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The Gloria Singletary Gallery exhibitions program at The Living Arts & Science Center aims to provide our members and the public exhibits of exceptional quality and outstanding artistic merit. The LASC is also dedicated to offering innovative emerging and established artists an opportunity to continue developing their creative potential and investigations while affording valuable exposure. A non-profit organization, we seek to provide a diverse context for area art production by supporting artist’s projects and collaborations also associated with other regional non-profit organizations. Our goal is to increase awareness and appreciation of the visual fine arts and to promote critical contemplation and discourse within the local community and beyond.

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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THE GLORIA SINGLETARY GALLERY @ The Living Arts & Science Center requests proposals for 2009 exhibitions. To view the RFP submission guidelines and submit a proposal, click here.

For additional RFP entry forms, click here.

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CurrentExhibit

June 2 - July 11, 2008
ANIMAL PORTRAITS: Paintings by Ken Hoffman

Gallery Hop Reception: Friday, June 20, 5 – 8 PM

If Chicken Man, Fish Man, Cat Woman or Monkey Man were to show up at your front door, you might be tempted to buy life insurance from them or perhaps open a checking account, that is if they somehow found their ways off their perspective canvases. Sporting suits and ties, these animals dressed as people, or people dressed as animals (whichever the case may be) seem to inhabit our everyday life.

Their likenesses have been captured in the stuffy tradition of bankers’ portraits, but the attitude conveyed and the manner in which these paintings are rendered are anything but conventional. Formal in composition, Ken Hoffman’s paintings expose paint and color in an energetic and playful manner. About his technique he claims, “Technically, I try to achieve painterly surface effects and a sensuous buildup of oil paint. Color is used as part of a complex method of mark making which is incorporated into the primary forms and surrounding spaces.”

Canvases ranging in size from four to five inches up to twelve feet in length show that Hoffman is cognizant of human (or animal) nature and each work he says “contains elements of satire, fantasy, humor and social commentary.” Hoffman adds that his “main objective has been to pursue the vigorous and quasi-surreal approach to the human head. It is my intention to convey to the viewer animal-people expressions and to show how close humans are to animal counterparts.” Ken Hoffman’s Animal Portraits draw inspiration from novellas and plays and as the artist states “The impact of imagery parallels certain kinds of modern literature such as that written by Orwell, Kafka, Beckett and others, i.e. “Animal Farm,” “Metamorphosis,” “Waiting for Godot,” etc.”

One thing is for sure: Hoffman’s animal-people have character and they’re not afraid to show it.

Kenneth Hoffman is a Professor Emeritus at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. He began teaching in the art department at Bradley in 1968. He earned B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to exhibiting in New York City, Paris, Germany, Poland, Australia, Hawaii, Ireland and Argentina, Hoffman's paintings are included in the following public collections: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL, and numerous private collections. Hoffman was featured in “Art Scene Chicago 2000” and his most recent international exhibition was as a participant in Comparison 2004 in Paris, France.

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UpcomingExhibits

July 21 - September 5, 2008
SUMMER SEMESTER STUDENT SHOW

This year the Living Arts & Science Center offers an extensive Summer program with up to 150 creative art and science classes. Students from 18 months to 108 years old (or older!) will experience hands-on creative learning and will be able to express themselves through a wide variety of two and three-dimensional art including painting, drawing, pottery, fiber art, photography, cartooning and animation, architecture, sculpture, and more. For seven weeks through the Summer Semester, artworks created in the classes will be on view in a rotating exhibition in the Gloria Singletary Gallery at the LASC. From Art on the Go!, Mixed Media Mania and Get Messy With Mud to Mad Scientists, Around the World and Back in Time and Global Fabrics and Fashions, the gallery walls will house the many and wonderful artworks students have put their hearts, minds and sullied hands to.

