Downtown Art Exhibits
Art enthusiasts will love Lexington, a city rich with art and never at a loss for exhibits and events focusing on art and craft. Exhibits cover a wide range of subject matter, from classic to modern art, local to international artists, paintings to hand-produced works of craft. A specialty of Lexington's exhibits is that they often feature artists who focus on Bluegrass and Appalachian subjects, giving visitors insight into the unique and rich history and culture of this region. Below is a listing of current and future art exhibits located in the Downtown area. Many have free admission, so stop by and take advantage of these opportunities to discover what Lexington has to offer.
Current Exhibits
Antique Typewriters
The Lexington History Museum
A Permanent Exhibit
Museum Hours: Sat 10am - 4pm, Fri/Sun/Mon 12pm - 4pm,
Free Admission
859-254-0530 or www.lexingtonhistorymuseum.org
This exhibit spans from the invention of the Sholes & Glidden typewriter in 1872 to the assembly of the last IBM typewriter built in America in 2002.
The Architecture of Life
Living Arts & Science Center
Sep 18 thru Aug 2010
Free Admission
859-252-5222 or www.lasclex.org
In our new hands-on Discovery Exhibit, visitors will explore life in a new way, by looking beneath the surface. From spider webs to skyscrapers, and bee hives to bridges, visitors will explore the relationships between natural and man-made structures by viewing bones and skeletons from a variety of animals and humans, and learn about buildings and bridges inspired by natural structures. Our live animals and insects are also amazing to observe as they build and inhabit their own uniquely designed structures, or try forensic sculpture by exploring facial bones and muscles. Climb inside an exoskeleton costume, search for fossils in our archaeological dig, or try forensic sculpture by exploring facial bones and muscles. Create your own structural designs with computer software as well as traditional architectural design tools, and become an engineer for a day and explore the physical science of arches and bridges in our hands-on building site.
Athens of the West
The Lexington History Museum
A Permanent Exhibit
Museum Hours: Sat 10am - 4pm, Fri/Sun/Mon 12pm - 4pm
Free Admission
859-254-0530 or www.lexingtonhistorymuseum.org
The Museum's signature exhibit, is continuously building the history of Lexington and the Bluegrass Region. Artifacts range from the 1700s to recent history and attract both school age youngsters and long-time fans of the rich history of the area.
Auction Block: New Work by Zoe Strecker
Morlan Gallery - Transylvania University
February 19, 2010 - March 26, 2010
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 1pm - 5pm
859-233-8120
Auction Block: New Work by Zoe Strecker, an installation sculpture that includes choreographed audio recordings, ceramics, mirrors, and a live performance with auctioneers and audience interaction (to be scheduled for an evening during the exhibit). Humor plays a serious role in this investigation of the web of dramatic tension involved in the buying and selling of objects. What has value for whom? When and why does value shift? How does social pressure affect our judgment as economic creatures?
The British Are Coming! Discover the New English Art Club
UK Art Museum
Jan 24, 2010 thru Apr 11, 2010
Museum Hours: Tue - Sun, 12pm - 5pm; Fri 12pm - 8pm
Admission: $0 - $8
859-257-5716 or www.uky.edu/artmuseum
The British Are Coming! Discover the New English Art Club is one of an ongoing series at the Museum that brings together the best in private regional collections and makes the art available for public viewing, often for the first time. It will examine the establishment and evolution of the New English Art Club, which was founded in 1886 by John Singer Sargent. The club consisted of a group of painters who were influenced by what were then radical ideas coming out of France - notably Naturalism and Impressionism. Rejected by the Royal Academy, these artists staged the most daring exhibitions of the late nineteenth century.Contemporary artists of the New English Arts Club - among them John Ward, Tom Coates, Ken Howard, Leslie Worth, Peter Brown, Lionel Edwards, and Sir Alfred Munnings - will be featured in this exhibition, along with several examples of historic work. The exhibition and related catalogue will offer a look at an important historic movement little known in this country and will feature portraits, interior scenes, landscapes and related paintings.
