LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 5.21.25
Scott Scarboro at The Floyd County Cultural Arts Center
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THURSDAY: Curator Vincent Young and artists Drew Scanlon and Lalana Fedorschak discuss the exhibit Queer Convergence: Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Art on Artists Talk with LVA, LIVE on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
THURSDAY: The Floyd County Cultural Arts Center will host an opening reception for Retro-Active Vision: Works by Scott Scarboro tonight from 5 to 7 p.m.
FRIDAY: Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, directed by Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin, opens at Speed Cinema tonight at 6 pm.
FRIDAY: Hite Institute’s Summer MFA Graduates Exhibition has an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Cressman Center for Visual Art.
SATURDAY: Pathways to Presence's ribbon cutting and grand opening is today from 5-8 PM. An installation of 3 permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir at the Earth and Spirit Center and curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA.
Sunday: Louisville Artist Donyalle “Donnie J” Jackson celebrates the culmination of her residency at The Presley Post with a solo show, Gathered: Connection, Memory, and the Joy that Binds Us. Opening reception is today from 4–6 PM
U of L’s Hite Art Institite exhibits Queer Convergence: Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Art at the Schneider Hall Galleries.
Kentucky College of Art + Design opened an exhibition of art by current BFA candidates, Rebekah Calhoun, Josie Seymour, & Abi Womack.
Rebekah Calhoun at The 849 Gallery
Tautology, work completed by students enrolled in the Fall 2024-Spring 2025 Intro to Fibers and Mixed Media courses, is at the Hite Art Institute MFA Gallery in Portland.
The inaugural exhibit of La Galería at FOKO will be Joy as Resistance..
garner narrative is exhibiting Shawn Marshall’s stills.
The Quonset Hut is exhibiting From Beneath and Far Below: New Paintings by Sara Olshansky.
Payton Thomas: Racing Spirits: Horses, Bourbon, and Tradition, & Greta Mattingly: An Impressionable Age, are two exhibits open now at Kore Gallery.
Accumulated, Mixed Media Work by Marcia Holloway Ross is at Capacity Contemporary Exchange.
Revelry Gallery welcomes Lindsey Taylor back for a solo show, Bad Reputation.
Black Swan Unfolding, works by Patricia Olynyk in collaboration with Adma Hogan, Hollow Pressure, works by Shohei Katayama, & Absurd Entanglements, works by Steve Gavenas & Richard Sullivan are open through June 28 at Maybe It’s Fate.
Bad Desoto’s Last Picture Show: Artwork by Tad DeSanto is at Pyro Gallery
Gallery 104 is showing Trains, a competitive art show in all mediums featuring trains, particularly their importance in La Grange and Oldham County..
Converging Paths: A Dual Ceramic Exhibition by Grace McGuire and Emma Staggs is open at the Artpunk Gallery at Grady Goods.
Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany opened Sharon Weis: Both Sides Now, and John Andrew Dixon: Litter-ally Kentucky.
Also in New Albany, Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery opens the exhibit Imagine: Believing Is Seeing by 15 local artists from both sides of the river.
Licia Priest's exhibition, I Am We, Crafting Community in Paper Tole, is now open at KMAC Museum.
The Frazier History Museum and the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project opened Documenting Kentucky: Three Photographic Surveys.
WheelHouse Art opened Tapestries & Talismans, a solo exhibition by Emily Church.
Moremen Gallery announces the simultaneous opening of two distinct and powerful exhibitions: Phantom Frontiers by Colin Doherty and In-Fame by Andy Llanes Bultó.
Spring Forward: Group Show, featuring over 20+ local and regional artists, opens at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery.
Galerie Hertz opened a new exhibition, Two Approaches to Portraiture, featuring new work by Levi Justice & Christopher St. John.
Indiana University Southeast senior artists Jessica Hartman, Hailey Pereyra, Rachel Rhodes, and Meghan Sanjay opened their senior thesis show, Fragments, at the IUS Barr Gallery.
Roy Ruiz Clayton: Surveillance opened at Outsider Art Museum & Gallery.
Silks! A celebration of the Kentucky Derby opened at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.
The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage opened Celebrating the Black Experience.
Don't Tell Me You Care, celebrates 50 years of Louisville music culture through flyers, posters, and photos. It is now open at PORTAL + ARTPORTAL.
Angie Reed Garner: recall (200-2024) is a retrospective from the noted Louisville artist now open at Garner LARGE.
The Work of Aaron Lubrick is at Metro Arts Community Center.
The Hite Institute of Art + Design exhibits Vitrification in the Post-Cataclysmic Era John Clay: MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Wood F. Axton Gallery, located on the first floor of Enlightenment Technologies, Inc. Their Louisville branch offices are at 1616 Rowan St. in the historic Portland neighborhood.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery opened House Made Of Sunshine, by artist Beatrice Guarneschelle-Holt.
The St. Matthews Studios & Gallery hosts their Spring Art exhibit. Participating artists are Gayle Cerlan, Teri Dryden, Lynn Dunbar, Jeanne Freibert, Julie Hohmann, Mary Dennis Kannapell, Page Penna, and Gretchen Treitz.
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939 is now open at The Speed Museum.
The Hite Institute of Art + Design is showing Mark Peiser: The Work Behind the Work at the Cressmann Center for Visual Art.
Houseguest Gallery is exhibiting John Brooks’ I Read Somewhere that Mountains Anchor the Land.
Art in City Hall Prospect opened Winter Into Spring, which features glass, sculpture, and paintings by 15 accomplished artists.
Dean Thomas has opened a gallery at 635 West Main Street.
KMAC opened Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend, A Celebration of Indigenous Art and Cultural Heritage, curated by Simon Watson.
Louisville Artists George Taylor Jr. and Karen Wyssbrod present a two-person art exhibit: Fired and Brushed: Nature-Inspired Paintings and Ceramics, in the Jean Krantz Gallery at JCTC.
21c Louisville is unveiling The SuperNatural 2.0 a thematic group exhibition of 90 multi-media artworks by 43 artists from across the globe featuring Albano Afonso, Edward Burtynsky, Nancy Baker Cahill, Elena Dorfman, Chris Doyle, Lars Jan, Richard Mosse, Patricia Piccinini, Jakob Kudsk Steensen and including Louisville-based artists Mary Carothers, Mitch Eckert, and Monica Stewart. Reception February 27.
Paul Paletti Gallery opened Double the Pleasure: Two Collectors, One Show.
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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