Be sure to check the gallery each week as every visit will be a new adventure. The rotating exhibition will amaze you with its variety and breadth of imagination. The Summer Semester Student Show reminds us that the art and science classes at the LASC not only foster students’ creativity, but also strengthen their character, self-awareness, self-esteem, sensitivity and critical-thinking skills. Don’t miss this summertime display of innovative and diverse artworks… it ssssizzles with creativity!

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PastExhibits

April 14 - May 23, 2008
CAST OFFS!

From iPods to childrens’ toys to space shuttles and the family car, ninety percent of all manufactured goods contain one or more cast metal components. Though 20th century foundries have by now nearly perfected the process, the art of pouring metal and the science of metallurgy have been around long before the Declaration of Independence (seven signers of the Declaration were metal casters and foundrymen). It dates back to 3200 B.C. when a copper frog, the oldest known casting in existence, was cast in Mesopotamia. The second-oldest industry known to mankind, metal casting plays an integral part in our modern day lives. It has also historically served as a major means of artistic production and continues to be the medium of choice for many sculptors working today.

CAST OFFS! is an exhibition hosted in the LASC’s Gloria Singletary Gallery in conjunction with our 2008 Family Fun Day and features the works of local metal sculptors who employ the casting process in their work. Among several other artists, the exhibition will include Gerard Masse, founder of Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, Indiana who will be bringing a traveling foundry and running the metal pour at Family Fun Day, and Michael Maxson who will be designing a permanent outdoor community sculpture celebrating the Living Arts & Science Center’s forty years of creativity.

Both Maxson and Masse have Master of Fine Arts degrees in Sculpture from the University of Kentucky. Masse, knows his metal. He has been a member of the Furnace Crew at the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture in Coalbrookdale, England and the museum’s Recruitment Officer for the past six years. He is also currently the artist in residence at Tuska Studio and Fine Art Foundry in Lexington. Masse’s latest works are truly drawings made of metal in low relief. “The artwork I produce comes straight from life. I use my sketchpad as a tool and break the forms down to their basic formal elements. Recreating them in real space to produce a visual story in the round,” says Masse. His metal castings, be they iron or aluminum, do tell a story. He adds, “My obligation as an artist is to reflect the life around me.” His works are indeed active and lively and yet also seem to be on the sober at times.

Michael Maxson, owner of The Atelier, a sculpture studio and custom metal fabrication shop in downtown Lexington, designs and creates sculpture by commission and custom metalwork including home furnishings, architectural details and ornamental ironwork for public and private collections. From thirty-foot-tall pieces to smaller works that hang on the wall, his sculptures are stern in material (the majority of which are made from fabricated steel or aluminum or cast bronze and aluminum) yet whimsical in approach. Drawing on his BA degree in Architecture, also from the University of Kentucky, Maxson’s works often reveal an underlying structure, a fixed and more formal slant, that ironically results in a rather fantastical work of art. Several of his outdoor public sculptures can be seen at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the LFUCG and University of Kentucky’s Arboretum, Georgetown College, and SCAPA at Bluegrass.

James Wade’s cast metal barns and rural buildings atop wood, stone and metal “fields” not only speak of material, process and craft, but also reveal a sense of geographical recollection and undoubtedly reference his growing up in Kentucky. Wade says about his work, “My creative work focuses on a sense of place. It involves the vernacular landscape and narrative storytelling in sculpture. Ideas such as boundary, horizon, architecture and material-use figure strongly in the works I create.”

Members of the community can be part of LASC history and become metal sculptors for the day by coming to the Living Arts & Science Center’s Family Fun Day on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 10 AM – 3 PM. Individuals can create a cast metal work of art for themselves or for the LASC’s community sculpture. To be part of the cast, be sure to visit the Gloria Singletary Gallery’s CAST OFFS! and come to Family Fun Day.

