First Friday Trolley Hop

July 6, 2007 First Friday Trolley Hop

The Louisville Photo Biennial 2007 features six weeks of shows at twenty-seven galleries, a museum, and a national conference. Many of the participating galleries are on the First Friday Trolley Hop. For full details on schedules at each venue, visit the Louisville Photo Biennial website.

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Chapman-Friedman Gallery,
624 W. Main Street
showing photography of Julius Friedman,
Chris Witzky, and
Bob Hill

Mary Craik Gallery,
815 E. Market St.

A new series of quilted wall hanging by Mary Craik using bright colors on black backgrounds.

Prada Imports on the second floor has many new products imported from South America.These include paintings, tableware, jewerly, wall hangings and clothing. The prices are very reasonable.

Zephyr Gallery, 610 E. Market St.,
is featuring photographs by Molly Rucks and paintings and photos by Matt Meers

Bearno's by the Bridge, 131 W. Main St.,
The Layzees will be playing on July 6th from 9:30pm-1:30am.

The Gallery at The Kentucky Center, 501 W. Main Street

Storyboard for a Disparate Life, PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL MORRIS
Exhibit runs through July 13 In conjunction with the 2007 Louisville Photo Biennial
Join us Friday, July 6 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., for our First Friday Gallery Hop.
Enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres from Jarfi's Bistro.
About Michael Morris:
Michael Morris is a graphic designer and photographer living and working in Louisville. His company, Michael Morris Design, Inc., produces design and photography for clients worldwide. His non-commercial photography, with an emphasis on portraiture, is a creative outlet that inspires and reinforces his commercial work.About the Louisville Photo Biennial
Now in its fourth year, the Louisville Photo Biennial features six weeks of shows at twenty-two galleries, the Speed Museum and a national photography conference. For more information, visit the Louisville Photo Biennial website. The Gallery at The Kentucky Center is a member of LOOK, the Louisville-area consortium of fine art galleries and artspaces. http://www.kentuckycenter.org

21C Museum, 700 W. Main St.
Neva Geoffrey and Tyrone Cotton Performance
July 6th, 2007 * In the Atrium Gallery * 7:30 pm to Late
Performances are free to the public *

21c presents Neva Geoffrey, the talented young songwriter out of Lexington, for a special solo performance. Then, also for the first time at 21c, Louisville native Tyrone Cotton will perform songs from his recently released album on the In Room One label.

Neva Geoffrey's performances tells a story of her travels. She sings whimsical melodies over a playful piano or an airy guitar. Residing in Lexington, KY, Geoffrey has spent the last few months sharing her debut album, "The Days are Rolling," through extensive touring. She has been compared to mind folks in the likes of Andrew Bird and Cat Power, but her songwriting has an ethereal voice all its own.

Tyrone Cotton has moved audiences in every size venue from New York University to the Kyoto International Folk Festival in Japan, where he has toured four times. After opening for Rahn Burton, former pianist for jazz legend Rasahn Roland Kirk, Burton said, "Tyrone can play his music anywhere in the world. If it were not true I would not say it." After a Louisville performance, Beat-legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti approached Cotton to tell him, "You're the real thing." Historian Douglas Brinkley was blown away by Cotton's performance at an INSOMNIACATHON music and poetry Festival. And legendary composer, musician, author David Amram, who has heard Cotton several times, said in his usual animated manner, "He's amazing!"

Cotton's style, in part, was born while studying classical guitar in college. Also around this time he began playing blues and folk blues in coffee shops and small venues, mixing blues with classical. He employed classical techniques such as a right hand classical finger style, playing arpeggios of chords instead of strumming. He also began to sing. He developed a love for words, especially the work of Langston Hughes, and began to realize their power. The desire to play music, to sing, and to tell a story was born.›

www.myspace.com/nevageoffrey
www.tyronecotton.com

Glassworks, 815 W. Market St. Annual Seconds Sale! Glassworks artists sell their "not quite perfect" pieces for great bargains! 6-9 pm during the Trolley Hop	Frazier International History Museum 829 W. Main Street

Mercantile Gallery Lofts, 301 E. Market St.,
Be the first to take an exclusive tour of the fantastic design-driven luxury lofts, during the July 6 First Friday Trolley Hop. The Mercantile will be open to the public from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. and also on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m - 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

Garner-Furnish Studio
642 East Market Street

Scott Garner
the speed of slow
backroads America, blogged from a scooter photographs and text

Scott Garner bought a 50cc scooter-- which tops about 40 mph
downhill with favorable wind-- and took off across America.
Excerpts from Garner's blogged road notes
(digital photos and text) hang through August at Garner-Furnish Studio, 642 E. Market.
Hours are Wed-Sat 12-5.

Fourth Street Live! Live! Art – In association with the First Friday Trolley Hop, this interactive art exhibit showcases artists at work while entertaining and educating patrons about the creative process.

Steelskin Gallery, 312 W. Main Street,
will feature a show called 'Urban Rustic: sculptural furniture and lighting'

The opening for the show is July 6th during the Trolley Hop from 5-11pm. We will begin with an initial collection of pieces and for 3 months , sculptural furniture, lighting, and accessories will be the focus of the studio. Pieces will be added in the Gallery as they are finished. Lots of reasons to stop in every now and again.

