LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 5.15.24
Chloe Cheng at Cressman Center for Visual Art
More details, including addresses, can be found at the link in each listing.
WEDNESDAY: Wildcat, directed by Ethan Hawke and partly filmed in Louisville, has a SOLD OUT SPEED CINEMA+ premiere tonight with a post-screening discussion with Ethan Hawke in person. But the film will screen at Speed Cinema through the month of May.
FRIDAY: ARTPORTAL 1512 Portland Ave, Louisville, KY will open Zing Fu: Art of the Lightning Bolt with an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm, with late evening music performances on the main Portal stage by Rebelmatic (NY), Cardiel (Venezuela) and Lorelei (Cincinnati).
FRIDAY: The University of Louisville’s Hite Institute of Art + Design is having a reception from 4-6 pm at the Cressman Center for the opening of the MFA Graduates Exhibition! The exhibition features the work of Donna R. Charging, Chloe Cheng and Suyun Son.
SATURDAY: Lindsey Cummins opens Signs of the Times Saturday tonight 6-10pm @ the Kudzu Jelly House featuring handpainted signs by Jesse Gordon @jessegordontattoo from the 2020 Louisville protests, Zines: Collected into staple-bound zines with removable poster covers and photos shot by Jon Cherry @jonpcherry - printed by Gasoline Press @gasolinepres. All proceeds from zine & poster sales will be donated to Change Today Change Tomorrow @changetodaychangetomorrow and Play Cousins Collective @playcousins_collective
SUNDAY: Louisville Visual Art has a reception for the Children’s Fine Art Classes (CFAC) Middle School Exhibit at the LVA building in Portland from 2-4 pm.
Kentucky College of Art + Design opened an exhibit at the 849 Gallery of their BFA candidates: Kelci Haberman, Lizzie Hill, & Jesenia Avila-Ugalde. The show is entitled Not Your Home/
Form, Nature, and Memory, featuring Katherine Corcoran, Neisja Yenawine, and Teresa Waller opened at Pyro Gallery.
Revelry Gallery welcomes back artist Jenna White for her second solo show, Chop, Stick. This is a celebration and an exploration of her Japanese-American heritage.
Galerie Hertz opened the first exhibit in 5 years from Rodney Hatfield aka Artsnake.
Danielle Bartley zine at Kudzu Jelly House
Kleinhelter Gallery will opened 2 exhibits: Mary Newton - New Paintings & Twiddling on Tippy Toes - Lena Wolek.
Chestnuts & Pearls has a new group exhibit, Imagine.
Gallery @ MOSAIC is hosting a group show, Gifts Differing,
Louisville Visual Art opens a 2nd-floor gallery with Our Innocent Minds: Photographs by Sean Patrick Hill.
Time to See: Paintings by Michael Koch & Chris Koch, opens at Kore Gallery.
Grady Goods opened Threads of Elegance and Beauty - New Works by Sheila Fox (a.k.a. Godiva Goddess Art).
Aurora Gallery presents Echoes of Endings: A group art show about grief and goodbyes.
The Roberta Marx Gallery is exhibiting new work by Gwen Burke and Robert Jackson through June.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange opened: What We Do In The Shadows by Kelly Zellers.
garner narrative contemporary is showing Slow Going: Derby Season Reflections, including Rebecca Cavalcante, Mary Craik, Patrick Donely, Stephen Dorsett, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Liz Snodgress, Aleksandra Stone, & Keith Stone
Everyday Prophets: Appalachia’s Self-Taught Masters opened at Outsider Art Museum & Gallery in Portland. This is Outsider’s third exhibition and its first group show.
Schneider Hall Galleries at the University of Louisville opened the Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition..
In partnership with the Fairness Campaign, the Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville launched a new exhibit: Fairness Does A City Good! A 25 Year Retrospective. Commemorating 25 years since the passing of LGBTQ+-inclusive non-discrimination ordinances in Louisville and Lexington, this exhibit reintroduces stories from the movement that paved the way.
Portland Museum is exhibiting Shop Talk, a celebration of the communal spirit shared by printmakers.
The Quonset Hut is showing Sean Garrison’s Let’s Pretend exhibit.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery has opened Heart of the Bluegrass, a group show featuring works by Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, Greta Mattingly, and David O Schuster.
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage is exhibiting Celebrating the Black Experience Exhibition.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Rituals and Totems: Larry Beisler and Beatrice Guarneschelle-Holt,
Mellwood Art Center opened a solo exhibition by Payton Thomas: Bourbon/Horses/Sneakers.
Moremen Gallery opened Be Careful Out There, a solo show by artist Ceirra Evans.
Revelry Gallery opened its annual Win, Place, Art Show featuring Brochevski, Ewa Perz, Humberto Lahera, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Lindsey Taylor, Melissa Crase, Patrick Jilbert, Randell Madden, Robert Brown, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tiny Art Lady, and Tommy Rallis
Misc. Goods opened an exhibit of work by Matthew McDole. This will kick off the company's Artist Spotlight series.
Wheelhouse Art opened Both/And, a two-in-one exhibition by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley.
Gallery 104 in La Grange has opened Trading Places.
KMAC has opened two exhibits, Wild in the Streets, an exhibition capturing the self-expression and creative dynamism that stems from the streets, and Stitched In Strength a solo photography exhibition created by acclaimed photographer Clay Cook. The body of work is a visual exploration of the award-winning nonprofit organization Anchal.
Paul Paletti Gallery has opened an exhibit of Recent Acquisitions 2024.
Lowber Gallery opened new work by Makara Thach Sernett.
The Hite Institute of Art + Design is showing Out There is What’s Left an exhibition of contemporary landscape painters featuring: Alice Stone Collins, Jamaal Peterman, and Mark Bradley-Shoup at the Cressman Center for Arts.
The Speed Museum exhibits Contemporary Art from the South Asian Diaspora and India: South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art
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 Julia Coash, Susanna Crum, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Mary Newton, Guinevere Smith, and curated by Rebecca Norton.
Meadows Gallery in the Masonic Homes Campus is exhibiting Janna Hankins Wardle.
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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