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February 25 - April 5, 2008
ADDRESS AND REDRESS:
A Group Exhibition of Kentucky Women Artists

Address and Redress was an exhibition hosted by the Gloria Singletary Gallery at the Living Arts & Science Center in honor of National Women's History Month. It celebrated the 2008 theme of visionary female artists while recognizing women artists working in Kentucky. Address and Redress boasted a variety of media and revolved around representing Kentucky women, women’s roles, and their place and work that more specifically examined the relationship between gender identity, clothing, and the body. Address and Redress featured the work of Freda Fairchild, Nicole Hand, Susan King, Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido, Jamie Kuli McIntosh, Cynthia Norton, Esther Randall, and Felicia Szorad. Each of the female artists have been awarded the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Artist Enrichment Grant and each offered a regional, yet individual take on the creative process and its link to the lives of women. They define the world and the self, questioning traditional notions of identity and giving voice to those who are otherwise not heard, via artistically innovative and socially relevant work as they “address and redress” the issues.

Special Guest Artist Presentation by Susan King, Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Accompanying the exhibition was a special guest presentation lead by artist, writer and Address and Redress participant, Susan King. Now living in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, King was part of the women's art movement in California in the 1970s and studied with Judy Chicago and other artists and writers at the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop. She then became studio director of the Women’s Graphic Center at one of the major centers of activity, the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. She is also a National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center Fellow. Along with other artists participating in Address and Redress, King discussed the exhibition, her works as an artist and writer and her role in the feminist art movement.

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January 7 - February 14, 2008
H'Artful of Fun: An Evening at the Factory preview exhibition

The Living Arts & Science Center was delighted to present over seventy-five original artworks from local artists in its Gloria Singletary Gallery from January 7 – February 14, 2008. The preview exhibition lead up to the Center’s 18th Annual H’Artful of Fun fundraiser and gave patrons a sneak peak at what would be offered at the silent auction on February 16th. Art enthusiasts and collectors could take advantage of the preview exhibition’s “Buy It Now” feature and purchase the one-of-a-kind works directly from the gallery before the H’Artful of Fun: An Evening at the Factory event. It was a wonderful opportunity to get a jump on the bidding wars and a great way to get a glimpse of some of the most unique artworks Lexington has to offer.

Local artists and collectors contributed the one-of-a-kind works in support of the LASC’s many art and educational programs and services it offers to over 35,000 Central Kentuckians each year. The works exhibited in this years H’Artful of Fun Preview Exhibition ranged from the more traditional media such as figurative oil painting and pastel on paper to a fused glass vessel by Dan Neil Barnes, a vinyl-printed comic by Kenn Minter, and a mixed media piece incorporating studio fragments and plastic by Louisville artist Keith Linton. There were also a number of creative craft and functional items available this year such as batik pillows by Lucinda Alston Chapman, quilted evening bags by Jean Porter, and a woven leather basket by Ken Guyer, owner of the Last Genuine Leather Company.

This year’s H’Artful of Fun silent art auction also featured sixteen original prints donated by Danville art collector, Jack Hankla, by artist Rudolfo (Rudy) Ayoroa (1927-2003), an internationally known painter, sculptor and printmaker from Bolivia who lived and worked in Danville, Kentucky for over 20 years. Ayoroa is well-known locally for his later paintings and sculptural works on the American Civil War. For H’Artful of Fun the Living Arts & Science Center presented his earlier abstract prints similar to his color serigraphs in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

H’Artful of Fun: An Evening at the Factory's event sponsors were Quantrell Cadillac, National City Bank, Chase Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Keeneland Association, Ball Homes, S&S Tire, Four Roses, WKYT-TV, and LM Communications.

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November 12 - December 29, 2007
KID GIANTS by John Lackey

The Gloria Singletary Gallery at The Living Arts & Science Center was pleased to offer Kid Giants, an exhibition of work by local artist John Lackey. Several years ago Lackey put aside nearly twenty years of printmaking, as well as his day job as art director at a TV station, to pursue painting full time. His landscapes are informed by two decades of carving blocks, which has resulted in a somewhat linear element to his style, and at times, a tendency to layer. Lackey’s paintings are all based on photographs taken while out hiking or driving except for those he says that are “just based on doodles.”

