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Month of Maker’s was bourbon-licious!

LVAA — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:38:43 +0000

Thank you to Maker’s Mark for sponsoring the ”art meets bourbon” program, part of LVAA’s commitment to integrating visual art and local businesses with the community. Thanks to 21 local artists and Maker’s Mark corporate staff, the Month of Maker’s program resulted in:

$8000 in artist commissions
$1750 to three artist award winners
$11,600 for LVAA educational programs

The Month of Maker's reception was sold out!

Month of Maker's artists

Congratulations to the People’s Choice Award winners:

Andy Cook $1000, Jacqui Van Hamm $500, Wayne Stacy $250

Derrick Snodgrass

LVAA — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:24:00 +0000

Derrick Snodgrass was born in Kentucky. He is a self taught artist and tattoo-artist. His work has been exhibited in
San Francisco, London and Mexico City. He enjoys drawing and painting surreal kaleidoscopic landscapes, as if
seen from the passenger window on a trip to a fantasy world of somnambulation. Previously situated in the Bay
Area of California, he currently resides in Louisville, KY.

Evan Patterson

LVAA — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Evan Patterson.
Kentucky born and raised.
30 years of age.
17 years of playing rock music.
12 years of screen printing.
His desert dog, Betsy, loves to drink Maker’s Mark.

Lisa Austin

LVAA — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:43:00 +0000

Lisa Austin has been a mixed media artist since 2003 after leaving a studio career as a potter. It was a difficult change because she had won many national and regional awards with clay but her health precluded her from continuing in that medium. She turned to mixed media assemblage as her new art form with the help of scholarship and grants. She has exhibited in international assemblage shows in Europe and America as well as participating in the International Wearable Arts Show in Los Angeles, California. She has also received numerous awards for her assemblage and has been featured in magazines and books about mixed media. She has work in private collections and has been featured in eighteen single and group shows both locally and nationally.

“I love the idea of encapsulating a moment in time with objects, words, and images: whether it is an emotion, a social commentary, a piece of history, a person, or a place. To capture that moment and to keep returning to it because it evokes a feeling is my purpose in making mixed media. I want the viewer to think about the piece, have feelings about the piece, and to make art part of the collective experience. It is leaving a piece of time and our world behind in its physical form as well as in memory.”

Glenda Pfeiffer

LVAA — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:00 +0000

Glenda Pfeiffer is a native of Elizabethtown Kentucky, and a graduate of the University of Louisville where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in design. Middle school art classes sparked her interest in painting and creativity. She has taken classes from some of the leading teachers of landscape and portrait painting. Glenda loves color and the spirituality found in nature and seen on her travels and her art reflects these interests as she tries to share the beauty of life with others. Her paintings hang in corporate collections and private homes in the U.S. and Europe.

Maker’s Creek

“I was taken by the beauty and solitude of the place. The limestone waters form the foundation of Maker’s Mark.”

Red Hot Rooster

“This was a fun painting to do using the palette knife and using wax as a part of the painting. Just as the rooster has its red comb, Maker’s Mark has its red wax.”

Mama Says Make Your Mark!

“The tour of the distillery made me realize how much Margie Samuels contributed to the brand and what it represents today. I thought of how the WWII poster “Rosie the Riveter” gave women courage and that a similar courage helped her make her mark on the company. This painting is for all women to have courage enough to make their mark on the world.”

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Tammy Burke

LVAA — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:27:00 +0000

In the age of immaterial communication, Tammy Burke believes in the power and place of the static object. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Herron School of Art in Painting and a Master of Arts in Media Communications from Webster University. She works in varied two and three-dimensional media, including painting, textiles, sculpture, and photography and has exhibited regionally. She works and lives in the Louisville area.

“The Maker’s Mark distillery experience begins long before reaching the property with the winding, somewhat dangerous, pastoral roads and I wanted to reflect that in “They wait.” This perspective is a created one, informed by my own photographs, Google satellite images, and photographs and videos found on the web. This image references all of the elements important in the creation of Maker’s Mark bourbon whisky and was inspired by multiple distillery visits.”

