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2020

Good Paintings of Bad Bitches: A Review of Patrick Smith’s “The Intimacy of Others” and “Face Off: Patrick Smith with Victor Hammer”
by Cooper Gibson, Under Main, December 31, 2020

Eric Rhein: Cover Story
by Chael Needle, A&U Magazine, December 17, 2020

UK Photography Lecturer’s Exhibition Examines Dairy Farmers’ Struggle
by Hayden Gooding, UKNow, November 10, 2020

Longtime Survivor Eric Rhein’s Art Book ‘Lifelines’ Marries ‘90s Gay Portraiture and Delicate Collage Art
by Tim Murphy, TheBody, November 3, 2020

Cultivating Kentucky’s LGBTQ History
by the Faulkner Morgan Archive, October 29, 2020

Exhibit by James Southard: Why Buy the Cow
by Kathy Black, Vermont Studio Center, October 20, 2020

Joe Light
by Ashton Cooper, ARTFORUM, October/November 2020 print edition

Art as Therapy: Symmetry Breaking by Melissa Watt
by Julie Wilson, Magnum Opal, September 25, 2020

Way Out People, Way Out There: Southern Sanctuaries
by Laura Relyea, The Bitter Southerner, September 15, 2020

Melissa Watt: Symmetry Breaking
by Kevin Nance, Under Main, September 8, 2020

The Plot That Soul Built
by Logan Lockner, Burnaway, July 30, 2020

Joe Light at Institute 193
by Dmitry Strakovsky, Under Main, July 19, 2020

Local Exhibit Highlights Work of Self-Taught Southern Artist
by Felicia Feaster, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 9, 2020

A Soaring Visionary of Afrofuturism and Black Power
by Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic, March 28, 2020

Jessie Dunahoo at the Carnegie
by Steve Kemple, AEQAI, March 28, 2020

Local Luminaries: Ed McClanahan
by Celeste Lewis, Smiley Pete Publishing, March 25, 2020

SPEAKING: Paul Michael Brown
by L Autumn Gnadinger, Ruckus Journal, March 4, 2020

Hard-Hitting Humour
by Edward M. Gómez, Raw Vision, March 2020

Review: Contemporary’s “Charles Williams” Tells Story of Pencils, Empowerment, Despair
by David S. Cohen, ARTS ATL, February 26, 2020

Atlanta Contemporary Displays Works of Charles Williams, An Artist with Many Styles
by Ryan McFadin, WABE, January 30, 2020

2019

Intimately Legible: A Review of Amy Pleasant at Institute 193
by Elizabeth Goodman, Under Main, December 8, 2019

Male Nudes, Exposed & Examined
by Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic, November 9, 2019

Aaron Michael Skolnick - Your Voice Lying Gently In My Ear - Institute 193
by Tyler Akers, GAYLETTER, November 2019

‘Children Dance On Water I Wonder Why They Wash Away Sometimes’ by September Diencephalon at Institute 193
by Tzvetnik, November 2019

Just Off Beale: Henry Speller in Memphis
by Hunter Braithwaite, Burnaway, October 24, 2019

September Diencephalon at Institute 193
by Megan Bickel, AEQAI, October 2019

Walks to the Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey // A Reexamination of Self- Taught Artists in the American South
by Ryan Filchak, The Seen, September 19, 2019

A Conversation with Artist Eric Rhein
by Todd Lanier Lester, Luv ‘Til it Hurts, August 2019

Close Look: Eric Rhein at Institute 193 in Lexington
by Burnaway Staff, Burnaway, July 27, 2019

Walks to the Paradise Garden, A Lowdown Southern Odyssey
by Richard B. Woodward, Collector Daily, July 1, 2019

Interview with Eric Rhein and Silas House
by Tom Godell, The Agenda, WUKY, July 1, 2019

Eric Rhein Celebrates Stonewall with Two Kentucky Exhibitions
by Hank Trout, A&U Magazine, June 26, 2019

Walks to the Paradise Garden
by J.W. McCormack, BOMB Magazine, Summer 2019

I is for Institute: Conversation with Phillip March Jones and Paul M. Brown, Institute 193
by Tausif Noor, ICA Philadeliphia, May 17, 2019

Both Celestial and Chthonian: ‘Walks to the Paradise Garden’ Marks a Valuable Addition to the History of Self-Taught Art
by Anne Doran, ARTnews, May 29, 2019

Emily Ludwig Shaffer at Institute 193
by Dmitry Strakovsky, Under Main, April 2019

Finding Jesus On The Front Yard
by Will Matsuda, Topic Magazine, April 2019

Walks to the Paradise Garden
by the Editors of Raw Vision, Raw Vision, April 2019

A Love Note to the Quirky South
by Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic, March 9, 2019

