Curated by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis

The forthcoming exhibition is a hybrid exhibition, combining the work of LTL Architects with student-driven design projects generated at the exhibition space. The show will be organized around the question of design and environmental change, with a specific focus on the impact of rising water levels, changing weather patterns, and altered natural systems of coastal communities of the Gulf of Mexico. The exhibition will document the work of the architecture firm, LTL Architects (Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis) through drawings, photographs and models. Works will include speculative project, built projects, unbuilt projects and writings drawn from the last 15 years of the firm’s work and work done in response to the challenges of the exhibition theme. The exhibition will be designed by LTL Architects to maximize the use of Space 301 gallery.

In addition to the documentation, presentation and curating of the work of LTL Architects, a parallel design study will occur within the space, involving students and representatives from schools of architecture in Alabama. The students, working teams, will be asked over the course of a weekend, to design a project that relates to the specific local environmental challenges as identified and explored through the exhibited work. The purpose of this portion of the exhibition is to engage the community and educational institutions in coming to terms with the changes effecting the coastal landscape.

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This exhibition of at least 27 works feature nationally recognized nature photographer and painter Lew Wilson. The exhibit opens in Space 301's Art Off Centre windows on March 12, marked by a lecture at 6:15pm in Room 1927, next door to the Saenger Theatre, by Hank Burch, Manager of the 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center. Burch will discuss the State of Alabama's Forever Wild project which has been crucial in securing the purchase of hundreds of thousands of acres of land for long-term habitat protection and public recreational use.

The Series began with two North Florida rivers called the Aucilla and Apalachicola and grew to include both intimate and majestic images of the Everglades, the Hudson River Valley, Yosemite for the Wild and Scenic Merced River, the High Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and most recently the Tensaw River Delta. Water is the central theme of the Series, which is a major effort by Wilson to public mind the Call to Preserve a Good Earth.

Lew Wilson, born in Pennsylvania, spent his childhood and most of his adult life in Florida, now his home state. Proceeds from the sales of works in Two Rivers-Two Lands: An American Passage Series will benefit programs at the Centre for the Living Arts, 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center, and American Rivers. The Series will be on display through June 8, 2010.

Space 301's Art Off Centre is located at 6 S. Joachim Street next to the historic Saenger Theatre in downtown Mobile.

Organized by Jason Guynes, Professor of Art and Chairperson, Department of Visual Arts, The University of South Alabama.

Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin are internationally renowned figurative artists who also happened to be married to each other. Both Artists have received coveted Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and exhibited internationally at numerous prestigious venues. Alan Feltus’ paintings are included in important public collections such as The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and The National Academy of Art. Lani Irwin's paintings are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Both artists are inspired by themes of classical antiquity and, though originally from the United States, have lived in Italy for the past fifteen years.

The couple has two sons who have recently launched their own professional art careers often exhibiting collaborative works as Feltus/Feltus. The Feltus bothers, Tobias and Joseph typically work in photography and film putting together series of strange characters, creating “self portraits of others”, in a silent exploration of the human condition. These works are featured in the small gallery.

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