LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.08.26
Jeaneen Barnhart at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY: Jae Grady, Alexandra Rumsay, & Bearykah Shah, join us in the studio to discuss the Doomscroll exhibition at Grady Goods. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.
FRIDAY: From 2 - 3 today, The Hite Institute hosts a Panel Discussion for MISSING, featuring Rich Colicchio, Judy Glantzman, and Anita Vitale. Moderated by Chris Reitz and Jennifer Sichel.
FRIDAY: Ann Dawkins presents A Soft Landing, a pop-up exhibition of pastry paintings at MaybeItsFate Social, on view April 10–19, 2026. The opening reception will be tonight from 5–8 PM. 20% of all sales will be donated to Feed Louisville, supporting efforts to address food insecurity within the local community.
FRIDAY: Moremen Gallery hosts the opening reception for "Natural Formations", sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone. Tonight from 5:30–8:00 PM.
FRIDAY: Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opens Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster. There will be a reception tonight from 5 to 7 pm.
FRIDAY: LVA presents an exhibit of work by uhma janus at Kentucky Opera in conjunction with their production of Scalia/Ginsburg, opening tonight and running through April 17.
FRIDAY: ZG|StudioWorkZ opens the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists. The Studio remix will be tonight from 6 - 9 pm.
FRIDAY: vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?
SATURDAY: garner narrative contemporary presentsAbyssal, the first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego. The artist’s reception will be tonight from 6 - 8 pm.
Ann Dawkins at MaybeItsFate
SUNDAY: Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, &.Chasson Higdon has new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery. The opening reception will be on April 12th.
SUNDAY: Hannah DeWitt unveils Art for Arthur Street today at 2 pm. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.
SUNDAY: There will be a closing reception today for Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" at The Quonset Hut, from 6 -8 pm.
STILL ON VIEW
The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.
Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations. The exhibit is open, but the artist's reception will be on April 24th.
Doomscroll: A Group Art Show About Resistance, Grief & Resilience, opened at Grady Goods +Artpunk Gallery..
Revelry Gallery announces the return of their annual group Derby exhibit: Win, Place, Art Show, featuring Chad McConnell, Ewa Perz, Geran Thur, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Katherine Eldridge, Kevin Oeschli, Patrick Jilbert, Shae Goodlett, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tommy Rallis, Travis Strange, & Wylie Caudill.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray.
Kore Gallery opened THE OTHER SIDE, a show by female artists, featuring Tomisha Allen, Tonnea Green, Dessie Spears, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Sonja Brooks, Jabani Bennett, Kristie Berry, Jes Allen, Sabra Crockett, Nahla Muhamnad, Sheila Johnson, Elmer Lucille Allen, Clare Hirn, Cynthia Woolever, & Taylor Sanders.
Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade.
Stephanie Laporte Ferrer’s The Ghosts That Receive My Last Sigh MFA Thesisexhibition runs March 25-April 3, at the Hite Institute’s MFA Galleries in the Portland neighborhood.
KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.
The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.
2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.
Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media.
Moremen Gallery presents selected works from Tim Harrier's An Emotional Journey.
Philip Campbell: Comfort is open at garner LARGE.
Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.
Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.
Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.
The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.
Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, is open at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.
Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.
Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened 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.
Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.
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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