LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft presents the blockbuster show entitled Life InSight: The Human Experience, which will be on display from July 7 through November 4, with an opening reception on Friday, July 7th from 5-9pm. The show, sponsored by The Humana Foundation and Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, was curated by Gail M. Brown, Curator of Contemporary Crafts from Philadelphia, and will feature the work of nearly 90 artists from across the country.
Life InSight: The Human Experience will showcase craft objects that are inspired by the personal passages experienced in life. The show will examine what it is like to live, work, and die in contemporary society – from the vantage point of the contemporary craft artists. The pieces displayed will address aspects of the human experience in the context of physical, social, cultural and political matters, as well as the more personal subjects of birth, childhood, relationships, life choices and death. It will include ceramic sculpture, jewelry, metalwork, glass sculpture, fiber, studio furniture and mixed media forms.
Participating artists include: Ann Agee, Elizabeth Spotswood Alexander, Wesley Anderegg, Susan Bahary, Julia Barello, Tom Bartel, Anya Kristin Beeler, Mary Bero, Melanie Bilenker, Russell Biles, Beth Blahut, Christina Bothwell, Michael Brolly, Kathleen Browne, Jeanne Bruce, Patricia Burleson, Jessica Calderwood, Yuyen Chang, David Chatt, Richard Cleaver, Katharine Cobey, Jane Burch Cochran, Cynthia Consentino, Michael Creed, Ben Cunningham, Roy Davis, Robert Ebendorf, Susan Taylor Glasgow, Angela Gleason, Michael Goodlett, Carol Green & Lynn Hayes, Mark Hartung, Wendy Huhn, Elizabeth Ingraham, Ron Isaacs, Sergei Isupov, Judy Jensen, Indira Freitas Johnson, Tamar Kern, Elizabeth Kuhn, Mary Catherine Lamb, Karen LaMonte, Peter Lenzo, Lauren Levy, Beth Lo, Tom Lundberg, Lee Malerich, Sarah Martin, Elaine McBride, Bruce Metcalf, ,Ann Tevepaugh Mitchell, Anne Mondro, Beth Nobles, Matt Nolen, Richard Notkin, Jacque Parsley, Greg Penner, Jennifer Reis, Jon Eric Riis, Red Weldon Sandlin, Arturo Alonzo , Sandoval, Stephen Saracino, Judith Schaechter, Miriam Schaer, Marjorie Schick, Rebekka Seigel, Mark Sfirri, Penny Sisto, John L. Skau, Brent Skidmore, Nancy Slagle, Christina Y. Smith, Melissa Stern, Bill Stewart, Lee Stoliar, Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Hirotsune Tashima, Julie Terestman, Tip Toland, Patricia Wheeler, Heather White van Stolk, Kevin Whitfield, J. Fred Woell, John Woodward, Janis Mars Wunderlich and Jan Yager.
Brion Clinkingbeard, Curator and Deputy Director of KMAC states, “Life InSight: The Human Experience is a complex exhibition that invites close scrutiny and rewards the individual viewer who makes time to contemplate it in all of its diversity. There are visual as well as narrative clues that illuminate each artist’s intentions, but much is left unsaid, left to be discovered by the viewer and given new meaning by such personal interaction.”
Gail M. Brown says, “The artists, each in their own clearly articulated visual vocabularies, acknowledge and celebrate our human struggles and triumphs, our challenges and strengths, our collective spirit and our own potential individuality.”
A catalog will be produced for this exhibition and will be on sale beginning July 6, 2006.
About Gail M. Brown - Gail M. Brown is an Independent Curator whose focus is to enhance visibility and education about contemporary craft in the larger visual arts community. She trained as a print maker at the Philadelphia College of Art, and she has been watching the contemporary crafts movement since the early 1970’s. She curates focused exhibitions which share the exceptional work of mature and mid-career artists and introduce younger makers. She also lectures and writes on craft and professional practices for emerging artists. Her impressive resume includes exhibitions curated for NCECA in Baltimore, MD; the Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, CT; the Folk Art Center of the SHCG in Ashville, NC; and U Mass Dartmouth in New Bedford, MA. In addition, she has curated two shows of British jewelry which traveled to Boston, New York City, Chicago (SOFA), and St. Louis. Most recently, Gail curated The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft for the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA.
