Children of the Corn

Land Of Tomorrow Lexington
August 7 - August 13
Closing Reception: August 13 (7pm-11pm)

Land of Tomorrow is pleased to present Children of the Corn, an exhibition of new work by four Purdue University graduate students. Kentucky native, David Wischer, is bringing three new friends from the Indiana cornfields to the open plains of Kentucky, for one night. Wischer will also be releasing a limited edition art print for Land of Tomorrow, which will be available at the reception, and Lexington musician, Andrew English, will be on hand with a special performance.

David Wischer is a printmaker and graphic designer from Henderson, Kentucky. He has a BFA in Graphic Design from Northern Kentucky University and is currently in the MFA program at Purdue University, for Fine Art. From bad TV commercials to awkward student pictures, his prints are a humorous response to the absurdities of our everyday lives.

Garet Martin is an artist from Ohio whose work stems from a fascination with the innocuous—from discarded product packaging discovered on the sidewalk to fleeting conversations overheard in passing.  In extracting from these readily available stimuli, he visually explores the mundane, discovering the significance of the insignificant. Garet is currently in the MFA program at Purdue University, studying Fine Art.

Alexa Unser is an artist working primarily in print. Her work reflects a continuum of childish charm and trendy humor. She received her BA from St. Lawrence University and is currently at Purdue University for her MFA.

Aaron Nemec is a graduate student in the Electronic and Time-based Art program, at Purdue University. The primary focus of his work is recombinant aesthetics in music and the listener-performer relationship. He is also a founding member of The CAI artist collective, the rock band Drum Kit, and conceptual art band, The Meatballz.

LOT Louisville

Land of Tomorrow Louisville
Bear in Heaven, Shedding, and Slow Animal
August 1st, Doors open at 7:30

Land of Tomorrow (LOT) is pleased to announce the opening of a second gallery and fabrication space located in the heart of downtown Louisville.  To celebrate, there will be a soft opening featuring the music of Bear in Heaven, Shedding, and Slow Animal.  These bands will be playing in the gallery from 8pm on Sunday August 1st. This is a unique opportunity to come to the space before the initial installations are placed, thus allowing the patron to see the new gallery as a blank canvas while enjoying several up-and-coming bands. In addition, local artists Willard Tucker and Paul Simmons have created several banners for LOT that will be in place for this celebration.  The banners, entitled Dark and Bloody Ground, are a sneak-peak of the duo’s collaborative efforts that will be showcased in an upcoming show at the space.

Bear in Heaven, led by Jon Philpot, Joe Stickney and Adam Wills, is a psychedelic electronic band with a humorous twist.  This Brooklyn based group is gaining notoriety in the music world for their visceral anthems.  Shedding, originally a solo project by Connor Bell, joined forces with Tim Furnish and Joey Yates to create a sound with a mix of musical experimentation and classic resonance.  They are a local band from Louisville who draw inspiration from their surroundings to create their unique sound.  Adding to the mix is Slow Animal with their New Jersey garage rock jams that are a sophisticated take on 60s doo-wop.

The August 1st show will prove to be an exciting inauguration for LOT.  There will also be a grand opening later in September that will officially launch Land of Tomorrow in Louisville.  Future events will include exhibitions by Willard Tucker and Paul Simmons, Jimenez Lai, and Mike McKay, plus a Making of LOT show.

The gallery has a unique floor plan. LOT Louisville will consist of a street level artist’s space and fabrication workshop as well as a first floor exhibition space.  In the gallery space, there will be architecture and art exhibitions, design events, academic lectures, film and more, while the visible street level will allow the community a glimpse into the making of the art and design objects.

This event is free, but Land of Tomorrow will be accepting donations in order to support their future endeavors. Doors open at 19:30, the first band goes on at 20:00.

For more information please contact Angela Torchio at angela@landoftomorrow.org or visit the website www.lotlex.org.

Get Some @ LOT July 23rd

Come join the Brocktologist and The Chaotic Good July 23rd.  Its 18+ and doors open at 10pm. Its a $5 donation and BYOB for 21+.

Get some - 10pm June 18th

Come join us for on June 18th for Chicago’s Midnight Conspiracy and Lexington’s own the Chaotic Good.  Over 18 event, sure to please.  Doors open at 10pm.  Please respect the neighbors.

For more info:
Midnight Conspiracy
The Chaotic Good

COD Year End Graduation Show

Opening May 7 at 7:00 PM

LOT Gallery is pleased to present the Year End Graduation Show, an
exhibition of student work from the University of Kentucky College of
Design.  The show looks at contemporary design issues at a variety of scales
and presents works from the four Master of Architecture Studios and selected
Graduate and Undergraduate Seminars in the Schools of Architecture and
Interior Design.

