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Gallery NuLu, 632 East Market, Second Floor
With his new collection, Gibbs Rounsavall and Gallery NuLu close the year together – and start 2008 - with his pieces that “define eye candy” (Diane Heilenman, The Courier- Journal).
Earning his BFA in illustration from Washington University in St. Louis and a MAT in art education from the University of Louisville, Rounsavall has shown in New York at the Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art, in Ohio, and throughout Louisville.
“This exhibit is a comprehensive collection of works that offer insight into my creative
process. Each piece starts with a basic element, or building block such as a line, shape, or color. I twist, turn, bend and stretch these elements searching for their hidden potential, similar to
the experience of teaching oneself how to play a musical instrument. After a time of
experimentation, I eventually feel equipped to play this “instrument” and begin the process
of composing.”
Rounsavall’s work “shows how sublime – and complicated – simplicity can be”
(D. Heilenman).
Please join us to celebrate and enjoy Gibbs Rounsavall’s latest collection! |
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The Museum Plaza Sales & Design Center
707 W Main Street
The Museum Plaza Sales & Design Center will be open for the Trolley Hop on January 4th until 9pm.
All are welcome to enjoy a glass of wine, explore the space, and learn more about this exciting project underway on West Main Street. |
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Frazier International History Museum
829 West Main Street
Stop in and enjoy light refreshments and listen to the Blues.
Cash bar available. |
Mary Craik Gallery, 815 E. Market St.
New series of quilted cotton wall hangings with wool surface embellishment.
Tim Faulkner Gallery, 2nd floor, Paintings by Erik Orr Miscellany.
Estella Majajo Gallery, 2nd Floor, Music and poetry readings by Paul and Shanna Smith. |
 21cMuseum
700 West Main Street
Sculpture Installation by Anthony Goicolea
Anthony Goicolea's Ramp is a sculptural and sound installation that continues the artist's work of creating imaginative and abundant environments. This large skateboard ramp, or half pipe, is frozen and suspended in time while the natural elements of leafless trees and barren roots reclaim the abandoned man-made structure. In contrast, the half pipe is covered with repetitive markings, carvings, and graffiti tags that are almost obsessive and territorial in their repetition and seem like an urbanized form of instinctive animal traits and markings. A sound component can be heard from the piece of birds and skateboarders skating back and forth, both of which sound a bit like the respiratory system, pulse, or heartbeat of the sculpture. The abandoned ramp also serves as a reclaimed nesting ground for 10 white ptarmigan snow birds. This association of trees and birds in the skateboard ramp are elements of nature transplanted into an arctic urbanized landscape.
Commissioned for Calvin Klein Madison Avenue in 2006
Collection of 21c Museum Foundation |
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 UpComing Event:
In the Atrium Gallery, January 3, 11am
Free for the public
Limited Seating, 100 seats available
Register by emailing elizabeth.hurst@21chotel.com
11:00am - 11:40 Squallis Puppeteers performs "Li'l Horse's Big Adventure"
11:40am - refreshments served (cookies, juice & fruit)
Immediately following refreshments there will be a finger puppet workshop.
Children will have the opportunity to make their own finger puppets. Li'l Horse's Big Adventure 30-45 minutes (perfect for 3-8 year olds) Do something really special with your kid this holiday- don't sit them in front of the TV for a week, take them to a puppet show. Create memories you can share with them- watch them interact and give them a chance to show you what they can create. Little Horse’s Big Adventure is set on a farm and is the story of a little horse looking for her mom. What she finds instead is a collection of oddball hand puppet characters. The audience participates by exploring different emotions with the puppets. The show was created for children 3-8 years old, so there are no giant puppets, instead this show has six animal hand puppets.Refreshments will be provided and immediately following there will be a workshop for kids to learn to make their own finger puppets. Finger Puppet Workshop
Kids and adults get crazy creative by designing their own finger puppets characters out of recycled materials and fabric scraps. We provide all the art making materials including double sticky tape, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, buttons, bric brac, pom poms and much more. We use hot glue for large beads and buttons which must be manned by a person over 13. |
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Park Place on Main, 401 E. Main
We will have Steve Crews playing Jazz Piano
in the bar at Park Place and our happy hour
special will be available from 5pm to 7pm, where everything on the bar menu is half price. |
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Zephyr Gallery, 610 E. Market St.
Zephyr Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by three Louisville-based artists, Matthew Loeser, James R. Southard, and Laura Skinner. The show will run from January 4th through February 9th, 2008, and the artist's reception will be held in conjunction with first Friday gallery hop on January 4th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Zephyr.
* James R. Southard will be showing a collection of color photographs of boar, pig, and goat heads, which illustrate symbolically the sacrifices others make for us. His portraits serve as a reminder that no matter who you are, you have undoubtedly received help from family, friends, or strangers, and you must give them thanks in return. Southard’s images thus become visual symbols of sacrifice, and also serve as his own way of giving thanks to the people he values.
