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WE SAW YOU: “Meet the Artists” at Palladio

Mikayla Jordan, Cynthia Ham, and Minnie (the dog) (Photos: Michael Donahue)

More art is in the eyes of the beholders, thanks to Cynthia Ham.

Ham, who became the new owner of Palladio last December, instituted monthly shows featuring local artists. She opened her first exhibit, which will be on view through August, with a “Meet the Artists” reception, held August 15th at Palladio Interiors & Garden at 2215 Central Avenue (at South Cox). This month’s artists are Jay Crum, Kong Wee Pang, Carl E. Moore, and Amy Hutcheson. “They were the first four to be shown since I took over,” Ham says. “And I plan to have other shows featuring high-quality Memphis artists.”

Amy Hutcheson
Kong Wee Pang
Carl E. Moore

As far as she knows, this hasn’t been done previously at Palladio, says Ham. “This, to my knowledge, is a new approach of featuring artists.

Fannie, Robbie, and Michael Weinberg
Jay Crum

“I am going to use some work from the show to keep on hand in case anybody wants to look at their work when they come in,” she adds. “Even though the show itself is coming down, we’ll have at least two pieces of their work there on a longer term.” 

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“Walking Eyes” at Crosstown Arts

Memphis-based artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum hope that their recent collaborations read like the visual equivalent of a game of hide-and-seek. “We hope that each time you look,” Pang says, “you’ll find things you haven’t seen before. We hope you can explore.”

The works, now on display at Crosstown Arts, grew out of a month the married couple spent in Southeast Asia, during which time they explored Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and Pang’s home country of Malaysia. Pang makes the trip home yearly, but she says that Crum’s presence on this year’s journey made her see things differently: “He would point out things I couldn’t see, and I would point out things that he couldn’t see.”

Both artists turned their insights into a series of playful motifs, which recur throughout the exhibition: banana leaves, cats, DIY architecture, waves, cartoon-like eyes. Back at home, Pang and Crum would pass a sketchbook back and forth over the dinner table. The drawings, Pang says, can be a mirror of their personalities: “I am very impulsive. I am good at large shapes. Jay is good at the details.”

Pang and Crum’s experiences as designers (she works at archer>malmo; he has worked in fabric design) also shine through. In order to mount the show, they developed a unique hanging system for the work that mimics clothes-drying racks similar to ones they saw on their trip. “If there is one thing that we hope people will take away from this work,” Pang says, “it is that you can be inventive.”

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Best Art Instagrams of the Week: Flyer Round-up

Wondering which Memphis-based (or Memphis-originated) artists to follow on Instagram? Allow us to help.

Filmmaker and sculptor Brian Pera (@brian__pera) is currently in production on a film project dubbed “Sorry Not Sorry”, featuring fellow artists Terri Phillips and Joel Parsons. 

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Johnathan Robert Payne (@johnrobertpayne) and D’Angelo Lovell Williams (@limitedomnishit) collaborated on a series of photographs and drawings that were on view at First Congregational Church earlier this week. 

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight! It meant a lot to @limitedomnishit and I. #roomtolet

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Kong Wee Pang (@kongweepang) and Jay Crum (@crumjay) installed “Walking Eyes”, a collaborative series of works on paper and fabric, at Crosstown Arts. 

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Memphis-bred cartoonist and illustrator Derrick Dent (@dentslashink) lives in New York now, but that hasn’t changed his quick draw style. 

Avoiding any copyright issues, I'll just call this People Folks of New York City Place.

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Another Memphis trained artist-to-watch: Rhodes grad Esther Ruiz, whose glow-y neon sculptures are making waves in NYC. 

i've been in here 13 hours, last one

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Hamlett Dobbins (@hamlettdobbins) is making colorful and wonderful summer drawings. 

Summer drawing 2015.

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