This Friday night March 7, 2008 the Tim Faukner Gallery presents an opening reception for the exhibit "A Veil Of Personality" by Jen Goodell. The show runs through March 31, 2008.

The artist describes the exhibition as

"a story of sorts, it is a story of exploration and experimentation. Every painting is an attempt to create chaos and then find a way to resolve it.

The result is multiple paintings, each with their own personality, some more similar to each other than others"

Tim Faulkner has this say about the artist

"Everyone that I have meet who knows Jen Goodell says the same two things; they like her, and they love her work ! The reason behind this is easy- pure honesty, plain and simple. This very rare quality shines through her work in complex layers of subtle imagery, a very personalized sense of color theory, a great use of geometric symmetry, and a cryptic flow of insightful prose. By the time you realize that you have dissected the work to it's base elements and that there are in fact words everywhere, you understand that what she has written could be found in any artist's sketchbook, or in any one's personal diary."

Tim Faulkner Gallery
815 E Market street #4
Louisville, KY, 40203
502 381 1314

Another first Friday, another trolley hop downtown. There's some cool stuff involved with this one that I recommend you check out. A few highlights:

"Join the fun as the Frazier Museum kicks off March with the 2nd Annual Taste O' Ireland! Celebrate the Emerald Isle with a taste of Irish whiskey & music from Guilderoy Byrne, playing traditional & contemporary Irish favorites on a variety of acoustic, folk instruments.

Admission is Free and our galleries will be open - including our temporary exhibits A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie and Women's Work: The Paper Doll Quilts of Rebekka Seigel. "

Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery will present a reception for America's Favorite Architecture (AIA Traveling Exhibition from 6 - 9 p.m. The traveling exhibition "is organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to help celebrate its 150th anniversary. It features photographs by Carol M. Highsmith of 150 works of architecture--buildings, bridges, monuments, and memorials--selected by a public poll conducted by the AIA and Harris Interactive."

Swanson Reed Contemporary may be the best stop of the night cause they're giving away free gumbo from Cafe Lou Lou as part of their exhibition and fundraiser: MAKE IT RIGHT: REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS, featuring the work of three Louisiana artists. There will be a
benefit concert by Noisy Crane at 10 PM, $5 at the door and a "share of all the profits go to the Make it Right foundation which is using innovative and sound architectural ideas to rebuild after the hurricane."

Friday February 29, 2008 is the February edition of the Frankfort Avenue Trolley Hop. Highlights of this week's Hop including paintings of Ireland by Spike Frederick at Crescent Hill Gallery, a sale at Sniper Photography at the Mellwood Arts Center and live music from Michael Ray at Margaret's Consignment and Collectibles.

I got a notice that The Tim Faulkner Gallery will be presenting the exhibition "Portraits" by Terry Tapp during the month of February. They'll be celebrating the show's opening during the First Friday Trolley Hop.

Terry owns and operates a tattoo shop in the Highlands, and like most great tattoo artists, he has been drawing and painting most of his life. Please join us Friday night for what is sure to be a remarkable show.

Tim Faulkner Gallery
815 E Market st,
(Upstairs in the Mary Craik building)
Louisville, KY

Another first Friday, another downtown First Friday Trolley Hop. Lots and lots of good stuff going on for this one. Some highlights:

- The Frazier Center is going to have live music proved by the Kyene Drum Ensemble of Louisville to kick off Black History Month.

- Actors theater is having an opening for the 14th Annual African American Art Exhibition at Actors Theater from 5-9PM. The exhibit  runs through February 23, 2008, features 68 works by 34 artists.

- E&S Gallery on 10th street "invites you to the unveiling of The Jacob Lawrence Collection featuring Fine Art by Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, and Gwen Knight Lawrence.

The ribbon cutting will be at 5 pm, and the reception will be from 5:30-9 pm during the Trolley Hop.

- "In honor of Black History Month, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft will showcase a selection of African American Quilts from the collection of Larry Hackley. The majority of the work in the exhibition comes from a group of four Mississippi Gulf Coast quilters, but the show also features two Gee's Bend quilts as well."

- And perhaps most interesting for this week's trolley hop is the opening reception from 5-8PM for Christopher Hauck's Identity Crisis at Gallery NuLu. "Atlanta-based, Louisville native Christopher Hauck brings his UPC-coded commentary on modern identity to his hometown for the first time. The exhibition arrives in Louisville after exhibitions in Atlanta, Berlin, Los Angeles, and London and will travel to Chicago and Boston later in 2008. The Identity Crisis series explores the commoditization of identity, the person as product, the branding of 'me'.

