Celebrating 58 Years
RODNEY HATFIELD & LYNN SWEET
Retrospective Exhibition
April 17 - June 28
Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 am - 4 pm
Artist Reception Sunday, April 19, 4 - 7 pm
The Palace Rodney Hatfield
Rodney Hatfield
Coming from the lineage of the Hatfields and McCoys, musician and artist Rodney Hatfield, aka ArtSnake, grew up in Eastern Kentucky in a working class family, rich with diversity of lifestyle and characters that deeply influenced his music and visual arts careers. A self taught artist, his paintings are original, unique, uninhibited figurative and abstract works with early inspiration from Chagall, Miro and Klee. His work has been represented in Santa Fe, Ecuador, and Kentucky, and is in many collections including actors Gene Hackman and Liam Neeson. Hatfield acted in the 1989 action-thriller Next of Kin starring Neeson. Hatfield has been part of the blues scene since the 1960s as a vocalist and harmonica player for notable bands, The Hatfield Clan, Metropolitan Blues Allstars and Tin Can Buddha.
From the Bridge Lynn Sweet
Lynn Sweet
Lynn Sweet has been making art since 1970 - this exhibit features furniture that he designed and built as well as two-dimensional fresco, watercolor and acrylic abstract and landscape paintings. Sweet's unique fresco process mixes earth pigments, marble dust and acrylic polymer and is applied through a piping bag to produce rich, colorful works. For over 40 years, he supervised the wood shop at University of Kentucky School of Art. His works are in collections across the United States.