Elena Dorfman's Pleasure Park Series: The Horses
Through October 31, 2010

The Ann Tower Gallery is pleased to present Elena Dorfman's, "Pleasure Park Series: The Horses," a special exhibition to coincide with the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games by an internationally recognized photographer. 
 
The photographs are large in scale, printed on aluminum, and each features an individual horse, alone in a studio-like setting wearing traditional equestrian accoutrements such as masks and blinders. Ms. Dorfman places the horses in a setting devoid of visual cues, isolating the horse, and thereby questioning its traditional symbolism. At the track, expectations of the horse and rider are of athleticism, sexuality, power, and performance but Ms. Dorfman's photographs show the vulnerability and fetishism of the horse - the same issues humans are faced with in a society that worships commodity culture and winning at all costs.
 
Pleasure Park : The Horses, was recently shown at Modernism, San Francisco. The series is on loan to the Ann Tower Gallery from 21C Museum's permanent collection in Louisville, where it was on display at Proof on Main from April 2009 through May 2010. The gallery will order limited edition prints for interested patrons.
 
Ms. Dorfman divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.

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Elena Dorfman
Pleasure Park Horse #7
Limited edition digital C-print mounted on aluminum, 50 x 37 inches

Elena Dorfman
Pleasure Park Horse #5
Limited edition digital C-print mounted on aluminum, 50 x 37 inches

Second Floor Gallery: An exhibition of new works by artists represented by the Ann Tower Gallery is on display.

Painters: Patrick Adams, Gary Bower, Nancy Fletcher Cassell, Gary Drake, Susan Dygert, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Evan Fugazzi, Robert James Foose, Ulrike Hahn, Georgia Henkel, Carolyn Young Hisel, Lennon Michalski, Mary Newton, Chris Segre-Lewis, James Shambhu, Valerie Shesko, Karen Spears, Lina Tharsing, Robert Tharsing, Ann Tower, Sharon Weis, Judy Wells, and Daniel Werner

Sculptors: Stacey R. Chinn, Judith Pointer Jia, Geoff Smith, and Travis Townsend

Photographers: Carolyn Courtney, Ed Lawrence, Guy Mendes, Mary Rezny, and Mary Tortorici

Folk artists: Minnie & Greg Adkins, JoAnn Butts, Joan Dance, Lonnie and Twyla Money, Janice Harding Owens, Dolly & Guy Skaggs, and Travis Strange

The gallery, in the Downtown Arts Center, 141 East Main St., Lexington, KY, 40507, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 am – 5 pm; 10 am to 4 pm Sundays; and with extended hours during special events and theater performances. For more information please contact Lina at (859) 425-1188.