Lackey  says about his work, “By painting landscapes of points of interest both regional and national, in a fluid language of birds and bops, these pieces strive to combine the beauty of natural structures with the energy of people and their civilizations, leaving hazy implications in the grasses and leaves, revealing the shadow of a fleeting imprint of an underlying order, only hints of which will we understand, until we see it all from a far greater perspective. Abstract patterns form. A new path along a familiar creek. Dancing leaves. Faces in the trees. We’ve all seen ‘em.”

Lackey strives to “keep his landscapes landscapes, and his abstracts abstracts, but each is drawn to the other.” Lackey himself appears to be drawn to a melding of artistic pursuits and earning a living. He still does the occasional (lately more frequent) freelance job, whether it be a birth announcement, logo design, the window of a restaurant, such  as Alfalfa, or a mural, like that at Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers. He has done most of the art for the Terrapin Hill Farm Festival series and recently had the good fortune to be an art editor and art contributor to Spit In The Ocean #7, a tribute to Ken Kesey by his friends and contemporaries, edited by author Ed McClanahan. This particular project led to a book tour on the west coast aboard Kesey’s bus “Furthur”, with many members of the intrepid Merry Pranksters in tow.

In addition to his travels, freelancing, and making time for his wife and two sons, Lackey continues to produce work in his studio at Galerie Soleil in downtown Lexington and maintains an active exhibition schedule. About this exhibition, Lackey describes his work as: “Part One, in which attempts are made to fuse painting, printmaking, philosophy, poetry, music, design, nature, abstraction, video, and coffee." Wonder what he’ll do for Part Two? Throw in the kitchen sink?

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November 5 - November 29, 2007

The third annual Chairity Auction at The Living Arts & Science Center was a unique and inspired event as local artists, students, community organizations, and LASC supporters created and donated one-of-a-kind artful chairs, stools, and benches to our silent auction hosted on Thursday, November 29th. An event characterized by creativity, imagination, and a whimsical spirit, for this year’s Chairity III Auction we added a few embellishments of our own. For the first time, The LASC is opened the event to additional home and interior design furnishings and invited students and faculty from the area’s universities to show off their skills.

Dr. Bob Kelly’s second-year architectural design studio from the College of Design at the University of Kentucky designed and constructed eight chairs, two lamps, and two tables which were donated to this year’s auction. Kelly said, "I thought it would be an interesting transitional project at mid-term before we engage our next building study. It allowed my students a chance to build something at full-scale and explore the properties of materials in a hands-on way." Kelly added, "The project also contributes to a very worthwhile cause and provides the students with what is probably their first gallery exhibition. So it’s a winning situation all around."

This wasn’t the first time Bob Kelly had been involved with the LASC and the Chairity Auction. He went on to say, "I was familiar with the Living Arts and Science Center because my daughters have enjoyed a lot of really great art classes there over the last several summers. I contributed a piece to their first Chairity Auction two years ago, so when the call came out this time, I decided to involve my students."

This year, the LASC offered cash awards for Best in Show, Most Innovative, and Best Adaptive, plus Seats of Honor awards. Judging the donated chairitable items were; Pat Gerhard, well-known artist and owner of Third Street Stuff in Lexington, Richard Kimbrel and Thomas Birkman, designers and co-owners of Kimbrel Birkman Interior Design on Short Street; and local artist and friend of the LASC Fred Pizzuro.

This year, patrons also found these exceptional wares on view at some of Lexington’s most notable businesses, restaurants, and retailers. For three weeks (November 5 – November 29) leading up to the night of the auction, previews of these eye-catching auction items were found at:

Dudley Square,  Singletary Center for the Arts, Lexington Public Library Downtown, Talon Winery & Vineyards (Tates Creek Road), Kentucky Theatre, The Downtown Arts Center, Regency Interiors by Gail Moses (Regency Road),  Kimbrel Birkman Interior Design (Short Street), Pohl Rosa Pohl Architects (Euclid Avenue), and Joseph-Beth Booksellers.