The exhibition presents projects from the four Architecture Graduate studios
that seek to redefine the role and efficacy of design in contemporary
cultures, politics, and economies.  Studio research areas include the
continued development of the “River Cities Project”, a multi-year design
initiative focusing on the revitalisation of industrial cities located on
the Ohio River;  experimentation with responsive devices and their
productive capacity as design tools to generate novel formal, structural,
and programmatic relationships; the adaptation of the regional houseboat
industry to fabricate energy-efficient, low-cost housing; and policy as a
form of design to optimize urban, sub-urban and rural planning . The
students present their findings using animation, drawings, videos and
models.

The Year End Graduation Show also presents works from Design Seminars
dealing with material research, digital fabrication, surface effects and
innovative structures.

SITE SPECIFIC

University of Kentucky  MFA Graduate Student Group Show
April 26-30

Closing Reception, April 30th: 7PM

Featuring:
Waylon Bigsby
Mallory Dover
Natasha Giles
Sarah Hahn
Nathan Hatch
Perry Hooks
Melissa Van Sandt

EVERY CHURCH IN FAYETTE COUNTY

an m.f.a. thesis exhibition by TRAVIS SHAFFER
April 19 - April 23, 2010

CLOSING RECEPTION
April 23, 2010
seven - nine p.m.

Every Church in Fayette County is a documentary photographic project depicting the nearly 300 churches in Lexington, KY. Fayette county has a total area of 286 square miles and a population of 282,114 (in 2008). Nestled on the edge of “the bible belt” it is home to nearly 300 Churches, approx. 1 church per square mile.

During the closing reception this exhibition will transform into a performative market system. Each visitor is welcome to participate by removing a church from the exhibition. Upon selection the visitors will be asked to fill out an offering envelope, and furnish an offering / tithe as purchase for the work. In doing so this exhibition hopes to explore the notion of the market systems employed by each of these two culture industries: the art world and religious institutions. This marks the inaugural exhibition of an ongoing project titled everychurch.org which seeks to establish an exhaustive archive of church imagery and leverage that database into re-establishing the church as a patron for the arts through future exhibitions and publications.

For more information on how to participate or on this project visit: www.everychurch.org

VOINA (WAR)

LOT Gallery and University of Kentucky Department of Art present a lecture by group VOINA (WAR).

Group Voina (Война) is one of the most radical collectives of artists working in Russia. Their interventions represent a  bold and uncompromising challenge to the political status quo and have garnered both national and international attention. Addressing themes of current politics and culture, Voina attacks it’s subjects and challenges it’s viewers. This is a rare opportunity to learn firsthand about vital directions in contemporary Russian art!

The event is held on University of Kentucky Campus. The lecture will begin at 6:00pm on Monday, April 19 in Room 101 of Reynolds Building, 338 Scott Ave. (map link).

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aliens and cowboys

ALIENS AND COWBOYS

LOT is pleased to present a solo show of new paintings and sculpture by Los Angeles based artist Noah Olmsted, entitled Aliens and Cowboys, from April 9th through April 18th, 2010.

Isolating iconography from contemporary Hollywood culture, Olmsted constructs his work from images that are either Alien or Cowboy.  Several contemporary films that explore the subject are referenced to generate the framework for the show, most notably: No Country For Old Men, Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and The Road. This exhibition expressively marks themes of survival and collapse in an unpredictable dystopian landscape.

In Aliens and Cowboys, Olmsted creates a system of mirrors or twins through ready-made objects, sculpture, digital painting, and installation. Imagery of gun racks, diseased alien cats, melting dope-runner skeletons, western shirts, and razor wire fight for dominance in the space, fragmenting their symmetry towards abstraction.

Noah Olmsted (b, 1979) lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from University of Colorado, and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. Upon graduating from Columbia in 2005 Olmsted moved to Los Angeles and worked on Experience Design projects and feature film marketing for some of the biggest films in Hollywood.  Olmsted is currently focusing on art and filmmaking.

SEA SALT & VINEGAR

With this show from Osaka, Japan native, Yoshihito Mizuuchi, we are straying from our usual format and diving head first into a universe of random possibilities of process. Ha!? Well, the show will start with a performance on Monday the 22nd (6pm) and end a week later with another performance on Saturday the 27th (6pm). In the time and space between the performances the show will grow.

The root of Yoshihito Mizuuchi’s production was his participation in tape remix culture during his elementary school days. He brings this remix aesthetic to his current work, often using everyday objects in a variety of exciting amalgamations. He freely draws from a diverse pool of media sources in order to bring understated games of objecthood and ephemeral experience to his audiences.

Artist Website:
http://www.yoshihito-mizuuchi.net/