“Wrap-UP 2019”
Exhibit on view: December 3rd-31st
Opening Reception & Pizza Party: December 5th 5:30-7:30
Hands on Mixed Media Session with Kathy Rees Johnson: Saturday, Dec. 7th 1-4PM
Featured Artists: Crimson DuVall, Melissa T. Hall, Kathy Rees Johnson, Marco Logsdon, Mary Rezny,
Michael Wayne, Carleton Wing, Laverne Zabielski
Lexington Herald Leader writer Kevin Nance previews notBIG(5)
"In art, size matters. The impact of certain works by artists from Michelangelo to Banksy often depends, at least in part, on their being really, really big. It’s hard to imagine Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” say, or Picasso’s “Guernica,” as miniatures.
But small has its own charms. Artworks constrained by space limitations — as they are in notBIG(5), the latest installment in a series of juried exhibits of small-scale art at the M.S. Rezny Studio/Gallery in Lexington’s Distillery District ..."
The Lexington Herald Leader listed the Reception and Awards as a Weekender's "Best Bet"
Exhibit is up through August
Carleton Wing’s statement on “Sharing Time and Space,” the exhibition currently up at MS Rezny Studio Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, calls it an “exchange.” As the title also implies, this is something shared. On its surface this is readily apparent: here Wing and Paolo Dal Prá engage in a dialogue even across the gulf between life and death. But the objects also stake out their own positions and their own conversation. The cross between the materials and the bodies of work is also an exchange, one that can even speak apart from the intentions of artist, gallery, or viewer. This is where things become more complicated. Set up together, the works work things out amongst themselves.What's this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...
Joel Darland-Under Main
Awards and Reception August 3rd 5-8PM
$500 first place award, three $100 honorable mention, purchase award, Awagami Paper award
Exhibit: July 24th – August 31st, 2018 ( Entry Deadline: passed)
Over 400 artworks submitted for consideration. The artworks represented a wide interpretation of “works on paper”. Looking with a critical eye towards excellence of expression and material handling, as well as find a good balance among a variety of mediums and a range of aesthetic approaches Juror, Doug Stapleton, Associate Curator of Art, Illinois State Museum selected 27 pieces for the exhibit.
For the award Rezny chose to study a southern symbol that is very familiar to all of us, the magnolia tree. I am drawn to it because of the simplicity and beauty of the blossom and it’s most interesting and unusual seed pod. I photographed it throughout the spring, summer and fall as the blossom and seed pod developed.What's this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...
Read Joel Darland's review of "notBIG(4) the Exhibit" in"UnderMain" ...not to be missed!
Friday's Artists' Reception and Awards for notBIG(4) is listed as one of this weekends BEST BETS by the Lexington Herald Leader...Reception and Awards 5-8 PM Friday, August 4th
‘Aggressively Fragile’ looks at artist’s battle with two bouts of cancer
BY CANDACE CHANEY
Contributing Arts Critic
The walls of MS Rezny Studio and Gallery are lined with the stirring, sometimes otherworldly images of Melissa T. Hall’s conceptual photography. Between each painting are curious wooden boxes with curious objects and textures inside.
Hall calls these her chemo boxes — visual assemblages documenting her experience fighting uterine cancer, the same cancer that killed her mother...