Artebella On The Radio: May 27

Jon Cherry is a happening photojournalist who has covered the 2020 Louisville Black Lives Matter protests and was in Washington on January 6. His work is currently on exhibit at the Portland Museum and as a part of the Promise, Witness, Remembrance exhibition at The Speed and he is our guest this week Tune in to WXOX 97.1 or stream @ Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am.

Exhibiting at The Portland Museum n conjunction with Voices and Votes, an exhibit from The Smithsonian. June 12.

Jon’s work is also included in Promise, Witness, Remembrance at The Speed through July 24

“I am dedicated to capturing moments that spark action without words and convey emotions that may be otherwise foreign to the viewer. This work requires an intensive approach to challenges.  ‘Never walk past a problem you can solve,’ was my father’s credo, and it is this stride that carries me through all my pursuits.” 

He works as a stringer with Getty Images and The New York Times and has been published independently by The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, New York Magazine, and others.

Artebella On The Radio: May 20

Hite Institute just graduated some new MFA candidates and this week we talk with two of them, Karen Weeks & Megan Bickel. Tune in to WXOX 97.1, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to her Keith Waits talk with artists.

Megan Bickel is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer who was a Community Educator at Art Academy of Cincinnati and who operates Houseguest, an independent artist-run project space located in Louisville. Her exhibit l is meditating on two words as they relate to one another in our current moment: illusion and allusion. Specifically, this manifests by inquiring as to how we consume visual data, the probability of factual 'truths,' and cultivating safe, imaginative spaces for the viewer to conceive of ethically superior realities.

Karen Weeks is also a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked with fiber and a lot with the letterpress print studio. Her exhibit, Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions, is comprised of images sourced from common ephemera of the home meant to represent the everyday: notes, discarded letters, open envelopes, unfinished knitting, garments, drawings, math homework. The works in this show seek to reimage this detritus by (re)organizing it into constructed passages that bear witness to the commonalities to be found in homemaking and artmaking, aesthetics and the commonplace, economics, and whining. They are abstract representations of that which is contained within us, by way of what collects in our homes, representations of the aesthetics of and the profundities contained within the mundane.

Megan Bickel, Karen Weeks, Katherine Watts & Rachid Tagoulla

MFA Exhibition
May 7-July 9, 2021

Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202

Artebella On The Radio: May 13

Shayne Hull is showing at 1512 Portland Avenue & Lori Larusso is at Quappi Projects, so I talked with them about the work now on public display. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am.

SHAYNE HULL is an award-winning Louisville-based artist. His paintings have been shown regionally, nationally, and internationally in over 175 exhibits, including 25 solo shows. His work can be found in the public collections of Brown-Forman, 21 C Museum, and the Kentucky Arts Council, as well as the private collections of Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown and the Rev. Al Shands.

Hull has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Maryland Institute, College of Art; a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from the University of Louisville

For 20 years Lori Larusso’s art has graced local, national and international venues. Her consistently experimental and evolving work has earned her multiple awards from the Great Meadows Foundation, SouthArts, Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women. Additionally, Lori has been awarded numerous residency fellowships from institutions including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, MacDowell, and chaNorth. She was the recipient of the 2020 Bill Fischer Award for the Visual Arts from the Community Foundation of Louisville and Louisville Visual Art. Her first solo show in Louisville “Rogue Intensities” is currently up at Quappi Projects through June 12.

Lori’s work is represented by Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, and Mulberry & Lime and Eastin Creative in Lexington, Kentucky. She currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.

Artebella On The Radio: May 6

Bette Levy & Kathleen Loomis are exhibiting new work together in PYRO Gallery’s new exhibition, "Reconfiguration". They joined us to talk about it on WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artfm.com.

Bette Levy views the creation of her art as a continuum where every work is influenced and enhanced by previous artwork. With each successive piece of art, she is incorporating gained knowledge and capabilities. She also believes her understanding of her artwork only becomes clear after the work is completed. Levy has no pre-conceived interpretation or meaning of her work other than its form. And this often changes over time as a result of life experiences and perceptions.

Kathleen Loomis thinks of “reconfiguration” slightly differently than Bette does – for her, it’s the finding of old things and giving them new life in art. She is a world-class pack rat, acquiring stuff from the street when she walks, checking out other people’s junk on trash pickup day, accepting discards from friends, even tearing apart old books that she knows nobody will ever want to read. Loomis likes to reassemble these disparate things and see what happens when they get into small groups and start to talk to one another.

PYRO’s new exhibition, RECONFIGURATION, featuring work by Bette Levy and Kathleen Loomis, opens on May 2 and runs through May 30. The gallery is open Friday and Saturday, from 12 to 6 PM and Sunday from 1 PM to 4 PM, and by appointment.

Artebella On The Radio: April 29

Kyle Citrynell, Vallorie Henderson, Ramona Lindsey, & Sarah Lindgren recently participated in a State of the Arts panel for LVA, and this week we will listen to portions of that conversation. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com this Thursday at 10 am to join in.

As the COVID pandemic slowly begins to wind down and 2020 gains distance in our rear-view mirror, it feels like a time to take stock. How did artists fare in the time of pandemic and what has been their contribution to society in such difficult times? We also want to talk about what resources are available for artists and what the immediate future might look like in the “new normal” awaiting us all. For this conversation we welcome four highly respected professionals who have experience with these and other related questions: 

Kyle Citrynell has a national litigation and transactional practice in the areas of arts, entertainment, media, publishing, and technology, and intellectual property law. Kyle has litigated copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and patent matters, and cases involving business torts and unfair competition, as well as employment and product liability. She has worked with for-profit and tax-exempt organizations from formation and as corporate counsel covering a wide variety of licensing, merchandising, distribution, and franchising transactions for any and all manner of creatives.

Vallorie Henderson is the Center Director, Kentucky Small Business Development Center in Berea, which is the first SBDC in the U.S. that focuses on the impact created by entrepreneurs working within the creative and tourism sectors of the U.S. economy. Vallorie has also served as Business Development Director of the Kentucky Arts Council and is herself a Working textile artist. 

Sarah Lindgren is currently the Public Art Administrator for Louisville Metro Government where she supports Arts & Culture initiatives within Develop Louisville, a city department that includes a range of land and community development programs.  

Sarah manages the city's External Agency Fund grants for arts programs, as well as public art collections and exhibitions. Recent projects include the city’s “Build Back Better, Together” initiative, and “Making It Public”, a series of public art workshops and opportunities, in collaboration with Forecast Public Art and Community Foundation of Louisville.

Sarah currently serves on Louisville’s Commission on Public Art, Arts & Culture Alliance Board, and Kentucky Arts Council Peer Advisory Network.

Ramona Dallum Lindsey joined the Community Foundation of Louisville in 2017 and is currently a Senior Program Officer where she is primarily responsible for several foundation efforts focusing on racial justice, community empowerment, and leadership development. Before that, she was at KMAC Museum as their Director of Education and Museum Educator. As a practicing mixed media textile artist, Ramona’s artistic practice and visionary background equip her to think outside traditional processes to coordinate, design, develop, implement, advise and manage philanthropic, civic, and cultural initiatives shifting decision making to those most impacted by systemic injustice.