LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 12.18.25
Jeanne Friebert at St. Matthews Gallery
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY: Artist Vian Sora joins us in the studio to talk about her exhibit at The Speed Museum on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.
St Matthews Gallery, 3716 Lexington Road, Louisville KY is showcasing new small artworks perfect for gifts!
garner narrative is exhibiting, Good Looking, the annual exhibit of gallery artists, looking back on 2025 and anticipating the new year. Artists include Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Shawn Marshall, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone.
STILL ON VIEW
The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.
Revelry Gallery opened a group show, Tattered: Tattooers Doing Art.
Wheelhouse Art opened History of Flower Arrangements, a solo exhibition by Carlos Gamez de Francisco.
Good Looking at garner narrative
Lowber Gallery opened a show of new work by Tamara Scantland.
Tantrum Control: New Paintings by Nina Kersey opened at Surface Noise.
Kore Gallery opens Jacque Parsley’s Visual Play and Suzanne Evans’ Boundless..
Maybe It’s Fate presents Echoes from Lebanon, a multimedia installation that explores memory, displacement, and the unseen aftermath of conflict. Created by filmmaker Evan Mascagni, who is of Lebanese descent, the piece uses photography and video to confront the dehumanization of war and its devastating toll on the most vulnerable.
Wheelhouse Art is exhibiting Cincinnati artist Pam Folsom at the Wine Room.
Pyro Gallery opened OFF the Wall - Artworks by Gallery Members and Holiday Boutique Gifts - Buy it...Take it Home!
Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville opened the 2025 Fall BFA Thesis Exhibition at the Schneider Hall Galleries.
garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.
KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.
The Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened, And Then The Wheels Fell Off, a showcase of new work by Scott T. Anderson.
Kleinhelter Gallery's Annual Small Works Invitational is now open. The exhibit features work from 29 Artists including Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, Fiber, Metal, and more.
Logan Street Gallery opened Apropos Photography: Works from the Brooks Smith Collection, featuring works by Kiah Celeste, Chagas Edson, Georges Rousse, Zed Saeed, San Samore, and Berndnaut Smilde, among others.
Chestnuts & Pearls presents HollaDaz, their annual art clearance sale/ Christmas Open House every Week, Thursday noon-4 pm, Friday 1-4:30 pm, Saturdays 10-3:30 pm, Sundays 12:30-3:30 pm
LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum..
3rd Annual Creative Arts Alumni Exhibition: FREESTYLE, A Dual Gallery Traveling Exhibition, is open at Spalding University’s Huff Gallery..
Mellwood Art Center hosts Flowing Through, an exhibition of recent work by artist and art therapist Jennifer Kramer.
ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum. Featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.
Feral Twilight - Art Show by Shawn Eilermann Farrell & Joseph Mays, is at Grady Goods & ArtPunk Gallery
AB 30, an exhibit celebrating 30 years of the Artists’ Breakfast Group, opened at the LVA Gallery.
Moremen Gallery opened "New Work" by Billy Hertz.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened its Annual Holiday Exhibit.
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.
Outerworlds — a major new traveling exhibition of the acclaimed Louisville-based, Iraq-born contemporary artist Vian Sora, opened at the Speed Art Museum.
Solostagia, featuring the work of Irene Mudd, Jessie White, & Amber Estes Theinemann, is open at ArtPortal.
Art in City Hall Prospect opened the Natural Elements exhibition. This show features 21 artists working in fiber, clay, paint, and mixed media.
Journeys in the African Diaspora: A Photographic Retrospective 1979-2024 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.
Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.
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.
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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