LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 9.17.25
Zed Saeed at Louisville Visual Art
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WHAT’S NEW
Full Calendar of 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial Events.
WEDNESDAY: Ekstrom Library hosts an opening reception for Life's Rich Pageant: Photographs by Pat McDonogh, tonight from 5-7 pm, in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
WEDNESDAY: Wheelhouse Art hosts the opening reception of artwork by John Paul Kesling at The Wine Room tonight from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
THURSDAY: Musician, archival researcher, and WXOX DJ Johann Sims is the guest on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
FRIDAY: Louisville Visual Art opens Eastern KY: Portraits and Places, Photographs by Zed Saeed, with a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial. Listen to an interview with this artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
FRIDAY: Melanated Messages: Contemporary Black Art in Louisville opens tonight with a reception from 5 to 8 pm at The Outsider Art Museum.
STILL ON VIEW
Woven Narratives opened in the Lou Tate Gallery at The Little Loomhouse. The closing reception is Saturday, October 11th. The exhibit explores weaving as both craft and a powerful symbol of identity, memory, and connection.
KMAC Museum opened Material Obsessions: Reimagining Home. The exhibit features the work of 22 local artists.
St. Matthews Studios and Gallery opened their new exhibit, Autumn Exhibition. It celebrates the shedding of layers, introspection, and a sense of nostalgia.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery opened Hannah Johnston’s Echoes of Heirlooms: Honorinhg Keepsakes.
Lance Newman II at Outsider Museum
Threading His Grandmother’s Needles: Hand-Stitched Stories by Sunshine Joe Mallard, opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
Cedric Ballaratti opened Everything has an end, apart from the banana, which has two, at Darby Forever Gallery @Surface Noise.
Is It Game Over or Are We Just Getting Started? A Fresh Perspective on Nature by Heimir Bjǒrgúlfsson is now at Moremen Gallery.
Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located in New Albany, IN, is showing Fantasical: Folklore & Myth, featuring works by 15 Kentuckiana artists.
Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened today at The Frazier Museum.
The Ripley Willow Pucetti: Memorial Exhibition can be viewed now at The Huff Gallery at Spalding University. Huff Gallery is located in the Spalding Library. A closing reception will be held on October 17.
Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery opened Casey Dressell: From the Center Everywhere.
David: A Show About Mortality by Bill Pusztai is available for viewing beginning today at garner narrative contempory. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
Paul Palletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades,. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Revelry Gallery is hosting local photographer Ryan Grant for his first solo show, Galore. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
Galerie Hertz opened a solo exhibit of photography by Richard Bram. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial. Listen to an interview with this artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
KORE Gallery opened New Interpretations, an exhibit featuring the work of 66 artists.
Maybe It’s Fate has opened four shows. Preservation, with works by Mark Dorf, Unspecified Virtue, with works by Reuben Merringer, Pieces, works by Amanda Stoddard, and Re/construct, with works by John Day. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Pyro Gallery opened C.J. Pressma: A Retrospective - My Visual Poetry Over Six Decades. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
The Quonset Hut opened, Rosalie Rosenthal Easy Listening. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
Doing Americana: Photography, Mythology, and the American Dream is showing at the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries, August 28-October 31. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial.
KMAC Museum opened The 2025 South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellows in Visual Arts Exhibition and Unrest, a solo show by Louisville native, New York-based photographer Urban Wyatt. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial.
WheelHouse Art opened, I See No Leaders, a solo exhibition by Sabra Crockett.
The Adele and Leonard Leight Glass Art Award – Artist Talk Speaker and Awardee: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is exhibiting at The Speed Museum.
"Retro-Active-Vision" the solo exhibition of works by multimedia artist Scott Scarboro, which features a chronological collection of his interactive sculptures, hybrid toys, sound art, and "hand-glitched" video art spanning his 35-year career. Hosted by the Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center and runs through October 18, 2025.
River Skipworth is showing work at Barrett Babes at 970 Barrett Avenue.
The SuperNatural 2.0 is on exhibit at 21c Museum through January 4, 2026.
Cressman Center for Visual Arts hosts Robert Graham Carter: The Art of Reflection.
Mellwood Art Center opened Fauna Sacrae: a solo exhibition by Amie Viliger Harris.
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.
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.
Louisville's Black Avant-Garde: G.C. Coxe is now open at The Speed Museum
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.
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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