Presented by 
Supporting Sponsors: Steve Wilson and
Laura Lee Brown
Media Sponsor: Insight Communications
Exhibition Contributors: Eric K. Doninger and Michelle Staggs Doninger, Barbara M. Nichols, F.G. (Rick) Heath and Merrily
Orsini, Mary and Al Shands, and William and Carol Tait
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is pleased to present 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 artists 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.
To purchase
the exhibition catalog, beautifully designed by Marilyn
Motsch, click
here.
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 1970s. 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.
