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Since 2014 the Lexington Art League has been dedicated to archiving and preserving each exhibition that is hosted. Links are available below for each documented exhibit. It is through the monetary support of our donors that we are able to continue providing this archival service.
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December, 2023 - January, 2024
October, 2023 - December, 2023
September, 2023 - October, 2023
July, 2023 - August, 2023
July 2023
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Kellene Turner | An Airy Atmospheric Perspective | June 23 - August 18 This is a series of works that are intentional interpretations of cloudscapes. Playful sprays of dramatic light are seen or lost within canvases, leading through multiple layers of opaque color to darker analogous points. Be it dawn or dusk, the sky brings about the hope and promise of a new day. Materials specifically in this series have been salvaged, mended, and redesigned to highlight the mood of my compositions.
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Elmer Lopez + Cameron McAfee | Dynamite | June 23 - August 18 You may feel like you are the same person today as you were yesterday or even the same person now as you were a moment ago, but this is not so.
Every experience adds to your personality and changes you either slightly or significantly. This is true also in the art-making process. Every day we created these pieces we would approach the same canvas or drawing with a new perspective or approach. It is a compounding effect and every moment a new spark of consciousness changes the recipe that is us. |
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Todd Cote | Daughters We Never Had | June 30 - August 18
My wife and I are blessed with two sons but often reflect on what it would have been like to have a daughter. This personal, collective work of oil paintings on linen are imaginary portraits of daughters we never had. My long-time work in Ireland along with my Irish maternal heritage has given me a close connection to the Irish land, culture, and people. These portraits are placed in Irish landscapes, from a parent’s perspective, to directly or metaphorically depict strength and resilience, fragility, identity, spirituality and growth. |
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Christine Huskisson | Thresholds | June 30 - August 18
Thresholds: Drawing and Painting from Life I paint observational portraits in pastels, acrylics and oils. By painting thin layers of gestural marks to describe the features of my live sitters, I am exploring the line between the material and spiritual referred to in “Spirit/Matter: Threshold of the Immaterial, Encounter in Contemporary Art” by Ellie Hodgin. I strive to see the elusive qualities of a more capricious interior world where we share many things in common. I aim to reveal the value of viewing these thresholds as passages or ‘thin places’ of access to what unites us. |
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Jonathan McFadden | Winner Winner V3.0 | June 30 - August 18 In Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire, individuals imitate the desires and behaviors of others in order to achieve social recognition and success, much like the popular phrase "winner winner chicken dinner" implies. Mimetic desire suggests that individuals often desire what others desire, leading to competition and imitation as they strive to attain the same goals and rewards. Similarly, in the context of Sequence-based identifiers in software, the phrase can be connected through the concept of winning or achieving a unique identifier or sequence, where individuals may imitate successful software implementations or strive to create their own "winning" identifier sequences to stand out in the field.
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May, 2023 - JUne, 2023
May 2023
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Damon Farmer | Joyride | May 6 - June 16 These paintings reflect my interest in things mechanical, whimsical and fantastical. Creating and sharing images of implausible activities or conveyances of dubious practicality is a joyful experience for me. The title, JOYRIDE, was chosen to express the desire that a tour of these narrative illustrations of an imagined reality would also spark a little joy in the viewers.
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Haley Younce | Unmade | May 13 - June 23 Unmade is a series of prints inspired by the investigation of coping mechanisms throughout my mental health journey. Since adolescence, the bed has been a consistent means for an escape from my own thoughts and a fortress in which I surround myself to feel relief from everyday life. This exhibition is a public confession of personal, vulnerable, and intimate moments that allow the viewer to identify with the work through shared experiences. For me, creating this body of work is and continues to be a cathartic act while simultaneously facilitating a conversation of perseverance and hope through mental illness.
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Kevin Nance | Dreamscapes | May 6 - June 16 In Dreamscapes, Kevin Nance explores the spaces between reality and dreams. Using long exposures, reflections, and various forms of distortion (caused by movement, weather and other phenomena), these photographs conjure alternate dimensions that exist just outside our normal ways of seeing. These are the worlds we glimpse in peripheral vision, at the far edges of consciousness, and on the way in and out of sleep.
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Nancy Ternasky | Paint, Plants and Play | May 13 - June 23 Nancy Ternasky is a California native who now considers Lexington, KY her home. She is a watercolor artists whose clean, illustrative style reflect her love of nature, botanicals and still life.
