The University of Kentucky Art Museum presents the pop-up exhibition PEOPLES PORTAL, November 14-15, 2015. Curated by Stuart Horodner, the event features emerging and established artists from Lexington, Atlanta, Chicago, and London, including:
Louis Zoellar Bickett, Matt Bryans, Katrina Dixon, Sandra Erbacher, Brian Frye, Rae Goodwin, Georgia Henkel, Scott Ingram, Mike McKay, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Didier Morelli, Robert Morgan, Ebony G. Patterson, Alan Rideout, , Kristina Rideout, and Aaron Skolnick.
Peoples Portal will be installed in the Peoples Bank at 343 South Broadway, in Lexington, KY 40508. The exhibition was conceived by Stuart Horodner as a way of drawing attention to the unique history of the structure and the recent effort to relocate it. The two-day event was developed in partnership with Lucy Jones, organizer of the Facebook campaign People for the Peoples; Laurel Catto, board chair of the Warwick Foundation; and Langley Properties Company, owner of the building who is donating it to the Warwick Foundation.
The exhibition will be open during the following hours, with events scheduled throughout the weekend:
Saturday, Nov. 14, 10 am-5 pm: Free
Reading by Wayne Koestenbaum: 2 pm
Commonwealth Canteen food truck: 11 am-4 pm
Sunday, Nov. 15, 10 am-3 pm: Free
CLOSING RECEPTION Sunday, Nov. 15, 4-6 pm
Food by Dan Wu
Drinks by Wine & Market
Music by LeeRoy
Reading by Frank X Walker
$30 Limited Availability
Tickets:
To benefit People for the Peoples & UK Art Museum
For more information: finearts.uky.edu/art-museum or contact Stuart Horodner at stuart.horodner.uky.edu or 859.257.1152
Click here for a look inside the bank.
Horodner states, “When I walked through the space a few months ago, I was struck by the state of glorious decay and formal elegance—the blue glazed brick on the outside and angular concrete ceiling inside, the rooms with peeling paint, and sunlight streaming through the windows. It seemed like a perfect readymade gallery for works that engage issues of architecture, history, time, accumulation, and transformation. And the idea of a bank—where transactions happen, and emotional and financial resources are protected— quickly brought artists to mind. They were thrilled with the opportunity. I’m so excited to see great art, performances, and readings in there.”
Asked about the Peoples Bank, Lucy Jones writes, “The building is not only one of the finest remaining examples of Googie commercial architecture in Kentucky, it is one of the finest examples in the nation. As a community, we are responsible for the architectural stewardship of our city. We are incredibly fortunate that this building has endured the changing trends of the last 50 years and still retains the defining characteristics that architect Charles Bayless envisioned. It is a time capsule which evokes the optimism of the late 1950s and early 1960s. To lose it would have been to lose a piece of our past.”
Laurel Catto, discussing the future of the building, said, “A grassroots coalition fueled by social media–@People for the Peoples–united the community in a race against the clock to save the building from imminent demolition. Since May, P4P has raised $250,000 to relocate the building to government land directly across from Rupp Arena. The Warwick Foundation will transform the Peoples Bank into the Peoples Portal, a public commons that engages Lexington in the global compassionate city movement and promotes respect, understanding, and inclusion. We will transform the Peoples Bank and the Peoples Portal will transform us.”
Tickets: http://www.warwickfoundation.org/peoplesportal/.
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