From one end of the spectrum to the other, the University of Kentucky Art Museum is opening two art exhibitions that explore the use of color. Utilizing some favorites as well as rarely seen pieces from the museum collection in combination with select works on loan, “Coloring” will remind viewers just how complex color can be. And for those visitors drawn to a more stark, monotone palette, don’t miss “Template Days” featuring the work of artists Avantika Bawa and May Tveit in conversation for the first time.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 16, 2021) The University of Kentucky Art Museum has assembled a collection of work by celebrated mixed media artists for its newest exhibitions opening today. “Sew What” brings together nationally renowned artists Elana Herzog and Ben Venom known for their work combining materials with celebrated Lexington artist Jessie Dunahoo, an artist who was deaf and blind and worked out of the city s Latitude Artist Community. As a complement, “Come Together” showcases work from the museum collection that also employs the use of collecting and combining of materials. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public. Sew What brings together three distinct artists who share a love of common materials (fabric, clothing, rugs, plastic bags) and an urge to investigate their potential as component parts of larger objects and installations. Their completed works offer meditations on the history of assemblage, especially aspects of recycling, labor and time.
An exhibition on cats has to include the king of the jungle, seen here in Royalty at Home by Rosa Bonheur.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2021) Big Blue Nation knows a little about having a fascination with cats, and a new exhibition at University of Kentucky Art Museum explores the love of felines of all kinds, not just the wildcat.
As part of the free public exhibition “How ‘Bout Them Cats,” UK Art Museum is showcasing
lions, leopards and lap cats, deranged kittens and glowering jungle cats. They are portrayed realistically, abstractly, and in stylized form in paintings, sculpture, prints, photography and textiles.
LEXINGTON Although he was born across the Ohio River, it was the Commonwealth’s beautiful landscape that became the beloved subject of impressionist Paul Sawyier’s career. A free public exhibition of