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Joanne Hope Skiles Couch, Jeffrey S. Couch, & Phillip Manga | Bluegrass Transplants: Refugee Edition, Exhibition & Fashion Show | May 13 - June 23 "A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future." Amela Koluder
The refugee experience is filled with heartache, fear, and uncertainty. But it is also filled with hope, and an unquenchable desire to build anew from the ashes. This latest iteration of Bluegrass Transplants is partnering with Philip Manga's nonprofit Box2Box, the successful refugee mentorship program that helps young refugees and their families adjust to life in their new home here in the Bluegrass. The exhibition explores our refugee communities: foreign, domestic, and indigenous by taking the students artwork and incorporating it into fashion apparel that will be on display throughout the exhibition as well as presented in a fashion show. Money from items sold during the exhibition will help fund the Box2Box mission. |
March, 2023 - May, 2023
March 2023
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Horse Sense | March 10 - April 29 We all know what everyone thinks of when they think of Kentucky; the horse of course! Horses and horse racing have been a big part of the Bluegrass and life in Kentucky for over 200 years with Lexington right at the beating heart of it all. The Lexington Art League invites all artists of all types to submit their horse and horse racing related artwork to our spring group.
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Nico Lund | \Fault/LINES | March 17 - May 6 \Fault/LINES is a multidisciplinary exhibition that contemplates the unexpected shifts and unpredictable circumstances that can clear the way for transformative experiences. The development of this body of work has been a years-long meditation on my own personal evolution and growth. Finding fissures in self-confidence and re-directing any displaced fears that have been the result of perceived inadequacies or societal liabilities. All together, the work included in \Fault/LINES is intended to act as a container to hold space to meditate on one’s own ability to sit with discomfort, and explorations into the purpose of creative expression, the importance of place and identity and the transience of time in the evolution of human experience.
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Melanie Elizabeth Landsittle | Pit-ter-pat-ter | March 17 - May 13 Through weaving tapestries and making books, I have been thinking about the expression of value for maintenance of life as magic of life. The way we experience, commune with and enjoy daily quotidian upkeep, which is often dismissed by the western hyper capitalism which we inhabit. I think of activities like transiting (commuting - walking, taking public transportation… etc.), collecting or growing food, eating, cleaning. This work is a reflection on the textures, sounds, colors and movements of those activities, their necessity, and emotionality. Each individual book or tapestry is a revisitation of these moments, slowly built up through repetitive labor and memorialized.
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Raymond Papka | Remains to be Seen | March 17 - May 6 Raymond Papka’s exhibition is full of “Remains to be Seen”, a collection of art employing abstraction, found objects, assemblage, collage and transformation to tickle the mind's imagination! His artwork is made from a wide variety of found objects and imagery; his objects are often remnants of items gathered from flea markets, yard sales, books, antique shops, trash dumps, or sometimes literally found on the ground that are repurposed to fit with a story found in each art piece. He draws inspiration from the history, science & astronomy, mysticism, art history, Victorian ephemera, books/text, and industrial decay (i.e. just about anything old and rusty). His work blends elements of the everyday with the extraordinary and each piece invites the viewer into its own world, by mysteries, messages, memories or whimsical turns.
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Michelle Newby Armstrong | Back Yard Secrets | March 17 - May 6 The pollinator garden and the plants and animals in my backyard in Kenwick have been a constant source of inspiration to me. And each of these living organisms have secrets that have been revealed to me slowly. For example, mushrooms are one of the few organisms that can thrive after an oil spill and sunflowers can assist in absorbing nuclear waste. Flies that we usually consider to be horrible pests, are pollinators and contribute to our supply of chocolate. Some people believe that crows are evil, but in reality they are very smart and will bring gifts to people who work to build a relationship with them. In this exhibit, I plan to use a variety of media to create the plants and animals I have observed in my backyard. I will share some of their secrets with the hope that others will learn about their value and strive to protect these organisms instead of destroying them or hurting them as is often the case
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Shaena Neal | Touching Ground | March 17 - May 13 Touching Ground explores environmental entanglement. A 35mm film camera in hand, Shaena seeks the intangible borders between the natural and artificial within our lived experience. This series of black-&-white prints examine the impact photographic imagery has on our sense of place historically and individually. As we witness gradual and sudden changes in our immediate surroundings, how do we orient ourselves? By engaging the (dis)connections of nature and the human touch, this project questions how we interact with contemporary landscapes. Touching Ground exposes symbolic margins where environment and civilization blur.
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January, 2023 - March, 2023
January 2023
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Bluegrass Printmakers - Matrix Revealed| January 20 - March 10 Printmaking is an often overlooked and misunderstood medium. It is not as straightforward as painting or as accessible as photography. Printmaking is a process of transferring an image from a matrix onto another surface. Printmaking is not a singular method as there are many techniques for creating images and many types of plates and substrates. From self-taught to master-level printmakers, Bluegrass Printmakers members work with collagraph, woodcut, linoleum cut, monoprint, lithograph, etching, and screen printing, among others, and often combine techniques.
