First Friday Openings
Lincoln: Tugboat Gallery, Lichen Gallery and LUX Center for Arts
Various times, free, all ages
“The Splendor” opens at Tugboat Gallery, featuring Caleb Coppock, Nicholas
Bohac and Phillip Faulker; it is curated by Matt Carlson. The show features
playful manipulation of found imagery through painting, installation, collage,
sculpture and digital imagery.
The Lichen Gallery (2810 N. 48th Street) opens “The Long Con: New Works by
Timothy Siragusa” Friday, July 1. Siragusa, an Omaha-based artist, presents 20
recent, “neo-beefcake” narrative photographs of “non-models.”
LUX Center for Arts opens “TreeLine: Nature’s Iconic Form,” featuring 17
pieces by mid-20th century print-artists paying tribute to trees. Including
work by Arnold Blanch, Charles Daubigny, Dwight Kirsch, Aristide Maillol and
Nathaniel Pousette-Dart, the exhibit reception is 5-8 p.m. Friday and the
exhibit runs through November 1. The LUX Center opening is part of the
North Lincoln Art Crawl, which is also opening “Instead,” featuring multimedia
art by LUX Artist-in-Residence Trudie Teijink. Other participating galleries
include 9 Muses Studio, which presents photographers Ben and Liz Bird; Against
the Wall Gallery, which presents “Spring Creek Prairie: Black and White
Photography” by Lincoln photographer Jean Lewis; and International Quilt
Study Center & Museum, which continues “Elegant Geometry: American and
British Patchwork.” – Sally Deskins