Morlan Gallery

Clay: Play Time’s Over, 2007, Toy sculpture and shadow LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery ends the 2008-09 year with Lost and Found, an exhibition of work by three senior art majors. The work of Kaci Clay, David Kenton Kring and Corey Washburn opens May 12 and runs through May 19. A reception honoring the artists will be Thursday, May 14, from 6-8 p.m., with special musical guests “The Tillers.” The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Clay presents a variety of her most critical work, including ceramics, paintings, drawings and sculptures. Clay’s work gives a nod to the humorous, while addressing issues of contemporary importance. Kring: Angel Band, 2008, Ceramic with feathers Kring’s incarcerated ceramic figures soar through Morlan Gallery, buoyantly carrying the hope and the heaviness of Southern culture. Strongly influenced by Southern music, Kring says his hand-built and painted figures are created with surfaces that are extremely worked; often built up in layers, then stripped away and built back up again. Washburn’s room-sized installation is a mystery waiting to be solved. Cluttered with ephemera, furniture and the melancholy, compulsion leads to discovery in a room with a story. For more information go to: www.transy.edu/morlan/exh.asp?e=senior2009 or contact Morlan Gallery director Andrea Fisher at (859) 233-8142.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—A juried student exhibition opens Wednesday, April 29, in Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery.  All students who made art during the 2008-09 academic year were invited to show their work in the Juried Student Exhibition, which runs through 2 p.m., May 6.   A public reception honoring the artists will be Friday, May 1, from 5-6 p.m., Jurors’ awards will be presented at 5:30 p.m. William Pollard, dean of the college, will select one piece to receive the Dean’s Purchase Award. The award-winning piece will become part of Transylvania’s permanent collection. Morlan Gallery is open weekdays, noon to 5 p.m., and the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. For more information contact Morlan Gallery Director Andrea Fisher at (859) 233-8142.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Young artists Ebony G. Patterson and Oneika Russell bring fresh insight to their Jamaican culture by examining notions of identity in Mi Did Deh Deh currently on exhibit in Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery and a stop on the Lexington Gallery Hop, Friday, February 20, from 5-8 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public and runs through February 27. “Both Patterson and Russell work in a vivid and confrontational style that imparts the feeling of receiving a first-hand account of the social and political currents in Jamaica,” said Morlan Gallery Director Andrea Fisher. “Therefore, the exhibition is called Mi Did Deh Deh, meaning I Was There in the Jamaican dialect.” Russell is an artist working in Kingston in digital and traditional media. Her work is generally made up of drawings, objects, digital animations and video. Her Morlan Gallery work includes two video pieces and a series of photographs exploring Manet’s painting, Olympia. In this well-known painting, a young nude woman reclines on her day bed, yet the figure behind Olympia has been virtually ignored in art history. Russell takes a long look at the black servant woman in the background, drawing attention to the role of the black woman, giving her a voice and an identity. Patterson, a University of Kentucky assistant professor of painting, also draws attention to identity in her Disciplez Series, a collection of mixed media pieces that examine the culture of dancehall, a type

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Evidence of the country’s economic downturn could not be found at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery Wednesday, as the 2008 Empty Bowls Project opened its doors to a crowd that snapped up 500 bowls in 50 minutes. By 4 p.m., all bowls were sold out and the project had raised $6,638 for local charity Community Action, a record amount. Over the last eight years, the Morlan Gallery bowl sales have raised nearly $24,000 for local agencies such as Moveable Feast, the YMCA Spousal Abuse Center and the Hope Center. “There was no doubt in my mind that we would sell all of our bowls, I just didn’t expect to sell almost all of them in the first hour,” said gallery director Andrea Fisher. Created by Transylvania and Morehead State University ceramic students and their professors Dan Selter (Transylvania) and Kira Munson Campbell and Steven Tirone (Morehead), the ceramic bowls were sold for $10 each, with proceeds going to Community Action, a Lexington agency that provides living essentials for local residents. Some larger bowls and strictly decorative pieces, donated by local artists, sold for more than $10 each. A soup supper scheduled for Wednesday, December 3 at 6 p.m. in the Rafskeller will raise still more money for Community Action. Soup supper tickets are available for $5 each at the door. The soup supper coincides with Transylvania drama professor Tim Soulis’s annual solo performance of the Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.”

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