The
Ann Tower Gallery is pleased to present
New Paintings and Drawings by Carolyn Young Hisel
and Lennon Michalski. Please join us for Gallery Hop
Friday February 19, from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibition
will be on display through March 28.
Hisel
and Michalski are each well known for their vibrant,
multi-layered paintings. They are distinctly different
artists, but their work shares kindred interests.
They each present an abstract narrative, and they
integrate drawing into their work. Hisel often allows
preliminary oil sketches and graphite drawings to
remain visible in her finished works, permitting the
viewer to see the evolution of the work. Michalski
draws with a brush through thick, wet surfaces of
paint, layer upon layer, hiding and enhancing parts
as the whole comes together.
Like
many artists, Hisel and Michalski enjoy drawing. They
regularly keep sketchbooks where they work out ideas
for paintings, and simply capture visual ideas and
moments. There is an intimate, informal quality to
the drawings that gives the viewer insight into the
artists’ minds.
Hisel's
paintings have been shown throughout the United States
in many juried and invitational exhibitions. The Lexington,
Kentucky native has had more than 20 solo exhibitions,
including a 20-year retrospective in 1989 at Lexington's
Headley-Whitney Museum. Her paintings have won a museum
Purchase Award from the Owensboro Mid-States Competition,
and an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky
Arts Council, and her work is part of several museum,
corporate, and private collections, including the
Art Museum at the University of Kentucky. Hisel is
a graduate of UK.
Michalski's
work has been shown internationally in group shows
in Mexico, Columbia, and China, as well as widely
in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. He has won a number
of awards and fellowships, including participating
in the prestigious Anderson Ranch Arts Center Advanced
Painting Studio Workshop. Michalski earned his Master
of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado
at Boulder, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from
Eastern Kentucky University. He currently teaches
at the Department of Art at the University of Kentucky,
and lives in Lexington.
The
Main Floor Gallery will feature a variety of paintings,
sculpture, photographs, drawings, ceramics, and folk
art by more than 30 artists.
Patrick
Adams • Minnie Adkins • Gary Bower •
Nancy Fletcher Cassell • Stacey Chinn •
Carolyn Courtney • Susan Dygert • Joseph
Fitzpatrick • Robert James Foose • Ulrike
Hahn • Nori Hall • Georgia Henkel •
Carolyn Hisel • Judith Pointer Jia • Ted
Kennedy • Ed Lawrence • Howerton Leightty
• Dal Macon • Guy Mendes • Lennon
Michalski • Lonnie and Twyla Money • Mary
Newton • Janice Harding Owens • Lina Tharsing
• Robert Tharsing • Mary Rezny •
Bill Santen • Suzy Scott • Chris Segre-Lewis
• James Shambhu • Valerie Shesko •
Karen Spears • Travis Strange • Lina Tharsing
• Robert Tharsing • Mary Tortorici •
Ann Tower • Travis Townsend • Sharon Weis
• Daniel Werner • Mark Whitley
The
gallery is located in the Downtown Arts Center, 141
East Main Street, Lexington, KY, 40507 and is open
Tuesdays though Saturdays 10am-5pm, and Sundays 10am-4pm
with extended hours during special events, theater
performances and by appointment. For more information
and for hi-resolution images please call the gallery:
(859) 425-1188.
