawn to trance-like lines and patterns, while other times his approach embraces the chaos of constantly being outside those lines. Visit Brian's website, brianconnorsmanke.com. |
Gary Hansen + Liz Hansen | As Found | April 5 - May 24 Found objects that are neglected, abused, repurposed, or abandoned tell stories. Their condition and location tell stories of changing tastes and of the people who owned, used, or left them in the situations where we found them. As photographers, both artists’ work captures these objects “as found” without manipulation.
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J.H. Leigh | Shapes, Stick Figures and Color | April 12 - May 31 The first intention of these works is to lead the viewer to discover the figure in the arrangement of lines and shapes on the canvas, but, as more canvases were painted, characters began to emerge fully assembled in simple narratives. It is hoped these artworks will spark a memory or, at least, the recognition of the emotion in the scenario on the canvas. Purposefully, the composition is kept simple and the shapes, lines and color are allowed to set the scene.
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Reagan Profit | If You Lie With Me | April 5 - May 24 If You Lie With Me is a collection of nude paintings that create environments of emotion—Power, Ease, Discomfort, Peace, Innocence. Through moments of abstraction and moments of clarity, Profit’s work explores human experiences of loneliness and connection and the dynamic between these concepts. These paintings draw on the history of the reclining nude and the ways this type of figurative art has evolved throughout art history. The painting process is integral to the work, through many layers of paint the artist “shapes” and then “destroys” the figure until the final image is revealed.
Visit Reagan's website, www.reaganprofit.com.
Visit Reagan's website, www.reaganprofit.com.
Teresa Koester | Gaia's Sentinels | April 5 - May 24 In 2023, Louisville artist Teresa Koester received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women to create a new body of watercolor landscape paintings, depicting the most sacred or meaningful places held by women she interviewed who steward large tracts of public or private land—be it as a farmer, land manager, scientist, forester or private landowner in Kentucky. The project grew as Teresa asked the first group of land stewards she contacted to then recommend additional women they thought should be included. Each painting will remain in the hands of the land steward who inspired it at the end of this traveling exhibit.
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The Kentucky Arts Council, a state arts agency, provides operating support to the Lexington Art League with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Lexington Parks & Recreation.
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