Morlan Gallery

I Almost Had It, I Just Needed Another Inch, Kira Campbell LEXINGTON, Ky.—Figuration to Fragmentation: The Human Form in Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, which articulates a clear vision of the role of the figure in contemporary ceramics, opens Friday, September 11 and runs through Thursday, October 15. The exhibit is a collaboration between Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery and the University of Kentucky’s Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, and includes a diverse selection of artists. Tom Bartel, Kira Campbell, Sergei Isupov and Hunter Stamps’ work will be shown at Morlan, while Tanya Batura, Anne Drew Potter, Keith Wallace Smith and Liz Zacher’s work will be on display at Tuska. The exhibits are for mature audiences and are free and open to the public at both locations, and both galleries will be open Friday, September 18, from 5-8 p.m. for the Lexington Gallery Hop. An on-line catalog will be produced, featuring an essay, by noted ceramic critic Adam Welch, on the use of the figure in contemporary ceramics. In addition to the exhibit, there will be a lecture series, held at both Transylvania and UK, on consecutive Thursday nights, and a mini-conference, The Role of the Figure in Contemporary Ceramics, at UK on October 1 and 2. Schedule of eventsFriday, September 11    Both exhibits open Artist Talk: Tom Bartel and Hunter Stamps, 7 p.m. with reception to follow.Opening reception for artists Tom Bartel, Kira Campbell, Sergei Isupov and Hunter Stamps, 8 p.m.Morlan Gallery,

Read “Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery collaborates with UK’s Tuska Center for Contemporary Art for exhibit of ceramic sculpture”

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

Read ““Mi Did Deh Deh,” an exhibit examining Jamaican identity, part of Friday’s Lexington Gallery Hop”