Artwork by Macey Ley
Macey Ley announced today that two of her artist books were chosen for a group exhibition at the 6th Annual Jurried Artist Book Show at the Savannah College of Art and Design Book Arts Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Her books TV Dinner for Zombies and Women Hold Up Half the Sky will be on display at at the college’s library at 1600 Peachtree Street through July 15, 2013.
Voting for the ArtFields People’s Choice award will open April 19. Macey Ley’s painting Almost could win several awards, including the People’s Choice award worth $25,00.
Voters must register in person at the ArtFields Hub at the Rob at 245 South Church Street. Voting is secure with options to vote on-site, by mail or online.
If you are in the Lake City, SC area during April 19-28, stop by the festival and register to vote for Macey’s work – or any other work you feel should be honored.
You can view her work in person at Table 118 located at 118 East Main Street. And while you are there, you can try the much anticipated French-influenced Southern cuisine by award-winning chef Carlos Brown, Executive Chef of both Table 118 and MoMo’s Bistro in Columbia.
Macey Ley will be exhibiting at ArtFields in the historic community of Lake City, South Carolina, April 19-28, 2013. Her painting Almost will be on display at the city’s newest restaurant Table 118, an upscale eatery and wine bar specializing in French-influenced Southern cuisine located at 118 East Main St. ArtFields is a 10-day celebration of arts (the largest of its kind in the Southeast), featuring live music, Southern food, dancing, and art. Cash prizes totaling $100,000 will be awarded to winning artists who are determined by votes from ArtFields attendees and a juried panel.
More on how you can vote for Macey coming soon…
artist book: accordion fold
materials: handmade paper, acrylic paint, gel medium, graphite, water color
closed: 7 in. x 5 in. x 1.5 in.
Medium: acrylic and mixed media suspended from metal rod
Size: 72″ x 72″ (approx.)
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 30″ x 30″
Materials: ceramics
Sizes: 5″w x 6″h each (approx.)
Paintings based on traditional Tuscan themes, embellished and modified.
Materials: ceramics
Size: 20″w x 16″h x 18″d
Materials: oil and acrylic on canvass
Women have experienced the sensation of being bound throughout the ages. Often seen as a form of torture and a way to oppress, women have learned to use bondage to their advantage. Pleasure through pain is nothing new, but that some women cower while others defy is something that only she can explain.
Materials: Acrylic and serigraphy on canvas
Each: 55.12 in. x 27.56 in.
In Words Have No Wings birds play a prominent role — their restless nature and need for order, their need for boundless sky and secure resting places. The birds are in flight as they have escaped, but ironically, they are caught in a whirlwind created by their own flight.
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