Low Country Revisited

Location 
Wilson Art Building

Dates
On view now

About
Ten years after graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design a reunion exhibition was organized titled At Second Glance: SCAD Alumni Photography Exhibition, MFA Class of 2002. The show was held in 2013 at the Pei Ling Chan Gallery in Savannah, Georgia. Many classmates and friends descended upon Savannah for the gallery reception. For many this was the first time back in Savannah since graduation.

The photographs featured in Low Country Revisited are works created in response to this return to Savannah by Ryan Flathau, Nicole Jacobs, Darrell Kincer, Gray Lyons and Linda Wilson. For those that have not visited the Low Country, it is a magical place that permeates the soul, creating a lifelong bond. This bond continually beckons for your return.

For more information, please visit:
www.georgetowncollege.edu/art/gallery

Image: Sea Wall, Tybee Island by Darrell Kincer

OXFORD, UK / On Display

On View Now:
14 New Photographic Works
Gallery 108 (beside the Cochenour Gallery)
LRC, Georgetown College

I had the opportunity to travel to Regent’s Park College at Oxford University during the first week of December, 2013 to make photographs of the college, our visiting students, and the city itself. The trip was two-fold: to create promotional materials for Georgetown College’s Oxford Programs and to produce some new personal work.

While there I resided in the Wheeler Robinson flat, a space dedicated to Georgetown faculty for times of research at the university, often while on sabbatical. Staying on campus allowed me to survey Regent's Park and mingle with both faculty and students, including coffee and biscuits in the Senior Commons Room and formal meals in Helwys Hall.

Each day afforded new opportunities to explore Oxford, from the bustling city centre to quiet farmland and pastures on the edge of town. Having travelled before to London, I was quickly reminded of the sense of tradition and history that is palpable as I walked the streets. It is a feeling I rarely encounter here in the states, and one that draws my attention as an artist.

The photographs presented here are only a small snippet of the larger body of work I created while in Oxford, but they are a few of my favorites – recounting moments of awe, discovery, appreciation, and perhaps a little humor.

Omnia probate quod bonum tenete,
Professor Darrell Kincer

Footnotes:
A special thank you to Dr. Brad Hadaway and Jason Snider for helping me organize and plan my first solo trip abroad. After all my worrying, it could not have gone any smoother.

Thank you to Georgetown College and my wife, Kristin, for granting me the time and opportunity to pursue this project. I could not have done it without your support.

Thank you to the viewers, for your interest in my work. If you think you would enjoy traveling to the UK to make photographs, I will be leading a CCSA trip to London and Dublin next winter. I’d love for you to join me!

And for further reading, you might check out Jennifer Moses' recent article in the New York Times about visiting Oxford.

Photo: Overlooking the Radcliffe Camera, 2013

Currency Reception in Frankfort, 2/28/14

I have a small show of new work in Frankfort, KY titled Currency. It is an extension of work I had done in the past, using U.S. currency to produce cliché verre prints in the darkroom and process them using mordançage. This was one of the last projects I completed while on sabbatical last semester.

If you have opportunity, I'd love to see you at the closing reception. And yes, the gallery is in a bank!

Currency
Jane Chancellor Moore Gallery in the Kentucky Employees Credit Union
100 Moore Drive, Frankfort, KY
December 18, 2013–March 1, 2014

Artist's Reception
Friday, February 28, 5–7 PM

Darrell

On Display, Two Upcoming Shows in Louisville

 Unforeseen Visions: Untitled, #12

Two events coming up in the near future to check out. One serious event is the Louisville Photo Biennial. It is a month-long series described as "Louisville's premier photographic festival." I really encourage you to attend at least one of the events. There are shows, lectures, and more throughout the month of October focusing on three topics: Exchange/Generation, People, and Historic Processes. I was invited by Lee Ann Paynter to participate in a group show at Spot5 Art Center titled Process : Effect : Reconsider. It will feature seven regional photo faculty including myself, Lee Ann, Doreen Maloney, Ruth Adams, Rob Dickes, Keith Barker, and Rob Sewell.

Our show will be on display September 23–November 2 at Spot5 Art Center, 2005 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY. There will be receptions on October 4, 6:00–9:00 PM and October 25, 6:00–9:00 PM. I will be showing some of my old botanical mordançage work, Unforeseen Visions, to go along with the theme of historical processes.

