COLBY GALLERY has teamed up with the “Women of the Blues Foundation” and the “National Blues Museum” of Saint Louis to showcase the exhibit “Women Of The Blues: A Coast-To-Coast Collection” curated by photojournalist Lynn Orman Weiss, president of Orman Music & Media and founder of the Women of the Blues Foundation.
The exhibit is a photographic celebration of the women who sing the blues and the photographers who photograph them from across the nation and around the world. The show features over eighty photographs of these divine divas, representing diverse age groups and ethnic backgrounds. It was created in honor of the late great “Queen of the Blues” Koko Taylor. Koko passed away in June of 2009 at the age of eighty, after an illustrious decades-long career of entertaining listeners with Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues, and more.
The photographic portraits represent singers of a wide variety of blues styles, ranging from Southern Soul Blues to Chicago Blues to Rock Blues. The exhibit was created to honor these soulful singers of truth who embody the essence of the blues. The exhibit seeks to perpetuate blues culture for future generations of artists, fans, and historians.
www.nationalbluesmuseum.org
www.womenoftheblues.com
The mission of COLBY GALLERY is to work with todays most passionate and inspirational contemporary artists and support them in creating new paradigms of the empowered human experience and potential. COLBY GALLERY offers a wide range of original artwork and prints for private collections and installation in select public spaces.
COLBY GALLERY
1626 West 18th Street, Chicago, IL, 60608, USA
colbyluck@sbcglobal.net, 312-607-8353
The exhibit is a photographic celebration of the women who sing the blues and the photographers who photograph them from across the nation and around the world. The show features over eighty photographs of these divine divas, representing diverse age groups and ethnic backgrounds. It was created in honor of the late great “Queen of the Blues” Koko Taylor. Koko passed away in June of 2009 at the age of eighty, after an illustrious decades-long career of entertaining listeners with Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues, and more.
The photographic portraits represent singers of a wide variety of blues styles, ranging from Southern Soul Blues to Chicago Blues to Rock Blues. The exhibit was created to honor these soulful singers of truth who embody the essence of the blues. The exhibit seeks to perpetuate blues culture for future generations of artists, fans, and historians.
www.nationalbluesmuseum.org
www.womenoftheblues.com
The mission of COLBY GALLERY is to work with todays most passionate and inspirational contemporary artists and support them in creating new paradigms of the empowered human experience and potential. COLBY GALLERY offers a wide range of original artwork and prints for private collections and installation in select public spaces.
COLBY GALLERY
1626 West 18th Street, Chicago, IL, 60608, USA
colbyluck@sbcglobal.net, 312-607-8353
Born in New York City, Colby Luckenbill grew up on the East side of Manhattan in a neighborhood of Diplomats next to the United Nations which strongly influenced her perspective that we are all one multifaceted human family of infinite potential. Her mother, Margaret E. Luckenbill, a painter, sculptor and humanitarian; her father Donald N. Luckenbill, Jr., a renown architect; and her grandfather, Donald N. Luckenbill Sr., a highly respected composer and musician, all taught her the language of art from a very young age.
Luckenbill attended a small private college preparatory school in Brooklyn Heights, The Packer Collegiate Institute. She completed her studies at the innovative Elizabeth Seeger School in SoHo. In addition she took classes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and was awarded entrance to college level summer art courses at SUNY Ferdonia and Chautauqua Institution. She was the recipient of numerous artistic awards, including the Scholastic Art Award for New York, which led to state and national recognition including publication in Whose Who and being honored personally by New York Mayor Edward Koch.
Choosing to explore light and color, Luckenbill moved to the South of France to study painting at The Leo Marchutz Atelier near Aix En Provence. Following a year in Europe she moved to Chicago, Illinois to attend The School of The Art Institute of Chicago to major in filmmaking and art history. While spending an exchange year in California at The San Francisco Art Institute she became interested in Latin American Art which led her to take intensive study trips through SAIC to Mexico and Central America where she also learned Spanish. She was especially moved by her visit to San Cristobal de las Casa in Chiapas, Mexico and the nearby Indigenous village of the Chamula people.
Luckenbill worked in numerous art galleries after graduation including the gallery of Latin American Art pioneer Aldo Castillo. In 2005 Luckenbill moved to the historic Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and opened her own art gallery to be close to the vibrant Mexican and artistic communities. She quickly became integrated into the cultural landscape of the neighborhood. She has served as community representative at Cooper bilingual School, and has been active with many local cultural groups. Her gallery, COLBY GALLERY, represents local, national and international artists who “inspire the human spirit”. COLBY GALLERY has been a participant in the annual 18th Street Pilsen Open Studios art studio and gallery walk. She served as the Assistant Director for their 10th year anniversary in 2012 when she brought in more artists than ever before including past participants and new local talent.
ARTIST STATEMENT - COLBY LUCKENBILL
The archaic definition of Curate is “any ecclesiastic entrusted with the cure of souls.” It is derived from the root of "cure" as in “curative: serving to cure or heal; a remedy.” A Curator seeks to do this not in a hospital, nor a church, but in the celebrated walls of a cultural center, a gallery or a museum. It is my deep and heart felt mission to connect individually with the souls and visions of todays most passionate and inspirational contemporary artists and unite them to form ever new paradigms of the empowered human experience and potential.
Luckenbill attended a small private college preparatory school in Brooklyn Heights, The Packer Collegiate Institute. She completed her studies at the innovative Elizabeth Seeger School in SoHo. In addition she took classes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and was awarded entrance to college level summer art courses at SUNY Ferdonia and Chautauqua Institution. She was the recipient of numerous artistic awards, including the Scholastic Art Award for New York, which led to state and national recognition including publication in Whose Who and being honored personally by New York Mayor Edward Koch.
Choosing to explore light and color, Luckenbill moved to the South of France to study painting at The Leo Marchutz Atelier near Aix En Provence. Following a year in Europe she moved to Chicago, Illinois to attend The School of The Art Institute of Chicago to major in filmmaking and art history. While spending an exchange year in California at The San Francisco Art Institute she became interested in Latin American Art which led her to take intensive study trips through SAIC to Mexico and Central America where she also learned Spanish. She was especially moved by her visit to San Cristobal de las Casa in Chiapas, Mexico and the nearby Indigenous village of the Chamula people.
Luckenbill worked in numerous art galleries after graduation including the gallery of Latin American Art pioneer Aldo Castillo. In 2005 Luckenbill moved to the historic Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and opened her own art gallery to be close to the vibrant Mexican and artistic communities. She quickly became integrated into the cultural landscape of the neighborhood. She has served as community representative at Cooper bilingual School, and has been active with many local cultural groups. Her gallery, COLBY GALLERY, represents local, national and international artists who “inspire the human spirit”. COLBY GALLERY has been a participant in the annual 18th Street Pilsen Open Studios art studio and gallery walk. She served as the Assistant Director for their 10th year anniversary in 2012 when she brought in more artists than ever before including past participants and new local talent.
ARTIST STATEMENT - COLBY LUCKENBILL
The archaic definition of Curate is “any ecclesiastic entrusted with the cure of souls.” It is derived from the root of "cure" as in “curative: serving to cure or heal; a remedy.” A Curator seeks to do this not in a hospital, nor a church, but in the celebrated walls of a cultural center, a gallery or a museum. It is my deep and heart felt mission to connect individually with the souls and visions of todays most passionate and inspirational contemporary artists and unite them to form ever new paradigms of the empowered human experience and potential.
"Jennifer's Place" watercolor by Anatoliy Khmara