“The Real Flex Is a Meaningful Life” is a 5×5 mixed media piece on wood panel by Emily Lamberty. Photo courtesy of Art on Main.

Umbrella Corpse: Retrospective + New Work Exploring the Depths of Resilience | Art on Main

Ready to go deep? This solo exhibition by Emily Lamberty explores resilience, transformation, vulnerability and finding strength through hard times, according to a press release. The art on display is a collection of photos and mixed media. 

“Through layered imagery and evocative compositions, the work confronts vulnerability while revealing unexpected strength,” reads the press release. “Together, these pieces invite viewers to reflect on the ways we carry memory, adapt to adversity and reclaim meaning from fractured experiences.”

Lamberty has studied feng shui and yoga and currently runs Ritual Relish, which produces handcrafted, ethically-sourced spiritual jewelry for those practicing mindfulness and meditation. Her fixation on umbrellas came from her time living in New York and seeing people use weathered and broken umbrellas and then throw them away haphazardly. One of her pieces shows an upside down (and perhaps trampled) umbrella lying in the street. 

Guests are encouraged to bring umbrellas to the exhibit to donate to Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support. 

This exhibit will close on Saturday, Sept. 26. Art on Main is at 4428 Main St., Suite 200.

Nexus Family Recovery Center’s Butterfly Campaign art installation is on display in NorthPark Center. Courtesy of Nexus Family Recovery Center.

Nexus Family Recovery Center’s Butterfly Campaign

In honor of National Recovery Month in September and North Texas Giving Day, Nexus Family Recovery Center’s Butterfly Campaign art installation is on display in Nordstrom Court in NorthPark Center. 

“Every North Texas Giving Day donation made to Nexus will be represented by a butterfly and added to the dynamic art piece, creating a powerful visual of the community support surrounding women and families in recovery,” reads a press release. 

Nexus raised $63,745 for North Texas Giving Day to fund “treatment, meals, diapers, hygiene products, prenatal transportation and therapeutic services for children,” according to the press release. The nonprofit in Far East Dallas provides specialized substance use disorder treatment as well as therapy services to women, including those who are pregnant or have children, who can accompany them into the treatment center and also receive care.

The installation will be on display through Wednesday, Sept. 30. Nexus will be tabling there Sept. 23, 26 and 30 to spread awareness about substance use disorder, how Nexus could help and the stories behind the butterflies. 

“The Eggs of My Inheritance” by Duke Horn. Photo courtesy of Kettle Art Gallery.

Get Real | Kettle Art Gallery

Unexpected. Symbolic. Wonderfully strange.

That’s what is supposedly on tap at Kettle Art Gallery. This surrealist exhibition combines the talents of two artists who have been working for decades — Kettle Art co-founder Judith Lea Perkins and Duke Horn. 

“Get Real offers an engaging encounter between two artists with distinctly different approaches, united by a shared fascination with the imaginative, the unexpected and the realities that exist just beneath the surface,” reads a press release.

Horn began his career in the late ’60s, and for the past two decades, his art has centered on the “the happiness, joy, sadness and complexities” within carnival life. 

“His paintings invite viewers into colorful worlds that are at once playful and poignant, revealing the many layers of human experience beneath the spectacle,” reads the press release.

Since 1993, Perkins has worked in freelance as well as the scenic and mural arts, and her “graphically oriented and symbolic imagery creates surreal scenarios through the interplay of shape, light and gestural form,” according to the press release. 

The exhibit closes Sunday, Oct. 11. Kettle Art is in Deep Ellum at 2650-B Main St. and open noon to 5 p.m. on weekends, plus by appointment. 

“The Dreamer’s Crossing” by Judith Lea Perkins. Photo courtesy of Kettle Art Gallery.