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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

"Tethered," a New Art Exhibit

“Tethered” is an exciting art installation currently at Ground Floor Contemporary art gallery, 111 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd South in Birmingham, Alabama. The work of three artists – Elaine Farley Kinnaird, Anita Gómez-Ronderos, and Miriam Norris Omura – will be on exhibit, July 1-18. Gallery hours are Sundays 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. There will be an artist talk via Zoom Sunday, July 11 at 2:00 p.m., Central Daylight Time (check the gallery website for Zoom link and details).

My daughter, Elaine Kinnaird, is one of the artists featured. With her photographs, she offers us a peek at her exhibit and also a look into the process of creating art.

“I grow my cotton, pick, gin, spin and dye it,” she states on her Instagram post about the exhibit. “This piece is stained with turmeric. I like feeling like I'm really a part of the material process.”

So once she grew and harvested the cotton and after she hand spun it into yarn, she stained it to get the hues she wanted.

When she had the concept for her piece, she had to carefully plan how to execute it. Eye hooks were placed in one wall, measured and spaced with precision.

A hook on the adjoining wall anchors a metal ring that holds all the strands of yarn which then span out to the eye hooks on the other wall.

The doors are open on Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Come see this and other works of art at Ground Floor Contemporary. If you can’t make it in person, log in to the Zoom Artist Talk on July 11 at 2:00 p.m.

To see more work by Elaine Kinnaird, check out her website at https://efkinnaird.wixsite.com/elainefarleykinnaird

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Two Art Exhibits

My daughter, Elaine Kinnaird, has two art shows opening this week.

Monkey's Slide is at Ground Floor Contemprary, Opening Reception September 7, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Women with their Work 1: Affect + Action opens at Space One Eleven 2409, 2nd Ave. North, Birmingham, AL, September 8, 5:30 - 7:00

(Elaine has an exhibit along with several other artists in this show)

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

"Till We Have Faces" An Artist's View

This fall, from October 14 to December 12, my daughter Elaine had a solo art show at The Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama. The theme of her show was taken from C.S. Lewis' remarkable book, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Elaine stated that if you know the book, you will get the art. Like any true artist, that is all the explanation we will get from her. It gives us a framework while allowing for our own intuitions/interpretations/gut responses.

If you know Lewis' book, you know that it is unlike anything else he wrote, and it touches depths of perception and lived experience that one may go through life without fully knowing. Lewis takes the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche and demonstrates to us in story how we can think we see the world as it is, only to have it upended and new insights revealed (if we are lucky). Do we understand what we see? Do we know another's motives? Do we know our own motives? How do the shadows play in our lives? What is true and enduring in our lives and relationships?

If you have not read Till We Have Faces, put it on your "must read" list. For a quick insight into what C.S. Lewis was getting at in the novel, read his poem, "As the Ruin Falls."