LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery opens 2010 with a photography exhibit focusing on Kentucky. MY/KY: Life through the Lens opens January 15 and runs through February 12. An artists’ reception will be held Friday, January 15, from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
Kentucky, it seems, has always been an enigma,
simultaneously admired and derided. Daniel Boone wrote, “I returned home to my
family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in
Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and
fortune.” Mark Twain, on the other hand, said, “When the end of the world comes,
I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens twenty years after it
happens anywhere else.”
Regardless of such widely variant response, the mystique of the Bluegrass State
swings broad and wide—from the loftiest spire to the deepest, most verdant
hollow. MY/KY: Life through the Lens is a small group invitational exhibition
that attempts to capture not only the attractive but also the elusive
Commonwealth. In artistic tradition, five Kentucky photographers have given us a
new way of seeing the Kentucky, its people, its industry and its land.
Don Ament reframes Kentucky’s energy concerns; Angela Baldridge (Transylvania
class of 2004) examines tobacco’s tradition and industry; Frank Döring gives an
insider’s view of the equine world; Mary Tortorici’s depopulated landscapes
offer a fuller view of the people who do live in them; and Carla Winn offers
studies of the faces of Kentucky’s contemporary “Daniel Boones.”
Looking to “place” for inspiration, these five artists address what “My
Kentucky” means to them, and they invite you to consider your Kentucky.
Gallery hours
The Morlan Gallery’s regular hours are Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. and by special
appointment. The gallery will be closed Monday, January 18 in observance of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For more information, contact gallery director
Andrea Fisher at (859) 233-8142 or visit
www.transy.edu/morlan.
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