LVA’s Weekly Art Guide: 1.31.24
Megan Bickel at Wheelhouse Art
THURSDAY: Megan Bickel will be interviewed live this morning from 10 - 11 am on Artists Talk with LVA.
THURSDAY: Schneider Hall Galleries at the University of Louisville hosts Coffee + Art Tour: today featuring: Paired Influence: MFA Student Selections from the University Collection
Coffee Bar Opens: 11:30am | Tour Begins: 11:45.
THURSDAY: Kore Gallery is having an “Abandoned Artwork” Inventory Clearance Sale for the month of February.
THURSDAY: One Artist's Attic: Art Harmony's Big Merz Giveaway at Quonset Hut Press is a series of conversations with artist J.P. Begley in which he is giving away a wide array of art and studio supplies. Opening Reception tonight 5:30-7:30 pm
FRIDAY: Wheelhouse Art opens Megan Bickel, The Blazing World with a reception tonight with a reception 6 - 8 pm, and an artist talk at 7:00pm.
FRIDAY: Donna R. Charging opens her MFA Thesis exhibit, That Limbless Sign, at the Hite MFA Building In Portland. There will be a reception from 6-8 pm.
FRIDAY: U of L’s Hite Institute ‘s Annual Student Exhibition opens at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts with a reception from 5-7 pm.
FRIDAY: PYRO Gallery opens La Creme de la Creme, an exhibit of 23 artists who were once students of Bob Lockhart, with drawings by Lockhart. A reception will take place from 5 - 8 pm.
FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery opens Tiny Art/Big Heart, a Valentine-themed group show, and Savant, a solo exhibit from Braylyn “Resko” Stewart, with a reception from 6 - 9 pm.
FRIDAY: Moremen Gallery has a closing reception for Perspectives: 35 African American Artists. 5 - 7:30 pm
SATURDAY: Jeffersonville is celebrating American Painter’s Day by showcasing the work of Damon Thompson. From 1 - 4 pm at The Art Center @ NoCo with an artist’s talk at 1:30 pm.
SATURDAY: Chestnuts and Pearls Gallery in New Albany, IN, is opening an exhibit by Vick Edwos, Twin Flame Series. Parts 1 & 2, with a reception today from 2 - 4 pm.
SATURDAY: Granny Faye's Basement - an immersive gallery show with the artist known as Whathappenedtotoday? opens at Grady Goods today 6 - 8 pm.
SUNDAY: Speed Cinema screens Facing East, directed by Tommy Baker, a documentary about the Louisville Eastern Cemtery.
Damn Thompson in Jeffersonville
Gallery 104 in LaGrange has opened a group exhibit, small things.
21c Museum Hotel is currently exhibiting This We Believe, which features over 95 artworks from 21c’s collection, and H2O, a group show of local artists curated by Rebecca Norton.
Love: Stephen Dorsett, Joyce Garner, Aleksandra Stone is open at garner narrative contemporary.
Bourne-Schweitzer is exhibiting We Are Family.
Kleinhelter Gallery has opened Portraits in New Albany, featuring paintings by Heather Brunetti, Debra Lott, Claudia Hammer, Shayne Hull, Jessica Lewis, Ellen Weis, Ray Kleinhelter, and Sharon Weis; with sculptural portraits from Meg White.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery has an exhibit that includes Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, Greta Mattingly, and David O. Schuster.
Paired Influence: MFA Selections from the University Collection is open at the University of Louisville’s hite Institute for Art’s Schneider Hall Galleries.
Debra Clem: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1995-2023 opened at Indiana University Southeast.
ARTPORTAL (formally known as The Common Gallery), has opened two shows. Slump, with Nick Netherton, Nina Kersey, and Scott T. Anderson, curated by Lindsey Cummins and Ellie Bruner, and Interpreting the Stars with Olivia Reyes, Peter Price, and Alex Edison.
Aurora Gallery and Boutique opened a dual art show with Ember Crow’s Inside Show and Kara Renee’s Big Feelings.
Fruit of the Womb/Skin of the Fruit, Paintings by Ann Charlotte Tavolacci opened at Capacity Contemporary Exchange.
Resilience & Recovery: A Wellspring Art Therapy Exhibit is at the Mellwood Art Center.
Dawn Della Bella is exhibiting at the Roberta Marx Gallery.
Prospect CIty Hall opened its inaugural exhibition Art in City Hall Prospect featuring Ashley Brossart, Liz Coomes, Lynn Dunbar, Ann Farnsley, Wyatt Gragg, Claudia Hammer, Margaret Howard, Shawn Marshall, Martin Rollins, Makenna Schibler and Pedro Roque Urra.
Carnegie Center for Art & History opened Intentionally Intimate: The Choice to Work Small, featuring work by Kay Grubola, Wendi Smith, Nancy Currier, Caroline Waite, and Rachel Singel.
Louisville Visual Art (LVA) has opened A Thousand Words, by Lance G. Newman II. at the LVA Gallery. Listen to an interview with Lance on Artists Talk with LVA.
Lowber Gallery is exhibiting work by Sabra Crockett.
A group show, Reformation is open at the new Gallery @ MOSAIC.
Donna R. Charging at the U of L MFA Building
Spalding University’s Huff Gallery opened the 4th annual Poems to Paintings exhibit. 16 former alumni make paintings inspired by poetry from the current Spalding Creative Writing.
KMAC Museum opened two shows: Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Appalachian Folk Art A Solo Exhibition by Dan Gunn.
Meadows Gallery in the Masonic Homes Campus is exhibiting Janna Hankins Wardle.
The Speed Museum is exhibiting Stories Retold: American Art from the Princeton University Art Museum.
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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