The Chairity III Auction was sponsored by Denham-Blythe and Regency Interiors by Gail Moses.

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October 5 - November 3, 2007
RECORDAR, REVIVIR, Y REGOCIJARSE CON (REMEMBER, RELIVE, AND REJOICE)

The Gloria Singletary Gallery @ The Living Arts & Science Center was in high spirits to host Recordar, Revivir, y Regocijarse con (Remember, Relive, and Rejoice), a unique exhibition that celebrated Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and which kicked off The LASC’s second Day of the Dead Festival.

The 2007 Day of the Dead Festival exhibition focused on calaveras (skeletons or skulls), a traditional symbol of the holiday, first popularized by Mexican artist, José Guadalupe Posada, in the late 1800’s. His hand printed calaveras were skeletons dressed in contemporary clothes placed in everyday scenes. Posada’s calaveras frequently employed humor, satire, and social commentary to challenge and celebrate the living or mock obituaries in verse as written by the dead for the living. Today, la calavera has evolved into a widely practiced artform, using two- and three-dimensional skeletons to depict the living as well as the dearly departed.

For this exhibition, and in honor of this rich and colorful holiday, The Living Arts & Science Center invited selected Latino and non-Latino artists to create a calavera that paid tribute to someone (or something) prominent within his or her own personal life or acknowledged on the world stage. Featuring a range of media, from oil paintings to multi-media works, the calaveras created by more than twenty artists portrayed heroes, leaders, politicians, artists, other notable figures, and the everyday people or even ideas that have informed these artists’ lives.

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August 20 - September 29, 2007
MATERIAL WITNESS/PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

The Gloria Singletary Gallery at The Living Arts & Science Center headed in new directions, continuing to support Kentucky artists, but also opened its doors to artists from neighboring states. One of the first calls to entry offered by the fine art gallery, Material Witness/Physical Evidence included work from artists representing Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee, along with Kentucky.

Jurors Jennifer Reis, the Claypool-Young Art Gallery Director at Morehead State University, and John Begley, the Hite Art Institute Gallery Director and Curatorial Studies Professor at the University of Louisville, selected artists Kristina Arnold, Steve Bishop, Patrick Donley, Danell Dvorak, Albertus Gorman, Robert Halliday, Cindy Hinant, Philip High, Mark Hosford, Rebekah Laurenzi, Keith Linton, Kathleen Loomis, Jessica Marvin, Scott Massey, Joyce Ogden, and Fred D. Reaves to participate in this momentous exhibition. Collectively, their compelling and symbolically charged works ranged from more traditional media such as watercolor, screenprinting, cast bronze sculpture, and ceramics to mixed media works and several installations. From little bunny and smiley face stickers to a work entitled “Saltation” which included several hundreds of pounds of sand, this show beared witness to a host of materials and processes and focused on work that established a relationship with the viewer through its physicality and imagery. The artists represented in Material Witness/Physical Evidence were willing to push boundaries and appeal to the public’s collective sense of curiosity. The Gloria Singletary Gallery at the LASC was thrilled to offer viewers their thought-provoking works.

ABOUT THE JURORS

Jennifer Reis, currently the Claypool-Young Art Gallery Director at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, is both an arts professional and a practicing artist. Her award-winning works have been included in numerous juried and invitational shows across the nation and featured in several notable arts publications. Along with conducting teaching workshops, she serves on several boards and committees to advance the arts, and has juried numerous national exhibitions.

John Begley is the Hite Art Institute Gallery Director and Adjunct Associate Professor of Curatorial Studies at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a former Director of the Louisville Visual Art Association and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. Along with making his own work, he has served as Chair, committee member, advisor, and grants panelists for several arts organizations and is a Getty Trust Museum Management Institute and Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellow.

