PARTICIPATING ARTISTS - 2021
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PHILIS ALVIC
Fiber
philisalvic.info statement:
I am an artist who has chosen weaving as my principal medium of expression. Over the last 50 years, I have used completely loom-controlled pattern weaving to convey a series of visual ideas that are not usually approached through weaving. In recent years, my work has moved out of a rigid rectangular format to woven collages that incorporate many draped, layered and pieced elements. |
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MICHELLE ARMSTRONG
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Michelle Newby Armstrong is the visual arts teacher at Cardinal Valley Elementary School. As an activist and artist, she combines her understanding of art and the power that it has to bring beauty and convey a message. She has collaborated with a variety of artists and organizations to celebrate art in the community. Through these efforts she has created many public works of art and has exhibited in several local galleries and hosted celebrations and exhibitions. She believes in the healing powers of art and is proud to share her talents in her community and with her students and familes. |
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STEVE ARMSTRONG
Wood Work
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PATRICIA BALDWIN SEGGEBRUCH
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Working abstractly to bring the resonance of the soul to light through color and composition. Long held as the modern apostle of encaustic, Patricia has painted in this medium for nearly two decades. She brings the viewer deeper into the realm of the unconscious, where thought and sensation collide, in hopes of opening people to their internal machinations. Author of five books, exhibiting throughout the world, Patricia has lived in Lexington for six years, fostering an environment of inclusivity and personal power through creative expression for all artists who come to learn, teach, work from this NoLi creative compound. |
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WILLENA BELDEN
Painting
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PEGGY BISHOP
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"Hotels in Havana", a watercolor by Peggy Bishop. It was as if I stepped through a time machine during that trip to Havana; it was along awaited quest. Combining my love of travel and passion for art, Havana was a perfect place to capture on paper the spirit of the old city. I painted en plein air with the spontaneity of a master. Then back home in my studio with the rough studies as reference, I planned and delivered this vision of what I lived for a few short days in Havana. |
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MARCIA CONE
Mixed Media
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PRINCE DINGER
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My works are in portrait, landscape, animal life and still life. I have worked in both acrylic and oil. My paintings have been exhibited in local galleries and in solo shows. This representational piece of my work is in oil. |
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CRIMSON DUVALL
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PATTI EDMON
Painting
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MARTA ELAM DORTON
Painting
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Marta Elam Dorton is an adjudicated Kentucky Crafted Artist working with acrylic painting, printmaking and mix media. For Open Studios Weekend she will feature acrylic paintings created during, or inspired by her June 2021 Ghost Ranch Artist Residency. Printmaking and mix media artwork will also be available. In-process art and projects will also be on the tables for you to view. |
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LINDA FUGATE-BLUMER
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Working with mixed media is both inspiring and creative. The process includes recycled materials, in addition to encaustic techniques, cold wax, photography, handmade paper and fiber to create unique art pieces. The process allows me to combine my love of collecting stuff and using it in creative ways. |
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GORDON GILDERSLEEVE
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CONSTANCE GRAYSON
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All my life I have been fascinated with the interplay of color, form and texture and this fascination is evident in my work. I utilize paint and fiber to create collages of these three elements. I have exhibited internationally in Italy and Belgium, and in AR, TX, GA, MS, TN, NY, MD and KY in the United States. My work is in the permanent collections of UK HealthCare, Lexington, KY; Christian Bros. University, Memphis, TN; Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, KY; LeBonheur Healthcare, Memphis, TN; Fine Art Library, Lexington, KY and the Jessamine County Public Library. |
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DARRELL ISHMAEL
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A native Kentuckian, the rural landscape and family of creatives provided my interest in the arts. Love of this land led me to incorporate natural materials such as Kentucky coal, Kentucky River sand and limestone into my paintings. Focusing on equine, landscapes and seascapes, my textural work captures the energy and beauty of the horse as well as the emotions evoked by the natural world. Each piece is original and designed to make every interior space reflect the sophisticated tastes of their owner. |
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HONORA JACOB
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Humans are hardwired to understand and respond to archetypal images in a way that is beyond their control. Marketing professionals along with Hollywood studios and playwrights, as far back as Euripides, have long capitalized on this psychology, using it to create inspiring stories or relatable brand identities. I create narrative portraits of women drawn from archetypes in history, myths and lore. These figures are created to portray women as a blended history of feminine identity that is both autobiographical and universal in nature. A space for viewers to explore their own aspects of self where the personal becomes the universal. |
