Come see what I have been working on! Buy a piece or two. Just come to say hello and check in. I am here for all of that.
Off-street parking is free and accessible from 34th Street (at the red Halcyon Arts Lab sign). Please park in the lot (not in the neighborhood, even if you can find a spot).
See you then!
Save the Date for the first Open Studio of 2022!
AN IN-PERSON EVENT! Hooray! RSVP HERE: https://www.loryivey.com/RSVP
This open studio is an opportunity to see the work I have been creating during the pandemic and to learn about the new social practice project from the Lory Ivey Studio, Black + Breathing.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, we have made a number of changes to open studio protocols. First, because I need a headcount, I ask that you RSVP. All guests must be fully vaccinated (at least 2 weeks post-second shot). Masking is required.
Off-street parking is free and accessible from 34th Street (at the red Halcyon Arts Lab sign). Please park in the lot (not in the neighborhood, even if you can find a spot). When you arrive, please us the QR code on the door to fill out a COVID-19 safety certification.
I can't wait to see you and to help you find artwork to welcome into your home!
Save the Date for the first Open Studio of 2021!
AN IN-PERSON EVENT! HOORAY! REGISTER HERE: https://www.loryivey.com/shop-paintings/summer-studio-soiree
This open studio is an opportunity to shop older works and prints, view new work before it is exhibited, and learn about the new social practice project from the Lory Ivey Studio, Black + Breathing.
There will be an artist talk at 6:30 pm.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, we have made a number of changes to open studio protocols. First, because I need a (fairly firm) headcount, I will require tickets. All guests are required to be fully vaccinated (at least 2 weeks post-second shot). Please have your vaccine cards available.
Guests are also required to fill out a COVID-19 safety certification before entering the building. The link to this certification will be sent within 24 hours of the event. There will also be a QR code on the door.
Off-street parking is free be accessible from 34th Street (at the red Halcyon Arts Lab sign). Please park in the lot (not in the neighborhood even if you can find a spot).
I can't wait to see you and to help you find artwork to welcome into your home! 💜
I am proud to partner again with Bluebird Sky Yoga to share a selection of collage works. This is the first time the original collages will be on view, and I am especially pleased that they will be in my very own neighborhood! We are cooking up a special event to kick off my Black + Breathing project, too, so stay tuned.
For more information, please visit their website.
I want to reimagine the place of and space for Black and Indigenous women in society.
In my dreams, we live in a world in which these women are not only leaders, but in which they are the standard bearers. In these pieces, the Black female body is centered and central; she is agent and subject, thinker and thought. In this work, I am building this world, where these women take up space in their own imaginations and in the minds of others
On view at 516arts.org/museumfromhome
VIRTUAL RECEPTION: Saturday, August 22, 6-8pm (MST)
Register at: 516arts.org/eventregistration
516 ARTS, in partnership with Kolaj Institute, invited selected artists from New Mexico and around the world to reflect on our shifting world using collage, a medium that has been historically used by artists to directly engage with the visual narratives of their time and to reimagine the stories that have been told. Affordable and democratic in its means, collage has a history of contributing to activism and inspiring new ideas. In this spirit of celebrating the radical qualities of combining images, artists who use collage in their artistic practices were selected from near and far. As consciousness is rapidly changing on both a personal and collective level, the exhibition offers a space for reflection through acts of examining, re-organizing, and manipulating imagery.
Forty artists from nine countries and several Indigenous nations offer a variety of perspectives, including artists from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, as well as Salish-Kootenai/Métis-Cree/Sho-Ban, Oglala/Lakota, Tlingit/Nisgaá, and Seneca Nation. Radical Reimaginings is cocurated by Suzanne Sbarge of 516 ARTS and Ric Kasini Kadour, publisher of Kolaj Magazine. The exhibition is presented as part of our Museum from Home initiative during the pandemic and as a featured exhibition of Kolaj LIVE Online. It is accompanied by a catalog in print, which includes each artist’s work and an essay about the exhibition. At the virtual opening artists in the exhibition will speak about what they are trying to reimagine with their work.
Participating artists include:
Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish-Kootenai, Métis-Cree, Sho-Ban), Arthur Amiotte (Oglala/Lakota), Tya Alisa Anthony, Roberto Appicciafoco, Kim Arthun, Elena Baca, Allan Bealy, Jay Berrones, Carolina Chocron, Guillaume Chiron, Zach Collins, Enrique “Kike” Congrains, Cynthia Cook, Karsten Creightney, Kelly Eckel, José Ignacio Fernández, Antonio Frappa, Mila Gonzáles, Thomas Christopher Haag, Daniela Ilabaca, Lory Ivey Alexander, Susanna Lakner, Mágica Estudio, Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaá), MK, Jennifer Nehrbass, Carlos Quintos Kemm, Laurie O’Brien, Sherry Parker, Michael Pajón, Beto Prieto, Luanne Redeye (Seneca Nation), Holly Roberts, Alyce Santoro, Sara Serna, Rosie Schinners, Lorna Simpson, Brooke Steiger, Casandra Tola, Paula Wilson.
