Weber Gallery

Weber Gallery Exhibition: The Striped Show
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 12, 2013, 5:30—9:00pm.
Free to the public; refreshments and beverages artists in attendance.
Exhibition: April 12 – May 31, 2013

Weber Gallery is proud to announce what could literally be termed a world class exhibition: The Striped Show, made possible in part through an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the support of the farsighted Louisville Metro Arts grant.

One might call this group exhibition a demonstration of both the world and of class: one great colorful world with its many classes—and cultures and races and beliefs. A world that is anything but black and white. A striped world. Diversity is a beautiful thing. As participating Russian artist Luci Mistratov puts it, “All my years in Louisville I’ve been impressed how many different people are able to live, to communicate, to work together and hold their cultural, religious and other traditions, their diversity, without conflict.” Louisville, international Compassionate City, seems the perfect place for The Striped Show.

This had to be a big show and, indeed, it includes artists of every stripe, some nationally and internationally recognized like Louisville’s own Ed Hamilton, all of broadly different ages and ethnicities. Several exhibits will stand out within the larger exhibit, one being CJ Pressma’s powerful multinational audio visual experience in the front gallery; another, the floor- to- ceiling revolving globe of the earth fabricated by Weber Group. The Earth’s continents and seas are comprised completely of colored canvas stripes painted by children, LVAA’s Open Door classes, and people with disabilities; after which the stripes are shaped and applied to the globe by Tara Remington of LVAA.

Sixteen very distinct artists make their statements overtly or subtly, abstractly or realistically, through a variety of media. The artists’ are their own illustration, their characters an amalgamation of histories, races, cultures and beliefs. Over twenty schools and organizations are collaborating in celebration of the striped world and the diversity that makes it beautiful, with as many variations in its unique peoples as hues on an artist’s palette.

Ed Hamilton
C.J. Pressma
Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Billy Hertz
Donny Weber
Mike Covington
Mary Dennis Kannapell
Shoehei Katayama
Luci Mistratov
Sebastian Moh
Mari Mujica
Fahrudin Omerovic
Laura Ospital
Tara Remington
Alexander Taylor
Candy Wheat

For information on scheduled art shows, please contact Carol Mueller at 502 584-1239.