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SUMMARY:Ahmad Austin - Enjoy Life
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition round includes works provided by Ahmad Austin which will be on view in the Second Floor Connector Gallery from July 31 – September 28\, 2024.  Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night\, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public.  The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out\, enjoy a pleasant evening\, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you!  The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday\, September 28 from 5-7 pm. \n  \nAbout the exhibit: \nInternationally recognized artist Ahmad Austin believes that good art is like good music: it makes you feel something. Marked by bold colors\, movement\, and loose strokes\, his paintings are sure to do just that. \nBuilt upon years of formal training\, Austin’s personal style emerged when he picked up a palette knife and discovered a new artistic freedom that captured more emotion and energy than he ever experienced while painting with a brush. You’ll often find Austin painting to the sound of jazz legends like John Coltrane\, creating pieces that capture the essence of jazz. “When I’m painting\, it’s as if time doesn’t exist\,” he said. Unwinding as he creates\, Austin’s personality and his style are both relaxed. Yet\, he uses quick strokes and scratching techniques that convey a certain energy that comes off the canvas. “I’m very easy going—maybe a little too much\,” Austin said. “I think some of the emotions I hold back come out in my paintings.” \nAustin’s work has been showcased worldwide from Italy to Ireland\, and he is well respected in his home community of Birmingham\, Alabama where his pieces hang in galleries all over town. When he isn’t creating exquisite\, award-winning pieces of his own\, Austin stays busy teaching others to do the same. By day\, he teaches elementary school students techniques to express themselves artistically\, and he also teaches numerous classes live and online through his Palette Knife Academy which have been enjoyed nationally and internationally. A patient and encouraging teacher\, Austin said his students inspire him with their creativity. Several of his students have developed their own style using the palette knife and have gone on to become professional artists as well. “There’s nothing more rewarding than that\,” Austin said. \nWhether he’s painting a series of his signature musicians or a landscape\, Austin’s work is a lot like jazz music—filled with a calming sort of energy that keeps people coming back to it. He plans to keep “painting jazz” and inspiring others to do the same for years to come. \nhttp://ahmadaustin.com \nTo find the the gallery in Lowe Mill A&E\, click MORE INFO below (Tickets are NOT required.)
URL:https://lowemill.art/event/ahmad-austin-enjoy-life/
LOCATION:Second Floor Connector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Currently On View,Free Events,Galleries,Open Studio Nights
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Jill Johnson - "Did Your Mother Work at the Castle?"
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition round includes works provided by Kathryn Jill Johnson which will be on view in the First Floor Main Gallery from July 31 – September 28\, 2024.  Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night\, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public.  The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out\, enjoy a pleasant evening\, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you!  The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday\, September 28 from 5-7 pm. \n  \nAbout the exhibit: \nI use an intuitive approach to my studio practice—I set up a situation for making with drawn images and (often) multiple supports. Through direct drawing\, selecting and transferring drawn images\, adding color\, mark-making\, and occasional collaged elements\, I put together works that have a sort of fractured narrative\, a sense of the absurd\, and a dark and playful investigation of thrownness. I am interested in psychoanalytical theory\, particularly ideas about the uncanny\, the mirror stage\, and dreams. I am influenced by German Expressionism\, Dada\, and Surrealism. \nI see us as perpetually in a state of medias res\, the middle of the action. It feels like our lives are a story\, but the force of the past is hidden\, malleable and indistinct. The climax is peripatetic and unclear and\, of course\, the denouement is necessarily unknowable. \nMaking helps me think associatively about the way we travel\, who shows up\, the near misses and the head-on collisions\, and the mysterious things that make and unmake us. \nMy narratives exist at the moment before a divination— the tea leaves have settled\, the allomancer has flung the salt\, the bones have clattered to the ground. But these signs don’t point to the future; they are at this moment right here: a sort of prophecy of the present. \n  \nAbout the artist: \nKathryn Jill Johnson received her BA from the University of South Florida and her MFA from the University of Georgia. She has exhibited widely throughout the US in venues including the Fitton Center for Creative Arts\, Firehouse Arts Center\, Rosewood Gallery\, North Charleston City Gallery\, Wiregrass Museum of Art\, and the Alexandria Museum of Art. She lives in Huntsville\, Alabama\, with her wife\, two dogs\, and over 80 succulents.  She is a professor of drawing and painting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. \n  \nArtist website: kathrynjilljohnson.com \n  \nTo find the the gallery in Lowe Mill A&E\, click MORE INFO below (Tickets are NOT required.)
URL:https://lowemill.art/event/kathryn-jill-johnson-did-your-mother-work-at-the-castle/
LOCATION:First Floor Main Gallery
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