TRAVIS SHAFFER: RESIDENTIAL FACADES
August 12, 2010 - September 5, 2010
Opening Reception: August 12 | 6 - 9 PM
Eleven Mega Churches, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Fortyone Walmart Supercenters, Every Church in Fayette County and finally - Residential Facades. Travis Shaffer, a recent MFA graduate from the University of Kentucky, has spent the past two years documenting various aspects of America’s less-than-enthralling architectural landscape and development through his steady production of photographs, books and portfolios. His most recent project, Residental Facades, visually recalls the austere photographs of Berndand Hilla Becher, but is distinctly local in its treatment of Southern suburban architecture and the unnerving anomaly of street-oriented residential facades without doors or windows.
In anticipation of the World Equestrian Games, Lexington has entered a period of breakneck development and infrastructural improvements that will have long-lasting effects on our community.Shaffer’s work paints a sobering picture of unchecked development but is able to disguise its social and conceptual critiques in symmetry, line and form.
ROBERT BEATTY: NONES
August 5, 2010 – August 9, 2010
Institute 193 is pleased to announce a series of collaborative performances with Robert Beatty from August 5 - August 9 at 9 PM. Beatty will be inviting various musicians to perform with him for one hour every night at 9 PM beginning August 5.
Robert Beatty (born 1981, Lexington, KY) is an artist and electronic musician who performs under the name Three Legged Race. He is a long running member of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smo...ke, and C. Spencer Yeh’s Burning Star Core. Since 2004 Beatty has maintained a collaborative relationship with artist Takeshi Murata, creating soundtracks for Murata’s videos. Their collaboration has spawned performances by Three Legged Race at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Stray Alchemists,2007, Beijing), Deitch Projects (Heavy Light, 2008, New York), the Mattress Factory (Heavy Light, 2008, Pittsburgh), the New Museum (No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image, 2009, New York), and The Gene Siskel Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago (Conversations at the Edge, 2010, Chicago).
Beatty's constantly evolving aesthetic is realized via an elaborate network of primitive electronics and outmoded thrift store detritus. Each performance and recording explores the repetition and decay of simple musical themes, discovering a new world of rhythmic and harmonic possibilities with each tier of abstraction, evoking minimalist sci-fi soundtracks, clouded hypnotic landscapes, and primal industrial techno.
LOUIS ZOELLAR BICKETT II: 5 FILMS
July 26, 2010 – July 30, 2010
Institute 193 is pleased to present 5 FILMS, a project produced in conjunction with the Louis Zoellar Bickett II Archive. The gallery will be continuously screening 5 films in the window of Institute 193 from July 26 - July 30, 2010. Each film will each be screened for a 24-hour period. For more information, email: phillip@institute193.org.
Film Schedule:
July 26: My Left Hand 1000 Times
July 27: 1000 Clouds Viewed From the Studio
July 28: Silencio
July 29: 1000 American Flags
July 30: 9.11
SANDWICH SHOP: FEED THE INSTITUTE
OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 14, 2010, 12 -2 PM
Menu
Banh Mi
Price
5 dollars
Ingredients: Baguette, Ham, Pate, Butter, Tofu (for Vegetarians), Cucumber, Pickled Carrot, Daikon, Cilantro, Jalapeno
Johnny Shipley’s Sandwich Shop will be open from 12 - 2 PM beginning June 14 and closing on June 18. All proceeds benefit Institute 193.
JESSIE DUNAHOO: SHELTERED ENVIRONMENT
May 20, 2010 - June 12, 2010
Opening Reception: May 20 | 6 - 9 PM
Jessie Dunahoo began his art career as a child, sewing bread bags the length of his family’s farmhouse near Beattyville, Kentucky. As a young man, Dunahoo began exploring the family farm by hanging intersecting strings, ropes and wires which could be grasped and threaded, on various fences and trees, thereby creating 3-d maps which he used to navigate outdoor space. Jessie Dunahoo is deaf and blind. In time, Dunahoo’s environments have grown and evolved into complex sewn structures made of found materials including grocery bags, fabric samples, pieces of old clothing and twine.Through an interpreter Jessie describes his works as shelters, and they are strung about his home and yard covering his walls, floor and ceiling. To allay any doubts, Jessie is completely aware that he is creating “art” and is quick to ask a viewer if they think his work is “beautiful?” Institute 193 has asked Dunahoo to install a working version of his environment at the gallery, navigating our space. This show is produced in conjunction with Latitude Artist Community, the organization that has provided Dunahoo support in the creation and exhibition of his work for over decade.
Images courtesy THE JONES SHOP and Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC.
ROBERT MORGAN: ALL THAT GLITTERS...