Snowy Morning, BMW GS, Cincinnati, OH

In addition, I'll have a photograph on display this weekend in Louisville as part of the inaugural Kentucky Kick Down motorcycle show. There are all sorts of things happening, including a bike show, pool tournament, vendors, bike ride, and more. I'm planning to ride up with my old buddy Brian to check it out and see what sort of trouble we can get into. Granted, my sort of trouble is typically quite modest and reserved. If you're there, look for my photo at either The Monkey Wrench or The Barret Bar (age permitting). Should be interesting.

Red Herring, Exhibition Featuring Georgetown Alumni This Friday at LoT in Lexington

On view at Land of Tomorrow, Lexington
Closing reception at 5pm on Friday, April 27th

Land of Tomorrow, in coordination with the University of Kentucky Fine Arts Department, is pleased to announce Red Herring, an exhibition of recent graduate level work by Jackson Bullock, Peggy Coots, Michael J. Hamilton, Ivy Johnson, Trey Jolly, David N. Martin, and Mayuresh Moghe, produced under instructor Joel Feldman. There will be a closing reception on Saturday, April 27th at 5pm.

Red Herring – A fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented to divert attention from the original issue.

Each of the artists in this exhibition and their instructor often explore issues of red herring in terms of art making, whether consciously or unconsciously. Although the artists individually explore their own red herring and how it relates to their art making, they acknowledge that their understanding of the term may differ from one another, the instructor, and their audience. The title of this exhibition can possibly be viewed as the group’s communal red herring.

Land of Tomorrow
527 E 3rd St., Lexington, KY 40508
233 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40201

Opportunity: Small Art Competition

M S Rezny Studio/Gallery

903 Manchester Street

Lexington Distillery District

Call to all artists!!!  $500 1st Prize Award Three $100 Honorable Mention Awards As well as Numerous Purchase Awards Hosted by M S Rezny Studio/Gallery Exhibit date: June 21st-July 31st, 2013  Entry Deadline: May 15th, 2013 Juror: Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Professor of Art, University of Kentucky. not (2)BIG is a juried show that is open to all individual artists working in the contemporary arts. There is no intended theme for the work; it just needs to fit the criteria of being "small art". No works over 12 inches in any direction including frame for a complete prospectus please visit: www.msreznygallery.jimdo.com

Report: Cressman Center for Visual Arts and ENID: 2013

Friday evening I had the opportunity to speak as part of a panel discussion entitled "Sculpture, Contemporary Art, and the Public Space" arranged by Stacey Reason from the University of Louisville. Panelists included myself; Mary Dennis Kannapell, Pyro Gallery; Andrew Cozzens (MFA, Wash U and artist whose work is on view at PUBLIC); and Chris Radtke, COPA. The panel discussion was in conjunction with the ENID : 2013 exhibition at the Cressman coordinated by Reason and overseen by Professor John Begley of the U of L.

My contribution to the discussion lay, first, in a brief overview of Enid's biography (1869-1934) and, second, a look at her career in light of the contributions of male and female sculptors of the time (c. 1890-1930).  

Enid Yandell, Bust of J.J. Rucker (Collection of Georgetown College)

My research on Yandell has been on going for a few years and is a project that I only became interested in as a result of studying a bust of Yandell's owned by Georgetown College -- the portrait of Dr. James Jefferson Rucker, mathematics professor at GC. Rucker's story is interesting to me because it was under his leadership the College was one of the first schools in Kentucky to become a co-ed institution. Women from the College's affiliated Female Seminary -- run by Rucker  and his wife -- began attending classes with men in 1884 and, by 1892, women were admitted as regular students.

Suzanne Mitchell, Vaino, 42” x 22” x 17”, tree pods and wood

Yandell's story is interwoven with that of contemporary art, particularly through the group known as ENID, a collective of female sculptors based in Louisville. Showing as a group since 1999, through formed up at least two years earlier, this artist group connects with Enid and yet their work conceptually, materially, and otherwise may differ from hers. Fifteen artists are featured in the exhibition including Caren Cunningham, Gayle Cerlan, Jeanne Deuber, Ewing Fahey, Sarah Frederick, Valerie Fuchs, Mary Dennis Kannapell, Fran Kratzok, Shawn Marshall (whose Vaina is pictured above), Suzanne Mitchell, Joyce Ogden, Jacque Parlsey, Cynthia Reynolds, Gloria Wachtel, Melinda Walters.  

Enid Yandell in her Paris studio at work on Pallas Athena (Courtesy Archives of American Art)

I enjoyed sharing my research on Yandell with my co-panelists and the audience but, perhaps even more, was captivated by the work on view and the comments and conversations before, during, and after the panel. Thanks to the U of L's Cressman Center for bringing us together and for furthering the knowledge of Enid Yandell and the group known as ENID. 