Exhibition catalog available, essay by Ric Kasini Kadour. Buy the exhibition catalog HERE
Join the women of the Abstract Sisterhood Collective for a discussion of their work and how community involvement helps build their art practices.
Join me on Saturday, December 7, 2019 from 4-7 pm for a very special Holiday Open Studio! For the first time, the artists of Abstract Sisterhood will hold a collective open studio. Kristen Hayes, Kamilah House-Lewis, and Natacha Thys will be on-site answering questions about their work and taking art and community. We will be in Studio 212 (Classroom).
Grab your art-loving friends and come see our work, shop for unique gifts, and share good energy! This open studios also celebrates the 40th Anniversary of DC Arts Studios and includes an opening reception for the Willow Street Gallery show. See you then!
6925 Willow Street NW, Washington, DC
Presenting the first ever collective exhibition of the Abstract Sisterhood Collective! Five of Lory's paintings will be for sale at Creative Grounds DC from November 23 - January 23. The other artists featured are Kibian Adams-Greene, Kristen Hayes, and Kamilah House Lewis.
Intergenerational relationships and collective memory are central to this body of abstract paintings. Using bright, fluid colors and exploring Alma Thomas’s signature paint stripe as a universal mark, this work explores the ancestry of art in Washington, D.C. and the relationships between the artist and her foremothers. The bright colors and sculptural paint build a visual tapestry symbolizing the bonds between generations.
Lory Ivey Alexander is a process-driven multidisciplinary mixed media artist exploring history, memory, and identity. Her layered, textural paintings and sculptures are constructed using traditional fine artist materials and found objects. She is particularly interested in exploring stories that have been deemed unfit for retelling.
Join me for my Spring Open Studio during Takoma Park Art Hop! Come preview the new series I am preparing for my upcoming solo show, shop, and say hello!
About 35 studios will be open in the DC Arts Studios complex.
“Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law, join forces to present Frame the Lawyers 2019, a juried exhibition of artwork created by 18 Washington area attorneys and law students.
The walls of the Terrace Level of the Yuma Building will be filled with art of a variety of media. Frame the Lawyers 2019 is a unique exhibition not to be missed!” (More details are available on the WALA website.)
Join us for the opening of the Winter 2019 show of the East Coast Art Collective, Collectively Chromatic, opening January 17, 2019 at the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.
Collectively Chromatic is a group show including work by 14 members of the East Coast Art Collective (ECAC), a group of artists primarily based in DC but also located throughout the east coast. The ECAC, curated by Ann Marie Coolick, includes artists whose main foci are color and the unique applications of texture. Many of the ECAC artists have had studios in close proximity to one another, no doubt influencing one another's practices.
Participating Artists:
Ann Marie Coolick
Monica Stroik
Kristin Try
Ingrid Ching
Nicole Fossi
Lory Ivey Alexander
Jordann Wine
Marc Pekala
Jaqui Falkenheim
Alexandra Chiou
Erika Stearly
Emma Bell
Kate Waddell
Christine Olmstead
Juried by Caitlin Berry, Fine Arts Dealer and Director at HEMPHILL Fine Arts in Washington, DC
Opening Reception: January 16, 2019, 6:30-8:30 pm
The exhibition runs January 10 – March 2, 2019. The Opening Reception with Berry and the artists will take place on January 16, 2019 from 6:30-8:30 pm.
Join me for my annual Holiday Open Studio! This year has been so busy that this will be my first and only open studio event of 2018. Come see what I have been working on, find gifts and art for your home, and say hello! I can't wait to see you.
I am so honored to have been included in the latest exhibition at Olly Olly in Fairfax, Virginia! The Alchemy of the Sex Witch and Other Tales of Love celebrates the primal orgasmic energy of creation . The show runs until March 3, 2018.
Curated by Jessica Kallista, the show includes the following artistst:
Lory Ivey Alexander
Mel Bikowski
Elizabeth Piper Board
Tacy Bradbury
Therese Brown
Naomi Christianson
Mandy Cooper
Heloisa Escudero
Fierce Sonia
Lindsay Hall
Emily Hoxworth
Nancy Ingram
Zoe Kallista
Lotus
Khiron Moon
Leslie Mounaime
Lyric Prince
Diane Rainey
Mojdeh Rezaeipour
Baby Rosemary
Hannah Son
Rives Wiley
Olly Olly, located at 10417 Main Street, 2nd Floor in Fairfax, VA, is open for special events and by appointment. The Alchemy of the Sex Witch and Other Tales of Love will be on view at Olly Olly from January 31, 2018 through March 3, 2018. Please call 703-789-6144 for more information.
