LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 7.23.25
Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project at Frazier History Museum
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY: Eileen Yanoviak will discuss her new book, The Tenacious Nurse Nichols, on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
FRIDAY: The 15th annual Flyover Film Festival lands in Louisville this July! Presented by the Louisville Film Society in partnership with Speed Cinema, this year’s lineup will feature a vibrant mix of indie gems, insightful documentaries, and captivating short films. Plus, you’ll get to hear from some of the filmmakers themselves during the post-screening Q&As and celebrate our incredible film family with parties at different venues around town.
SUNDAY: Cédric Ballarati and Tom Coash are facilitating a 2nd Art Book Sale at Kore Gallery today from 12 - 4 pm.
SUNDAY: Ted Wathen and Bob Hower will be giving an artists' talk at the exhibit: Documenting Kentucky: Three Photographic Surveys, inside the Frazier History Museum today at 5:30 pm.
The Frazier has special discounted admission rates of $5.00 on the last Sunday of each month this summer, starting at 5:00 pm.
STILL ON VIEW
Moremen Gallery has opened Paintings by Jared Small.
Capacity Contemporary opened Kairos/Chronos, Experience in Fiber. The work of Debra Harley.
Outsider Art Museum hosts Untold Vision: The Artists of Zoom Group’s StudioWorkZ.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, IN, opened What’s Happening, with works by 18 local artists from both sides of the river.
Debra Harley at Capacity Contemporary Exchange
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.
Artistas Cubanos Chévere is at the LVA Gallery. Artists include Andy Llanes Bultó, Julio Cesar, Carlos Gamex De Francisco, Hiram Hdez, Humberto Lahera, Carlos Mena, Roberto C. Piloto Morciego, José Nápoles Puerto, & Pedro Roque Urra, Listen to an interview with Julio Cesar & Carlos Gamez De Francisco on Artists Talk with LVA.
Maybe Its Fate is exhibiting a Summer Member’s Show through August 23.
Revelry Boutique Gallery brings back their annual group show, ALT, for the 6th year! This show is an exhibition that requires artists to create work made out of alternative, unconventional materials.
Pyro Gallery opened an exhibit celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Artists (LAFTA).
Logan Street Gallery, at 1131 Logan Street, opened 3 exhibits: We Are Having The Time Of Our Lives - Works from the Brooks Smith Collection, Static Vibrations - Letitia Quesenberry and Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Accrochage - Works from the Brooks Smith Collection.
The Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Observations: The Art of Robert Halliday.
Kore Gallery has opened 3 shows for July: Etchings on Handmade Paper by Rachel Singel, Mixed Media Works by Gary Carpenter, and Pigments of My Imagination by Penny Hundley.
Side By Side Art Show, hosted by Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery in collaboration with Arts for All Kentucky and Dreams With Wings.
The Quonset Hut opened Phospheres, by Letitia Quesenberry.
Wheelhouse Art opened Bread & Butter, a solo exhibition by Loren Myhre.
St. Matthews Studios & Gallery's Summer Art Exhibit features new work from Teresa Carpenter Beames.
Sandra Charles and Elmer Lucille Allen opened their exhibit, "Echoes of the Ages," at the Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery. Listen to an interview with both artists on Artists Talk with LVA.
Louisville's Black Avant-Garde: G.C. Coxe is now open at The Speed Museum
The Paul Palettie Gallery is exhibiting “Good Photographs” after the Ansel Adams quote, “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” The exhibit includes works by William Clift, Kirk Gittings, Bill Schwab, Steve Sherman, Michael Kenna, Tom Potter, Joel Myerowitz, Mark Citret, and Todd Webb
The 2025 KMAC Triennial, where the rivers run muddy and the mountains are bare, is now open.
The Floyd County Cultural Arts Center is showing Retro-Active Vision: Works by Scott Scarboro.
Hite Institute’s Summer MFA Graduates Exhibition is at the Cressman Center for Visual Art.
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.
U of L’s Hite Art Institite exhibits Queer Convergence: Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Art at the Schneider Hall Galleries. Listen to an interview with curator Vincent Young and artists Drew Scanlon & Lalana Fedorschak on Artists Talk with LVA.
The Kentucky College of Art + Design opened an exhibition of art by current BFA candidates Rebekah Calhoun, Josie Seymour, and Abi Womack.
The inaugural exhibit of La Galería at FOKO will be Joy as Resistance..
garner narrative is exhibiting Shawn Marshall’s stills.
Gallery 104 is showing Watercolor, a competitive art show in the watercolor medium of all subjects.
Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany opened Sharon Weis: Both Sides Now, and John Andrew Dixon: Litter-ally Kentucky.
Licia Priest's exhibition, I Am We, Crafting Community in Paper Tole, is now open at KMAC Museum. Listen to an interview with Licia on Artists Talk with LVA.
The Frazier History Museum and the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project opened Documenting Kentucky: Three Photographic Surveys.
Galerie Hertz opened a new exhibition, Two Approaches to Portraiture, featuring new work by Levi Justice & Christopher St. John.
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.
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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