ABOUT HOMEGROWN PRESS
John Lackey is a painter, printmaker, writer and designer whose studio, Homegrown Press, recently moved from Galerie Soleil to its new home gallery in a beautifully renovated bakery building at 574 North Limestone in Lexington, Kentucky.
Through his art he has been fortunate enough to work with Wilco (the Band), Larkspur Press, LexArts, the Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky State Parks, Holler Poets Series, University Press of Kentucky, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Garden Gate Records, Fillmore Auditoreum Denver, Terrapin Hill Farm, Alfalfa Restaurant, Clyde's Restaurant Group, and many of Kentucky's fine authors and musicians.
A former television station art director, John is a juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen.
Homegrown Press started in 1987 as a traveling art business, selling John's designs screen printed on T-shirts and stickers, often printed in campgrounds and parking lots while on the fly, and was at first only sketches done while hitchhiking. With its move into the 1880 building in July of 2010 at the corner of 6th Street and N Limestone, Homegrown has found a home. Please schedule a visit soon.
For more info, movies of John making art, newspaper articles, etc, please join Homegrown's Facebook page.
HOMEGROWN PRESS STUDIO & GALLERY
Homegrown Press Studio & Gallery is just that: a studio AND a gallery, sometimes showing new work by owner John Lackey, and other times showing work by other artists, such as the recent Shine On: A Galerie Soleil Reunion exhibit. Building owner Chad Needham replaced the gallery floor with pine and cherry planks he milled himself from trees that went down in the ice storm, and has done a beautiful job with every aspect of renovation of this beautiful former grocery, bakery, and saloon, built in 1880.
Photo from Shine On: A Galerie Soleil Reunion, Nov, '11
Printmaking demo.
Printing a block print.
Painting.
Chris Sullivan of the Swells and Jonny Keys rehearse before the grand opening.
Exhibit of John Lackey's block prints
