11 Eleven Art Station

04/09/2015

CALL TO ARTISTS
Lexington En Plein Air
Saturday June 27, 2015

Art Connects
Announces
PAINT THE TOWN – LEXINGTON CITYSCAPES

Formerly known as “Lexington Cityscapes”, this year Art Connects is pleased to reintroduce this popular en plein air event as “Paint the Town”. Join us for Lexington’s 4th outside painting extravaganza on Saturday June 27, 2015.

Maps with painting area and points of interest in downtown Lexington will be provided at check-in. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Registration fee prior to June 8 is $30.00. Registrations received after June 8 will be $40.00. Registration fee is non-refundable.

8:00-9:00am Check-in/Late Registration at Arts Place, 161 North Mill, Lexington.
Blank canvas(es) will be officially stamped at this time.
Lunch boxes available for those who have pre-registered.

8:00-2:00pm Paint the Town!

2:00-2:30pm Turn in framed paintings at Arts Place for exhibiting and judging.

3:00-5:00pm Hang show and set up for Opening Reception

5:00-6:00pm Judging takes place

7:30pm Award Presentations for Best in Show, 2nd and 3rd Place and a “People’s Choice”. Voting for “People’s Choice” ends at 7:00pm.

6:00-9:00pm Opening Reception and Party

Art work entered in “Paint the Town” will be exhibited at Arts Place in the Performance Hall and available for sale that evening through Gallery Hop on July 17.

For more detailed information and to request a registration form please email: [email protected] or call 859-321-1341.

01/13/2015

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer is known in the Lexington area for her poetry and her WRFL-FM radio show. But she never acted, until she got the lead in Lexington director Thom Southerland’s latest movie. It helps that she inspired it. “I head…

12/29/2014

Lexington native Phillip March Jones poses inside the gallery he now manages in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The founder of Institute 193 in Lexington renovated the space for Christian Berst Art Brut, a Paris-based gallery that wanted a New York City presence. Jones plans to include Kentucky ar…

12/23/2014

'Tis the birthday of John Marin, an early American modernist artist. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.

Marin was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. His mother died nine days after his birth, and he was raised by two aunts in Weehawken, New Jersey. He attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, and tried unsuccessfully to become an architect.

From 1899 to 1901, Marin attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia he studied with Thomas Po***ck Anshutz and William Merritt Chase. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York.

In 1905, like many American artists, Marin went to Europe, initially to Paris. He exhibited his work in the Salon, where he also got his first exposure to modern art. He traveled through Europe for six years, and painted in the Netherlands, Belgium, England, and Italy.

In Europe, he mastered a type of watercolor where he achieved an abstract ambience, almost a pure abstraction with color that ranges from transparency to translucency, accompanied by strong opacities, and linear elements, always with a sense of freedom, which became one of his trademarks.

In 1909, Marin held his first one-man exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery in New York City. He had been introduced to Stieglitz by the photographer Edward Steichen. Marin's association with Stieglitz would last nearly forty years, and Stieglitz's philosophical and financial support would prove essential.

From 1909 until his death in 1946, Stieglitz showed Marin's work almost every year in one of his galleries. Marin also participated in the landmark 1913 Armory Show.

Marin spent his first summer in Maine in 1914 and almost immediately the rocky coast there became one of his favorite subjects. Over the rest of his life, Marin became intimately familiar with the many moods of the sea and sky in Maine.

"In painting water make the hand move the way the water moves," Marin wrote in a 1933 letter to an admirer of his technique.

John Marin was among the first American artists to make abstract paintings. Marin is often credited with influencing the Abstract Expressionists.

His treatment of paint—handling oils almost like watercolors—his forays into abstraction, and his use of evocative stretches of bare canvas caught the eye of younger painters. His experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors.

He had a retrospective show in 1936 at the Museum of Modern Art. Late in life Marin achieved tremendous prestige as an American painter, an elder statesman of American art. In 1950, he was honored by the University of Maine and Yale University with honorary degrees of Doctor of Fine Arts.

Marin was a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey in his last years, and also maintained a summer home in Addison, Maine, where he died in 1953. He was interred at Fairview Cemetery in New Jersey.

12/23/2014

get ready to stuff some holiday grooves in your stocking today with Black n Blues Radio Show's Black-n-Bluesmas Christmas Special today from 4-6 EST on WRFL 88.1 FM Radio Free Lexington or wrfl.fm. it will be the coolest christmas special this side of the north pole...so grab your ho ho hos and bowls full of jelly so you can get down properly.

The often imitated but never duplicated...The One & Only...Black n Blues Baby!

12/22/2014

Have you bought your copy of local musician Chris Sullivan's new album Western Movies yet?

chris sullivan, music, western movies, big maraccas, swells

12/22/2014

Happy Salvador Monday!

12/19/2014

New York-based photographer Victoria Janashvili has created a book, which is dedicated to the beauty of fuller-figured women. She is currently trying to fund its publication on Kickstarter.

12/19/2014

Kentucky Arts Council - Give a gift made in Kentucky

12/19/2014

David Cobb made the name intentionally misleading, in the same way some of the first people to see 10,000 Maniacs might have been surprised to find a fairly calm group of folky rockers — though Natalie Merchant can twirl like a madwoman. "You hear 'Nativity Singers' and think you're going to hear a…

12/19/2014

Be sure to come out and see PROUD CITIZEN at the Kentucky! on January 15th!!!

Film, Southerland, Lexington, Kentucky, Proud citizen

12/18/2014

Early last year, artist Sonja Hinrichsen (previously) and some 60 volunteers wearing snowshoes trekked out onto the frozen Catamount Lake in Colorado to trample miles of swirling and twisting patterns into the deep snow. Titled Snow Drawings at Catamount Lake, the work was a continuation of her co