Debra Kay Guess

Here's a new one: Slow Retreat (30x30)

What's your interpretation?

I'm honored to be one of 18 local and regional artists currently exhibiting work in Arts Connect's ArtSpace Virtual Gallery's juried show that responds to concepts stimulated by the words GIMME SHELTER.

Three of my pieces were accepted for the exhibit: Hold My Hand, Ties That Bind, and Hiding Inside Summer. You can visit the exhibit, set in ArtSpace's virtual, interactive gallery at https://www.artsconnectlex.org/gimme-shelter---group-show.html. The show will be live through April 4.

Welcome or not, change is inevitable. Anticipating it, or accepting it, sometimes requires only that we give it time.

One of my latest pieces out of the studio: Give It Time (36x36)

So does taking the path of least resistance mean giving in? Settling for less? Or does it achieve better efficiency or even peace with living "in the moment"? Hmmm . . .

Another painting fresh from the studio: "Path of Least Resistance" (30x30)

Can you relate? -- There's often a song running in my head. Sometimes in the foreground, sometimes only the background, unbidden and to the point of distraction, even sleeplessness.

Here, my new painting, "The Songs In My Head" (30x30).

Ever find yourself trying to piece together the elusive images from an interrupted dream, or attempting to return to a dream cut short as you awake?

Here, one of my recent paintings, "Dream Interrupted" (30x30).

My painting "Tracing My Contacts" has been selected for inclusion in Fine Art Studio On-line's FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in their July 2020 BoldBrush Painting competition.

Thank you, BoldBrush jury!

Two new pieces just out of the studio! Jumping Off (30x30), and Unburied Treasures (60x20)

See how they look "dropped" into a variety of roomsets: Go to my website (debrakayguess.com), and within a selected painting's page, click on "Room". Fun fun!

We are pleased to present "Open to Interpretation" as our summer exhibit. This is an abstract invitational show featuring artwork by 14 of the region's best abstract artists. You can visit the exhibit Tuesday through Friday, 11am to 7pm and Saturdays 10am to 5pm.

If you aren't ready to venture out, check out the online gallery for this exhibit, complete with video sneak peek, artist statements, and explanation of what we're talking about when we say "abstract non-objective art."

www.artcenterky.org/open-to-interpretation

Featured artwork: "Hiding Inside Summer" by Debra Kay Guess.

Some evidence of my ability to adapt: My first "virtual" gallery exhibit of paintings, featuring a handful of pieces originally intended for display this spring at the Jane Chancellor Moore Gallery. Many thanks to Larry Moore, curator of JCM, for being a champion of art and literature in Frankfort, and on the www!

See more at
broadstonebooks.com/JCM_Gallery.html

We've added new artwork to our virtual exhibition of paintings by Debra Kay Guess, including this appropriately titled piece, "The Ability to Adapt." Visit us at broadstonebooks.com/JCM_Gallery.html until the day comes that you can visit again in person.

Updating my cover image here with recently completed painting "Tracing My Contacts" (30x30).

Clearer than ever before is that MY contacts include YOUR contacts include MY contacts. So please, everybody: Err on the cautious side for a while, ok? We are all in this together.

In day 17 of self-isolation, a few of my recently completed paintings practically named themselves: Tracing My Contacts; Quarantine; and Simmer Down. (each 30x30)

One week left to see my solo showing of 10 paintings at the Roberta Marx Gallery at TJUC in Louisville! More info at the church's website: https://www.tjuc.org/debra-guess-exhibition-from-january-19-through-february-29/. Pictured here: A New Playbook (40x30)

Here are a few pics of my 2-month Mobile Gallery installation at 527 Wellington Way in Lexington (Ky.). A big shout out to Arts Connect's Kate Savage for her generous and expert management of the Mobile Gallery program!

Another FAV15%! "A Climate of Change" (36h x 72w diptych) was selected for inclusion in Fine Art Studio On-line's FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in their December 2019 BoldBrush Painting competition.

The two paintings may be purchased together or separately. More at debrakayguess.com.

The artist reception for my solo exhibit at Louisville's Roberta Marx Gallery is set for 12:30p tomorrow (Sunday, Jan. 19), and I invite everyone to join us there! The gallery is located just inside the main entrance of Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church at 4936 Brownsboro Road (across from Holiday Manor shopping center).

