LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 9.09.26
Aaron Raymer at Louisville Visual Art
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WHAT’S NEW
THURSDAY:. WXOX DJs Luis De Leon & Andrea Valarezo are the guests this week. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.
FRIDAY: The Hite Institute of Art + Design opens Labyrinths, a solo exhibition by Hite alumnus David Helm. Opening from 5-7 at The Cressman Center, with an artist talk on Saturday, September 12, beginning at 3 pm.
FRIDAY: The opening reception of BUFFERING, curated by Jacob Grant and featuring work by Mason Gianni-Stone, Jamarr Cox, and Connor Stephenson, is tonight from 6-8 pm @ 828 E Market St.
FRIDAY: WheelHouse Art opens Cynthia Kelly Overall's solo exhibition, Latest Landscapes. A reception for the artist happens tonight from 6 - 8 pm.
FRIDAY: Manifest, featuring paintings by Matt Armstrong and Craig Hawkins, opens tonight at Sojourn Midtown at 7 pm with an artist conversation starting at 7:30 pm.
SATURDAY/ LVA Event: Louisville Visual Art opens the 2026 Ohio Valley Biennial Juried Exhibition today from 4 - 7 pm. Listen to an interview with juror Dr. fari nzinga on Artists Talk with LVA.
SATURDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opens Jane Lloyd and Bill & Gean Bowen:
FUSED AND FIRED today from 1 - 3 pm.
SATURDAY: The 10th annual Big Four Arts Festival is at Waterfront Park on the Big Four Bridge Lawn today and Sunday.
SUNDAY: The Quonset Hut hosts All-Terrain, in collaboration with the 2Buck Invitational, an annual street art celebration. Featuring Steve Ehret, Chris Jehly, & Evan Peltzman.
Cynthia Park Overall at Wheelhouse Art
LVA Event: Suyun Son’s Contained fabric installation exhibition opened at the LVA Project Space.
Revelry Gallery opened American Cathedral by Thomas Wortham Rallis.
34 Floral Paintings by Joe McGee opened at the Pigment Gallery at Mellwood Art Center.
Pyro Gallery opened EMBRACE, by Debra Lott with guest artists: Margaret Archambault, Jamarr Cox, Rachel Gibbs, Rex Lagerstrom, Tammy Podbelsek. Listen to an interview with Lott and Jamarr Cox on Artists Talk with LVA.
garner narrative opened Aleksandra Stone: Veiled Landscapes.
KORE Gallery opened Interpretations, featuring 89 participating artists who interpret great works of art.
The Abyss Stares Back, curated by Chenoa Works, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood.
University of Louisville’s Hite Institute’s Schneider Hall Galleries has opened Ink Networks, an exhibit focused on the work and legacy of Lloyd Menard, a printer maker who founded the University of South Dakota-Vermillion Printmaking Department and later Frogman’s Print Workshop.
St. Matthews Studios & Gallery opened Transitions, an End-of-Summer Art Exhibit.
WheelHouse Art presents The World of Our Own Creation, a new exhibition by Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch at The Wine Room.
Butchertown Homecoming: An exhibition of Gary Slaughter’s works has opened at MaybeItsFate gallery.
The Paul Paletti Gallery has opened a 25th-anniversary show, curated by Paul Paletti and featuring highlights from the gallery's history.
The Season of Creation opened at the Mary Anderson Gallery at Mount St. Francis. Jill Baker and John Florence exhibit collages, monotypes, and watercolors that explore the rhythms, beauty, and fragility of the earth amid climate change and environmental uncertainty.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Cloud Cover, a solo show featuring the outstanding paintings of artist ShaReese Cunningham.
Under the Wing of a Quiet Moon: Artwork by Bruce New opened at Outsider Art Museum & Gallery.
The Observation Project: New Works by Erica Chinise & Janet Dake opened at Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery.
KMAC opened Girl Crush, featuring the work of 86 women artists.
Clive Moloney’s Kindling runs through September 18 at Garner LARGE.
Bourne - Schweitzer Gallery opened JD Schall & Susan Harrison’s
STORIES TOLD.
Jeaneen Barnhart’s Passion, In Retrospect - Art through the years 1994-2026, featuring The Larry Raskin Collection, is on exhibit now at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.
KMAC opened ENID 2026: Generations of Women Sculptors.
Sandra Charles is the featured artist at the Meadows Art Gallery at the Masonic Homes through October 2.
Moremen Gallery presents Opium Dreams, a major exhibition of new paintings by Louisville artist Laurie Fader.
Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany opened a group exhibit, Gathered in the Garden.
Speed Museum hosts Eric N. Mack in the Gheens Court with RARE ESSENCE, a site-responsive arrangement of suspended textile paintings made from fabrics that are sheer, painted, dyed, patterned, and worn.
The Floyd County Carnegie Cultural Arts Center is hosting REDEMPTION, featuring the works of artist Jaylin ‘Monet' Stewart.
The Speed Art Museum opened Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. This groundbreaking presentation celebrates the bold, innovative contributions of women who led the movement that transformed American art.
Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.
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.
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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