Lala Gallery exhibits works from local and regional artists working in all types of mediums.  Every month the Lala Gallery hosts an opening spotlighting a Lala Artist, and new work.  Artists interested in showing in the gallery should send 5-10 works via email to lalavinson@gmail.com  

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Current Exhibition "Life Cycles"

Rena Brouwer: November 11- Dec 6  

"Life Cycles" explores the question of what is real to me as an artists.  The unique and subjective nature of the inner- eye gives clues to discovery of what I have experienced.  As my visions expand, no painting is a final statement.  They are stepping stones in my continued quest for expression.

Artists Reception November 14th 6-10 PM

 

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Ina Kaur: January 6- Jan 31

Reclaiming the Circle: Creative Exploration in Grey

Artists Reception January 9th 6pm-10pm

My research is concerned with personal identity and hybridity. My work involves an exploration of imagery informed by post-colonialism. As an Indian woman, I explore the continuum of cross-cultural negotiation made necessary both by the historical occupation of East by West and by my displacement and relocation. I have been culturally assimilated I am a bicultural hybrid. My work represents this hybrid identity formed through personal, cultural and spiritual experience. The work combines both conscious and unconscious influences and incorporates symbols and circular motifs that reference elements of East and West. I merge colors and materials associated with my Indian heritage (heena/henna, coffee, tea, saffron, curry and cotton) with western notions of abstraction and aesthetics. 
 
My work investigates post colonial and deconstruction theories of authors Homi K. Bhabha, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and others. I also question Carl Jung’s notions of archetype and symbol as universals. The circle may be considered a universal symbol, but I am reclaiming it as a personal and culturally specific symbol. My interest in hybridity, identity and its symbolic representation is at the center of my work, from a macro to a micro level. I feel compelled to traverse the terrain between the traditional and the contemporary, between East and West. 

 

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Candice Hartsough McDonald: February 3- March 7

Artists Reception February 6th 6pm-10pm

"I am inspired by simple shapes, the birds that visit my birdfeeder, the children that I meet, and the everlasting belief that my cat could talk to me if I would just listen harder. Children’s books have always spoken directly to my heart, and, being a children’s illustrator myself, my work tends to look playful, peaceful, cheerful, and funny.  While it is superficially lighthearted, it is often underscored by larger plots against the children and animals portrayed.   Soft colors and gentle shading cuddle next to angry birds and fleeting ghosts."

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Past Exhibitions

 

 Lala Original:  May 9 - June 14

This exhibit highlights the vision and feel of the Lala Gallery.  Artists Andy Buck, Sally Harless, Ina Kaur, Candice Hartsough McDonald, Zach Medler, Angela Cummings Thompson, Chad Ramsey, Angela Vinson and Tammy Wills currently are showing in the gallery.

This exhibit features clay, paper, and steel sculptures, drawings, prints, and paintings by these fine artist.

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Cara Moczygemba: June 17 - July 26  

Artists Reception June 20th 6pm-10pm

 “I combine sculptural hand-building techniques with slip cast elements to create collage-like surfaces. These figurative sculptures create beautiful and sometimes disturbing contrasts from castings of common objects, appearing like archeological remains. The objects I cast for these sculptures are often kitsch or abandoned, tacky or industrial, or plebian. The anonymous object, without fame or specificity is preferred. In modern culture, some people define themselves by the objects they own: in some ways these pieces portray a consumer driven, disposable society. In contrast to the consumerist objects on the surface, the forms are strongly influenced by Catholic reliquaries and religious figures; objects intended to inspire transcendent emotions. The figures are small, and often doll-like to encourage a closer inspection of the strange and gothic themes.

     Currently I am working with more than one figure in each piece, sometimes in shrine-like theatrical settings, and encouraging the viewer to create a narrative. These open-ended dramas can be seen as humorous and yet serious: sexual, political, spiritual, or emotional. I’m also experimenting with glaze surfaces, imitating wood-fire, high temperature ash glazing, and other non-clay surfaces in low temperature oxidation firing, as an additional way of questioning the boundary between art and craft within ceramics as well as in the larger art world.”

 

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Zach Medler: July 29- September 6

Artists Reception August 1st 6pm-10pm

During the Downtown Gallery Walk!

Come see the art around town and at Lala Gallery & Studio

Zach Medler, MA graduate from Purdue University is Augusts Spotlight Artist!  Zach is currently working and teaching at Artsplace Inc. in Portland, Indiana.  Come see his paintings and ceramic sculptures where elongated faces come to life.

 

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Angela Vinson: September 9- October 11 

Artists Reception September 12th 6pm-10pm

During the Downtown Gallery Walk!

Since I was very small, I always evaluate people and wonder what their true motives and deeper feelings are.  It is a sick habit but I really what to know people like only God and they know themselves.  

For years I would walk into galleries and see beautiful ceramic sculptures hollow and massive.  I felt curious and never complete, wondering what was going on inside of them.  

With my work I attempt to tie the connections with my habit about people and the curiosity of clay, they are the same really.  People are vessels walking this earth, like clay is used as a vessel to hold foods or liquids.  When pushing the clay and forming it into sculptural forms they come to life and become vessels to be explored and investigated.  Feelings are exposed and the form is vulnerable to your judgment and opinion, much like people are.