* Laura Skinner will also be showing color photographs. Her images depict moments of intimacy that, because of their visual obscurity and ambiguity, become symbolic, rather than representational portraits. The photographs focus on touch, and the dichotomy between aggression and tenderness in the most basic, physical form of human interaction. In some cases the interaction is apparent and in other it is implied, but in all instances there is a subtle suggestion of hostility and affection in coexistence.
* Matthew Loeser's exhibit will consist of a series of charcoal drawings depicting chain link fences as well as ascale reproduction of a wooden privacy fence frombalsa. The drawings are rendered in specific detail and assembled from multiple sheets of frosted Mylar,which overlap each other visually connecting a fragmented continuous image. Although they are drawn with a certain amount of care, the paper itself holds evidence of process by way of scratches and fingerprints, not unlike the decay of an old family
photograph stored in a shoebox. The 3 inch high privacy fence, resting on a 6' x 9' mound of darksoil, bends and wraps around itself resembling what best can be described as a derailed locomotive. Built in a repetitive and tedious stretch of time the construction reads like homage to the middle-aged o-scale train enthusiast. The fence, represented in aniconography manner in both the drawings as well as the sculpture stands to signify the metaphorical barrier between emotional, social and physical aging and the exercise of coming to grips with these changes on a personal level. |
Logan Reulet, “L. pardinus,” mixed media collage, 2007
Karen Stanton – Gentry, painting
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Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, 100 E. Main Street
M. A. Thesis Exhibition: Logan Reulet & Karen Stanton - Gentry through January 5, 2008.
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Fri., 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.; & 1 st Fri., 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
All Hite Art Institute events are free and open to the public. For more information on Hite Art Institute exhibitions and events, including our lecture series go to: www.art.louisville.edu |
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The Mayan Cafe, 813 E. Market Street
The Mayan Cafe invites you this First Friday to stop in and enjoy our delicious Winter Menu.
Our shrimp invasion which comes in a roasted garlic lime sauce, served with a chili relleno, is sure to satisfy you after an evening of shopping and gallery hopping!
If you're in the mood for something light, then try our smoked salmon crepe, stuffed with cream cheese and topped with fresh baked figs. It is wonderful.
For dessert, you must enjoy our chocolate mousse tort with a glass of Felice Vineyards Zinfandel. You can support two local establishments in the same course!
We look forward to seeing you on January 4th. |
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mixed media paintings by
Cheryl Chapman
collages by Jacque Parsley
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The Gallery at The Kentucky Center
501 West Main Street
presents
MEMORIES ARCANE :
Collages by Jacque Parsley
Mixed Media Paintings by Cheryl Chapman.
Exhibit runs through January 31, 2008 in the main lobby, during regular Kentucky Center hours: Mon. – Sat. 10a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday Noon-5 p.m.
Join us for First Friday Gallery Hop and artists’ reception on Friday, January 4.
The Kentucky Center, main lobby, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hors d’oeuvres compliments of Jarfi's Bistro.
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Garner-Furnish Studio
642 E Market @ Clay
Denise-594-2039
Joyce-641-8086
Catch us at work in addition to W TH F S 12-5
<-Joyce Garner
pat,pat
30x40" oil on canvas
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Pyro Gallery, 624 W. Main St.
hours are Thursday through Saturday 11 am to 6 pm, and by appointment.
<--Fiber artist Bette Levy’s “Meticulous Attention” opens at Pyro Gallery Friday, January 4, during the First Friday Trolley Hop between 6:00 and 9:00 P.M. Pyro Gallery member Levy has 11 invited guest artists from the internationally known Surface Design Association to exhibit with her.
This show is accompanied by an exhibition of sculptures and drawings entitled “Infrastructure” in the downstairs Garden Gallery by newest Pyro member Emily Detrick. -->
Both shows will run through February 9th.
Emily Detrick’s recent body of work in the Garden Gallery of Pyro is composed of drawings, paintings and clay sculptures. Detrick combines mechanical and animal imagery to highlight the parallels between the man-made and the natural. A mixture of observation and imagination, her subject matter bridges the gap between our animal biology and the industrialized society in which we live. |
 Swanson Reed Contemporary, 638 East Market Street
The gallery will feature two visual artists currently residing in Lexington, Lawrence Tarpy and Lennon Michalski.
* Tarpy's quirky and thought provoking images carefully carved into panel surfaces and infused with ink and paint have won numerous awards over the years, most recently from the Kentucky Arts Council.
* Michalski's mostly large scale paintings have also been receiving accolades, grants and awards. A recent recipient of an MFA from the University of Colorado, he is quickly gaining the reputation of one of the state's finest up and coming artists in painting and video.
The first Friday Hop will serve as the reception for the exhibit.
www.swansonreedcontemporary.blogspot.com
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| FREE parking is available at the Riverside lot on the northwest corner of 8th & Market; Slugger Field, Main Street at Jackson, and the 4th St. Live Garage after 6 p.m. Free parking is also available on the street after 6:00 p.m. |
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