L.K. Sukany Art Exhibit at Wildwood Park for the Arts

Posted on September 16, 2015 by lksukany

As an Arkansas Arts Council Arts on Tour artist, Wildwood Park for the Arts was one of the galleries I contacted about an exhibit.

M and I went to Wildwood a couple of days before the opening, and Sofia helped us hang the show.

There were some cool press opportunities: Arkansas Life and Little Rock Soiree Online.

A lot of people came to the opening. There was a sign-in sheet at the front to enter into a drawing to win a framed “Reading Into It” lithography print – for the duration of the show. Whole Foods catered!

Along with the exhibition and delicious snacks from Whole Foods, “The Damsels in Distress” played an instrumental set.

“Know Who’s a Robot” also played, and it was a super good time.

After the exhibition, I was interviewed for the Wildwood Park for the Arts website. Read Artist Interview here.

Arkansas Life “Sketchbook Feature”

Posted on August 28, 2015 by lksukany

I was contacted by Jordan Hickey, senior editor at Arkansas Life about interviewing for the Arkansas Sketchbook feature for August 2015. He had come across some of my work online – specifically Developed and Less Finished: Maintaining Life and thought it would be a good fit for the Arkansas Life A&E section. He would interview me and would feature a large image of one piece along with a short bio.

“Do you think that’s something you’d be interested in?”

Of course I would! How exciting! Who does that? What artists’ work gets viewed and then is asked to interview and be featured in a well-known publication? Me!!!!

We scheduled a phone interview and talked for about an hour. The next thing I knew I was the feature artist in Arkansas Life for August 2015.

At the end of the article, there was even mention of the Wildwood art show! “Be sure to head over to Wildwood Gallery at Little Rock’s Wildwood Park for the Arts later this month, where LK will be exhibiting Developed and Less Finished: Maintaining Life from Aug. 21 to Sept. 20.”

You can read the article arkansaslife.com/plumbing.

Mixing Art & Music

Posted on March 25, 2015 by lksukany

I was remembering back to July when we went for a fun trip to Dallas. We originally went because we got Yann Tiersen concert tickets. We stayed with my aunt and had a super nice long weekend together.

We visited the Dallas Museum of Art, which was fantastic! M especially liked the Isa Genzken geometric sculptures.

We posed in front of some art works for fun. I posed with “Lady Godiva” by Anne Whitney . M posed with “Homage to Victory Boogie Woogie #1” by Leon Polk Smith.

That night we went to the Yann Tiersen concert at the Granada Theater where his band played mostly songs from their latest album “Infinity” – this concert was incredible. M and I were completely inspired.

We also took a short day trip to Waco to visit M’s sister H. There was this great “play something” piano just outside in the middle of the town. So M played something!

It was a great trip of mixing art and music.

Paintings for Livada: Romania Hillside View

Posted on January 23, 2015 by lksukany

When I was on the missions trip with Grace Church serving the Livada Orphan Care ministry in Romania, the beauty of the country inspired me. I had the idea that when I got home to Arkansas I could paint these Romanian scenes and donate the paintings to Livada to raise money for orphan sponsorship.

There were so many beautiful landscapes. There were times when we were driving from the day camp to the next place we were going to serve and I would just look out the window and gasp. The place where we were in Romania (Târgu Mureș) was hilly and full of these breathtaking countryside views.

Image to Paint

Charcoal Sketch on Canvas

Painting Sketch (1st Coat)

Painting Sketch (2nd Coat)

Final Painting

Paintings for Livada: Hay Day

Posted on January 22, 2015 by lksukany

Our group went to the restaurant called Restaurant Pestisorul de Aur. We explored the site and found beautiful scenery and even some wildlife. We also took a group picture.