The photos here show a portion of my 10 paintings on display through late February. The gallery is open to the public Mon-Fri, 9:30a-4:30p.

The response has been wonderful, and I'm grateful for the warm hospitality of everyone at TJUC. Hope to see you there!

My first paintings of Twenty-Twenty -- which appear to reveal my anticipation for greener seasons! On the left, Envy With Green (36x36); right, Off the Grid (40x20).

Presenting three new and distinctive final pieces of 2019: (l. to r.) A New Playbook, Hold My Hand, and Trickle Down. For a full description of each, see debrakayguess.com.

And a Big Thank You! to everyone out there who supported me in the year(s) past with your purchase, your encouragement, your interest. You all help inspire me!

Wishing you many moments that inspire in this new year!

My solo show is up at the Roberta Marx Gallery in Louisville!
The gallery, located inside the main entry at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, is showcasing 10 of my paintings through the end of February, with an artist's reception at 12:30 p.m on Sunday, January 19. Everyone's invited!

TJUC is located across from Holiday Manor at 4936 Brownsboro Road. The gallery is open to the public 9:30-4:30 M-F and during Sunday morning worship.

Hot off the presses! Dr. Thea Fiore-Bloom's latest Charmed Studio blog entry -- which includes my painting "Buoyed Up," along with other fantastic artisan pieces. (I'm in

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Presenting two new paintings: Buoyed Up (l.) and The Ability to Adapt (r.), both 36x36.

Orange out, orange in ;)

Sharing two new paintings here: "Fog Stills the Fall," and "May I Have My Attention Please". Both 40h x 30w. I appear to have been on a green mission lately. Maybe because it's my favorite neutral . . .

Meet my new diptych, "A Climate of Change"! Each canvas is 36w x 36h, so this work gave me 72 glorious inches in width to play with. I love going big!

I received notice yesterday that my paintings pictured here -- Hiding Inside Summer and Earthbound -- have been selected for the FAV15% of entries submitted to the Fine Art Studio On-Line (FASO) August 2019 BoldBrush Painting competition. Of the [no doubt] thousands of entries FASO receives each month, the FAV15% represents the jurors' favorite 15% of entries. And it's especially gratifying that, of my two entries, both of these 36x36 pieces were selected for this honor!

Next weekend will find me in Cincinnati, honored to be among the many artists whose work was accepted into Art Design Consultants' "Academy Awards for Art" -- a/k/a their 10th Annual Art Comes Alive. S'gonna be a party!! Read more at https://debrakayguess.com/event/128947/10th-annual-art-comes-alive.

Just pushed out of the studio nest three new pieces shown here (each 36x36): Checking My Perspective, Everything In Its Place, and Playing The Day By Ear. More info on each at my website -- where, for funsies, you can even place them into nifty roomset photos!

Fly little paintings, fly!

My painting "In the High Plains" has been selected for Cincinnati-based Art Design Consultants' 10th Annual "Art Comes Alive" exhibit (Oct 5 - Dec 6). Check it out at adcfineart.com. There was stiff competition here, and I'm thrilled as always to have my work hang alongside many other fine works of art!

My studio assistant, Tallulah (sleeping on the job).😊

Read here my July 2019 newsletter, reprinted on nationally renowned painter and teacher Derek Penix's blog: https://derekpenix.com/blog/147664/control-is-not-honest-i-was-hooked. Thank you, Derek!

To see past newsletters, and to receive future installments, go to my website, debrakayguess.com.

(pictured: "Yellow and Blue" by Derek Penix)

My painting "Saltwater Geology With the Sun In My Eyes" has been accepted into the "Horizon: Contemporary Landscape" juried exhibit at the Art Center of the Bluegrass in Danville, Ky. The 30x40 painting is one of several pieces inspired by my Greek sailing experience of last summer.

Of the more than 250 works submitted from artists across 15 states, only 21 pieces were selected for this exhibit, which will be on display at the Art Center of the Bluegrass (401 W. Main Street in Danville) Sept. 6 - Nov. 1. The artists reception is 5:30-7pm on September 13, and everyone's invited!