Artists Talk with LVA: January 11, 2024

Aurora Gallery and Boutique opens a dual art show with Ember Crow’s Inside Show and Kara Renee’s Big Feelings and both artists were live in the studio this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each week at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Ember Crow is a queer and strange artist based out of Louisville, KY. They make ceramics, assemblages, paintings, sketches, and more that are a mixture of macabre, nature-inspired, and light-hearted. 

Their new exhibit, Inside Show opens Saturday at Aurora Gallery and Boutique

Kara Renee was born in Kentucky in 1986, she is an established painter whose work exhibits attention to detail and captures her subject's emotion, as well as the power of affirmation.

Her new exhibit, Big Feelings, also opens at Aurora on Saturday and there will be a reception for both artists from 6 - 10 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: July 13, 2023

This week we speak live with Ben Barnhart an artist who works in several mediums and will shortly be opening a solo show at Aurora Boutique & Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Ben Barnhart is 43 years old and considers himself a Louisville native even though he wasn’t born here. He graduated from DuPont Manual’s visual arts program and then spent his 20s and 30s moving around the country pursuing an art education as well as a career in tattooing. He is now in his 20th year as a professional tattoo artist and is more inspired than ever to create.

Ben mostly tattoos in American traditional, large-scale Japanese, and abstract tattoos that don’t really fit into a specific genre. His creative life outside of tattooing involves painting, illustration, mixed media collage, and 3D assemblages.

Fragmentation: A Solo Art Show By Ben Barnhart opens at Aurora Gallery & Boutique on July 22, 6 - 10 pm.