In Black & White
The Lexington History Museum
A Permanent Exhibit
Museum Hours: Sat 10am - 4pm, Fri/Sun/Mon 12pm - 4pm
Free Admission
859-254-0530 or www.lexingtonhistorymuseum.org
This exhibit includes over 100 prints depicting African-American life in the Bluegrass from as early as 1860 through the 1950s.
LAL @ The Mayor's Office: Visual Dialogue
200 E. Main St, Suite 120
Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00am - 5:00pm
February 19 - March 31, 2010, Free.
859-254-7024 or www.lexingtonartleague.org
Untitled (in Plastic), Photography by Charlie Campbell. Works exploring the medium of plastic through photography.
Layered Existences: Nature's Depths of Realities
UK Fine Arts Building, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art
Feb 19 - Mar 11
Gallery Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 10am - 6pm, Tues/Thu 12pm - 6pm
859-257-1545 or www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/TCCA
The exhibit will feature the works of Arizona fibers artist, Moira Marti Geoffrion, whose work explores issues of fragmentation and the cycles of nature. The works consist of photographs of natural elements printed on semi-translucent material. Ms. Geoffrion will be on campus as part of the Visiting Artist program.
Lili Almog
UK Art Museum
Jan 5, 2010 thru Feb 28, 2010
Museum Hours: Tue - Sun, 12pm - 5pm; Fri 12pm - 8pm
Admission: $0 - $8
859-257-5716 or www.uky.edu/artmuseum
Israeli-born photographer Lili Almog has worked recently on two series that focused on women who, for various reasons, are living in isolation from the world. Perfect Intimacy, reflects on the cloistered life of Carmelite nuns in monasteries in Palestine, Israel, and Maryland. In The Other Half of the Sky, Almog photographs the matriarchal society of Muslim women in China.
Lincoln and His Wife's Hometown
The Lexington History Museum
Feb 2008 thru Feb 2010
Museum Hours: Sat 10am - 4pm, Fri/Sun/Mon 12pm - 4pm
Free Admission.
859-254-0530 or www.lexingtonhistorymuseum.org
Features a period of 10 years during which Lincoln visited Lexington and was exposed to the “peculiar institution” of slavery - formulating his political views on the subject.
QX.Net Nude 2010
January 15, 2010 - March 27, 2010
Lexington Art League at Loudoun House
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 1pm - 4pm
859-254-7024 or http://www.lexingtonartleague.org
Now in its 24th year, QX.net Nude 2010, presented by MD Update, includes works focusing on the human form, personal identity, exploring contemporary life and the social politics that impact us all.
Reclamation
LexArts in partnership with the University of Kentucky and South Hill Group
Thru May 2010
Free Admission
859-255-2951 or www.lexarts.org
Outdoor sculpture exhibition running from Lawrence Street in the historic South Hill Neighborhood to the University of Kentucky campus Avenue of Champions and ending at the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky.
TransLucent
LexTran Transit Center, 200 East Vine Street
Until February 2010
859-255-2951 or www.lexarts.org
Upcoming Exhibits
Sarah Hoskins
UK Art Museum
Mar 6, 2010 thru Apr 11, 2010
Museum Hours: Tue - Sun, 12pm - 5pm; Fri 12pm - 8pm
Admission: $0 - $8
859-257-5716 or www.uky.edu/artmuseum
Chicago-based photographer Sarah Hoskins will conclude this year's lecture series by speaking about her project The Homeplace. For nine years, she has documented the inhabitants and settings of historic African-American hamlets in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Many of the settlements were founded by freed slaves in the decade after the Civil War and are now inhabited by the fifth generation of those families. Hoskins has been racing against time to preserve this important aspect of African-American history before it succumbs to development.
Transylvania University Senior Thesis Exhibition
Morlan Gallery - Transylvania University
April 1, 2010 - April 23, 2010
Gallery Hours: Sunday - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm
859-233-8120
Transylvania University Senior Thesis Exhibition, a showcase of the best work produced by Transylvania’s graduating art majors.
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