Artebella On The Radio: June 17

The (Un)Known Project is a collaborative, two-year initiative led by IDEAS xLab to tell the stories of both known and unknown Black men, women, and children that were formerly enslaved and hidden figures in Louisville, Kentucky. This week we talk with old friends William Duffy & Dave Caudill, the two sculptors working ion this project, which will be unveiled Saturday, June 19.

William Duffy was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Always having a special talent for painting and drawing, Duffy graduated from the Louisville School of Art with a BFA in painting.

Duffy’s work can be found in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including Phillip Morris USA, Brown-Forman Corporation, Kentucky Fried Chicken (now YUM! Brands, Inc.), Humana Inc., The Louisville Orchestra, and the J.B. Speed Art Museum.

David Caudill creates artworks for public, corporate and private collections. His larger public works are found at Louisiana’s Rip Van Winkle Gardens, East Tennessee’s Horizon Center park, the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts, and the University of Louisville School of Music. Corporate collections include Brown-Forman Corporation and Fire King International. Individual collectors across America have acquired his work.

He is also one of the few sculptors in the world who have created an environmental undersea sculpture. Caudill’s artwork was placed on the seabed near Nassau, The Bahamas.

The {Un) Known Project’s first public art installation "On the Banks of Freedom" gets unveiled June 19 as part of Juneteenth: Past, Present, Future.

Artebella On The Radio: June 10

Printmaker Norman Spencer is one of the Featured Artists for the 2021 art[squared] Auction j and he is our guest this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 Fm, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear artists talk about their work.

A Louisville native, Norman Spencer is known for his printmaking. His work focuses on themes such as identity, community, and the human relationship to their surroundings. His artworks are in private collections around the country.

The annual Art[squared] Online Auction is June 24, 2021 @ 6:30PM

The largest number of talented local artists to be found in one location!

The 2021 Online art[squared] will not be anonymous.
All artwork will be labeled with the artist’s name.

Other featured artists: Jessica Chao, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Bob Lockhart, & Shohei Katayama

Artebella On The Radio: June 3

This week we talk with James Russell May about his work and how a single catastrophic moment may or may have not have influenced his paintings. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am.

James Russell May is a native of Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States. He currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky.

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