Join me for a weekend of shopping and art-making fun! We will have some special guest brands onsite for the first ever LoLA Loves the Holidays art/Shop!
Join me for a workshop in which we take all of the stuff we learned in When It Rains, POUR, and make a painting! This time, rather than deep diving with the materials, we will take all of those products and paint. This one is not for the faint of heart. We are going IN. Two hours of painting with my instruction, break for a late lunch, and 2 more hours of free painting.
I will supply you with all you need to complete an abstract painting using the techniques I outlined in the first class. However, you do not need to have attended the earlier class to attend this one. Everything will be explained for you.
Whom this is for: While there is no prerequisite for this course, it is geared toward serious beginners and artists who usually don't use fluid paints as I do.
Whom this is not for: if you haven't held a brush before or aren't sure you will want to again, probably skip this one. Try Intuitive Paint Playshop instead.
Join me on October 1, 2017 for a wine tasting, artists' talk, and yoga talk at Bluebird Sky Yoga at 6:30 pm. For the first time, my work is out and about in my very own neighborhood! Eight of my pieces are currently on view (and on sale) at Bluebird Sky.
For more information and to buy a ticket, please visit their website. Go to "Workshops/Special Events" and select 10/1/2017 to buy a ticket. Tickets are just $12. It will be fun! Can't wait to see you in my 'hood!
Join me for a September Open Studio! Let's hang out before the weather gets cold. Come and spend quality time with me and the paintings. Get Christmas shopping completed before Halloween. Get Halloween costume ideas before Columbus Day, which isn't really a day, so I guess that doesn't count. Special guests will be invited, so subscribe to my email list to get the latest:
Friday 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm - HAPPIEST HOURS
Saturday 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Sunday noon - 3 pm
All of my singles (pieces that are left over from an old series or are the remaining piece in a pair) will be discounted/negotiable. Why? My studio has to be cleared for the crop of 40 x 40s that are coming next, so I need to find homes for these pieces. That means you need to come through!
Had your eye on something? Come and get it. Many smaller works are available, and several larger pieces, too. Or don't buy anything, just come chill out and say hello. This will be a very low key open studio. Just me, a bottle of wine (and a bottle of scotch and a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of rum) and the paintings. And you, of course!
If you would like to stop by on Saturday, I will be receiving people by appointment only.
I am often asked about my resinous acrylic paintings, and this is your chance to make your own sampler piece. In order to demonstrate my layering technique in a short-format class, we will each start with a painting that has a layer already applied.
The only prerequisites for this session are a desire to play with paint, a healthy respect for your materials, plus enough of a rule-breaking spirit to try new things. If you don't know the first thing about color theory, we got you. If you are a seasoned acrylic painter who just wants to try fluid painting additives and mediums, you are welcome, too!
REGISTER HERE: https://www.loryivey.com/services/workshop-when-it-rains-pour
SPACE IS LIMITED.
Do you want to burn things, but you hate the smell of fire? Are you ready to scream from the rooftops, but you are cautious of heights? Wanna punch someone in the face, but you are a hand model who just can't risk a bruise?
Join me for a letter writing session this Sunday. So many things have happened this week that it seems pointless to call this Letters for Jordan, but that's tidier than "Letters for Jordan and all other children murdered by the state, oh and the mother murdered at a pool party, oh yeah plus our dying democracy, and a lot of other things."
We will come together to write letters that say whatever needs saying, to whomever needs to hear from you. Whether you need to send an angry letter to a politician, a heartbroken letter to a friend, an explanation to a child, a pledge of support to yourself, we will do it together. Let's take this rage, frustration, heartbreak, sorrow, and write it all down. When we finish, let us find hope, support, openings, foundations, love. I will provide water, paper, pens, and paint. Donations welcome.
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Two careers ago, I consulted senior executives in periods of transition. One of the first things I would offer them was an opportunity to write a letter or script to explain what was happening in their lives. Letter writing is therapeutic and empowering, even if the letters don't get sent!
If you are have any suggestions, let me know!
This is my second year celebrating Takoma Art Hop Weekend with an Open Studio. Come visit! See what I am working on. Shop older work. Bring kids, friends, and neighbors!
Where: Studio 201, 6925 Willow Street NW
My hours: Saturday 12-5 and Sunday 12-3
Our Studios are two blocks east of the Takoma Metro, at the intersection of Willow and Eastern on the D.C. side (and Carroll is the cross street on the Maryland side). Street parking is limited but available. Accessible by elevator.
1 block from the Takoma Park Farmer's Market (Sunday 10 am - 2 pm.)
Lucky 7, a group art exhibition celebrating 7 years of Covet with some of our area's best contemporary artists. March 25- April 15.
Exciting News! The show has been extended until June. Be sure to visit soon, as the work may change (as items sell)!
Crystal City, Virginia
http://artomatic.org
