Gallery Blog
January First Friday and Opening Reception for “Sex, Drugs & Butterflies”
Join us January 7, for our first First Friday of 2022 and the opening reception of “Sex, Drugs and Butterflies” the new Featured Exhibit by Lexington, Kentucky artist Jennifer Hart. Jennifer taps personal transformations from her past traumas to challenge viewers to rediscover beauty in society’s discards and dehumanization. She leverages the tradition of quilting to creatively reimagine the use of textiles in a modern, innovative way.
“Sex Drugs and Butterflies” by Jennifer Hart
Lexington, Kentucky artist Jennifer Hart taps personal transformations from her past traumas to challenge viewers to rediscover beauty in society’s discards and dehumanization. She leverages the tradition of quilting to creatively reimagine the use of textiles in a modern, innovative way.
December 2021 First Friday Featuring Live Celtic Holiday Music by The BorderCollies
Our December First Friday features live music by The BorderCollies, performing neo-traditional Irish and Scottish seasonal and holiday music. Light refreshments will be available.
“Family Ties” by Jeff Rivers
Family Ties by Jeff Rivers NOV 1 - DEC 31 2021“I believe it is my duty as an artist to give back and engage the community on an aesthetic and intellectual level that is accessible to all populations.” Through community advocacy and art practice, Rivers works to...
“Pop Music” by Kara Lockmiller
A self-described chromesthete, Kara Lockmiller translates her colorful musical visions into vivid paintings by breaking down each artist into abstract shapes of colored shadows and highlights that come together like puzzle pieces on the canvas. She chooses
rek Gallery Announces First Friday Event And New Featured Artist
The rek Gallery announces its next First Friday event on September 3 which will also serve as an introduction to the gallery’s new September/October Featured Artist, Knoxville, Tennessee’s Kara Lockmiller. Lockmiller’s exhibition titled “Pop Music” will feature her
“Kindness Workz” by Vando Davis
Rooted in Neo-Expressionism and Abstract, Atlanta-based artist Vando Davis’s style of painting uses vibrant, uncharacteristic, sometimes clashing colors, along with phrasing and vowel-free words. Vando’s fun-loving nature is seen in every colorful stroke and his message of kindness speaks from each painting as if a repetitive meditation mantra. Don’t miss “Kindness Workz” in our Featured Artist Gallery July – August 2021
rek Gallery Opens in Tucker
July 29, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many small art galleries to their premature end, a new commercial gallery of contemporary southern art has opened in Tucker, Georgia. It is there that the rek Gallery is facing,...