Artists Talk with LVA: May 25, 2023

Carrie Johns & Anil Vinayakan are both participating in this Saturday's LVA Paint Out at The Louisville Nature Center. We will talk about that and other places their work can be seen. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Carrie Johns is a native of Georgetown Indiana who studied Fine Arts at Indiana University Southeast and Art History at the University of Louisville. On Facebook, she is Carrie Johns Art and you can see her work at Carriejohnsart.com. She recently completed an epic mural for the New Albany Opera House.

Anil Vinayakan studied at Christ College, Kerala, and is an M.D. in Louisville. He is a painter and photographer who has an upcoming exhibit Horses and Places, at Kore Gallery June 1 - 30 with an opening reception on June 3.

On May 27, come watch artists paint at The Louisville Nature Center and Joe Creason Park. Paintings will be for sale after judging at 3:00 pm. Look for us at the tennis courts parking lot.

Artists Talk with LVA: May 18, 2023

Jamarr Cox will be in this studio this week. He's one of the artists in the 2023 Art in City Hall exhibit. Tune in to WXOX 97.01/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear ArtistsTalk with LVA.

Cox is a Louisville native who has been creating art as far back as he can remember. He holds a degree in Commercial Art and is currently a web / UI developer by day. 

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: May 4, 2023

Bob Hower & Meg Higgins opened their exhibit Nothing in Common at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany and this week they come to talk about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Meg Higgins received two individual artists grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and is well known for Facing 50 at Gallerie Hertz, an invitational show where she challenged 50 artists and writers to take a fresh look at stereotypes of aging. Meg has taught art history as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine College. Also a writer and communications professional, she has produced award-winning films, programs, and communication materials. 

Bob Hower is a Louisville photographer who was born in Boston in 1947. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1968 and studied photography at both MIT and Harvard. He taught photography at Wright State University for four years and is a founding partner of Quadrant, a commercial photography studio located outside Louisville KY. Bob is currently engaged with Ted Wathen and John Nation in photographing the creation of the Parklands of Floyds Fork in Louisville Kentucky.

Artists Talk with LVA: April 27, 2023

Luminous: New Work From the Studio of Liz Price opens April 28 at Wheelhouse Art and Liz will be in the WXOX studios to discuss her work and family legacy. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Luminous: New Work by Liz Price

Opening reception: Friday, April 28th, 6:00 - 8:00 . The exhibition will be up until June 10th.

Liz Price was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Louisville in 1981 with an undergraduate degree in sculpture. She lived and worked in New York City for several years before moving to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania. There she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1988.

Neil Welliver was chairman of the program then, while other critics and visiting artists included Rafael Ferrer, William Bailey, Altoon Sultan, and Alex Katz. Price paints in a painterly realist tradition, citing influences ranging from Cezanne, Matisse and Vuillard to Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Janet Fish, and Lois Dodd.