LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 10.01.25
Carlos Gamez De Francisco at WorldWide Showcase Gallery
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WHAT’S NEW
Full Calendar of 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial Events.
WEDNESDAY: Marcia Holloway Ross’ Process and Pieces Continued is on view at Lowber Gallery. There will be an artist’s reception on October 10.
THURSDAY: Norma Drish will discuss the Woven Narrative Exhibition that she curated for The Little Loomhouse on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
FRIDAY: Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opens, "The Veil,, A Paranormal Group Art Show, with a reception tonight from 6-10 pm.
FRIDAY: Mary Yates: The Drowning Moon opens for viewing today at garner LARGE. There will be a reception with the artist on Saturday, October 11, 3-6 pm
FRIDAY: Solostagia, featuring the work of Irene Mudd, Jessie White, & Amber Estes Theinemann, opens tonight at ArtPortal with a reception from 6 - 9 pm.
FRIDAY: Pyro Gallery opens Fifteen in Focus: Photography at Pyro, featuring the work of 15 area shutterbugs. There will be a reception tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.
FRIDAY: Amber Thieneman, Gretchen Leachman, Jacob Grant, Justin Trevor Inkwell, Patrick Jilbert, and Tommy Wortham Rallis are all featured in A Haunting in Kentucky, opening tonight with a reception from 6-9 pm at Revelry Gallery.
FRIDAY: Carlos Gamez de Francisco opens a solo exhibition, A Laugh Hard to Forget, tonight from 5–8 PM at Worldwide Showcase Gallery.
FRIDAY through SUNDAY: The St. James Court Art Fair is this weekend.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: It’s time for the 2nd Annual Artists & Afros. Happening at The Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center from 12 - 6 pm both days. Louisville Visual Art will be present with local Black artists.
SATURDAY: Marcelle Gianelloni will be giving a Gallery Talk today in connection with Fifteen in Focus: Photography at Pyro Gallery.
Sandra Charles at Artists & Afros
STILL ON VIEW
Two new exhibitions are open in the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries tonight: Veniceness and Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention, and. Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention featuring the work of Priscilla Briggs, Victoria Crayhon, and Sue Wrbican. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Moremen Gallery opened Coash & Jones: Collaborative Photographs, a collaboration betweenJulia Coash and Phillip Jones, Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Whitney Bradshaw’s OUTCRY comes to 21c Hotel Louisville .A social practice project in which she leads women in empowering, therapeutic, and community-building “scream sessions,” photographing participants mid-scream to create a collective portrait of resistance, motivate political action, and build feminist solidarity through radical empathy.
The Colony is a solo exhibition from Connor Stephemson taking place in ‘The Cave’ at 1318 Lexington Road. This exhibition will feature large-scale works inside the cobblestone space.
Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany opened Joe Wolek: Leftover Gravy. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery in New Albany opened the Louisville Photo Biennial: People, Places, Things, featuring the work of 10 local photographers. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Art in City Hall Prospect opened the Natural Elements exhibition. This show features 21 artists working in fiber, clay, paint, and mixed media.
Ekstrom Library has opened Life's Rich Pageant: Photographs by Pat McDonogh, in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
Wheelhouse Art is showing artwork by John Paul Kesling at The Wine Room.
Louisville Visual Art opened Eastern KY: Portraits and Places, Photographs by Zed Saeed, Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial. Listen to an interview with this artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
Melanated Messages: Contemporary Black Art in Louisville opened at The Outsider Art Museum.
Woven Narratives opened in the Lou Tate Gallery at The Little Loomhouse. The closing reception is Saturday, October 11th. The exhibit explores weaving as both craft and a powerful symbol of identity, memory, and connection.
KMAC Museum opened Material Obsessions: Reimagining Home. The exhibit features the work of 22 local artists.
St. Matthews Studios and Gallery opened their new exhibit, Autumn Exhibition. It celebrates the shedding of layers, introspection, and a sense of nostalgia.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery opened Hannah Johnston’s Echoes of Heirlooms: Honorinhg Keepsakes.
Threading His Grandmother’s Needles: Hand-Stitched Stories by Sunshine Joe Mallard, opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
Cedric Ballaratti opened Everything has an end, apart from the banana, which has two, at Darby Forever Gallery @Surface Noise.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located in New Albany, IN, is showing Fantasical: Folklore & Myth, featuring works by 15 Kentuckiana artists.
Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened today at The Frazier Museum.
The Ripley Willow Pucetti: Memorial Exhibition can be viewed now at The Huff Gallery at Spalding University. Huff Gallery is located in the Spalding Library. A closing reception will be held on October 17.
Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery opened Casey Dressell: From the Center Everywhere.
David: A Show About Mortality by Bill Pusztai is available for viewing at garner narrative contempory. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Galerie Hertz opened a solo exhibit of photography by Richard Bram. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial. Listen to an interview with this artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
KORE Gallery opened New Interpretations, an exhibit featuring the work of 66 artists.
Maybe It’s Fate has opened four shows. Preservation, with works by Mark Dorf, Unspecified Virtue, with works by Reuben Merringer, Pieces, works by Amanda Stoddard, and Re/construct, with works by John Day. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
The Quonset Hut opened, Rosalie Rosenthal Easy Listening. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Doing Americana: Photography, Mythology, and the American Dream is showing at the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries, August 28-October 31. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial.
KMAC Museum opened The 2025 South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellows in Visual Arts Exhibition and Unrest, a solo show by Louisville native, New York-based photographer Urban Wyatt. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial.
WheelHouse Art opened, I See No Leaders, a solo exhibition by Sabra Crockett.
The Adele and Leonard Leight Glass Art Award – Artist Talk Speaker and Awardee: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is exhibiting at The Speed Museum.
"Retro-Active-Vision" the solo exhibition of works by multimedia artist Scott Scarboro, which features a chronological collection of his interactive sculptures, hybrid toys, sound art, and "hand-glitched" video art spanning his 35-year career. Hosted by the Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center and runs through October 18, 2025.
The SuperNatural 2.0 is on exhibit at 21c Museum through January 4, 2026.
Cressman Center for Visual Arts hosts Robert Graham Carter: The Art of Reflection.
Mellwood Art Center is showing For the Sake of Art! by Rick Moore.
Jill Baker displays large and small abstract monotypes in an exhibit, curated by Kat Wang, of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana. It is located in the foyer of the City Hall, located at 500 Quartermaster Court, Jeffersonville, IN.
What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.
The Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Observations: The Art of Robert Halliday.
Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.
Angie Reed Garner: recall (200-2024) is a retrospective from the noted Louisville artist now open at Garner LARGE.
Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.
Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.
Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.
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