Indianapolis artist Casey Roberts's artist statement makes his work sound intriguing to say the least:

"My work illustrates a fantastic landscape. It represents nature’s subtle way of dealing with the peculiar aspects in the relationship with mankind. A giant glow-in-the-dark heart, or a pile of precious gems tells us that we are loved, just as blood squirting from an oak tree trunk says all is not well. I am inspired by my conversation with the landscape, I imagine long monologues when pine forests make me laugh and mountains test my patience.

My paintings are created with a photochemical process known as cyanotype. The cyanotype is a civil war era process that gives a vibrant blue image when exposed to sunlight and developed. I paint with this light sensitive medium directly on paper or canvas. With everyday items such as baking soda, bleach and peroxide I am able to achieve a range of colors and textures thru controlled chemical reactions. I repeat this process adding many layers until the image is fully realized, often finishing with watercolor painting or a collage element."

Seeing samples of his work, like the image at right makes me even more intrigued and really excited that his show Wilderness coming to The 930 Center.

On view January 5-25, 2008. The opening reception is Saturday January 5, 2008, 7-11PM
The show is on view January 5-25, 2008

The 930 Center
930 Mary St.
Louisville, KY 40204

Image: Before and After ©Casey Roberts

Indianapolis artist Casey Roberts's artist statement makes his work sound intriguing to say the least:

"My work illustrates a fantastic landscape. It represents nature’s subtle way of dealing with the peculiar aspects in the relationship with mankind. A giant glow-in-the-dark heart, or a pile of precious gems tells us that we are loved, just as blood squirting from an oak tree trunk says all is not well. I am inspired by my conversation with the landscape, I imagine long monologues when pine forests make me laugh and mountains test my patience.

My paintings are created with a photochemical process known as cyanotype. The cyanotype is a civil war era process that gives a vibrant blue image when exposed to sunlight and developed. I paint with this light sensitive medium directly on paper or canvas. With everyday items such as baking soda, bleach and peroxide I am able to achieve a range of colors and textures thru controlled chemical reactions. I repeat this process adding many layers until the image is fully realized, often finishing with watercolor painting or a collage element."

Seeing samples of his work, like the image at right makes me even more intrigued and really excited that his show Wilderness coming to The 930 Center.

On view January 5-25, 2008. The opening reception is Saturday January 5, 2008, 7-11PM
The show is on view January 5-25, 2008

The 930 Center
930 Mary St.
Louisville, KY 40204

Image: Before and After ©Casey Roberts

Lots of things going on downtown tomorrow night in conjunction with the First Friday Gallery Hop. A few highlights:

First there's the aforementioned opening party at Gallery NuLu for Gibbs Rounsavall.

Glassworks is making holiday shopping easy with "The sale of the year that you don't want to miss! Glassworks artists sell their "not quite perfect" pieces for great bargains!

Market on Market presents Ceramics by Charles Hansen & Photography by Ross Gordon

Sadly Ray of Light is going out of business at the end of the year but for First Friday shoppers that means really good deals. Starting tomorrow, December 7, 2007 40% will be taken off everything in the store

Steelskin Gallery is having their second annual "Art as Gift" sale

Paul Paletti Gallery will have a collection of photographs from Cirque de Soleil

Derby City Espresso is having an opening for Tim Faulkner's paintings, a painter from New Orleans who moved here after Katrina. DCE is also having a free beer tasting hosted by the BBC Tap Room and the Pouchak doing providing live jazz music.

Speaking of Tim Faulkner his new gallery, Tim Faulkner Gallery will be open from 6-9PM. Located on the second floor of 815 E. Market Street the gallery's first show features paintings by Faulkner and Indianapolis artist Quincy Owens.

Gallery NuLu is playing host to Gibbs Rounsavall's first solo gallery show. The show opens tomorrow Friday December 7, 2007 and runs through January 26, 2008. Be sure to check out the opening party, along with other First Friday Gallery Hop activities.

Gibbs Rounsavall opening party December 7th, 2007 : 5-9 pm

Gallery NuLu
632 East Market
Second Floor
Louisville, KY

An example of Rounsavall's work after the jump.