April 15, 2010 - May 16, 2010
Opening Reception: April 15 | 6 - 9 PM
Institute 193 and Robert Morgan were recently awarded an EcoGrant by LFUCG to conduct a series of educational workshops aimed at exposing the public to the possibilities of recycling as a method of art-making. Morgan works with junk and found objects, assembling them into speaking cultural artifacts shaped by the artist’s Catholic childhood, previous drug addiction and the AIDS epidemic of the 90’s. His work addresses the concept of recycling both physically and conceptually. Through a process of collection and assemblage, Morgan is able to transform hair brushes, children’s toys, old radios and other various discarded objects into works of art that speak to the life experiences of the artist and the former lives and stories embodied by the objects themselves. The recycling of objects, photos, memories, and experience makes Morgan’s work engaging to people of all ages and education levels. Morgan is a Lexington-based artist whose family goes back to the early pioneers of central Kentucky and the mountains of Appalachia. This project serves as a formal introduction of Morgan’s work to the larger community of schools, community centers and art enthusiasts.
MARE VACCARO: MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES
March 4, 2010 - April 11, 2010
Opening Reception: March 4 | 6 - 9 PM
In 1987, the US Congress officially declared March as Women's History Month. Institute 193, in conjunction with this period of pointed national discussion, presents Multiple Personalities, a solo-exhibition by Mare Vaccaro. This exhibition focuses on Vacarro’s use of “self-portrait” photography and prop-construction to explore evolving notions of feminity, beauty, adornment and identity. Vaccaro has alopecia universalis, a genetic miscoded medical condition that renders her body completely hairless. She is thus able to manipulate her physical body as a blank canvas,adorning herself with various found and constructed objects. The result is a series of startling and beautiful images depicting the deconstructed female form in various settings and portrayed as different characters or personalities..The pressure to adorn oneself is perversely satisfied in Vaccaro’s work, calling into question the most basic standards of beauty and gender roles The final product is a gleeful triumph of the individual over society’s expectations or a revelatory acceptance of its overwhelming pressure.
BRUCE BURRIS: WE WILL SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY WE WILL
January 14 - March 10, 2010
Opening Reception: January 14 | 6 - 9 PM
Performance by Eric Sutherland at 7:3O PM
We Will Someday, Someday We Will. It might be tomorrow, the day after or even next week, but we will. Someday We Will. In the midst of making our New Year’s resolutions and vowing to improve ourselves and the way we live, Institute 193 is presenting the first solo-exhibition in a decade by Lexington-artist, Bruce Burris. This amalgam of new work includes sculpture, drawing, painting and installation dealing with the subjects of mountaintop removal,
rural-Southern community dynamics and the tremendous importance of activism in function of these movements. These issues have traditionally been treated as geographically specific concerns but are increasingly viewed as essential aspects of the larger "green movement." Burris, a native of Delaware, is working with this material as an interested observer, employing an established aesthetic to further these broadening conversations visually and intellectually. Burris’ visual material is structured as scaffolding supported by language and carries an immense potential for both action and interaction.
Visit Bruce Burris' artist page to learn more.
BULLETIN BOARD CAFE
December 10, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Concept and organization by Michele Thursz in collaboration with Phillip March Jones.
The Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 is an installation and social tool that encourages dialogue amongst individuals, local art communities and other groups with diverging interests. It is foremost, a place to exchange information locally. Bulletin boards are constantly being relocated to dedicated URLS, which propose an international public. In order to determine where technology might be best deployed is to address local needs. We must find situations where individual members of local communities are actively trying to find, connect, and share information with one another.
We propose the Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 as a sociological tool that supports proximal information to encourage useful sharing amongst the local art communities and general public. The exchange of information supports the individual’s interests within a community and can possibly initiate broader social, cultural and economic dialog and actions. Bulletin Board Café is a tool for participation and community voice. We invite you to share responsibly any information with your public; this public includes minors. Bulletin Board Café will have a sign-up sheet to schedule free use of the café space to host PUBLIC round tables, free courses, and negotiations.
All ephemera, objects and information are to be included in the installation of Bulletin Board Cafe and all actions can be documented for publication.
Philosophy
It is human nature to communicate; the first societies were built on exchange thriving on the local resources. A healthy community will mirror in the individuals rights, freedom of expression, arts, politics, economy. As a community we can actively participate in a global society. Health is cognitive to expression and aligns with prosperity, tolerance, and change.
Commodity
The Bulletin Board Café will serve coffee, tea, and soda.
Design
Property should be a small room with storefront window, to create intimate environment with a fish bowl visibility.
Bulletin Board Café/ installation
Bulletin board, long picnic table, one chalk board for impromptu strategizing.
LOUIS ZOELLAR BICKETT II: SELECTIONS FROM THE ARCHIVE
October 15 - November 30, 2009
Since 1972, Louis Bickett has meticulously collected and
cataloged items from his daily life and assembled them into a
functioning installation he refers to as: THE ARCHIVE.
Photographs, dinner receipts, dog brushes, jars, binders and
items of every sort are tagged and neatly placed within the 3-D
collage that serves as home and studio to the artist. The strength
of Bickett’s work is plainly hidden in its volume and breadth -
attesting to the tireless work and profound vision of its disclipined
creator. Furiously collecting and archiving towards death, Bickett
has become the central object of the archive - missing only the tag
he will receive, not unlike the rest of us, upon his own death.
‘Selections from the Archive’ presents a working installation of
Bickett’s archive, welcoming the viewer into the artist’s studio for
an invited glimpse of a project 37 years in the making.
Visit Louis Bickett's' artist page to learn more.