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CHARLEY JOLLY
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These paintings tell the story, my story, to me. I hope they tell other stories to you. It is a simple story of how I began to paint 40 years ago. Painting was a way that I could possess some of what slips away. Wanting to pocket the elusiveness of beauty, the transience of thought, the irony of circumstances painting helped me do that, for a while, maybe many years. What started, as looking for answers, Became searching for questions. I hope you enjoy the search. You will find things familiar and things strange. |
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DIANE KAHLO
Mixed Media
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CHRISTINE KUHN
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Christine Kuhn approaches her work playfully and explores possibilities for transformation. She is interested in problem solving and experimentation with gravity, light, reflection, translucence, depth and texture. She is very interested in creative reuse of common materials in a way which both conceals and reveals their humble origins. Christine has exhibited work in the Southeastern US, Ecuador, Bulgaria and Venice, Italy. She has completed murals in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the US State Dept and in Vietnam with the Rock Paper Scissors Foundation. She has numerous murals in her home state of Kentucky and neighboring states. |
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JOHN LACKEY
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John Lackey of Lexington is a painter, printmaker, writer and musician, and has created logos, posters and book covers for, among others, Holler Poets Series, Larkspur Press and North Lime Coffee and Donuts. He is super-psyched to be back on the north side. Props to Old School. |
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VALERIE LARY
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Valerie was born in London, raised in Melbourne, Australia and came to live in Houston when she was 17. On stage she preferred acting roles in comedies, mysteries and melodramas. She began painting in Austin, TX in the 1990s and has collectors in many states. She moved to Lexington ten years ago and works in a variety of media including paint, wood, acrylic, cellophane, and found materials. She balances conceptual planning with spontaneous creativity. |
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BANNING LARY
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When the unconscious mind is accessed and the energy channeled into the act of painting, conscious thought is transcended as the body and senses become the tool of the stored psychic energy. When the flow stops, consciousness resumes as an evolved aesthetic sense evaluates the work and suggests changes. In this way the unconscious and conscious processes of the human mind work in tandem to execute and complete each piece until the point where the decision is made to leave it alone. My style of Catharcism can be classified as abstract, owing homage to previous schools of painting from the Fauvists to the Abstract Expressionists. |
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MARCO LOGSDON
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Paint provides mental relief and allows me to come to terms with the drudgery of life. I am very unromantic about the notion of being an artist and making art. I produce objects or things that document the fact that I was around one day doing something constructive. The paintings are my timesheets of my daily existence. I use oil, tar and beeswax as my primary mediums. I try to use only "reclaimed" materials to paint on, such as door panels, tiles, and discarded wood - items found in the day-to-day life as I know it. |
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KASANDRA McNEIL
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Kasandra McNeil specializes in portraits, still life and landscapes. Capturing the incidental moment is always paramount to what she paints, those fleeting moments that can later mean so much. She is available for private consultations in her Artists Attic Studio located in Downtown Lexington in Victorian Square. |
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BRYCE OQUAYE
Illustrator/Animator
www.artstation.com/mrmad100s statement:
There are two things that drove me towards illustration. Sequential art and hip hop. Visual storytelling and it’s place within black culture have informed my pen since I was child. It influences my vision and preference towards the delivery of my stories and narratives. The street artists of my many previous neighborhoods and the manga and comic artists of my favorite stories crafted my skill set. Within black America, art is the outlet to be heard and connected through. Our creative energy has been our drive and our culture. It crafted the hip hop culture I was born into and represent to this day. I see things through the lense of distorted anatomy and visual effects often as a way to imply the uncontrollable nature of the world we live in. |
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MONICA PIPIA
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GRAHAM POHL
Painting
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Our visual experience intimates a deep sea of meaning beyond what we see. I dive into that world through observation, analysis, drawing and painting. While I tend to respect form, color and spirit as they appear, I trust that design will bring beautiful mysteries to the surface. |
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JULIE QUICK
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Julie Quick paints scenes of all kinds in soft pastels with bold color and expressive marks. She paints Kentucky landscapes, streetscapes and the equestrian way of life, and she enjoys capturing unique perspectives of the Bourbon industry as well. She paints with an undercurrent of her emotions, and let's the viewer finish the layers with their own interpretations. |
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MARY REZNY
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With its endless complexity, nature is my inspiration. My artwork begins with a photograph, photo ait, traditional or digital. I then layer the photograph with photoshop, paint, organics and a variety of paper techniques, pushing the photograph beyond its traditional boundaries. The finished photo-mixed media artwork has a painterly look that captures the form, texture, fluidity and entrancing quality of the natural subject. |
