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Art created by a Kentucky State University alumnus is now on display in Frankfort  until March 18. 

Ayé Aton, a painter born in Woodford County, attended Kentucky State University before moving to New York City and finally Chicago. In Chicago, Aton became a protege of and later a collaborator with Sun Ra, one of the founders of Afro-Futurism. 

Under Sun Ra’s influence, Aton established himself as an Afro-Futurist muralist, decorating the walls of countless black homes and public buildings in Chicago during the 1960s and early 1970s in a vividly abstract style, wedding outer space-themed cosmic imagery with Egyptian motifs.

The exhibit, titled “Ayé Aton: Spirit in Abstraction”, is located in the Jane Chancellor Moore Gallery, inside Express Credit Union at 100 Moore Drive in Frankfort. 

The gallery is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.; Friday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. 

Click here for more information about the exhibit. Click here to view Aton’s website.