LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 10.29.25
Billy Hertz at Moremen Gallery
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WHAT’S NEW
Full Calendar of 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial Events.
THURSDAY: Tom Pfannerstill, Susan Gorsen, & Marti Kuehn discuss the upcoming Artists’ Breakfast group exhibit at LVA on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
SATURDAY: Moremen Gallery opens "New Work" by Billy Hertz, with a reception tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
SATURDAY: Tonight from 6 - 8 pm, Snide Hotel presents SANCTUARIA, an immersive art installation for communal daydreaming presented by Alivia Blade, El Bruner, Lindsey Cummins, and Sirene Martin.
SATURDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opens its Annual Holiday Exhibit today.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY: The Louisville Artisan’s Guild’s Fine Art Fall Showcase is at Mellwood Artr Center today from 10 am - 5 pm, and tomorrow from 11 am - 4 pm.
SUNDAY: Pyro Gallery opens, Visions in Nature, New Work by Pamela Couch, Jenny Shircliff, with guests - Gean & Bill Bowen, Lisa Schooling. There will be an opening reception today from 1 to 3 pm.
STILL ON VIEW
The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange opened its final exhibit, One More Round. The exhibit features the work of Janna Wardle, Theresa Carpenter Beames, Uhma Janus, Clare Hirn, Gary Carpenter, Jessica Beels, Lizzie Gulick, Becky Hunger, Kris Thompson, Ada Asenjo, Catherine Rubin, Jes Allen, Jada Lynn Dixon, & Elizabeth Windisch
Preston Arts Center opened Fall Night: Creatures of the Night.
Jenny Shircliff at Pyro Gallery
Outerworlds — a major new traveling exhibition of the acclaimed Louisville-based, Iraq-born contemporary artist Vian Sora, opens today at the Speed Art Museum.
WheelHouse Art opened, Entanglement, a solo exhibition by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs.
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.
Marcia Holloway Ross’ Process and Pieces Continued is on view at Lowber Gallery.
Mary Yates: The Drowning Moon is showing at garner LARGE.
Kore Gallery opened two new exhibits: LaLana Fedorschak’s Chaser, and Four Paths to Printmaking, with Deborah Stratford, Philip High, Debbie Shannon, & Cynthia Molinari.
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.
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.
Open now in the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries: Veniceness 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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
The SuperNatural 2.0 is on exhibit at 21c Museum through January 4, 2026.
The Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Observations: The Art of Robert Halliday.
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.
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.
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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