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CYNTHIA ROBERTS
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A Small Extravagance is a family owned custom jewelry studio specializing in the creative use of colored gemstones. Also hosting silversmithing classes on Saturdays, all experience levels welcome. |
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SHARON ROSS
Painting
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As a creator of art, I love exploring the potential and limits of a variety of mediums, styles and subjects. |
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ARTURO ALONZO SANDOVAL
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In 2008 my Pattern Fusion: MOTHERBOARD series redirected my mixed media fiber pieces. Digital motherboard designs were now made in analog materials and carried microfilm data on their surfaces. The perfect fusion of digital storage motifs and analog materials. |
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AARON SCHRODER
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DEBORAH SLONE
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Deborah's botanical watercolor compositions are created from her own photographs of people and plants, insects and natural objects found in Central and Eastern Kentucky including the Red River Gorge geological area. Each painting is created using many layers of a watercolor glazing technique to slowly build up the form and character 0f each object. They offer an opportunity to reflect intimately on the natural world and to consider the shared stewardship of both our traditions and the environment. |
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LISA STRONG
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After years of oil painting, I happened across wool felting several years ago and fell in love with this medium. The image is achieved by poking wool fibers in fabric until the intended image appears. This type of fiber art really lends itself to pet portraits because of the tactile, lifelike effect that is created. |
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TRESA THOMPSON
Painting
lexingtonstudiogallery.com statement:
My work is based in abstraction with strong Colorist concerns. Henri Matisse said "the chief function of color should be to serve expression, helping to express light from the artist's brain, and not from physical phenomena". I would only add that for me physical phenomena are a springboard for expressing a sense of place, or that which is visually familiar and comfortable. A relationship of dialog and juxtaposition of color allows me to explore magical internal landscapes, places I visit when I close my eyes. |
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CATHY VIGOR
Fiber
statement:
Cathy Vigor is a Fiber Artist who specializes in Surface Design on fiber. Her work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. Most recently her work was included in Fiber Focus 2019 in St. Louis, Explorations in Felt 2020 at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clifton, NJ, Separate Yet Connected, International Feltmakers Virtual Exhibit 2020, Archetypes Virtual Fiber Exhibit 2020, Lexington Art Leagues Member Exhibit 2021, and Craftsmen, Kentucky Crafter, Surface Design Association, International Feltmakers, and the Fiber Guild of Lexington. |
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CATE WAGONER
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I love it all but return again and again to the human experience. My greatest wish as an artist is to relay joy; both in creating and viewing each image. |
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CLAY WAINSCOTT
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I've been in this studio for many years producing representational paintings in a highly personal yet easily assimilated style. The casual and unattended glance grants access to the memory and expectation of the viewer, and a channel for dialogue is opened. I paint with one primary color at a time, each reduced to transparency and applied in layers, with secondary colors mixing on the canvas from back to front. Images resolve with distance and read well in half-light. Recently I have been "remastering" older canvases to bring them up to date with what I've learned since they were first produced. |
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CHERYLE WALTON
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The work is a mixed media technique consisting of a base of flat acrylic colors painted in general shapes that make up the basic image. Shapes are then outline in black acrylic. Once the surface is dry, one or two coats of black watercolor is applied to the entire surface. When the image is completely dry, a wet brush is then used to pull the black away from the color to leave the texture and shadow. The uniqueness comes in the process of using two mediums, yet taking one away at the end to leave the complete image. |
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MICHAEL WAYNE
Photography
michaelwayne.us statement:
I started taking photographs from my car while traveling back and forth to Chicago helping with openings every month at an art gallery my partner opened in 2006. I would glance over at distorted lights through the rain-soaked windows or the sky and setting sun through trees blurring as they passed on my travels. I was overwhelmed with their beauty. My phone has now replace my point and shoot camera. I hold on to the idea that there is beauty all around us, even though the world is on fire. We must pause and quiet our mind to notice. |
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DEBORAH WESTERFIELD
Mixed Media
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LAVON VAN WILLIAMS Jr
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REE WILSON
Drawing
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MELANIE O. WISDOM
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I am an artist living here in Lexington, painting horses and pets. |
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LAVERNE ZABIELSKI
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Art to wear and home decor using shibori dyed and repurposed fabrics. |