LVAA at Propsect.2 New Orleans

LVAA — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:51:51 +0000

What is Prospect.2? [from www.prospectneworleans.org] “Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading biennials of international contemporary art in the United States. Conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, such as the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo, Prospect New Orleans showcases new artistic practices from around the world in settings that are both historic and culturally exceptional, and contributes to the cultural economy of New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf region by spurring cultural tourism and bringing international attention to the area’s vibrant visual arts community.”

LVAA was lucky enough to visit New Orleans for the opening weekend of the biennial. Here are a sampling of photos:

-Newcomb Gallery at Tulane University:

detail- Joyce J. Scott, "Cobalt, Yellow Circles" 2010. Glass beads, thread, wire.

some of Nick Cave's sound suit installations

- the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)

Bruce Davenport, Jr. "Self Taught Artist" 2011. Archival marker on handmade paper.

Nicole Eisenman "Guy Racer" 2011. Oil, mixed media on canvas.

still from Jennifer Steinkamp, "The Vanquished" 2011. computer animated light projection

-The New Orleans Healing Center, Cafe Istanbul

Ms. Joyce J. Scott presenting "Ms. Veronica's Veil"

-The Front

Stephanie Patton "Friends Forever" 2011. Matress quilting, high density foam, wood.

-The Good Children Gallery

detail of embellished dress

Nathan Morgan

LVAA — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:49:00 +0000

Nathan Morgan launched his career in woodworking in Birmingham, England. A third generation woodworker, his experiences in the Cotswold craft traditions of masonry and woodworking strongly influenced his pursuit of fine art carpentry.

He relocated to Louisville, Kentucky in 2000, and has since built a reputation in modern custom design furniture, retail space, cabinetry, and historic renovation. Recent installations include the Wiltshire Pantry on Market, the Home-O-Rama at Locust Creek, the Waterfront Park Place Penthouse, Basa Restaurant, the green building Java, and the Louisville Visual Art Association.

Nathan is committed to utilizing sustainable, green building methods, featuring use of reclaimed and alternative materials locally sourced. His influences blend historic European craftsmanship and the Bauhaus movement in modern furniture design; while his work aims to showcases the seamless, organic beauty of objects forged with the form and function of both the organic material and design space in mind. He recently launched Salvo, a hand to home collective featuring handmade, functional art, which opened in July 2011.

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David Metcalf

LVAA — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:11:00 +0000

David Metcalf earned his BFA from the University of Louisville in 2001. His primary mediums are painting, sculpture, and photography. In 2002, he began designing and making furniture with Pattern Shop Design, a four man collective in Beloit, WI. His work at Pattern Shop centered on reclaiming wood and metal industrial patterns from an abandoned paper mill. He returned to Louisville in 2004, and joined Birdsquare Carpentry, where he focused on custom cabinetry and furniture from reclaimed materials.

Presently, he is maintaining a practice in studio art, custom furniture in Louisville, KY. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Chicago, Louisville, and throughout Wisconsin. In July 2011, David’s work is featured at Salvo, a hand to home collective featuring handmade, functional art.

“The inspiration for this piece primarily came from the maker’s mark label paper. I responded to the warm tone and texture immediately. I decided to create a lamp that showcased the barrel staves and the label paper as the inherent Maker’s Mark icons that they are. The minimal armature attempts to subtly suggest sculptural form without distraction. Choosing the red cloth wire just seemed obvious. “

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Jacqui Van Ham

LVAA — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:17:00 +0000

“The chandelier was inspired by my trip out to Loretto to see the Makers Mark distillery. There was a collection of bottles on a table by the door, and the light hitting them stood out to me, and I wanted to recreate that effect with found objects from Makers Mark. The rusted steel barrel rings, charred oak staves, bottles and signature wax all were sourced from the distillery. While it is tempting to cover the whole thing in that signature red wax, I was trying to emphasize that the bottle itself is also a signature, and that no labels or wax is necessary to identify the Makers Mark brand. I was also attempting a more vintage/period feel.”