LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 2.11.26
Dean Thomas at Portland Museum
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY: Hite curatorial MA candidate Kathryn Brooks discusses their thesis exhibit at 21c, as part of Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.
FRIDAY: Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opens Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students. There will be a reception from 5 to 8 pm.
FRIDAY: The Portland Museum is opening RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas, tonight from 5 to 8 PM
FRIDAY: KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition for 2026 with a reception tonight from 5-7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
FRIDAY: In conjunction with Kentucky Opera's production of Songbird, Louisville Visual Art is exhibiting Jessica Beel's Recycled Bird Project. The production runs February 13, 15, & 17 and will also be in place for the Kentucky Opera's fundraiser, the Opera Rhapsody Gala on February 20th.
SATURDAY: WXOX: A Decade on the Dial is tonight from 6 pm - 12 am. Returning to the historic Columbia Theater to celebrate 10 Years on 97.1 FM with a night of music, art, and entertainment that no one will forget! A ticketed event to benefit WXOX/Artfm.
STILL ON VIEW
Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville.
Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opened Love Me / Love Me Not: the good, the bad, & the ugly of luv - works by William David Pollard.
Jessica Beels at Kentucky Opera
Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.
Revelry Gallery welcomes Imani Burns for her debut solo show, Nanigi, and is also featuring Tiny Art, Big Heart: the Fifth Annual Valentine’s Show.
Kore Gallery opened 2 exhibits: Geoff Crowe’s Steeped in Ash, and George McCracken’s By George.
Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.
A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.
For February, garner narrative has opened a group show of gallery artists, including Stephen Dorsett, Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone, & Mary Yates.
Second Skin, a solo exhibition by Kelsi Haberman, is open in the LVA 2nd-floor Project Space.
Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.
Pyro Gallery opened Homegrown Stories, New Work by Terry Spangler Dunham, Sherrie Dunham, and Charlotte Pollock. Listen to an interview with Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock on Artists Talk with LVA.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany opened Oversharing, an exhibit by artist Jes Allen.
Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition opened @ Artportal.
KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.
Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Form in Flux, with works by Chad Balster & Dena Williams.
Landscapes and Backdrops: paintings by Katrina Johansen, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery.
21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.
Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.
Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.
The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, tonight at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.
Black Girls, Butterflies, & the Magic of Dreams opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
Tori Christensen’s The Colors of Darkness, A Touchable Art Show, opened at The Little Loomhouse. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
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.
garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.
KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.
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.
LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.
ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.
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.
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.
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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