Exhibition Schedule
Fall Semester / 2011
| September 15 - September 30 | The Neighborhood Series 2011 Lexington Fashion Collaborative |
Campus Gallery Hop Reception on September 15th 5-7:30pm
Performance: September 25th 6-9pm
"The Neighborhood Series 2011" is a community-wide effort that brings together Lexington Fashion Collaborative, a group of talented artists and designers, with a number of locally owned businesses. Funded in part by University of Kentucky Student Sustainability Council, this show highlights the importance of shopping locally and creating a sustainable production approach. All of the materials used by the artists have been discarded by local businesses. Instead of their usual trip to the trash heap, they become a part of amazing fashion and installation pieces in the Tuska Center for Contemporary Art gallery space. The program features several music events in partnership with WRFL's Boomslang Festival and presents an open and inviting approach to a variety of creative connections between UK's campus and the Lexington community.
| October 6 - November 4 | Wall of Memories: The Disappeared Señoritas of Ciudad Juárez Diane Kahlo |
Opening Reception: October 6, 5-7:30pm
This show presents portraits of the more than 350 disappeared and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico. Kahlo’s aim is to raise awareness in Kentucky and beyond about violence against women and the intersections of sexism, classism, exploitation, violence, poverty and immigration.
| November 17 - December 9 | Ruth Hunt Wood Foundation Visiting Kenyan Artist Alan Githuka |
Opening Reception: November 17, 5-7:30pm
A self-taught artist from Nairobi, Githuka says he enjoys "expressing beauty... in expressionist form, mostly landscapes, rural scenes and day to day life." He has produced some of his most powerful works during the post-election violence.
| January 19 – February 19 | UK Art Department Faculty Show |
Opening Reception: January 19, 5-7:30pm
2012 UK Art Department Faculty Show will feature work from all of the full-time studio and art education faculty in the department. Works in a number of different media and diverse strategies of production come together to form this annual show. This is an opportunity to presents UK Art Department's artist-educators to the Kentucky community through their creative output. Paintings, photographs, video, performance, sculptural objects and installations are just some of the ways that the variety of visions of individual faculty manifest themselves within the walls of the Tuska Center for Contemporary Art and beyond.
List of faculty in the show: Ruth Adams, Garry Bibbs, Roger Boulay, Dennis Carpenter, Robert Dickes, Gerald Ferstman, Rae Goodwin, Sharon Lee Hart, Hui Chi Lee, Doreen Maloney, Matthew Page, Arturo Sandoval, Bobby Scroggins, Brandon Smith, Hunter Stamps, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Benjamin Thorp, Sarah Wylie Van Meter, James Wade, Lynn Sweet, Jeremy Colbert, Beth Mosher Ettensohn, Martha Henton, George Szekely, Robert Shay, Dmitry Strakovsky
| February 26 - March 3 | Century Project Frank Cordelle |
The Century Project is a chronological series of nude photographic portraits of more than one hundred women and girls from the moment of birth to nearly a hundred years of age. A diverse group of photographs comprising women of many ages, shapes, sizes, and life experiences is presented in this exquisitely disarming project. Most of the images are accompanied by moving statements written by the women themselves
| March 19 - April 13 | Not As I Pictured John Kaplan |
Artist Reception and Film Screening: March 29, 5-7:30pm
Not As I Pictured is a series of autobiographical photo work and 54-minute film following Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John Kaplan's unexpected cancer journey.
TCCA is located in the Fine Arts Building, on Rose Street, on the University of Kentucky campus. Gallery hours change each semester and are subject to student availability. Please call the UK Art Department at 257-2727, or visit https://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/TCCA for the latest information on gallery hours. All exhibits and events are free and open to the public.
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