Macey Ley Exhibits with Southeastern Fiber Arts Alliance

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ATLANTA, GA: Macey Ley’s installation Athena 2000 will be on display in the traveling exhibition Intertwined: Contemporary Southeastern Fiber Arts sponsored by the Southeastern Fiber Arts Alliance.

Athena 2000 is an interactive suspended installation for contemplation and exploration. Viewers are encouraged to enter and inhabit the phone booth-sized one-person room where they will find traces of the lives of others mended and quilted together.

The exhibition will showcase a wide range of content, material, and techniques with the common threads of craftsmanship and passion. Juror Dot Moye selected entries from a large number of regional applicants, including emerging artist Cassidy Russell, to be included in the show, along with works by invited artists curated by Ray Pierotti.

Intertwined opens January 13, 2015, at the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, and will travel to three other Georgia venues throughout the year, concluding September 16, 2015.

Hudgens Center for the Arts – Atlanta, GA
January 13 – March 21
Opening reception: Saturday, January 24, 7-9 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta – Atlanta, GA
March 23 – April 21
Reception: TBA

Lamar Arts – Barnesville, GA
May 1 – June 27
Reception: May 8

Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts – Valdosta, GA
August 3 – September 16
Reception: TBA

Macey Ley Exhibits One-Person Room at the Breman Museum

Posted on June 13, 2014 Posted in newsTagged art, atlanta, Atlanta Polarity & Intuitive Yoga Center, Breman Museum, Eleanora Lipton, exhibiting, exhibition, GA, georgia, home, installation, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, ley, macey, meditation, Nohn Noltner, opening reception, peace, place, recent work, ribbon, traditions, woman, women, yogaLeave a comment

ATLANTA, GA: Macey Ley’s installation All the Places I’ve Never Been and Some I Have will be exhibited at the Breman Museum in PEACE: What does it mean to you?

The exhibition features the photographic series A Peace of My Mind by John Noltner and an interactive peace wall. Ley’s one-person room is part of the meditation section that includes instructions on how to find a peaceful mind by Eleanora Lipton, Founding Director of Atlanta Polarity & Intuitive Yoga Center.

Artworks will be on display June 22 – October 5, 2014, with an member’s preview on Sunday, June 22, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The Breman Museum is located at at 1440 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA 30350. Gallery hours are Sunday – Thursday 10am – 5pm and
Friday 10am – 4pm.

Macey Ley Exhibits Athena 2000 at UNCW

Posted on February 17, 2014 Posted in newsTagged art, athena 2000, button, CAB Gallery, exhibiting, exhibition, fabric, home, identity, installation, LaGrange, ley, macey, mend, mending, migration, NC, North Carolina, opening reception, pattern, pattern paper, place, recent work, sew, sewing, Southeaster Womens' Studies Association, thread, traditions, UNCW, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, woman, women, Women's Studies and Resource Center, womens studies, works on paper1 Comment

WILMINGTON, NC: Macey Ley announced today that her installation Athena 2000 will be exhibited at the CAB Gallery at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Mending: New Uses for Old Traditions.

The exhibition features work created with or about traditional media or representations of women and is being held in conjunction with the 2014 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference hosted by UNCW’s Women’s Studies and Resource Center. Artworks will be on display February 27 – April 24, 2014, with an opening reception on Friday, March 28, 5:30-7 p.m.

The CAB Gallery is located on the UNCW campus at 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC, 28403. Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri. 12-4 p.m..

Macey Ley Selected to Exhibit at LaGrange National XXVIII Biennial

Posted on February 3, 2014 Posted in newsTagged art, canvas, exhibiting, exhibition, GA, home, identity, LaGrange, ley, macey, mend, migration, oil, opening reception, painting, place, recent work, sew, Spruill Gallery, works on paper3 Comments

ATLANTA, GA: Macey Ley announced today that her painting Almost has been selected for exhibition at the LaGrange National XXVIII Biennial at the LaGrange Art Museum in LaGrange, GA. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, drawings, photography ceramics, sculpture and decorative arts and will be on display February 21 – April 18, 2014, with an awards ceremony and reception on Friday, February 21, 7-9 p.m.

The LaGrange Art Museum is located at 112 Lafayette Parkway, LaGrange, GA 30240. Gallery hours are Tues.-Fri. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sat. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Macey Ley Selected to Exhibit Artist Book at Spruill Gallery

Posted on February 1, 2014February 13, 2014 Posted in newsTagged art, artist book, atlanta, book, exhibiting, exhibition, fabric, GA, home, ley, macey, mend, mending, opening reception, paper, place, recent work, remnants, sew, sewing, Spruill Gallery, stitch, works on paperLeave a comment

Collector_CvrWithTxtPg_low — The Collector

EVENT POSTPONED
TO FEBRUARY 20, 2014

ATLANTA, GA: Macey Ley announced today that her artist books The Collector and Tesoro have been selected for exhibition at the Looks Good on Paper exhibition, at Spruill Gallery in Atlanta, GA. The exhibition includes works on paper, including, prints, watercolor, drawings and artist books and will be on display February 14 – April 19, 2014, with an opening reception, Thursday, February 20, 6-9 p.m.

Spruill Gallery is located at 4681 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA 30338. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

æther

Posted on July 11, 2013May 23, 2014 Posted in photographsTagged art, æther, deep space, disorientation, escape, freedom, home, journey, ley, lies, macey, photo, photograph, place, recent work, smoke, space, storiesLeave a comment

medium: archival ink jet photograph
size: 43.5″ x 34.5″

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Posted on June 30, 2013May 23, 2014 Posted in UntitledTagged art, canvas, disorientation, fables, home, journey, ley, lies, macey, oil, painting, pinocchio, place, recent work, stories1 Comment

medium: oil and mixed media on canvas
size: 96″ x 60″

passage

Posted on November 27, 2012March 15, 2014 Posted in UntitledTagged acrylic, art, disorientation, handmade, home, journey, ley, macey, place, recent work, thread, time5 Comments

Medium: acrylic and mixed media suspended from metal rod
Size: 72″ x 72″ (approx.)

tuscan pots

Posted on August 26, 2012November 24, 2013 Posted in UntitledTagged art, ceramics, home, ley, macey, painting, traditional, Tuscan2 Comments

Materials: ceramics
Sizes: 5″w x 6″h each (approx.)

Paintings based on traditional Tuscan themes, embellished and modified.

Catch Me If You Can 2

Posted on May 21, 2012November 30, 2012 Posted in artist book, printsTagged art, bind, binding, bird, bondage, books, bound, catch me if you can, confinement, escape, flight, fly, flying, freedom, gestural drawing, hand cut, handmade, hanging book, home, ley, macey, mixed media, motion, nest, painting, paper, serigraphy, silk screen, speed, victory, watercolor, wing, wings1 Comment

Artist book/sculpture with 9 chapters
Materials: serigraphy and water color on paper, copper and silver wire, beads
Each: 3”w x 30”h
Entire book hanging: 45”w x 40”h (approx.)