LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 9.24.25
Victoria Crayhon at Hite Institute’s Schneider Hall Galleries
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WHAT’S NEW
Full Calendar of 2025 Louisville Photo-Biennial Events.
WEDNESDAY: Two new exhibitions are opening in the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries tonight: Veniceness and Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention, and. Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention featuring the work of Priscilla Briggs, Victoria Crayhon, and Sue Wrbican. There will be a reception from 4 -6 pm. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
THURSDAY: Shauntrice Martin, Kenyatta Bosman, Ashya Watkins talk about the upcoming Artists and Afros on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m.
THURSDAY: The Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center will screen “Our Library: A Louisville Documentary”, with Filmmaker Morgan Atkinson. Tonight from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
FRIDAY: Moremen Gallery opens Coash & Jones: Collaborative Photographs tonight, with a reception from 5:30 - 7 pm. There will also be a Casual Conversations with the Artists Julia Coash and Phillip Jones, the following day, Saturday, September 26, from 1 - 3 pm. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
FRIDAY: Whitney Bradshaw’s OUTCRY comes to 21c Hotel Louisville .A social practice project in which she leads women in empowering, therapeutic, and community-building “scream sessions,” photographing participants mid-scream to create a collective portrait of resistance, motivate political action, and build feminist solidarity through radical empathy.
SATURDAY: The Colony is a solo exhibition from Connor Stephemson taking place in ‘The Cave’ at 1318 Lexington Road. This exhibition will feature large-scale works inside the cobblestone space, and there will be a reception tonight from 6-8 pm.
SATURDAY: Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany opens Joe Wolek: Leftover Gravy, with a reception today from 3 - 7 pm. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
SATURDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery in New Albany opens the Louisville Photo Biennial: People, Places, Things, featuring the work of 10 local photographers. There will be a reception from 1- 3 pm. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial.
SATURDAY: Prospect Artists Market returns to Prospect City Hall today from 11 am - 3 pm and on Sunday from 2-5 pm (open concurrently with the "Natural Elements" exhibition on the first floor),
SUNDAY: Art in City Hall Prospect opens the Natural Elements exhibition. This show features 21 artists working in fiber, clay, paint, and mixed media. There will be a reception today from 2-5 pm.
Angie Reed Garner at Garner Large
SUNDAY: Angie Reed Garner: recall: 2000-2024 will close with a reception and artist talk today from 3-5 pm, talk at 4 pm at garner LARGE
TUESDAY: The Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center will be hosting a talk on the lives of Harlan and Anna Hubbard from 12-1 PM. The Guest Speaker will be visual artist Joe Wolek.
STILL ON VIEW
Ekstrom Library has opened Life's Rich Pageant: Photographs by Pat McDonogh, in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections. Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial
Wheelhouse Art is showing artwork by John Paul Kesling at The Wine Room.
Louisville Visual Art opened Eastern KY: Portraits and Places, Photographs by Zed Saeed, Part of the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennial. Listen to an interview with this artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
Melanated Messages: Contemporary Black Art in Louisville opened at The Outsider Art Museum.
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.
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 Paletti 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 is showing For the Sake of Art! by Rick Moore.
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.
The Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Observations: The Art of Robert Halliday.
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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