NEWSLETTER
Lake George, N.Y. - The exhibition, Perception in Fragments: Unveiling Family Through Color and Memory, recent work by Khaila Batts, will be on view in The Courthouse Gallery of the Lake George Arts Project from Wednesday, July 9th through Sunday, August 10th. Batts’ oil paintings and digital collages In the artists’ words her figures “…are suspended in dreamlike environments—gestural yet frozen—rendered in saturated palettes where serene blues veil violence and stark contrasts expose emotional weight. Their gazes pierce outward, creating a participatory exchange that humanizes and implicates the viewer. Skin tones are inverted or shifted into unnatural hues, disrupting racialized expectations and inviting viewers to see Blackness not as fixed, but as radiant, fluid, and otherworldly. Interactive elements, such as smartphone-enabled color inversion (available via a QR code in the gallery), deepen this engagement, asking audiences to reconsider how perception is shaped by both technology and bias.”
Khaila Batts will speak at The Courthouse Gallery during the Artist’s Reception, Saturday, July 12th, from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the north side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, at 1 Lower Amherst Street in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions, our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturday 12:00- 4:00 PM. Summer gallery hours include Sundays from 12:00 - 4:00 PM.
Please visit our website www.lakegeorgearts.org or call 518-668-2616 for more information.
Lake George Arts Project Courthouse exhibitions and programs are funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature, the Town and Village of Lake George, 518 Profiles, The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust, The Touba Foundation, and LGAP members.
Calendar events:
Artist’s Reception
Khaila Batts: Perception in Fragments:
Unveiling Family Through Color and Memory
Saturday, July 12th
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Sunday Arts
Sunday, July 13th
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Surreal Identity Collage
Gallery visit and art-making
for all ages. Free of charge.
Both events take place at The Courthouse Gallery, 1 Lower Amherst Street, Lake George, NY 12845
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Image: Khaila Batts, Brooklyn Paradise, 2024, Digital collage
Contact:
June Waters
Director of Exhibitions
518-668-2616
junew@lakegeorgearts.org