MICHELLE NEWBY ARMSTRONG
Mixed Media
www.facebook.com/artstrongart statement:
Michelle Newby Armstrong is the visual arts teacher at Cardinal Valley Elementary School. She has created public works of art in Lexington such as the Hive mural, the Gardenside Kroger mural, a mural at the HOPE Center recovery program for women and she participated in the Book Bench Project creating two benches depicting books by Kentucky authors. She believes in the healing powers of art and is proud to share her talent in many different ways in her community. |
DAN BARNES
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WILLENA BELDEN
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Willena is an artist working with acrylic and mixed media to create paintings that are reflective of her life journey, sometimes using poetry, nature and current events as inspiration. Process and experimentation are very important in her work as she builds layers of paint and draws with different mark-making tools to express these themes creating a kind of history for the viewer to ponder. |
AMANDA BRIDGES
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Amanda Bridges is a mixed-media artist based in Lexington, Kentucky. She works with various materials including ceramics, metal, enamel, glass, wood, paper and canvas. With a focus on process, she alters the way materials are traditionally used. Amanda has a BFA from Western Kentucky University. As a ceramic artist she is a juried member of the Kentucky Crafted Program and the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen. |
LUCINDA CHAPMAN
Mixed Media
www.lucinda-art.com statement:
Lucinda Alston Chapman is a multi-media artist with a Bachelor’s degree in Ceramics and a Master’s degree in Design. Her major interests remain painting and paper collage; subjects range from alphabets, communication word play to psychology and science. Lucinda has had over 80 solo, invitational and jury exhibitions winning first place and top awards on national and international levels with her visually layered series collages. Her work is in private and University collections throughout the United States. In 2002, Lucinda was juried onto the national register at The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C. |
ADRIENNE DIXON
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Adrienne Dixon's studio practice is primarily painting based, although she does incorporate elements of printmaking, sculpture, performance art, and audience interactivity. Adrienne's work is founded in observational drawing but her ideas are processed through a lens influenced by color theory and minimalism. Adrienne abstracts forms from her surrounding. Architecture, man-made objects, decoration, and landscapes that she observes are translated and combined into forms within compositions where the image is held in tension with the materials it is made from. Her intention is to achieve a form of painting that is partially sculptural, where the materiality of the work is as important as its pictorial allusions. |
DALPHNA DONNELLY
Painting
www.facebook.com/DalphnaArt/ statement:
Art is the universal language. A way to connect directly, immediately, personally, across time and cultures. Dalphna lives and witnesses the joy inherent in creation. Sharing her creative excitement through decades of teaching and artist residencies. She has connected with thousands across the Commonwealth, inspiring many to fearlessly explore their own unique possibilities. The same passion, dedication and energy formerly devoted to nurturing others’ creativity is now expressed in the brilliant joy-filled color dances of her own canvases. Painting as a Spiritual Practice, her works become tangible prayers that manifest gratitude and awe and visible energies seeking universal connections from nebulae to wildflowers. |
MARTA DORTON
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Marta Dorton creates colorful textured artwork in her EncaustiCastle studio. She explores themes of connectivity, nature and peace through the experimentation of art mediums. Originally an acrylic painter, Marta branched out into printmaking and mixed media, combining these mediums into truly unique artwork. Working in an array of sizes, mediums and themes keeps Marta engaged in art making and sharing her view of our world. Her work reflects her vision of beauty, connection among people and personal peace. |
JENNIFER DUNHAM
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Jennifer Dunham loves to draw and doodle. She loves books and reading. So, as an artist and librarian, she has combined two of her loves in the pen and ink works that she creates on library card catalog cards. The "mystery" is for the viewer to "see" all the connections between the information printed on the cards and the images drawn on them. Fun! |
RONNA FISHER
