“BLOW-OUT/FLOW'r-OUT" by Artists Leon Syfrit and Holly Lay

Core Contemporary is excited to present “BLOW-OUT/FLOW'r-OUT”, a 2-person exhibition featuring artists, Leon Syfrit and Holly Lay.

The exhibition runs March 29th through June 1st

An opening reception and visit with the artists on Friday, March 29th, from 6-8pm.

Core Contemporary,

900 Karen Avenue Suite D222, Las Vegas, NV, 89109

Located the historic Sahara Commercial Center/New Orleans Square, Core Contemporary provides an engaging and accessible setting in which to experience remarkable original art, meet working artists, watch live painting, enjoy immersive educational forums, listen to live music, and host private events.

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Leon Syfrit is an award-winning photographer whose current work focuses on reclaiming, repurposing, and reinventing found objects. In this exhibit, he transforms blown-out automobile tires found along random highways into sculpture-like fine art photographic prints. He also enjoys documentary photography, alternative photographic processes, and restoring and preserving vintage photographs and negatives. Syfrit’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in several permanent collections including the Philadelphia History Museum, the Free Library of Pennsylvania, and Darkroom Gallery in Vermont. Leon Holds a BFA in Photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to relocating to Las Vegas in 2016, Leon taught photography at the Delaware College of Art and Design in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware.

Holly Lay is a 3rd year MFA candidate at UNLV, who received her BFA in photography and intermedia arts from Ball State University. She exhibits nationally and internationally with work that examines cyber culture, femininity, craft and kitsch. A recent exhibition Untitled Screen Caps is featured in the Past, Present, Future photography exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The work is a collection of screen captures from various media outlets that used her self-portrait stock photography. It explores the way images of women are manipulated and used in the media. For her exhibition at CORE, Lay uses varying mediums and source material, including fiber and photography to explore juxtapositions between the past and present, permanence and evolution.

Curated by gallery owner, Nancy Good, who shares, “The exhibit seeks to engage viewers with deep visual dialogue, revealing that even the most mundane of discarded objects can be transformed into arresting pieces of fine art. Things are never as they seem.”

For more information, visit: or CONTACT: Nancy Good info@corecontemporary.com www.corecontemporary.com

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Dan Frechette - Acoustic Blues @ Core Contemporary Gallery

The "ListeningRoom@Core" is finally underway!

Dan Frechette is a musical force; for over 20 years the award winning Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and educator, now based in California, has performed major folk festivals and traveled throughout North America and Europe, sharing his songs and ebullient personality, and warming stages with the likes of Dar Williams, Richard Thompson, and Ron Sexsmith, among others.

With over 40 albums, his songwriting efforts have been discovered, recorded, and performed widely by celebrated artists around the world, such as The Duhks (Canada), Dervish (Ireland), The Ploughboys/Damian Howard (Australia), Emma Cloney (Canada), Jessee Havey (Canada), and The Stacks/Tania Elizabeth (United States).

When: Friday, February 15th, 2019 - 7 PM – 8:30 PM

Where: 900 Karen, Suite D-222, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

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PARADE: THE COLLECTIVE - Cirque du Soleil's 13th Annual Employee Art Show @ CORE Contemporary

Collaboration by Castile Ritter, Mai Sato, Jennaia Dawn and Samantha Bentson

From Dec. 1 – 30, Cirque du Soleil will host its 13th annual art exhibition, PARADE The Collective, at Core Contemporary Gallery. The annual exhibition is a specially curated collection of art designed to showcase the unique creativity and talent of the entertainment group’s performers, technicians and staff, and will be open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

To welcome another year of the locally-acclaimed exhibit, PARADE The Collective will kick off with a welcome reception from 6:30 – 9 p.m. on Dec. 6, which will allow the community to get to know the artists behind the creations and revel in the exclusive pieces on display made by employees from all Las Vegas resident shows, including Blue Man Group. During the month-long exhibition, visitors can stroll through the contemporary gallery and marvel in 25 original pieces highlighting a variety of mediums including painting, photography, costuming, sculpture and multi-media work. “PARADE The Collective serves as a one-of-a-kind opportunity for locals to discover the unique, and sometimes hidden, abilities of our extremely talented cast and crew,” said Jerry Nadal, Senior Vice President of Cirque du Soleil. New this year, PARADE The Collective will feature an original piece created by a youth artist from WHALER’s Creation. Part of Cirque du Soleil’s Social Action program, WHALER’s Creation offers fostered and adopted youth the job skills training and knowledge needed to obtain entry level positions in the arts and media. Brooke Wahlquist, Community Relations Project Manager for Cirque du Soleil added, “Creating an innovative outlet for our Social Action Grantees, using art as a common language, is part of our wraparound approach to encourage community action and societal engagement.”

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