Fort Works Art is committed to bringing life, vitality and energy
to the art scene in Fort Worth, TX. They are a resource for both
seasoned collectors and the everyday individual. Existing somewhere
between a gallery, a cultural center and a museum, Fort Works Art
strives to continually evolve into its own entity, free from the
traditional labels of the art world. They exist to support the
arts, to give back to the community and to inspire youth.
Young Country is a traveling exhibition and is organized by the
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, in Wilmington, Delaware.
The show opened in Louisville at the Quonset Hut and will be
traveling to the University of the Arts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in
Philadelphia from July 6-29, 2011. The exhibition reception in
Philadelphia is July 6th and will coincide with a talk by Matthew
Higgs, Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York. An
exhibition devoted to rural themes in contemporary American art,
Young Country specifically examines how artists living in such
“far-flung” places as Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
are re-defining ideas of “country” in America. The exhibition
features artists who employ rural images and subjects such as
horseracing, honkytonks, and homesteading, and addresses how the
visual culture of geographic regions shapes perception and
identity. Beyond folk or kitsch expression, the works in the
exhibition are often critical and conceptual in origin and generate
both a humorous and sober dialogue about individual understandings
of history and place. The show features work by artists from
Louisville, KY, Cincinnati, OH, Philadelphia, PA, Houston, TX,
Seattle, WA, New York, NY, Lexington, KY and more. The show in
Philadelphia will include more artists from across the U.S. and
will continue to grow as it travels.