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ART ECOLOGY is a 21st century arts company combining Gallery/ Printing/ Agency. On Display now is art from J.B. Wilson, Russel Hulsey, Miya Ando, P.R. Thompson, Shelley Hora. Museum quality prints and reproductions of artists work are available at a variety of price points. ART ECOLOGY is a new exciting way to interact with art and provides a variety of opportunities for you to integrate art into your life. If you have an idea for a print or installation contact ART ECOLOGY, we will print for you as well as do custom tile mural installations with original images or images provided by you. Learn all about ART ECOLOGY, our artists and services. Visit, Participate, Purchase.

March 5th - April 3rd 2010

“Meditations” by Miya Ando

Miya’s use of metal in art has historical significance as she is a descendant of Bizen sword maker Miya Yoshiro Masakatsu, a famed 17th Century Japanese master sword smith whose legendarily well constructed blades are considered national treasures. Miya spent her childhood bouncing between Northern California and her family’s Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan. She was enthralled with the process of turning a strong medium into something malleable, and took an apprenticeship with a metalsmith in Japan to further her understanding.

After graduating UC Berkeley with a degree in East Asian Studies, she attended a Masters program at Yale University to pursue her interest in Buddhist Iconography and imagery. She now has a residence and studio in Brooklyn, NY and Louisville, KY. Ando is currently working on a 40 ft. nondenominational spiritual work for the Healing Place Woman’s Shelter in Louisville to be unveiled in Spring 2010. Miya and Art Ecology have agreed to donate part of the proceeds from the “Meditations” opening night reception will go to the Healing Place Shelter for Women. We have also agreed that partial proceeds from the “09.07.44 Aluminum Print for Ovarian Cancer” are to be donated to a local cause known as O.A.K. (Ovarian Awareness of Kentucky).

“Meditations” is a collection of Luminous Steel Works, the Shizuka Meditation Series of works on paper, as well as a luminous wall poem, “I’m a Beautiful Night.”

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January 1st - February 22nd 2010

“Post No Bills: Art is Not Illegal”

“Post No Bills” will feature the concept of street art, Art Ecology believes that this genre is valid and rising in our area, and opens it’s doors to it for exhibition. The focus of the show is on the opportunity for street art to be practiced and viewed in a safe environment. Louisville has a strong, expanding, street art scene that is long overdue for a break and some recognition and “Post No Bills” will do that. The gallery will be open to installation by anyone who wishes to participate by wheat pasting, sticking, stenciling, or painting their images in the gallery, as you would on the street.

The show will also have a social aspect in that the equity of placement and message will have to be balanced by the installing artists as it would in the street, space is limited and overlay is inevitable. Also the communities reaction to the concept and the work will be a focus, and Art Ecology will be a safe open forum for these and all concerns surrounding “Post No Bills: Art is not Illegal”

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September 4th - October 28th 2009

Opening Reception and 1 Year Anniversary Celebration 5p - 1a

J.B. Wilson

“I’m an American”

In 2009 we are completely saturated with Image in America, the marketing and branding of the 21st century has altered our culture and social ecology to the point that we define ourselves to one another with product and image instead of physically and emotionally.

Art communicates on a visceral and emotional level, that is what I love about being an artist, having the ability to convey complex emotions or truths with a visual vocabulary. With “I’m an American” I am communicating my explanation of that phrase as a statement of truth about myself.

All of the images for “I’m an American” are 100% digital, my physical process is summarized as a deconstruction and reconstruction into the images displayed in “I’m an American”. I have chosen light-boxes and projections to display my work because being digital they were created with light, on a monitor or projector.

Self Determination

I’m an American

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July 3rd - August 26th 2009

Opening Day Reception 6-9

Russel Hulsey

Verses II “Dictionaries of Light”

Portrait Series of Beat Generation Poets Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Dylan, Gary Snyder, and Allen Ginsberg. Russel has also done another installment in the wall poem series. Accompanying works include a Jack Kerouac installation in the street in front of the gallery and smaller portraits of Ann Waldman and Michael McClure. You must see this show.

Gallery B

Kenneth Hayden, Emil Walton, and Nick Owens

J.B. Wilson is the featured Five-O-Two artist for August 2009.

Join us September 4th for the opening of J.B.’s show titled “I’m an American”.

We will also be celebrating ART ECOLOGY’s one - year anniversary!

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May 1st - June 26th 2009

Friday 6-9

Emil Walton

“Autonomous”

Autonomous: "Responding,reacting or developing independently of the whole"

Being born and raised in Africa it was not an uncommon sight to see beggars on street corners begging for food, help or money. These people always made me wonder what happened in there lives that made them stand on that corners today. Some were born into poverty and some made bad mistakes or life dealt them a bad hand of cards, but behind that cardboard sign stood a human being in need of help, a human being that could have been me or you. a recent trip to South Africa inspired my solo show, I’ve met a lot of people on that corners and interesting stories and decided to incorporate that into my work by mixing my African experiment with a touch of America. Out of the people that I got into contact with, two really inspired me to tell there story and incorporate them in my art.

So I kindly invite you to my solo show, come join me for some drinks and some then we can have an conversation about what my art means to me and you.

emil walton

** Special Musical Performance by Sarah Hethcoat & Zoux

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1. To base or establish

2. To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something

3. To carry the connotation of; imply

4. To proclaim or assert; declare

Once during a high school philosophy class that I mostly didn’t understand, I learned that one’s thoughts and feelings are simply a composite of all ideas and events experienced. What you think, your opinions, how you process emotions and ultimately identify yourself as an individual are simply a result of what you have been exposed to in the course of life.

Every work of art is in its own way a self-portrait. Regardless of the subject matter, the way in which a piece is executed is done so through the context of individual perspective. To me, it’s that perspective, that filter of identity, that gives art its value. “Predicate” is a collection of pieces attempting to reflect how my own perspective was and is constructed as well as how it reacts to the world.

“Paintpresent”

Juried Exhibition, Loudon House, Lexington Art League, March - April 2009

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January - February 2009

Marvin Francis

Featured Artist

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24th, 5 -9 pm

Sneak Peek: Imagine 2009

St. Francis High School: Friday, January 23rd, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

St. Francis High School Auction: Imagine 2009

Louisville Marriott Downtown, January 31st, 6:30 pm

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November - December 2008

Featured Artist Russel Hulsey

The Verses Series

Verses pay homage to the great 19th Century poets: Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry W. Longfellow.

Song to Dickinson (Verses, no. 1)
Song to Whitman (Verses, no. 2)
Song to Longfellow (Verses, no. 3)
Song to Emerson (Verses, no. 4)
Song to Thoreau (Verses, no. 5)

First of a Four Part Series by Russel. To Follow: The Beat Poets, 21st century Poets, and Kentucky Poets.

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October 2008- January 2009

Nick Owens

“All’s Fair in Art and War: Envisioning Conflict” Exhibit

21c Museum Gallery

“Phasers on Stun” acrylic on canvas

“Mc Surgency” acrylic on canvas

**Prints available in the 21c gift shop**

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