| Master Makers: Marvin
Finn January 19 - March 4, 2000
Sponsored by
Texas Gas Transmission Corporation |
Marvin is undeniably one of the
treasures of Louisville. This unassuming, gentle man creates wonderful, exotic, brightly
painted animals from the simplest of found objects, wood and paint. His desire to create
toys stems back to a childhood
where he had none. He grew up with a father who carved canes and buggy wheels with spokes,
so Finn began making toys from an early age. His work ranges from large mixed media
engines, trucks and cranes to plywood animals. Their most striking feature is the
elaborate and meticulous way that he paints them with dots and dashes and flashes of color
against a solid color background |
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| Hidden Talents: The Art of Those Who
Teach March 15 - April 22, 2000
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There is a vast, unappreciated resource of
artists working outside of the public view in the art departments of the colleges and
universities of Kentucky. Often their work is only seen by their immediate peers in
academia, although others, such as Arturo Sandoval of the University of Kentucky, enjoy a
national reputation. The show will include potters, furniture makers, fiber artists,
painters, printmakers and photographers |
Millennium Glass:
An International Survey of Studio GlassApril 28 - July 8, 2000
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This invitational exhibition will
be co-curated by glass artist, Stephen Powell, studio glass
collector, Adele Leight, and curator, Brion
Clinkingbeard, who have identified 69 of the world's finest glass artists, each of
whom have been invited to produce a special "Millennium" work specifically for this exhibition. The participating artists include
Stanislav Libensky, Frederick BIrkhill, Richard Marquis, Preston
Singletary, Lino Tagliapietra and Dante Marioni, to name a few. Ours will be a
spectacular celebration of studio glass in a salute to the millennium! |
 
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| A Sense of Style, A Sense of Place:
National Photography Invitational July 28 - September 2, 2000
Guest Curator: Paul Paletti |
This exhibition will consist of photographic
works by artists employing traditional and non-traditional techniques. The particular
chosen pieces will evoke a sense of geography or particular regions of the world. Each of
the photographs employs a distinctive style or process in creating these works, and many
employ alternative processes. These processes include photogravures, platinum prints, hand
coloring and computer generated prints. Susan Fenton, Kenro Izu, Shelby Lee Adams, Richard
Arentz, Phil Borges, Madoka Takagi, Lynn Geesaman, Pedro Meyer, Mary Van Cline |
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| Women of Taste: A Collaboration
Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs* September 13 - October 28, 2000
A Smithsonian Institution Touring Exhibition |
The Women of Taste invitational quilt project
matched 51 women quilt artists with 51 prominent women chefs and culinary entrepreneurs.
The pairings collaborated in creating 50 contemporary art quilts based on personal and
professional ideas about food, family, and careers. The traveling exhibition itself has
been divided into halves; we will be hosting the section featuring contemporary Kentucky
quilt artist, Jane Burch Cochran, collaborating with former Louisvillian, chef Kathy Cary. |
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| Holidazzle 2000: Clay Wonderland November
8 - December 30, 2000
Opening Reception - Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Sponsored by
Brown-Forman Corporation |
Ever
wondered what a teapot for two-hundred would look like? How about
a saucer fit for a sultan? A vast vase? A cup for the whole crew?
Find out at the Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery’s annual
Holidazzle show, which this year features objects in a Clay
Wonderland. This exhibition is guaranteed to bring out the
kid in anyone, delighting with both whimsy and beauty. |
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Satian Leksrisawat & Linda Butler
January 15 - February 26, 2000
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Photographer Linda Butler has deep roots in
Kentucky. She will show a combination of photographic landscapes, much of will be familiar
to the viewer from her three books, Rural Japan Radiance, Italy in the Shadow of Time
and Inner Light, a book set at Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill. In addition, she
will present some more recent Kentucky landscapes. Satian Leksrisawat is
a potter from Brooks, Kentucky. He produces an elegant line of functional pottery with
simple, clean elegant lines. He is best known to Kentuckians for his one-of-a-kind vessels
which he finishes with a crystalline glaze. This time-consuming process results in
crystalline clusters of various shapes and sizes which are embedded in an otherwise more
uniform glaze, leaving the pot with a rich, lustrous finish. |
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| Susan Pfeiffer & Kate Noye March
4 - April 8, 2000
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Susan creates beautiful boxes of
exotic woods embellished with semi-precious stones and metals. Kate Noye is one of the
more innovative young jewelers working in Kentucky |
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| Caitlin McClanahan & Penny Sisto July
19 - August 26, 2000
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Jewelry artist Caitlin McClanahan creates works
in silver and semi-precious stones to enhance the figure as well as furniture fixtures and
fittings. Penny Sisto is a fiber artist who creates dramatic, figural, sometimes
autobiographical wall hangings using a variety of quilting, sewing and painting
techniques. |
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| Bourbon Bottles September 9 -
October 28, 2000
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Distilling is one of the arts of Kentucky and to
compliment the process we have challenged ceramic and glass artists to create vessels in
which to store and from which to dispense bourbon, reflecting their own unique and
creative styles of working |
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| Jack Fifield
& Susan O'Brien Wednesday November
9 - Saturday December 30, 2000
Opening Reception - Wednesday, November 8, 2000 |
The combination of Jack Fifield’s stunning handcrafted wood vessels
and Susan O’Brien’s highly ornamental, playful ceramic pots, cups
and containers demonstrates perfectly the intermingling of function
and form. Both artists are very attuned to the importance of
craftsmanship: as a wood turner, Fifield works in a medium requiring
great technical skill, and O’Brien herself comments on her
"nostalgia for craftsmanship." Both also create objects
which might be viewed as functional, and which would be equally at
home on a dinner table or a gallery pedestal.
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