LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 10.08.25
Liz Richter & Kristen Falkirk: The Clifton Multi-sensory Art Project
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WHAT’S NEW
Full Calendar of 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial Events.
THURSDAY: Amelia Acosta Powell & Emily Tarquin are now in charge at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and they will discuss the leadership change on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
FRIDAY: Louisville Visual Art invites the public to the unveiling of the Clifton Multi-sensory Art Installation, a public, tactile art piece at Clifton Court
1810 Frankfort Avenue. 10 am and RSVP here:
FRIDAY: Outerworlds — a major new traveling exhibition of the acclaimed Louisville-based, Iraq-born contemporary artist Vian Sora, opens today at the Speed Art Museum.
FRIDAY: WheelHouse Art opens, Entanglement, a solo exhibition by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, with a reception for the artist tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, followed by a conversation with the artist at 7:00 pm.
FRIDAY: How the Light Gets In, Selections by Anne Borders and Brenda Wirth opens tonight from 5:30-7:30 pm at Capacity Contemporary Exchange.
FRIDAY: 3rd Annual Creative Arts Alumni Exhibition: FREESTYLE, A Dual Gallery Traveling Exhibition, is at Prophecy Ink Tattoo and Fine Art Gallery through October 31, before it moves to Spalding University’s Huff Gallery.
FRIDAY: Marcia Holloway Ross’ Process and Pieces Continued is on view at Lowber Gallery. There will be an artist’s reception tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.
SATURDAY: Zed Saeed will be giving a gallery talk for Eastern KY: Portraits and Places, Photographs, at The LVA Gallery today at 12 Noon.
SATURDAY: Mary Yates: The Drowning Moon opens for viewing today at garner LARGE. There will be a reception with the artist today from 3-6 pm.
SATURDAY: Kenyatta Bosman opens their first solo exhibition, The Alchemy of Self, tonight from 4 - 6 pm at Our Place at Ben Washer Park, 533 W. Kentucky Street.
SATURDAY: Woven Narratives opened in the Lou Tate Gallery at The Little Loomhouse. The closing reception is tonight, October 11th. The exhibit explores weaving as both craft and a powerful symbol of identity, memory, and connection. Listen to an interview with curator Norma Drish on Artist Talk with LVA,
SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens two new exhibits: LaLana Fedorschak’s Chaser, and Four Paths to Printmaking, with Deborah Stratford, Philip High, Debbie Shannon, & Cynthia Molinari, with a reception tonight from 6 - 8:30 pm.
Lalana Fedorschak at Kore Gallery
SATURDAY: The Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Artists (LAFTA) is hosting a Yart Sale at St. Mark's Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave. Doors open at noon and close at 4 pm.
SATURDAY: Cedar Lake Lodge hosts the inaugural event of the Stroll - All Abilities Walk, featuring a participatory public art project, from 10 am to 2 pm at Cedar Lake Lodge in La Grange, KY.
SATURDAY: Bob Hower & Dean Lavenson will be giving a Gallery Talk today in connection with Fifteen in Focus: Photography at Pyro Gallery.
SUNDAY: The Adele and Leonard Leight Series: Art, Design, and Innovation presents a lecture by Garth Johnson today at 2 pm, in the Grand Hall. FREE, but you need to REGISTER.
STILL ON VIEW
Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opened, "The Veil, A Paranormal Group Art Show..
Solostagia, featuring the work of Irene Mudd, Jessie White, & Amber Estes Theinemann, is open at ArtPortal.
Pyro Gallery opens Fifteen in Focus: Photography at Pyro, featuring the work of 15 area shutterbugs.
Amber Thieneman, Gretchen Leachman, Jacob Grant, Justin Trevor Inkwell, Patrick Jilbert, and Tommy Wortham Rallis are all featured in A Haunting in Kentucky, at Revelry Gallery.
Carlos Gamez de Francisco opened a solo exhibition, A Laugh Hard to Forget, at Worldwide Showcase Gallery.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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