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Oil and acrylic painter, Ronna Fisher, is based in her studio at Artists' Attic, Lexington, Kentucky. Training and a career in design, illustration and fine art provide a foundation for her landscape and wildlife painting style. Buyers and visitors to her studio are intrigued by the powerful atmospheric qualities her paintings convey. A current focus has been the energetic drama of light and shadow. Themes in her work often reflect the life and beauty of her native Kentucky. "As a child, the stories I read came to life with imagery and their power to express ideas became central to my development as an artist. I internalized the understanding that artwork was a narrative that could breathe life into a subject." |
BILL FLETCHER
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Bill Fletcher is a native of Lexington and has a great love for the land around this area. He spends as much time as possible outdoors hiking and painting. Bill is often drawn to scenes with moving water such as streams and waterfalls, as well as undisturbed natural places that don't bear the marks of man. Bill also enjoys painting landscapes that reflect human reverence for the land. When in the natural world he feels connection and his paintings are his sincere response to that connection. |
CHUCK FOWLER
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Chuck Fowler is an award winning fine art photographer working with traditional film cameras and hand made silver gelatin prints. |
LINDA FUGATE-BLUMER
Mixed Media
www.lindablumer.com statement:
When Linda Fugate-Blumer creates art, she wants to capture the beauty of the ordinary. Mixed media allows her the freedom to convey different views and to create unique pieces of art. |
GORDON GILDERSLEEVE
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Native Kentuckian and artists Gordon Gildersleeve has maintained an active private sculpture studio for more than a quarter of a century. Largely working with fabricated metal, his sculptures, fountains, lighting, architectural and decorative elements have been exhibited nationally, installed publicly and displayed in numerous private collections, including Churchill Downs. Offering instruction in metal fabrication techniques and working directly with the client, studio visits are encouraged. Gordon specializes in custom work and finding creative solutions to design, constructing and installing even the most difficult of projects. "I get real inspiration from people's ideas and enthusiasm." |
ENRIQUE GONZALEZ
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From his studio in Lexington, KY Enrique Gonzalez brings to life art that inspires, evokes emotions and overflows in color and movement. A native from the Venezuelan Amazonian Rainforest, Enrique finds inspiration for his work in everyday things that surround him which then he translates with his brush and bright pigments to unique works on canvas. Enrique works in the style of modern impressionism. |
JC HALCOMB
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As an artist JC is awed, humbled and inspired by the natural world and by the One who created it, by He who is her creator and He who is master artist behind the entirety of the universe. Life, JC believes, is composed of a series of infinite and complex divine miracles. The planet and every living thing on it is constantly growing and changing over the course of time. Time, where each second is completely unique from the next. Time, where moments are fleeting and will never exist again soon to be overshadowed by the larger evolution of which it played a minuscule yet crucial role. JC sees her role as an artist to first glory He who created all life and time, and second, to capture and memorialize one single moment in time, a single miracle that might otherwise have been forgotten. |
MELISSA T HALL
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For the last seven years Melissa Hall has been combining her photography with encaustic medium and paint. She photographs women wearing vintage clothing in dilapidated abandoned spaces. Using Photoshop she processes her images to fit her ideas. The last step in her process is to apply wax and oil paint to her images. She feels this adds depth and enhances the mystery and texture present in her work. Plus she finds the physical side of working with the wax and fusing each layer to be a calming and pleasant experience. |
CISSY HAMILTON
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Cissy Hamilton, a Kentucky Native, has been intrigued with art since childhood. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and after careers in graphic design and art education, she is painting full-time with a studio at Artists' Attic. With a background in Thoroughbreds, she has a special interest in racing subjects. As a member of the Plein Air Painters of the Bluegrass and long time participant in the University of Kentucky life drawing sessions, she also paints landscapes and figures. Cissy has participated in many juried shows including the American Academy of Equine Art. Her work is in private collections across the country. |
ELSIE KAY HARRIS
Painting
www.elsieharris.com statement:
A long time ago Elsie Kay Harris was inspired by what the earth has to offer in terms of direction, motivation, inspiration and the wealth of creativity. As a child she would wander into the woods and sit on a hilltop to innately be a part of it. Even now as a contemporary landscape artist residing in Kentucky, she is still intrigued by the mountains and valleys, the hills and gorges of this Appalachian massive mountain chain. As a visual artist her intention is to push the edges, processes and limits of realism with color, configuration and composition while still being faithful to the original image. Also as a contemporary landscape fine artist, she wants to stress the importance of our universal heritage - the earth - to the viewer - now depicted in a different yet still meaningful way: to express the vitality and beauty of the landscape. |
STEVE HEARTSILL
Mixed Media
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Steve Heartsill often feels that making his art is a selfish act which eases the burdens of life and keeps him sane. He is driven to create and unhappy unless doing so. What began as a simple hobby has evolved over the years into a mission to create beautiful distinctive art from a combination of materials. Steve's work began to change after he attended a Paul Wandless alternative firing workshop. Wandless combined the simple but dramatic tiles made during this workshop with salvaged steel cut by torch to frame the tiles. Steve's work continues to evolve as he explores different methods and create the tools he need to complete the pieces. Learning new skills and using his experience as a machinist are as much a part of the process as the creation itself. For him the journey is a daily adventure of learning and experimentation while allowing the elements of clay and steel to compliment each material. |
DARRELL ISHMAEL
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Darrell Ishmael creates highly texturized, large scale paintings utilizing Kentucky coal, Kentucky River sand and pressurized water to draw viewers into feeling the physical depth as well as visually absorbing the energy and dynamic aspects of his subjects. |
DIANE KAHLO
Mixed Media
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In the last ten years Diane Kahlo's work has addressed the intersection of human rights/social justice and the human assault on our environment. Using objects and "junk" that usually end up in our landfills lakes, streams and oceans, Diane creates mandalas and installations to represent populations that are often considered "disposable". As a mother, Diane's focus has been on violence against women and children and the inhumanity of policies of migration/immigration on the southern border. |
MADISON KELLEY
Mixed Media
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The themes Madison Kelley finds herself drawn to are part of a shared experience - these tend to be explorations of memory, time and relationships with such. Madison finds that it's better to have collected experiences, and being able to capture a specific instance in time is like an aid in remembering the past. Looking back on something, it seems sweeter, and perhaps this quality is what she hopes to make tangible in her paintings. Madison often uses color to represent intricacies in the face, best emphasized by the size of her work. Getting up close to subjects not only enhances what the viewer sees but hopefully what they might notice - ultimately she aims to offer insight into how she looks at people in such a way that is otherwise inexpressible. People are the driving force behind experiences - feelings of nostalgia can be even more intensely captured within those whom we know. |
CHRISTINE KUHN
Mixed Media
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Christine Kuhn is a muralist and activist specializing in using art to empower non-artists and to promote liberal social change. Christine's work is process-oriented and employs archival, up-cycled, natural and discarded materials to explore and comment on cultural norms and -isms such as consumerism, feminism, materialism, environmentalism, racism and classism. Her work explores the right-brain, non-rational experiences which underpin these "isms" and calls them into question, often through humorous means. Christine's work has been exhibited throughout the Southeastern US, in Europe and in Africa. She has completed over 20 murals in her home state of Kentucky, one in Indiana, five in the Democratic Republic of Congo and one in Vietnam. |
JOHN LACKEY
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John Lackey, owner of Homegrown Press Studio and Gallery on North Limestone in his native Lexington, KY is a painter, writer, printmaker and filmmaker. He has created logos, posters, murals and books - as well as CD covers for numerous authors, bands, non-profits, restaurants and events. He serves on the boards of VIA Creative and the Kentucky Writers and Artists for Reforestation. |
D LEE
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D. Lee exhibits her work mostly in the West (Jackson Hole, Sun Valley). This is the first time she has opened her studio here in Lexington. |
ALICE UNDERWOOD LEININGER
