A few favorites from photographing Catherine Irwin for the promotion of her new solo album, “Little Heater,” to be released this fall on Thrill Jockey Records.
Catherine Irwin for Thrill Jockey Records
LVAA Food For Thought: After Dark
photo by Elena Dorfman
Friday, February 24
8 p.m.
Salvo Collective
216 S Shelby St, Louisville, KY
This month’s Food For Thought: After Dark features photographer Sarah Lyon. Food and cocktail samples will be provided by Garage Bar, wine samples by Taste Fine Wine and Spirits, desserts by Please and Thank You and special gift from Peace of the Earth. Reservations are suggested and admission is $10.
The Louisville Visual Arts Association’s Food for Thought After Dark program brings an insider’s view on visual art to the community. This monthly event takes place at various locations in the community during the evening hours. Each month, you have the opportunity to experience an intimate discussion with a select local artist while enjoying local food and beverages from restaurants and business specific to the neighborhood where the event takes place. louisvillevisualart.org/food
Limited ticket availability-Admission costs are $10; call Keith Waits at 502.896.2146 x 100 to get your ticket today, or pay at the door.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES opening January 6, 2012
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, NEW ARTWORK BY JOEL MCDONALD AND SARAH LYON, TO BE EXHIBITED AT ZEPHYR GALLERY
JANUARY 6 TO FEBURARY 11, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY JANUARY 6
5 TO 9PM
ZEPHYR GALLERY
610 EAST MARKET STREET
LOUISVILLE, KY
Hours 11am to 6pm, Wednesday to Saturday
502.585.5646
zephyrgallery.org
Artists Joel McDonald and Sarah Lyon explore the theme of Autobiographies with an amalgam of drawing, photography, and sculpture in a new exhibit at Zephyr Gallery from January 6 to February 11, 2012.
Magic plays a role in both artists’ work in this concurrent solo exhibition. Sarah creates a 9-ft wall sculpture purging her of the need to make art, while Joel plays off the fictional Necronomicon to question who we really are in a triptych composed of large drawings, altars, Canopic jars, and a plant. Upstairs in the gallery, Sarah’s stark color photographs depict recent places she’s been, in a domestic setting and in the landscape. On the first floor, Joel’s brainstorms in ink and acrylic show what happens when you brood.
“My main theme is autobiography and identity through fiction. The story we create that defines us, how we view reality, and how we interact with the world.” — Joel McDonald
Wendover Vacation Exhibit, Artist Reception Friday, October 14
Target Practice, archival pigment prints in 4x5 film holders
Wendover Vacation
Western Landscapes, Bomb Sites, and Target Practice Off the Grid
artwork by Sarah Lyon
Artist Reception Friday, October 14
6-10pm
Salvo Collective
216 South Shelby Street (at Market Street)
Louisville, Ky 40202
502-614-6381
www.salvo.com
In conjunction with the Louisville Photo Biennial
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday 11-3
Thursday 11-3
Friday 11-6
Saturday 12-4
Wendover Vacation Installation at Salvo Collective
Wendover Vacation
During the summer of 2011, I took a trip to visit the Wendover Residence Program in Wendover, Utah. Continue reading →
Work in Progress
ABRACADABRA
To be viewed in its entirety at Zephyr Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, January 2012.
(motorcycle not included)
Summer Heat group exhibition at LOT
Jessica at Tinks in the afternoon
July 15 – September 9, 2011
Reception: 7pm July 23, 2011
Land of Tomorrow
233 West Broadway, Louisville KY
info@lotlex.com
Land of Tomorrow is pleased to announce Summer Heat. This new exhibition will open on the 15th of July with a reception on the 23rd at 7pm. Summer Heat will include works by several artists who are exploring sexuality and gender in their works.
Young Country travels to Philadelphia and beyond
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery333 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
More info: 215 717 6480
July Gallery Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10 – 5
Friday: 10 – 4
Saturday – Sunday: CLOSED
Young Country is a traveling exhibition and is organized by the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, in Wilmington, Delaware. The show opened in Louisville at the Quonset Hut and will be traveling to the University of the Arts’ Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia from July 6-29, 2011. The exhibition reception in Philadelphia is July 6th and will coincide with a talk by Matthew Higgs, Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York.
Utah vacation
En route to Wendover, near Salt Lake City
In May I visited Wendover, Utah to check out an artist residency operated by the Center For Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). Matt Coolidge, the director of the program, was very helpful in showing me around. I had a great time exploring, and stayed four days at the Red Garter Casino Hotel in West Wendover, Nevada for 30 bucks a night!
South of Wendover
Bronze Boots included in Young Country group exhibition
30,000 Miles
Quonset Hut
599 Rubel Ave, Louisville, KY
502-489-2655
May 4 to July 4, 2011
University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
July 8-28, 2011
Curated by Maiza Hixson
An exhibition devoted to rural themes in contemporary art, Young Country specifically examines how artists are re-defining ideas of “country” in America. Addressing how geographic regions shape identity, Young Country features artists who employ rural images and ideas such as horseracing, honkytonks, and homesteading. The exhibition probes our assumptions of taste, class and sophistication, and presents an alternative to common, Hollywood, and cliched portrayals of rural culture.
Remembering artist Stephen Irwin
Stephen in his studio, 2006
Obituary Published in The Courier-Journal, December 29, 2010
Written by Gabriel Wrye
IRWIN, STEPHEN LAWRENCE, born in Vine Grove, KY on September 19, 1959, he lived! Steve-ann, Rustee, Crustee, Craven Morehead, Gingerspice, Pom-Pom, Tanta, artist, raconteur, fabricator, impresario, cool hunter, shopkeeper, botanist, collector, reader, agitator, counselor, mentor, collaborator, brother, son, friend, lover, trouble maker and solver, icon, he was all verb, CREATIVITY, big mouth, bright eyes and rough hands that never stopped making.
Everything he did was art, from Sparks, the revolution that masqueraded as the best bar in town, he owned, to his career as an innovative photo-stylist and commercial designer and his selfless advocacy of the arts and social causes, to his actual art, a ground breaking body of work represented by galleries in New York City, New Orleans, London, Cologne and Louisville, widely collected both regionally and internationally, part of the permanent collection of the Speed Art Museum and 21C and exhibited around the world.
Stephen was an unparalleled Louisville artist who revealed invisible grace in the obscene and mundane, in his city, in his friends and in his world. He gave generously of his experience, time and love, inspiring, encouraging and enabling other artists and the creative life of Louisville. He lived wild, abundant, kinky and original as his fabulous mane of coiled red hair. He was hot and star-like, drawing in bunches of solar systems with his unique gravity; over bright and uncompromising, even burning, illuminating, he transformed any stone lucky enough to find his orbit into a celestial body.
On December 27th at the age of 51, he died. He is missed.
He is survived by a family of friends.
An informal gathering of friends will take place from 4-6 p.m. on January 1, 2011 at Zephyr Gallery, where he was a long time member and an exhibition of work is currently on display. A memorial service will be 4 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Speed Museum on Saturday, January 15, 2011.
Expressions of sympathy may be made in honor of Stephen Irwin to New Art Collectors of the Speed Art Museum, 2035 S 3rd Street, Louisville, KY 40208-1803.