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June 25 - August 11, 2007
SIOBHAN BYRNS: THE NEW PINK

At the heart of The New Pink, an installation by artist and self-made anthropologist Siobhan Byrns, was an attempt to raise awareness of the fragility of nature and the human experience. Byrns, a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, investigated natural phenomena of our emotional attachment with beauty, love, and the modern relationship.

The New Pink was inspired, in part, by Lewis Carroll's classical stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, illustrated by John Tenniel. In Lewis Carroll's presentation of reality from the point of view of a child's fantasy, adults are cruel, childlike, irresponsible, impulsive, and self-indulgent. In Wonderland, as Alice travels through her adventures, Carroll manipulates these prejudices and shows, through Alice's eyes, how these characteristics apply to adults, authority figures, and even royalty. Byrns also looked to Sartre who described the human existence as being immersed in a large honey pot and she added “We spend our lives licking the sweet liquid to the point of extreme nausea. This quick transition from peaceful indulgence to terror and sickness propels us out of sweet habit and into our own private emptiness.”

The series of work presented in The New Pink which included installations made from honey bees, along with a number of photographs, hoped to show how we have allowed ourselves to be manipulated into wearing a seductive pair of rose colored glasses, and trusting our leaders before we trust ourselves. The lesson that Alice learns is the same lesson we all should learn, that we must control the objects around us, rather than be controlled by them.

Siobhan Byrns received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, focusing both on traditional and time-based new media imaging. During her degree, she was formally trained as a fine art restorationist and conservator in some of the countries most prominent museums. She has a Masters degree in Photographic Imaging from the Art Institute of Chicago, with post-terminal research at R.I.T.’s Munsell Color Science Lab. Byrns currently works with Apple Computers, Inc. in Creative Software development and as Macintosh Technician in Pentagon City and Washington, DC and maintains an active artistic career.

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May 7 - June 16, 2007
KENTUCKY VISIONS at The Living Arts & Science Center

Kentucky Visions at The Living Arts & Science Center was an exhibition featuring 27 Kentucky artists. The 2007 session of the Kentucky General Assembly may have ended, but the “Kentucky Visions at the Capitol” visual arts exhibition was reassembled. An exhibition organized by the Kentucky Arts Council, “Kentucky Visions at the Capitol” moved from the walls of the Senate Majority Leadership offices in Frankfort to the Gloria Singletary Gallery at The Living Arts & Science Center.

The exhibition featured 27 artists from 17 Kentucky counties who have been awarded the coveted Kentucky Arts Council’s Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship, one of the council’s highest and most competitive awards, and artists who have been juried into the KAC’s Visual Arts at the Market Program based upon the artistic excellence and suitability of the work for the wholesale and retail markets. The first of many group shows to come to the Gloria Singletary Gallery, this exhibition showcased 2-dimensional works in a variety of media, from oil paintings, a woodcut, and traditional photography to mixed media collages and digital light prints.

The Living Arts & Science Center was honored to extend the viewing session of these esteemed artist’s extraordinary works. Artists participating in the exhibition were: David Bartlett (Rowan County), Patricia Brock (Jefferson County), Jim Bryant (Calloway County), Ken Landon Buck (Campbell County), Paul Burns (Madison County), Jim Cantrell (Nelson County), Laura Eklund (Carter County),  Warren Farr (McCracken County), Bruce Frank (Scott County), Linda Fugate-Blumer (Fayette County), Elsie Kay Harris (Fayette County), Rebecca Cathleen Hill (Jefferson County), Emmy Houweling (Henry County), Michael McCardwell (Shelby County), Dan McGrath (McCracken County), Gary Mesa-Gaido (Rowan County), Kevin Muente (Kenton County), Kathleen O’Brien (Mercer County), Letitia Quesenberry (efferson County), Sandy Miller Sasso (Calloway County), Carol Shutt (Fleming County), Guinever Smith (Jefferson County), Karen Spears (Fayette County), David Stratton (Daviess County), Robert Tharsing (Fayette County), Ralph Tyree (Clark County), and Gayle Williamson (Jefferson County).