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Painting for Alice Underwood Leininger is a brain stretching exercise. It is a mix of right brain flights and left brain planning, a combination of play and mastery. For Alice, painting is a new way to see in a new way, to see colors where she never knew they existed, to see shapes of things, to study life and nature. From painting Alice has learned to examine the way light dances and shadows fall and how much color there is in shadow. She has learned how distant mountains appear to be so far away. Paint is a path of creative endeavor that can take any turn at any time and the possibilities are endless. The artist Keith Haring said "when it is working you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it is all about." Alice agrees. |
MARCO LOGSDON
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Painting provides mental relief and allows Marco Logsdon to come to terms with his daily existence. He is very unromantic about the notion of being an artist and making art. He produce objects that document the fact he did something constructive on any given day. These pieces are like time sheets for his life. Marco uses oil and tar as his main mediums to create his paintings. Found wood – from a dumpster, from the side of the road, from friends, from renovation projects – all play into his creative process. Contemporary art and artists inspire the evolution of his work. Marco gravitates towards non-representational or abstract art because it often defies the limits of articulation. It can move you on a level that cannot be explained, it is more about the experience. Marco works to create quiet places where form and color become an unspoken language. |
PAMELA McDANIEL
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There is nothing Pamela McDaniel loves to do more than discover an old surface to paint on and incorporate it into one of her paintings or use to create a frame. Pamela spends time with her work, letting the surfaces and patinas speak to her directing her as to what it should become. She loves to use mediums that are unusual or old, paint that has been in the tube so long that she has to cut it open, old carbon paper, tar paper, rust scraped from old metal or plaster. Pamela believes that the art one chooses to bring into ones home should speak to you as well and make one happy every time it is looked at. Pamela wants people to touch her work, enjoy the texture and brushstrokes, forever discovering something new about it. |
KASANDRA McNEIL
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Kasandra McNeil’s oil paintings capture fleeting moments when lighting, subject and place collide in what seems incidental but represents so many events in a given day. Inspired by Mary Cassatt, McNeil strives to make the unimportant, critical; the illusive, fundamental. The ballet dancer daydreaming, while lacing a slipper. A toddler discovering sidewalk chalk for the first time. Clouds drifting across the sky, casting random shadows on a grassy hayfield. These moments are familiar, comforting, innocent. They represent more of what we wish the day would become. If we pay attention, they stay with us long after they are gone. |
STEVIE MOORE
Painting
www.artstation.com/studiospectre statement:
Stevie Moore comes from Lexington, Kentucky where he paints, designs, sculpts and conceptualizes. He believes that if something doesn't exist it can be created. Stevie has many ideas in his head and only regrets that he has only so much time and energy to "juice" them out. |
ROBERT MORGAN
Mixed Media
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Robert Morgan's family goes back to the early pioneers of Central Kentucky and the mountains of Appalachia. He was shaped by his Catholic childhood, Haight-Ashbury in the 60's and the aids epidemic of the 90's. Robert's photographs tell stories of love and loss, glamour and survival. Robert spent years on the road living the life of a gypsy vagabond in his youth. He knows the world of at-risk youth well - having been one himself and survived. Robert's work tells the stories of young people striving for fame and immortality. "My work is deeply rooted in my childhood, my mother's mental illness, her suicide, my "medieval" Catholic education and the devastation of Aids, alcoholism and drug addiction. My work is at once Hollywood and Byzantine, with a dash of Hindu. My pieces are the Saints, Martyrs, Heroes, Warriors, Gods and Goddesses of my Church". |
RACHEL MOSER
Mixed Media
www.rjwmoser.com statement:
Rachel "Rowe" Moser is an artist and designer whose work includes paintings, video, installations and sound. Moser graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle with a BFA in Motion and Graphic Design, and a MFA in Studio Art from the University of Kentucky. Influences and inspiration come from Moser's many years being immersed in movement practice and performing as a ballet dance. Her work is an ongoing study of climate change and human's impact on the planet. She strives to make her work available to all audiences in an effort to share her experience and knowledge on how global warming is impacting our planet. She uses both facts and images to make the invisible visible and visceral. Moser is currently an artist and Professor of Digital Art at the University of Kentucky. |