‘Way Out People, Way Out There.’ Rediscovering the South’s Quirky Folk Artists
by Tom Eblen, Lexington Herald-Leader, February 26, 2019

2018

John Martin at Institute 193 (1B), New York
by the Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews, December 10, 2018

Ten Galleries Whose Founders Quit The Big City To Become Cultural Trailblazers in the Heartland
by Laura van Straaten, Vulture, November 30, 2018

“Rubbish and Dreams” in Kentucky’s Queer Archives: A Conversation with David Getsy on researching Stephen Varble
by Miriam Kienle, UnderMain, November 23, 2018

‘An Antidote To Nature’s Ruin On This Heavenly Globe’ at Institute 193
by Emily Goodman, UnderMain, November 18, 2018

I Made About 50 Millions of Tools;” An Interview with Creative Growth Artist John Martin 
by Sophia
Cosmadopoulos, Ace Hotel Blog, November 5, 2018

Eddie Owens Martin’s Transformation into an Outsider Saint 
by John Yau, Hyperallergic, October 14, 2018

Melissa Carter: New Masters
by Emily Goodman, Number Magazine, Winter 2018

New Masters Against Mastery
by Miriam Kienle, UnderMain, October 12, 2018

Melissa Carter at Institute 193 in Lexington
by Heath Stiltner, Burnaway, October 10, 2018

Institute 193 (1B) + Artist St. EOM 
by Annie Moye, Alabama Chanin Journal, October 7, 2018

Elaine de Kooning’s Old House is Art’s New Home
by Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic, September 8, 2018

Fragment of Another World: Eddie Owens Martin and Pasaquan at Institute 193
by Hunter Kissel, UnderMain, June 10, 2018

Byron Smith: Cover Girls at Institute 193
by Tim Ortiz, Disparate Minds, March 21, 2018

What Can An Old Folk Song Tell Us?
by Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, March 17, 2018

Illuminating the Underrepresented: Presenting Edward Melcarth
by Hunter Kissel, UnderMain, February 13, 2018

Rediscovering Edward Melcarth, a Gay, Communist Visionary
by Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic, February 10, 2018

Meet the Gay, Overtly Sexual Communist From Kentucky Who Highlighted the Male Body
by Danny Addice, Hornet, February 10, 2018

Heroic Rough Trade in the Mid-Century
by Christopher Harrity, The Advocate, February 6, 2018

Masterpieces from the Margins: The Outsider Art Fair Triumphs in New York
by Anne Doran, ARTnews, January 18, 2018

Lexington Gallery Awarded Major Grant by Andy Warhol Foundation
by Cheri Lawson, WEKU, January 16 2018

Andy Warhol Foundation Awards Lexington Gallery a Major Grant
by Rich Copley, Lexington Herald-Leader, January 6, 2018

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Lexington artist's work re-examines Kennedy's legacy
by Rich Copley, Lexington Herald-Leader, November 21, 2013

Revisiting Dust-to-Digital and Institute 193 Publications
by Burnaway Staff, Burnaway, 500 Mile Radius, July 30, 2013

The Lexington Arts Scene
by Louis Bickett, Burnaway, 500 Mile Radius, July 25, 2013

193 SOUND
Alabama Chanin Journal, June 18, 2013

Out There Atlanta’s Summer Sound Series: Phillip March Jones on 193 Sound
by Lilly Lampe, Burnaway Radio, Out There Atlanta, June 12, 2013 

Institute 193 creates a gallery of "aural art"
by Rich Copely, Lexington Herald-Leader, April 14, 2013

Institute 193 brings Alabama outsider artist Lonnie Holley to Lexington
by Candace Chaney, Lexington Herald-Leader, April 14, 2013

Insider Praise for Outsider Art
by Pac Pobric, The Art Newspaper, Number 244, March 2013

Mean Times Make Nice Art: Spiritual and Soothing Art by Sameer Reddy
by Ana Finel Honigman, International Sculpture Center Blog, February 28, 2013

ARTSpeak: Phillip March Jones
by Rachel Reese, Burnaway Radio AM1690, February 19, 2013

Artist Provides Rebirth Experience
by Rich Copley, Lexington Herald-Leader, February 18, 2013

Kentucky Outsider Artists Represented in NYC Art Fair
by Jonese Franklin and Connor Ryan, WFUV/WEKU Radio, February 8, 2013

Institute 193 exhibits at important New York art fair
by Rich Copley, Lexington Herald-Leader, February 1, 2013

Feeling Right at Home on the Fringe: Outsider Art Fair Opens at 548 West 22nd Street
by Roberta Smith, New York Times, January 31, 2013

Institute 193 represents Kentucky artists at NY’s Outsider Art Fair
by Saraya Brewer, Tadoo, January 31, 2013

 

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