Join us on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 to celebrate the opening GNATLAND: NEON ORGANISMS OF THE NEW AGE, an exhibition of new work by Morgan Hardigree and Jason Kash.

GNATLAND brings together Morgan Hardigree’s neon-drenched worlds and Jason Kash’s biomorphic assemblages to explore transformation as both a personal and material process. This exhibition is part of Bridge Work, a professional development program for emerging artists that is facilitated by 2nd Story in partnership with the Lexington Art League.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

MORGAN HARDIGREE is a Lexington, Kentucky-based interdisciplinary artist working in color pencil, printmaking, jewelry-making, and assemblage. Completing her BA in Art History and Studio Art at Transylvania University in May of 2025, she loves the surreal and uses memories, her own poems, movies, and found objects as inspiration for her practice that centers trans-femininity and queerness. Her writing and art has been published in both the Rambler and the Transylvanian, and she presented her art historical research at SECAC’s 2024 conference. Hardigree has participated in group shows in Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery, the Shearer Student Gallery, and LexArts along with staging and curating her recent solo show Centipede Circling the Sun.

JASON KASH is a visual artist based in Lexington, Kentucky, where he received a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Kentucky. For Jason, art has the unique power to transform thought into a bodily experience, communicating on a more fundamental level than language. Through his assemblage process, his work discusses themes of growth, transformation, and decay and their connection to human and nonhuman realms. While he is an active maker, Jason is also a firm believer in the power of art to create community, shaped by his experiences in metal casting and public sculpture.