LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 7.9.25
Hiram Hdez at Louisville Visual Art
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY: Licia Priest is the recipient of the 2025 Bill Fischer Award for Visual Art and will join the conversation today on Artists Talk with LVA, live on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
THURSDAY: Sandra Charles and Elmer Lucille Allen offer a Gallery Talk for their exhibit, "Echoes of the Ages," at the Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery starting at 5:30 pm..
FRIDAY: Today at 5 pm is the ribbon-cutting for 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. Listen to an interview with Julio Cesar & Carlos Gamez De Francisco on Artists Talk with LVA.
FRIDAY: Artistas Cubanos Chévere opens tonight from 6 - 8 pm 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,
FRIDAY: 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. The reception is 6 - 9 pm.
FRIDAY: From 5:30 - 8 pm, Pyro Gallery opens an exhibit celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Artists (LAFTA).
FRIDAY: The new Logan Street Gallery, at 1131 Logan Street, opens 3 exhibits tonight: 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. Reception from 6:30 - 8 pm.
FRIDAY: The Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opens Observations: The Art of Robert Halliday, with a reception from 5 - 7 pm.
Robert Halliday at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery
STILL ON VIEW
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.
Houseguest Gallery opened a new exhibition, I'm Sorry I Got Carried Away, by Hae Loyd.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery opened their next exhibition, Color as Space: Modes of Abstraction, featuring the work of Rita Cameron, Julia Coash, Alana Fitzgerald, and Catherine Rubin.
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.
Moremen Gallery opens The Geese Don’t Care That I’m Crying Again, by Mychaelyn Michalec, and To Where You Came From by Heather Jones.
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.
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.
Gallery 104 is showing Equine Expressions, a competitive art show in all mediums, interpreting the equine community.
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 opened 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.
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.
Dean Thomas has opened a gallery at 635 West Main Street.
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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