Project Reclamation, Exhibition in New Albany, IN Features Georgetown Alumni

Project Reclamation
November 2, 2012-January 12, 2013
Opening Reception Friday November 2, 6-8 pm

"The Carnegie Center is pleased to present the exhibition Project Reclamation, a visual art exhibition to help raise awareness and educate the community about Mountaintop Removal and its effects on the environment, society, politics and more. This exhibit features artwork by Alex Adams, Rachel Brewer, Denise Burge, Aron Conaway, Joel Darland, Wayne Ferguson, Albertus Gorman, Jo Ann Grimes, Joshua Howard, Michael Koerner, McKinley Moore, Mary Margaret Sparks and Julie Yoder. Project Reclamation is a grassroots effort started by Louisville artist Mary Margaret Sparks in partnership with Kentuckians For The Commonwealth. The exhibit will be on display November 2, 2012 through January 12, 2013." re-posted from the Carnegie Center, New Albany, IN

This exhibition features work from Georgetown College art alumni Rachel Brewer, Joel Darland, Josh Howard,  and Mary Margaret Sparks!

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Top: Comfort O Comfort My People, by Joel Darland
Above: Untitled, by Josh Howard

Jessica Ferguson: Museum of Memory at U of L

"My work is slow, handbuilt, and cumulative, rather like the layering of dust of memories over time."

Exhibition
August 23 - September 30, 2012
Schneider Hall Galleries
Gallery X | Hite Art Institute

Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture
Presence, Absence & Pinhole Photography
Tuesday, September 18, | 6:30 pm
Schneider Hall Galleries

Reception prior to lecture
5: 00 pm, Schneider Hall

The University of Louisville Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce an exhibition of pinhole photography by Jesseca Ferguson of Boston, Massachusetts, titled “Museum of Memory” in Gallery X of Schneider Hall Galleries on Belknap Campus.

Ferguson’s photography alludes to the passage of time, and to what she refers to as a “private interior library” which she believes serves as a paradigm for collective and personal memory. The work exhibited combines 19th, 20th, and 21st century photographic techniques.

Ms Ferguson will be a visiting artist at the Hite in September and present the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture titled “Presence, Absence, and Pinhole Photography” Thursday, September 18 at 6:30 pm in the Hite Galleries. A reception to meet the artist, beginning at 5:00 pm that afternoon, will precede her talk. For further information about Ms. Ferguson or Barbara Bullitt Christian Lecture, contact the Schneider Hall Galleries at (502) 852-6794.

Link to original message via U of L

Show at 930 Art Center, Louisville

I am currently exhibiting a body of work at the 930 Art Center in Louisville entitled "A Sense of Place, Revisited." It will be on display from now until the end of May. There is an opening reception this coming Saturday from 10 AM–12 noon where we'll be discussing the topic of "landscape photography."

The show has 25 pieces, broken into four groupings. Some are color panoramic collages from out west (Tetons, Yellowstone, Badlands), another group has b&w panoramic photos from near Savannah, GA, another set are minimalist seascapes, and the last group are photos from my grandparents' old lake house in TN.

It's always a challenge to stage a show. The real planning typically has more to do with the theme or concept of the entire show – how all the pieces relate in a larger context. This was particularly challenging with the 930 because I have exhibited a variety of works there over the years in group shows. I wanted to show all new work, and that required a little bit of research into my archives. In the end, I'm pretty pleased with the show.

So if you have the opportunity, come join us on Saturday; if not, perhaps visit before May.

To find out more, click HERE.

DK

Image above: Snake River (featured in the exhibit)

Opportunities: Derby Art and Graphic Design Position

OPEN TO ALL KENTUCKY ARTISTS

DERBY EXHIBIT 2012

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Office of the Governor and the Kentucky Arts Council (KAC) invite all Kentucky artists to submit work for consideration in the annual Governor’s Derby Exhibit (April 25 – May 16, 2012).

The works selected for the exhibit will be on display in the Capitol Rotunda, available for viewing by all visitors to the Capitol.

Eligibility

Bluegrass Biennial at MSU

"The Bluegrass Biennial is a juried show open to all artists residing in Kentucky. Held alternating summers in the Claypool-Young Art Gallery on the campus of Morehead State University (MSU), the exhibition showcases the strength and diversity of Kentucky’s contemporary art. Becky Alley, Exhibitions and Programs Director, Lexington Art League is the juror." –quoted from show prospectus.

To find out more about applying to the opportunity, click HERE.