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April 13 - April 28, 2007
SCAPA Student Art

The School for the Creative and Performing Arts believes that "young people with an excitement for the arts should have the opportunity and encouragement to develop not only a variety of artistic skills, but    also their creativity, self-expression, academic potential, intellectual insight, moral character, and a sense of community responsibility." The Living Arts & Science Center believes that too. That's why we're proud to provide the opportunity for SCAPA Visual Arts students to display their exceptional artworks and help bring them to the public eye. The SCAPA Student Art Exhibition is part of the Art Lease Program which offers creative works of art by Visual Arts majors and minors to local businesses and "lessees" who get to enjoy the works in their own lobbies, offices, halls or homes for a six month period (and for only $60). What a bargain. And what a great way for SCAPA students to not only show off their artistic talents to the local community but also earn money for the school and help provide them with the supplies and materials they need to keep creating. The LASC is delighted to display the works of these aspiring, young artists and would like to invite your participation in the Art Lease Program. Visit the SCAPA Student Art Exhibition at the Living Arts & Science Center. It's truly one-of-a-kind!

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February 16 - April 7, 2007
Jim Brancaccio:
A Retrospective

Beneath the vivid colors and gravity-defying images of Jim Brancaccio's work, there often lie darker layers that expose the duality, opposing forces, foolishness, and ambivalence of life. Hand painted and textured papers and hand pulled prints (etchings, collagraphs, and monotypes) come together in mixed media collages that quite deftly explore emotional currents and mortality. Still very much alive and producing work, Jim says that he is "fascinated and addicted to the act of combining papers and prints into artworks that hold meanings far different than the sum of their parts."

Jim Brancaccio has been a prolific part of the Lexington art scene for over 30 years. As an exhibiting artist, his work has been included in solo and group shows at Transylvania's Morlan Gallery, at Wingspan, LexArts, Artist Attic, 3rd Street Stuff, The Living Arts & Science Center, and at Gallery Soleil. Jim received an Individual Artist Professional Development Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council in 2000 as well as the Al Smith Professional Assistance Award. He is also a member of the Bluegrass Printmakers Cooperative and frequently works in their studio and exhibits in their groups shows at Artsplace.

Jim recently retired from the Living Arts & Science Center after 23 years. He began working with the LASC in 1983 and became the Gallery Director in 1987. Over the nearly 20 years as Gallery Director, Jim worked with and supported countless individual artists through solo and group exhibitions as the LASC. We were very pleased to be able to present a retrospective of his work as well as showcase some of his more recent works. Jim Brancaccio's work was also on view at Main Cross Gallery in Victorian Square and at Level 3 Art on Main Street (above Lexington Antique Gallery).

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January 5 - February 8, 2007
Simply Irresistible: H'Artful of Fun Art Exhibition

This year's H'Artful of Fun included a preview exhibition in the Gloria Singletary Gallery at the LASC of outstanding original works created by the area's most talented and celebrated artists. From paintings, photographs and prints, to ceramic and mixed media sculptures, art lovers found that perfect piece (or two, or three...) to add to their collection. We were also pleased to offer items donated by the estate of Lillian Boyer, an anthology of artworks from the collection of an artist and arts advocate admired for her many contributions to the Lexington community.

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ABOUT THE GALLERY

Once a double parlor with grand, wood pocket doors, The Gloria Singletary Gallery at The Living Arts & Science Center is a small jewel of an exhibition space in a renovated 1847 antebellum mansion located near downtown Lexington. Two rooms, both with 11-foot ceilings and totaling 108 running feet, can be used together as one exhibition space or individually. Three exterior walls with oversized windows provide extensive natural lighting. Visits to the space during gallery hours are encouraged and a floor plan is available upon request. The Gallery hosts eight to ten exhibitions each year and schedules shows at least twelve months in advance. For more information, contact Stacey Chinn, Gallery Director or call 859.252.5222.

 

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