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Shelby Lee Adams was born in 1950 in Hazard, a small town in eastern Kentucky. Although he grew up in the back seat of his father's car, moving from place to place, he settled near Hot Spot, living with his grandparents while he attended high school. It was there, trapped between the worlds of country and town kids, that Adams found solace in art and photography books. Then, in the mid 1960s, the Peace Corp...   [more]

Opening: May 4th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Opening Reception June 2 from 5 - 8 pm. Exhibition runs through June 30 with a closing reception June 30 from 2 - 5 pm. Hinge Gallery’s inaugural sculpture garden show Garden Party features the work of four artists dealing with the length of time things last. Based on the idea of a formal Garden party, a social gathering centered on a specific floral event, such as a blooming of a rare flower. Cu...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Intuit, in collaboration with the Loyola Universty Museum of Art (LUMA), presents HEAVEN+HELL, an exhibiton exploring the themes of heaven and hell as conceived by outsider, folk and self-taught artists. The content may be beningn or horrific, delusional or commentative on contemporary life, obsessive or minimal in design, but usually on the face of the work, highly interpretative. The two worlds...   [more]

Opening: February 10th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Intuit, in collaboration with the Loyola Universty Museum of Art (LUMA), presents HEAVEN+HELL, an exhibiton exploring the themes of heaven and hell as conceived by outsider, folk and self-taught artists. The content may be beningn or horrific, delusional or commentative on contemporary life, obsessive or minimal in design, but usually on the face of the work, highly interpretative. The two worlds...   [more]

Opening: February 10th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

An exhibition examining the fluid intersections between images and abstraction, represented and actual objects.   [more]

Opening: April 27th, 2012   5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

This is Western Exhibitions our third solo show with JOHN PAROT, whose poetic investigations into gay urban living manifest themselves in vibrant paintings, collages and sculptures, where psychedelic visions, personal reflection and Warrior symbols prevail amidst idiosyncratic patterning and geometries. The show opens on Friday, May 25, 2012 with a free public reception from 5 to 8pm and will run...   [more]

Opening: May 25th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For the past several years, Adriane Herman has taken artistic inspiration from her collection of over 1000 found, gifted, and bartered "to do" lists, re-presenting these scraps of paper on a significantly larger scale in a variety of media, from inlaid burnishing clay panels; screenprints; photo-etchings; embossments; vinyl decals; to virtually any mediated medium. This re-creation of other peopl...   [more]

Opening: May 25th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: May 11th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: May 11th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“Illumination”, a special exhibit at Jackson Junge Gallery,  features the uniquely posed and illuminated photography of Kavan Geary.  The ability to contain and utilize light in Geary’s work was inspired initially by classical painting, where cleverly layered translucent glazes give the appearance of being lit from behind.  Geary adapted this idea to photography, and quite literally, has made lig...   [more]

Opening: May 4th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The exhibition Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance looks at human conflict and the ways individuals and groups endure long-term hardship. The 15 international artists in this exhibition approach contentious political issues that, although individually nuanced, present parallel fundamental challenges to the human psyche. From various reactions to situations rising out of differences in ideologie...   [more]

Czech poet, photographer, and object-maker Jindřich Heisler began his creative career around 1935 and in 1938 joined Czechoslovakia’s Surrealist Group. Within months of his entrance, however, the Nazi occupation drove Surrealism underground, and Heisler, the child of a mixed-faith marriage, spent most of 1941–1945 in hiding. Sequestered at a friend’s apartment during this time of great danger fo...   [more]

Opening: March 31st, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:00 PM