LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.15.26
Lynn Dunbar at St. Matthews Gallery
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY: Art Orr & Martin Rollins discuss The LSA Reunion Show opening at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery on April 19th. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.
THURSDAY: St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opens Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators, with a reception tonight from 5 - 8 pm.
THURSDAY: There is an opening reception for Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path tonight from 5-7 pm, in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.
THURSDAY: Schneider Hall Galleries, the Hite Institute of Art + Design opens Spring 2026 BFA Thesis Exhibition, presenting the work of 13 students graduating with a degree in Fine Arts. There will be a reception tonight from 5 - 7 pm.
FRIDAY: The Paul Paletti Gallery opens Face It: A Portrait Show with a reception tonight from 5 - 7 pm. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.
FRIDAY: Celebrating the Black Experience opens tonight at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage with a reception from 6 - 9 pm.
FRIDAY: The Hite Institute MFA Gallery hosts the opening of Drew Scanlon's thesis exhibition tender fantasies. On view April 13-24, a reception will be held tonight from 6-9 pm.
FRIDAY: Sojourn Arts hosts a music experience and artist talk with Marianne Lettieri about her exhibit Wilderness Waiting, tonight at 7 PM. Doors open 7 -9 PM with the talk and music beginning at 7:30 PM.
Maria Gonzalez/Atherton H.S. at LVA GAllery
SATURDAY/ LVA EVENT: In the LVA Gallery,there will be a closing reception today at 2 pm for the JCPS All-City Student Art Show.
SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens Tyler Robertson, The Weight of Glory, with a reception tonight from 6 - 8:30 pm.
SUNDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opens The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art, with a reception today from 1 - 4 pm. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.
STILL ON VIEW
Ann Dawkins presents A Soft Landing, a pop-up exhibition of pastry paintings at MaybeItsFate Social, on view April 10–19, 2026. 20% of all sales will be donated to Feed Louisville, supporting efforts to address food insecurity within the local community.
Moremen Gallery hosts "Natural Formations", sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.
ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.
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?
garner narrative LARGE presents Abyssal, the first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego.
Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, &.Chasson Higdon has new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery.
Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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