Local Speed Opens Exhibition
We'll Wear a Jolly Crown
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Shame
Game 2012 Acrylic and mixed media on
canvas 12 x 9 x 3/4 in. 30.48 x 22.86 x 1.91 cm
(C) The Artist / Courtesy James Cohan Gallery,
New York/Shanghai
The Speed Art Museum
2035 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40208-1803
(502) 634-2700 Fax (502) 636-2899
www.speedmuseum.org
For Immediate Release
Contact: Steven Bowling, The Speed Art Museum
(502) 634-2702 Office, (502) 386-5235 Cell
sbowling@speedmuseum.org
The Local Speed will exhibit the work of five artists selected by
guest curator, Aaron Skolnick.
LOUISVILLE, KY (January 3, 2014)– The Speed Art Museum’s satellite space, Local
Speed, opens its third exhibition entitled We'll Wear a Jolly Crown, showcasing
the works of five artists selected by guest curator, Aaron Skolnick.
We’ll Wear a Jolly Crown is the first exhibition of its type at Local Speed.
Exploring the idea of existence, what it means to be, and death, guest curator Aaron
Skolnick selected works from artists Louis Zoellar Bickett, Stephen Irwin, Trenton
Doyle Hancock, John Knuth and Aurora Parrish whose work explores these concepts
through a variety of media.
Aaron Skolnick graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BFA, and has had
three solo exhibitions with the Land of Tomorrow Gallery (Lexington and St. Louis),
along with work featured in many regional group exhibitions. Aaron recently curated
two exhibitions for RARE Gallery New York, and has work represented in various
private collections. "We'll Wear a Jolly Crown has been an amazing experience,
allowing me to work with both artists I have previously worked with and artists that I
have found inspirational in my own work. This exhibition is an intimate view at how
some cope with life, our own existence, and death," says Aaron.
This exhibition will open to the public tonight during the First Friday Trolley Hop and
run until– March 22, 2014.
About the Artists
Louis Zoellar Bickett is a photographer and conceptual artist living and
working in Lexington, Kentucky. Bickett has been featured in exhibitions and various
collections throughout the region for decades. Louis Zoellar Bickett’s work consists of
several ongoing projects chronicling the city of Lexington and beyond. This exhibition
features work from Bickett’s The Obituary Project and Family Grave Dirt, a work in
the Speed’s permanent collection.
Stephen Irwin was a luminary figure in Louisville’s contemporary art landscape.
In the years leading to his untimely passing, Irwin had earned wider attention with
group and solo exhibits in galleries in New York, New Orleans, Berlin, London, and
Munich. We’ll Wear a Jolly Crown includes four works from Irwin’s lauded and
widely recognized series of erased vintage pornography.
Trenton Doyle Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University,
Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University,
Philadelphia. He was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions,
one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work
has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in
Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
John Knuth lives and works in Los Angeles. Since receiving his MFA from the
University of Southern California, Knuth has been featured in several group and solo
exhibitions, including an exhibition of his work at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville.
Knuth’s work questions the boundary between creator and object. His paintings and
installations are often the result of uncontrolled interactions.
Aurora Parrish is an installation and performance artist living and working in
Lexington, Kentucky. Parrish, a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky, works
with sculpture, installation, and performance to create an overwhelming, nostalgic
experience for her audiences. Her work has been on display in the Expanded Music
Project at Land of Tomorrow in 2011, The Lexington Art League, and the Carrie Ellis
Juried Show at Barnhart Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky. Included in the exhibition
are objects from a new series of work called Weird Creatures on an Island.
About the Speed Art Museum
The Speed Art Museum is Kentucky's largest art museum with a collection that spans
6,000 years of human creativity. An independent museum located on the campus of
the Univeristy of Louisville, the Speed continues to play an important role in outreach
initiatives, workshops, tours and art-related school programs. The Museum is situated
at a crossroads between the city and the pedestrian thoroughfare on the University's
campus. The Speed is currently closed and undergoing a multi-phase expansion and
renovation that includes a new North and South Building, 150 seat theater, Art Park
and a public Piazza. "Local Speed", the Museum's satellite space for programs and
exhibitions, was established recently in downtown Louisville's Nulu district at 822
East Market Street. Local Speed has 6,000 square feet of special exhibition and
programming space as well as adminstriative offices for museum staff.
Local Speed is open Fridays, 12pm-8pm and Saturdays, 11am-4pm.
For more information visit www.speedmuseum.org
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