Galerie Hertz, 711 S. Third St, is pleased to present the Photo Biennial Exhibition:
X & Y Axes: Panoramic Street Photography by Richard Bram. This exhibition of large-scale black and white photographs, which opened June 15, 2007, will run through July 31, 2007. The works can be viewed Wednesday through Friday from 11am -5pm and Saturdays from 11am to 3pm or by appointment. Gallery Hertz is located at 711 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, phone number 502-584-3547.

Intrigued by alternatives to the standard 35 mm picture frame, Bram has experimented with various panoramic cameras from plastic camera-in-a-box to an old Russian Horizontal with a moving-lens 120-degree view. The exhibition "X & Y Axes: Panoramic Street Photography" is an exploration of the stunning possibilities, both vertical and horizontal, of the panoramic format. The subject matter ranges from lazy Ohio River boat rides and frenetic Derby days to the bustling streets of New York City, Perugia, Shanghai and points beyond.

Richard Bram, a former Louisvillian and current resident of London, England, exhibits his works both locally, nationally, and internationally. Recent solo exhibition venues include Galerie Kasten in Mannheim, Germany, KunstRaum Bernusstraße in Frankfurt, Germany, Casa de la Ciudad in Oaxaca, México, The Tate St. Ives in Cornwall, England, The Royal Academy of Music, London, and The Lithuanian Photo-Artists Union in Vilnius, Lithuania. His work is included in collection around the world including the Bibliothéque national de France, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prague House of Photography, and Barclays Bank in London. Most recently, Mr. Bram’s work has been purchased by the Tate Modern in London, where he has also been invited to present a workshop/seminar on street photography.

Bicycle, Oaxaca 2002

Unabomber, 815 E. Market St (upstairs) "Gorilla Style" MM-BC (Mason Maxey and Bobby Clifton) Corporate Guns and Logos on Plates

Carr+Waite Studios, 221 S. Hancock St. ,is exhibiting the works of Geoff Carr, Caroline Waite and Julius Friedman for the 2007 Photo Expo Biennial.

Gallery NuLu, 632 E. Market St. #2
T’What? is an exhibit that dares to explore the boundaries and meaning of gender, femininity, and womanhood, with a diverse range of works by 15 (both female and male) artists, from Kentucky, New York, Missouri, Texas, California, and Brazil. T’What offers a challenging, emotional, and provocative presentation of photography and film that confronts its viewers with one question: T’What does it mean to be a woman?

Exhibition Dates: Friday, June 29th- Monday, July 30th
Opening Reception: Friday, June 29th, 5-8 (Louisville Photo Biennial)
First Friday Reception: Friday, July 6th, 6-9
Gallery Talk Thursday, July 26th, 6-7:30, closing reception follows

The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St.,has two shows opening for the July Trolley Hop.
Artful Adornment: Kentucky Jewelryruns from July 6 through October 6, 2007. This exhibition will showcase the variety of stunning hand-crafted jewelry being made today by Kentucky artists. The opening reception will be held Thursday, July 5th from 5-7:30 at the Museum.
Pieces featured in this show span the range from being highly wearable to blurring the line between jewelry and sculpture. Prices will range from less than $100 to up into the thousands.
“Jewelry truly is a form of wearable art, and today’s artists are creating a diverse range of designs through a variety of techniques including bead-weaving, metal-smithing, stone-setting, glass bead-making and more,” explains Mary Ellen Furlong, Associate Curator at KMAC.

Visions from Voices: Artwork Inspired by Kentucky Poetry, Prose and Songwriting, sponsored by Brown-Forman. This exhibition will feature artwork that has been inspired by Kentucky literature and will include works created by illustrators, graphic artists, designers, book binders and others. The opening reception, sponsored by Proof on Main, will be held Thursday, July 5 from 5-7:30pm and will feature readings by Bobbie Ann Mason and Richard Taylor. The exhibit will remain on display through October 6, 2007.
Kentucky has a long and rich history of prose, poetry and song-writing. Robert Penn Warren was the first Poet Laureate of the United States. William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was America's first Black novelist. A. B. Guthrie (1901-1991) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his 1949 novel, The Way West. In more recent times, Wendell Berry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Barbara Kingsolver and Sue Grafton regularly grace the best sellers list. Using their works and words as inspiration, we have invited artists and others to express their own particular creative visions. All work in this show will have a clearly articulated literary inspiration or reference based on the work of Kentucky poets, writers or songwriters.

David Schuster Creations, 211 S. Clay St., On June 27 a special temporary art exhibit premiered in Louisville Waterfront Park. It is located at the Overlook (near Gracehoper), where it will be on display through September. The exhibit, “Art in Waterfront Park,” features 4’x8’ reproductions of paintings that represent various locations in the Louisville Metro area. The artist, David Schuster, portrays a broad visual cross section of Louisville, pictorially representing the city's diversity through images from various locales. Examples of the scenes include a view of the city from Iroquois Park; a view of old Louisville; a Prospect horse farm; a still life of locally grown produce used in local restaurants along Bardstown Road; and a scene of the Sunset over the Ohio River. A total of twelve scenes will be on exhibit. Sale of the original oil paintings will benefit Waterfront Park. They can be viewed at the First Friday Gallery Hop or by appointment at David Schuster Creations, 211 S Clay Street.

FREE parking is available at the Riverside lot, 113 E. Market Street next to the White Castle; 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.