MARSHA ICKO PARIS
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Marsha Icko Paris has had a lifetime passion for horses and art, woven into an intertwined journey resulting in her beautiful representational paintings. Marsha has been riding since she was eight years old and at the same time went on to study at the Junior School of the Art institute of Chicago (SIAC). Since moving to Lexington, painting has been her focus. Marsha remarked, "I love vivid color and my joy is capturing the expressions of the people and animals I paint. I am constantly inspired by the gorgeous horse farms and the beautiful landscapes of Kentucky." |
MONICA PIPIA
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Monica Pipia's artwork is in the permanent collection of the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Henry Clay Foundation, Kentucky Eagle Brewing and Ruggles Sign Company as well as many others. Her work is also a part of several private collections, including Dark Hollow Farm in Upperco, Maryland. She has served on the Kentucky Folk Art Center Board for 10 years. She has exhibited her work at the University of Kentucky, Arts Place, the Kentucky Folk Art Center and galleries across the country. She is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Fellowship Award, Kentucky Foundation for Women Grant and a VIP award for her residency in Alaska with the National Park Service. Monica was nominated for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks poster image 2016. Her goal is to simply keep creating art and bringing it to the public eye. |
HELEN POWELL
Painting
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Helen Powell's love of the outdoors began when she was a child. Her father, an avid bird watcher and conservationist, would take her on long hikes in the river valleys near their home. Now, as a plein air painter, it's not surprising that Helen feels most alive when observing the incredible interplay of light, shadow, reflections on water, trees and rocks. |
TERRI PULLEY
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Terri Pulley does not translate a painting or drawing into the medium of mosaic. She starts with a focal point, a piece that attracts her creativity and serves to determine the development of the work. She uses the language of the tesserae to create fresh artistic expressions. She moves the tesserae around the substrate until she likes the flow or andamento of the pieces; the way they affect each other. Working around the mosaic she leaves openings to complete at the end, allowing for fine-tuning and a second eve at the balance of the composition. Terri's architectural mosaics can be see at the State Arboretum, The Lexington Public Library, The Bluegrass Community College and the Gateway Regional Arts Center. |
JULIE QUICK
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Julie Quick is a Lexington pastel artist focused on daily life and experiences in Kentucky and her travels. She captures what she observes through expressive marks to the paper, indicating direction, movement and relationship, She strives to create poetic implication of her subject matter, leaving room for interpretation by the viewer. Julie worked her way into an artistic career by challenging herself to paint a new painting every single day in 2015. At first she thought that she would paint for 100 days to see what the process would mean to her, but as she neared the 100th day of painting she committed to paint daily for a whole year. She posted daily on Instagram to keep herself accountable to the process, developing a visual portfolio for others to follow along through her journey. Julie paints daily and has had several solo exhibitions, She maintains a studio at Artists' Attic. |
SHARON ROSS
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Sharon Ross' work is always evolving - most recently away from impressionism towards abstraction. Her abstract works reject reality in favor of creating an expression of an idea or feeling by applying the basic elements of line, shape, value, color, texture and edges. Sharon enjoys the physicality of pouring, swiping, dripping, scraping and layering paint. In manipulating and directing the materials for random results, images and symbols emerge allowing for an intuitive definition and interpretation, |
RACHEL SAVANE
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Rachel Savané designs in the moment with metal and tools in hand and acts as a child does in imaginative play time with an attitude of “let’s see what happens”. Rarely does a plan for a piece exist. |
DAWNA SCRIPPS
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PATRICIA BALDWIN SEGGEBRUCH
Painting
www.patriciabseggebruch.com statement:
Artist, author, instructor, EncaustiCamp and EncaustiCastle creator Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch has a passion for inspiring others She is known around the world as a pioneer in the contemporary practice of encaustic painting; helping to spread its use and understanding around the globe in her work as well as instruction. Her love for the medium of encaustic translates into her teaching, and students benefit from a passionate, engaging experience filled with all the knowledge Patricia has acquired and developed in her forage into this rich and diverse medium. She exhibits worldwide, with her most recent exhibit Murmur having been locally installed at New Editions Gallery in Lexington, KY |
