Artists Talk with LVA: May 2, 2024

Kentucky College of Art + Design (KyCAD) BFA Candidates Kelsi Haberman, Jesenia Avila-Ugalde, & Lizzie Hill talk about their thesis exhibit.

On View: May 10-July 31, 2024 , Opening Reception: May 10, 5 pm -7:30 pm

849 Gallery 849 S. 3rd Street 

Gallery visits are by appointment only Please email gallery@kycad.org

Jesenia Avila-Ugalde

Artist and designer, Born in Mexico City, raised in Louisville, KY

I like new technology and machine work, but I also enjoy analog work like painting, building, and working with people in the community— literally building a community. It’s a multifaceted thing.
I also focus on certain colors, like CMYK vs RGB. I also work with fluorescents, which reflect more light than they absorb. I love that concept because I think as people we should reflect more light/positivity than we absorb.

​​Kelsi Haberman

Interdisciplinary Artist From Louisville, KY

Modifying found objects like etchings on windows. Experimentation and willingness to take a risk, not knowing if you’re going to fail There’s an element of play

Lizzie Hill

Artist From Elizabeth, Indiana (rural town)

I use a lot of accessible materials from my home, including repurposed materials, textiles, natural materials, plants, and items associated with comfort, home, and memories. I focus on tactile/textural memories of mundane things.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 18, 2024

Lori Larusso joined us in the studio this week to talk about her current exhibits in Dallas, TX and Danville, KY s well as the new monograph about her work, “Confected Landscapes”.

Lori Larusso is an American visual artist working primarily with themes of domesticity and foodways. Her body of work encompasses paintings and installations that explore issues of class, gender, and anthropocentrism, and how these practices both reflect and shape culture. Larusso’s work is exhibited widely in the US and is included in various public collections such as KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, 21c Museum, and other noteworthy private collections. She has been awarded numerous residency fellowships including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, and MacDowell where she received a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship. She is a recipient of the Kentucky Arts Council’s Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky South Arts Fellowship, and multiple grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky, and is represented by Rubine Red Gallery in Palm Springs, and Galleri Urbane in Dallas, TX.

Artists Talk with LVA: August 10, 2023

The 2023 Louisville Fringe Festival will be Aug. 17-27 at LVA so we invited some of the artists in to talk: Yoko Molotov, Zac Hoogendyk, and Roxell Karr of Camera Lucida. Tune in to WXOX 97.1/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Yoko Molotov- Wilderness Years installation through LVA

Yoko is a Louisville, Kentucky-based multimedia artist specializing in transgressive, gender-fluid comics, art, poetry, and performances. Molotov has exhibited work at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville and Lexington, Sheherazade Gallery in Louisville, and the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana. As a musician, Molotov performs in projects such as Harpy, WEEK, and meat mama.

Zac Hoogendyk - Shotz! and DCP plays: Over My Dead Body.

Zac is a Louisville-based actor, writer, and director. He holds an MFA from the Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Play House. In the last few years, he climbed Kilimanjaro, ran his first marathon, and got married. One of those was much easier than the other two. He is a proud member of AEA.

Camera Lucida is Jon Silpayamanant & Roxell Karr  - Closing Night

Roxell Karr is a multi-media artist residing in the greater Louisville, KY area. His main focus is on live interactive video projections performed with dancers, musicians, and performance artists. He works with a wide variety of analog, digital, and optical sources to create his artwork.

He has worked with new music ensembles such as Ensemble / Parallax, the Mothership Ensemble, and the November Group; dance troupes such as Blue Moves, the Moving Collective, and members of the Louisville Ballet; theatrical groups Teatro Tercera Llamada, El Delirio, Looking for Lilith and the Kentucky Opera.

Artists Talk with LVA: May 11, 2023

Kentucky College of Art + Design graduating seniors KeVon Dunbar, Kylie Hill, Alyx McClain, & Colin Shay join us this week, Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 1 to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Artists Talk With LVA: September 8, 2022

We speak with J. Daniel Graham & Hannah Smith, 2 of the several artists included in the 2022 KMAC Triennial. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

The 2022 KMAC Triennial: Divided We Fall, connects concerns relevant to our geographic region with issues that define the larger national narrative, revealing how our landscape can be a site of conflict and resistance, as well as a place of unity and mutual respect.

Featuring work by Tammy Burke, Jon Cherry, Ceirra Evans, J. Daniel Graham, Ed Hamilton, Bruce Linn, Ebony G. Patterson, José Manuel Nápoles Puerto, Hannah Smith, Norman Spencer, Vadis Turner

The exhibition is officially open to the public until November 6th, 2022.

J. Daniel Graham comes from a family of storytellers. His mother was a basket maker and calligrapher and the lessons of engineering and risk from my dad. He studied Printmaking at the University of Florida and the University of Georgia, where he earned his Masters degree.  Graham also trained as a custom woodworker under woodworker Dennis Sitka in  Washington, D.C.  Currently, he is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at Georgetown College in Georgetown Kentucky where he teaches a variety of courses including Sculpture, Printmaking, 3D Design, Metal Casting, and Package Design.  

Jdgraham.net

Hannah Smith graduated with an MFA from the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky. They are currently teaching graphic design, printmaking, and sculpture at the University of Kentucky and Northern Kentucky University. Smith is also a Lead Teaching Artist with ArtWorks Cincinnati. They are also an instructor with the GSA in Kentucky.

Smith was honored at the 2022 Future Art Awards: Ecosystem X from Mozaik Philanthropy in Los Angeles, CA.

hannahsmithfineart.com