Exhibition - Georgetown, Kentucky
Enid is a Louisville-based collective dedicated to empowering artists at every stage of their careers. Established in 1998, Enid honors the legacy of Enid Yandell (1869-1934), Kentucky’s pioneering sculptor whose 25-foot-high Pallas Athena graced the 1897 Centennial in Nashville.
Ranging in age from 29 to 89, Enid includes artists with varying levels of formal education, styles, and approach to materials, ranging from intimate works in glass and ceramics to voluminous structures that hang from the ceiling.
“Redefining Form visually reflects the development and adaptation of the artists featured in this exhibition. It’s a significant marker during a period of profound transformation of both group identity and individual artistic practices,” says Lalana Fedorschak @fedorschakartshack , Enid member and exhibit organizer.
Participating artists include:
Leticia Bajuyo
Jessica Beels
Kat Cox
Jeanne Dueber
Linda Erzinger
Lalana Fedorschak
Mary Dennis Kannapell
Paula Keppie
Ann Klem
Fran Kratzok
Bette Levy
Shawn Marshall
Melinda Walters
Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery
Georgetown College
400 E College St
Georgetown, KY.
Redefining Form show card; Polaroid photographs by Christopher Vaughn
I am honored that six of my drawings/visual poems using player piano roll paper and sealed in beeswax from @honeyshoneyokc in Edmond, Oklahoma are part of this exhibition.
As my collection of Player Piano Rolls continues, I especially seek rolls that include karaoke-like sing-along text on the side. As I do not have a player piano and since many of the rolls I have are unplayable, I cannot hear the voice of these paper rolls that contain audible memory. This technological ancestor of the cassette and compact disc, the player piano was first invented in the mid-19th century as a pneumatic (air-powered) method for recording, reading, and playing music.
As I design, I seek text of the music as inspiration for and to work in combination with drawings as visual poems. These fragments of player piano rolls contain analog memory of a specific song, but as they are silent, I reassess their current silence and develop new stories and voices using carefully applied graphite on the surface of the paper.