DEBORAH SLONE
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Deborah Slone is a watercolor and graphite artist living in Lexington, Kentucky. Deborah grew up in the Appalachian mountains where she spent many hours playing in the woods and cultivating a life-long appreciation for the beauty and delicate balance of the natural world. Her work features portraits with botanical elements and renderings of plants insects, and other objects she discovers outdoors. |
AMELIA STAMPS
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HELENE STEENE
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Helene Steene's work is well recognized for its many layered depth, intensity of colors and elegance of surface. She combines classical oil glaze techniques, using natural minerals over marble dust with contemporary brushed metal on wood mostly, or on paper. Her work has been published and exhibited and collected in both private and public collections in the United States, France, Greece, Great Britain and Sweden. She has won numerous awards for her work. Most recently the 2016 CODA Awards Top 100; the World's Best Commissioned Design+Art Projects. Her works have been shown in two solo museum exhibitions and numerous galleries. Recent large scale commissions: 2019 "Ancient Healer II" at the Mayo Mankato Clinic in Minnesota; 2016 "Ancient Healer" at University of Kentucky Hospital; 2015 "Ginko" at The Apiary; 2010 "Shimmer at the Edge" at the Markey Cancer Center; in 2017 Gatton School of Business added "Archilochus' View" to their collection. |
DAVID STENULSON
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David Stenulson is a classically trained artist in painting and drawing, He received his MFA from The New York Academy of Art in 2012 and BFA in 2010 from Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. Only working from life or memory, he uniquely blends the classical style with psychological portrayals of subjective experiences partially derived from synesthesia. The images in his work vary according to specific locations and times of the year. In addition to working in the studio, he teaches privately and has taught panting and drawing classes at Centre College, Eastern Kentucky University, Sterling College and Berea College. |
LISA STRONG
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Lisa Strong has lived most her adult life in Kentucky. After painting in oil and acrylic for over 25 years, she discovered and embraced needle felting. Felting is the art of pushing small pieces of wool together to create an image. Specializing in pet portraits, she’s found that wool really lends itself to depicting fur. Lisa has no favorite color. She loves them all, and enjoys putting them together in a way that evokes emotion in the viewer. |
LYNN SWEET
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Traditionally the term'fresco' has referred to the process of painting earth pigments and oxides, suspended in water and brushed onto a surface of wet lime plaster. When this dries the pigment is bound in the plaster, not on it. The technique Lynn Sweet has developed differs markedly. However, given the very similar materials, a plaster of earth pigments and marble dust in a polymer medium, and that the color is in the surface of the plaster, not on it, he feels confident referring to this process as 'Fresco'. Inspired by early twentieth century woodblock or woodcut printers, these images refer to the woodcut process in which each color is applied one color at a time similar to Lynn's process and he encourages the comparison. Lynn uses watercolor cartoons to work out the details for frescoes of 'agricultural landscapes', views taken from rural rides through central Kentucky. |
KIPTOO TARUS
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Kiptoo Tarus's work is a documentary of his progress discovering and exploring new media and ideas, More crucially, expressing the deeply felt frustrations and challenges that are marked by personal struggle to survive and thrive in the new environment to which he has migrated while staying true to himself and his culture. Most of his works call out to what is not there, drawing attention to what is not understood, clearly stated or formed, and thus states the significance of the absent. The struggles Kiptoo has faced in making his forms out of the chosen materials are visible in the final product, showing that the journey of exploring new artistic media and processes remain inseparable to himself and his work. Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1984, Kiptoo Tarus obtained his BA in 2008 at The University of Nairobi majoring in Illustration. He studied Sculpture at the University of Kentucky in the MFA program. |
TERESA THOMPSON
Painting
