Four emerging artists are exhibiting their newest work at Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opened Monday, October 23.
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Four emerging artists from New York, Philadelphia and Virginia will exhibit their newest work at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opens Monday, October 23, and runs through Friday, November 17. Andy Byers, Ryan Kelly, Morgan Herrin and Andrea Moreau are four up-and-coming visual artists who have two things in common: They are 2005 Ohio State University masters graduates and they are meeting with great success in their first year out of grad school. Kelly and Byers are ceramicists, Herrin is a sculptor and Moreau is a painter. Kelly was just awarded the prestigious Resident Artist position at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Byers has been working as an art director’s assistant in New York and playing with his critically successful band, Minus Story; Herrin received rave reviews for his new work in the exhibit Diamonds Cut Diamonds at Rare Gallery in New York; and Moreau was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, the largest and most international artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States. The jazzy one-word title, SNAP!, is a slang term to describe disbelief, which is what viewers will feel when taking in the sculptures and drawings in the exhibition. “Each of these artists has a real gift for taking mundane and ordinary materials from our everyday lives and turning them into the magical, the beautiful and the humorous,” said Andrea Fisher, director of the Morlan