Celebrate local talent at the Louisville Public Library in February. Enjoy an evening of art, refreshments, and conversation as we showcase the work of our talented community artists.
Featured Artists:
Kirk Fry is an award-winning nature photographer, specializing in unique and thought-provoking images of grand landscapes, intimate smaller scenes and macro/close-up subjects. He strives to capture the grandeur and fragility of our environment, helping to connect viewers of his work to the wonders of our natural world.
In this exhibit ("Take a Closer Look"), Kirk presents a series of eight photographic triptychs, each featuring flowers, trees, or other plants. Each triptych begins with a familiar, unaltered view of the plant in its natural environment. This is followed by two progressively magnified images, culminating in an extreme close-up that reveals intricate details often overlooked by the naked eye. The goal of this exhibit is to inspire viewers to observe the natural world more closely and reflect on the delicate beauty of plant life.
Jamie Gordon has always used art as a form of expression. Her interests began in fashion as she sought to look feminine growing up with three older brothers in the sixties. She looked to the elements of makeup and fashion design to find her individual style as it related to her ingenue body type. Later she focused on learning about fashion color selection as it is related to an individuals' skin, hair, and eye color. After graduating college she became a licensed makeup artist and esthetician with the goal of bringing out the beauty in each of us. She operated her bespoke skin care studio for the next thirty five years. Additional interests have been furniture design, Art Deco and Modernism, architecture and its relevance to sustainable living. She is an avid gardener as it supports her love of nature. Jamie began painting in 2000 using watercolors exploring the hard and soft effects it creates. A decade later she became curious about other mediums and began working with acrylics, alcohol inks, and oils. In 2023 she enrolled in the Milan Art Institute online art program and has been diligently working to complete the assignments while giving herself ample time to dive deeper into art history, perspective, and most recently "finding your voice in art".
Tanea Ann Designs started as a small local jewelry business in Longmont, Colorado. Tanea started this business to expand her skills in jewelry making and marketing her work. She has been creating and selling her jewelry since age 12 and has continued to design through her time in college. As time passed, Tanea Ann Designs became a united front for multiple creative outlets to combine Tanea's small business with her budding interior design career. The title has come to be a representation of her creativity in many forms, most of which can be found on this website! In her jewelry, she mainly use wire to create the whimsical designs you see on this website. However, you will also notice she uses metalsmithing in various designs, as she is introducing new techniques to her repertoire. Over the years, Tanea has branched out to artistic mediums outside of jewelry making. Through her time in high school and college, she developed a love for painting as another creative outlet. Tanea started painting in acrylics in high school and later began experimenting with simple watercolor paintings that she later developed into a series of fun and bright stationary cards. At the end of her college years, Tanea's grandmother gifted her a sewing machine as another method of creativity. Tanea learned to sew and knit as a child and began to enhance her creative skills through new techniques of making fabric goods in a fun and modern way.
Growing up on the Connecticut shore gave Julie Neri an appreciation for sea life, trees, leaves and the patterns found within nature. You will see many of these patterns reflected in the texture of her clay creations: the veins in a leaf, the bark of a tree, the repeating patterns of waves, birds resting on trees, and the rambling stones of a rock wall. Julie's ceramic creations are based in texture, inspired by nature and infused with a touch of whimsy. After living in Colorado for 32 years, Julie works from her home-based studio in Longmont. She is most known for her leaf trees, whimsical houses, vases, painter’s palettes, planters and garden flowers. Julie holds several leadership positions in non-profit arts organizations, and sells her work in several front range and mountain galleries.
