LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 11.5.25
Barbara Pence at The LVA Gallery
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WHAT’S NEW
Full Calendar of 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial Events.
WEDNESDAY: Bob Lockhart is having a pop-up show at Edenside Gallery through November 9.
THURSDAY: Erin McGee Ferrell, Kacey Slone, Alana Fitzgerald, & Jen Deleuw will be discussing the upcoming Open Studio Weekend on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
THURSDAY: A Preview of the 2025 Open Studio Weekend takes place tonight at ArtPortal. It consists of a Q&A with six OSW artists: Rita Cameron, Robyn Gibson, Samantha Griffith, JW May, Dru Pilmer, & Richard Sullivan. Cash bar will be open and snacks will be provided.
THURSDAY: LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change
opens today at The Speed Museum.
FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery welcomes Needa Hameed for her debut gallery show, Shared Space. There will be an opening reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm.
FRIDAY: 3rd Annual Creative Arts Alumni Exhibition: FREESTYLE, A Dual Gallery Traveling Exhibition, moves to Spalding University’s Huff Gallery..
FRIDAY: Mellwood Art Center hosts an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm tonight for Flowing Through, an exhibition of recent work by artist and art therapist Jennifer Kramer.
FRIDAY: ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum. Featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple mediums, arranged in chromatic sequence. There will be a reception tonight from 5 - 8 pm.
Shawn Eilermann Farrell & Joseph Mays at Grady Goods
FRIDAY: Feral Twilight - Art Show by Shawn Eilermann Farrell & Joseph Mays,
opens with a reception tonight from 6-8 pm at Grady Goods & ArtPunk Gallery
SATURDAY: AB 30, an exhibit celebrating 30 years of the Artists’ Breakfast Group, opens today from 10 am - 12 pm in the LVA Gallery.
SATURDAY: Melanated Messages: Contemporary Black Art in Louisville at The Outsider Art Museum & Gallery, closes today with a reception from 12pm-3pm
SATURDAY: Hite Institute of Art + Design hosts a panel discussion at the Cressman Center in conjunction with their exhibition Lost in the (re)Process. Today from 2-4 pm. Panelists include: Ken Clay, Michael Jones, Cassidy Meurer + Shachaf Polakow
SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens 2 new exhibits tonight from 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Axis Mundi by Mike Ratterman and Raymond Graf, and To Myself, Ten Years Ago by Cletus Wilcox.
STILL ON VIEW
Moremen Gallery opened "New Work" by Billy Hertz.
Snide Hotel presents SANCTUARIA, an immersive art installation for communal daydreaming presented by Alivia Blade, El Bruner, Lindsey Cummins, and Sirene Martin.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened its Annual Holiday Exhibit today.
Pyro Gallery opened, Visions in Nature, New Work by Pamela Couch, Jenny Shircliff, with guests - Gean & Bill Bowen, Lisa Schooling.
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.
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.
Marcia Holloway Ross’ Process and Pieces Continued is on view at Lowber Gallery.
Mary Yates: The Drowning Moon is showing at garner LARGE.
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.
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.
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.
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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