Early On 12”x48” Acrylic/Mixed Media

They Stopped Singing Here

New work By Kevin Mitchell
Opens Friday, August 28

Over a lifetime we can confuse good with bad, bad with terrible, and terrible with honest, human nature.

Certain radical customs in our society can become so ingrained in us from an early age that we forget to question the effects that those beliefs have on the adults whom we've grown into.

Sometimes what’s on the surface is only part of our saga of indoctrination, isolation, and ultimate liberation.


Opening Friday, August 28
6-9pm

Lulalyn Downtown
80 Monroe at Main Street
Brinkley Plaza

More Details: 901-489-3963

Beautiful Tomorrow - Acrylic on Canvas

"Cool Change"

New work by Michael Ethridge
Opening reception: Friday, July 31,
Trolley Tour Night.

Lulalyn Downtown, Brinkley Plaza Lobby
80 Monroe at Main Street

7-10pm

Show runs through August, 24.

Trolley Tour Drink Specials and hors d'oeuveres by Felicia Suzanne's
also located in Brinkley Plaza.

Please contact us with any questions.

901.489.3963

Haley Morris-Cafiero opening at Lulalyn Downtown 6/26

One Foot in the Water 40"x50"

“Something to Weigh”

This is a series of images that I have created to depict my struggle with weight and how the size of my body affects my life. I chose to document my life on vacation and how I perceive my body fits with other people and the isolation that I often feel as a result of my size.

Each image was captured using a film camera. The film was scanned and each image was digitally printed onto watercolor paper.

Haley Morris-Cafiero is a photographer and sculptor who makes work that revolves around her struggle to control her body, externally and internally. She received her BFA in photography and BA in ceramics from University of North Florida and her MFA in Art from the University of Arizona. She currently teaches photography and ceramics at Memphis College of Art.

Opening at Lulalyn Downtown
Friday, July 26 - Trolley Tour Night 7-10pm

Please note location change
Lulalyn Downtown
80 Monroe at Main Street - on the Trolley Line
(Lobby of Brinkley Plaza)
Memphis, Tennessee
901.489.3963

Next door to and catered by Felicia Suzanne
http://www.feliciasuzanne.com

Lulalyn Gallery is now Lulalyn Downtown

We are happy to announce that Lulalyn Gallery is now Lulalyn Downtown. Come and see the continually changing exhibits inside beautiful Brinkley Plaza in Downtown Memphis. We look forward to displaying a host of regional and emerging artists throughout the year. We are also very pleased to announce that in conjunction with the luxurious Felicia Suzanne’s Restaurant, also in Brinkley Plaza, a new show will open every Trolley Tour on the last Friday of the month. We’ll be right on the trolley stop at the corner of Main And Monroe. Look for our updates on our Facebook page, this blog as well as in local publications.

Thank you for your continued support. See you Downtown.

Now Showing at Lulalyn Downtown; Beyond the Gates by Danita Barrentine

Please contact Kevin Mitchell at 901-489-3963 for more information.

Nothing but the Truth

Last year an art director found her way into the Gallery. She was propping out a movie set that was being shot in town. Nothing but the Truth, Based on the Valerie Plame/CIA leak of a few years back, starring Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Basset, David Shwimmer, Alan Alda, the guy who plays Carter on ER and several more actors who I just can't remember right now. Anyway, It was one of those movies big names do for not much cash, but the chance to work on a project with a great script and a very talented cast.

The budget was only $11,500,000 (Very low by mainstream standards, but this movie was a labor of love.) As it was about to come out last year, the releasing company went bankrupt.

Entire US Theatrical Gross (2 screens): $3,045

Ain't that just how it goes? The DVD just came out this week, the movie seems pretty cool, and you'll see art from some of the artists here at Lulalyn Gallery and lots of Memphis spots used for locations. Check it out.

Here's the trailor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVtt_CY4JPg

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In Katrina’s Wake

New Work By Michael Aldana
at Lulalyn Gallery
Opening Friday, April 17 6-9 p.m.

In Katrina’s wake, I found myself looking at the culture I love teetering on existence, struggling for survival. The destruction of the wetlands that surround New Orleans by oil and natural gas companies has slowly led to the erosion of these vast wetlands which are New Orleans buffer against hurricane storm surge.

Without these wetlands, hurricanes of the future will threaten the city even more. Katrina showed just how vulnerable New Orleans is to hurricane damage and as a consequence we are looking at the possibility of a city that may never revive itself wholly. I see this culture I grew up with vanishing as people would rather move than confront the problem.

What I focus on in my art are the effects of erosion (as metaphor) on culture and family in South Louisiana. I revisit places and things of my youth that are vanishing and apply these things to what I am handing down to my children. This is a slow whittling away of my culture taking place now. As people leave, as the water moves in, as traditions are lost, the soul of a region is being lost. It is my goal, as an artist of this region, of this culture, to point to these losses. I look at my art now as a mourning process. I liken it to the mourning of someone before they have passed. As if they have a poor diagnosis, and hope is bleak. We begin the process of mourning before the person has passed. However, there is always hope. And I do feel that I address hope in my works as well. The hope exists in the passing down of traditions and histories and the sharing of love for a place.

My art reflects both the fears and hopes of a people who are as a David, facing a Goliath. The odds may be against us, but no task is too tall, and we can overcome.

~ Michael Aldana