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Teresa Thompson is best known as a well exhibited ceramic artist with advanced degrees in visual art and art history. Her studios have included the Lexington Art League and Studios at 122; she is a new artist with the Studio Warehouse at LuigArt Cooperative and has only recently returned to Lexington following a period of years living elsewhere, traveling and working in other media. Teresa has dedicated the next year to working with oil, cold wax, and mixed media. She is using salvaged repurposed materials in some pieces and is excited to find a malleable, sensuous and tactile quality in the use of wax, much like working sculpturally in clay. Using many of the same tools she used in her clay studios, she is applying a similar sensibility to create a new and expressive body of work on paper, canvas, tin, and cradled panels. |
CONNIE TUCKER
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After years of teaching art in public schools, Connie Tucker is now a full-time artist and watercolor workshop instructor. She alternates between landscapes and other subjects, including still life, flowers and the occasional portrait, making each day in the studio feel new and exciting. Connie finds herself drawn to exploring the region where she lives and traveling to adjoining locations to see how the landscape changes. She renders these places in such a way that they resonate with her experience of that environment. Through this process her watercolors might reveal a sense of atmosphere, wonder and spirit to those who see them. |
CATE WAGONER
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Cate Wagoner has an ongoing fascination with portraying the human face and figure. She finds it amazing how each person can be so alike and yet at the same time so different. |
CLAY WAINSCOTT
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Returning from military service, Clay returned to school attending graduate seminars in several areas before finally deciding to work with his hands, and with good fortune found employment in a screen-print sign shop. He rented his present studio in 1979, and on studio-fabricated equipment he produced posters and edition prints throughout the eighties, often in collaboration with other artists. Much he produced has only had limited exposure, and some has never been seen. Along with paintings, which have been his focus in recent years, he had a range of art on paper. |
CHERYLE WALTON
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Cheryle Walton creates mixed media paintings that are reminiscent of Japanese printmaking. Her unique process starts with solid shapes in acrylic and then she adds black outlines. After drying, she covers the whole surface with black watercolor. Once dry, she uses a wet brush and paper towel to remove the watercolor to create values and texture. She has named her process “Coal Dust,” a tribute to her time in Eastern KY and based on the way the dried watercolor gets everywhere. |
MICHAEL WAYNE
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Most of Michael Wayne's photographs are taken with his phone while he is driving or riding in a car. If he is driving he doesn't look when he takes the photographs and hence much of his favorite work are happy accidents. |
REE WILSON
Drawing
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Drawing from life for Ree Wilson is an exceptional experience. The challenges are of the first order. Failures are many. Successes offer only momentary relief. Yet Ree wants people to see his work. He tries to leave clues in his work that indicate his process. All he hopes for is engagement from the viewer. |
CARLETON WING
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Carleton Wing has been telling stories with surreal collage in Lexington for over 40 years. |
LYNN WINTER
Painting
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Lynn Winter is always looking for that surprising spark of the unknown. Like a pinch of joy she feels when she sees something or someone that moves her, she can't wait to get to her studio and allow that mystery to mix with her and come out through her brush. Lynn's subject matter varies because she finds all sorts of beauty throughout her daily life and wants to reflect that in her work. She loves the moment when something without words takes over and the painting begins to express that real mystery. |
MELANIE OSBORNE WISDOM
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Melanie Osborne Wisdom's love for art began as a small child. Living on a small horse farm she began by drawing and is a self taught artist. |
LAVERNE ZABIELSKI
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Laverne Zabielski considers herself a fiber artist, designer and writer. The older she becomes the more she sees everything as becoming tender, sensual, compassionate, Laverne dyes fabric. Time is of the essence for her. Every ounce of expression is necessary. She designs art to wear. As she grows older, the softer, the more fuller-bellied and filled with ideas she finds impossible to contain she becomes. Laverne also writes poetry. She bursts with the desire to share everything she has learned. |