The Lyndon House Arts Center’s 47th Juried Exhibition is curated by Miranda Lash, the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lash reviewed 656 works of various media submitted for review by 237 local artists. Of these, she selected 160 works of drawing, metal work, painting, photography, sculpture, video and more. Three Georgia Museum of Art staff members were selected to show work in the exhibition, which opened last week and will be up through May 21.
Michael Lachowski, public relations
I entered three drawings to the 47th Lyndon House Arts Center juried exhibition and the juror chose a drawing of a squirrel that I had named “Red.” It’s fairly large, drawn with graphite and red chalk in a fluid, gestural, messy manner. I’ve been in their annual juried show quite a few times, starting when I was an art student and getting past a juror was a big confidence builder. It’s always fun to be involved in this diffuse community show, and this one feels pretty good.
Lachowski will give an artist talk(opens in new tab) on his work on March 17 at 6 p.m. at the Lyndon House.
Robert Russell, preparator II
I make art in the old tradition of “memento mori” and I strive to remember that I must die. I find life more poignant and beautiful when death is remembered and respected. I find bones are quite expressive and the skull has much to say. We all must reckon with Death in our own way, in our own time. In the old days, Hans Holbein the Younger made woodcuts to portray the “danse macabre.” These days, I utilize hand-cut stencils and black spray paint to create the skeleton on view.
Amy Scott, education programs assistant
“An Urn of Things that Embarrass Me” is a multimedia work that combines sound inside a resonating ceramic urn to create something eerie and somber. The sound piece is a cacophonous jumble of recordings of interviews I conducted from my time as a journalist, layered to the point that no single clip is audible. These clips hold a sense of guilt and loss for stories that, for the person living them, meant so much, but that I was forced to quickly squeeze into 500 words.
In addition to the urn, Scott has two photographs in the show. She will give an artist talk(opens in new tab) on her work on April 2 at 2 p.m. at the Lyndon House.
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