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Interface: Technology and Portraiture - curated by Sydney Mullins | January 20 - March 10 This exhibit investigates the multifaceted relationship between the human face, art, and technology. Through an inquiry-based critique of artificial intelligence and facial recognition software, this exhibit will present both the creative possibilities of digitally assisted portraiture and question these technologies’ more insidious uses. It will critique the neutrality of AI, the growing pervasiveness of facial recognition software, and other forms of digital monitoring. Participating artists - Chris Nelson, John Harlan Norris, Siavash Tohidi, Charles Dillon Ward, and Amy M. Young
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Hannah Allen - In the Field | January 20 - March 10 The culture of craft in Kentucky has been cultivated from generations of women sharing their practices with others. This exhibit will explore the history of textile art and reimagine the teachings of Home Demonstration Agents from a modern perspective. Between the scarcity of goods caused by the global pandemic and efforts to minimize waste in light of environmental changes, fiber consumption is at a turning point. The exhibit will explore different facets of fiber art and crafting, using the Commonwealth of Kentucky as both the source of inspiration and source of materials.
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Ben LaFever - Psychopomp | January 20 - March 3 These paintings are a meditation on the dynamics of opposites; mystery and certainty, death and life, and force and receptivity. I am interested in visualizing the patterns of meaning that emerge from these polarities, and the liminal spaces that exist between them. A Psychopomp is the ultimate liminal being. It is a guide of souls to the place of the dead, a go-between of life and death, the known and unknown.
Debra Booker - Buried Treasures: Abstract Collage for the Here and Now | January 20 - March 3 Vintage treasures i.e.- magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries and photos, are getting harder to find in our fast paced, digital, throw-away world. Incorporating these finds gives us a glimpse into our collective past, our shared societal histories, our passions, our dreams. We can look at our layers of humanity and reflect on our past and the present, and where we might be going.
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November, 2022 - January, 2023
The Lexington Art League Members’ Biennial is a biennial exhibition of art that has been created by our members. Every two years we take the opportunity to highlight our creative and talented members with an exhibition which takes over all of the exhibition space in the historic Loudoun House. The League was founded in 1957 as a member-driven organization and we are continuing this tradition 65 years later. The goal is to stuff the galleries to the gunwales with art in a celebration of our creative members.
October, 2022
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PRHBTN 11
A Group Exhibition This exhibition is known for a no-holds-bar ethos which has resulted in displaying some of the most provocative artwork in the city each year. It is one of the best opportunities for Kentucky artists of all disciplines to present artworks regardless of age, experience, media, discipline, or subject matter. |
August - September, 2022
July - August, 2022
June - July, 2022
April - June, 2022
March - April, 2022
Myths, Legends and Lore
Honora Jacob |
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January - March, 2022
November, 2021 - January 2022
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The Nude Biennial
A Group Exhibition |
October - November, 2021
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September - October, 2021
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What Endures; Photographs from an Uncertain Time
The Lexington Camera Club |
AUGUST - SEPTEMBER, 2021
JUNE - JULY, 2021
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Portraits of Us
Reed Godot |
Global Village
Nancy Ellen Walker |
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Reminiscence
Maddy the Hooligan |
MAY - JUNE, 2021
MARCH - APRIL, 2021
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From the earliest known forms of human creativity and expression, such as paintings on cave walls, tribal dance and aboriginal music played around the fire, to expansive museums in large cities, modern dance and sold out stadium concerts, one constant has always remained true. Human beings have always found creativity and expression to be central to our very existence.
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JANUARY - MARCH, 2021
Double Take - Barbara Steinrock
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Overlay/Connection - Marta Dorton
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September - November 2020
July - September 2020
January - February 2020
Sarah Madison Brown
Show Me The Way to Go Home Upstairs Gallery 
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Christina Conroy
Dark Exposure Sulier Gallery 
Holly Graham
New Life Doll Project Z-Gallery |
October - December 2019
September - October 2019
July - August 2019
May - June 2019
March - April 2019
2018
PRHBTN Exhibition
October - November 2018 |
The League: Members Exhibition
September - October 2018 |
2017
Black Friday Art Sale
December 2017 |
PRHBTN 2017
November 2017 |
Trinity
September 2017 |
Woodland Art Fair
August 2017 |
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2016
Castlewood Downs
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All Lexington Art League programs are made possible through the generous support of LexArts.
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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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