Artists Talk with LVA: December 19, 2024

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is now open at Capacity Exchange Gallery, and we talk to the artist about her work. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

For over twenty years Elizabeth Foley has exhibited work regionally and has art on view at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington, UK Chandler Medical Center, May Department Stores, and Kentucky OneHealthcare Network.

She also taught art; five years at Wyoming Middle School in Wyoming, Ohio and fifteen years as the Upper School 3D Art Teacher at Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. Since moving to Louisville, she has also been teaching art at Assumption High School.

Elizabeth is a founding member of the Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative in Lexington and was Executive Director for ten years.

She is a member of the Kentucky Crafted Program, the Kentucky Arts Council Artist in Residence Program, and was a cohort in the 2017-18 Hadley Creatives Program. In 2020 she received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is showing at Capacity Contemporary Exchange through January 5.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 12, 2024

Ken McCormick’s Wild Bison Boulevard installation took place on the Portland Wharf in Louisville in September 2024. He also participated in the 2024 Open Studio Weekend. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA

“It’s the obligation of each new generation of artists to repaint the icons on the walls of the cave.”

Ken McCormick is a visual artist and deep ecology advocate who traces his ancestry back to the cave painters of France and Spain— the richest source of Palaeolithic art in the world. Ken paints modern art from a neo-archaic perspective, reworking the themes of Indigenous and pre-agricultural small-scale societies for a contemporary audience in contemporary times. As his ancestors ventured into these caves, painting their visions onto the walls— so too he speaks with respect for the spirit of our wild lands and the rewilding of human values.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 5, 2024

John & Peter outside the WXOX Studios.

Lida Gordon: Process and Materials runs December 6 through February 25, 2025 at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. There will be an opening reception Friday, December 6 from 5 - 7 pm.

Peter Bodnar III is an artist living in Louisville and Vinalhaven, Maine. He was an Assistant Professor at the Louisville School of Art from 1976 to 1983 and has taught at the University of Louisville. He was also a Visiting Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Spalding University. 

John Begley is a Printmaker, Installation, and Video Artist. From 1975 to 2014 he was a Curator and Gallery Director, including 19 years as Executive Director of LVA and several years with the UofL’s Hite Art Institute.

Lida Gordon's drawings and installations deal with archetypical female imagery in a contemporary context. She won many fellowships and awards including the Al Smith Fellowship: Kentucky Arts Council- National Endowment for the Arts in 1993, the Southern Arts Federation - National Endowment for the Arts in 1992, the Kentucky Arts Council Professional Assistance Award Fellowship in 1992, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women Visual Arts Grant in 1988. She was an Assistant Professor at the Louisville School of Art and founded the Fiber Art department at the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute for Art + Design.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 21, 2024

Cédric Ballarati's exhibit, "Vibrant Journey Around My World" is at Capacity Contemporary Exchange extended through December 5, and he has organized an Art Book Sale at Kore Gallery for November 24. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Cédric Ballarati believes Photography is about writing with light. His photography depicts the complexities of life. In every picture the intricacies of our planet are unveiled. Even if it looks harder and harder to live with those layers of complexity. 

Cédric studied Architecture at Belgium Liege University and photography at Belgium Liege Art Academy. His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows beginning in  2007 and his first photography book “Terre de chiens” was released in 2019. He is currently living and working in Louisville, Kentucky.

Vibrant Journey Around My World : Selected Work by Cèdric Ballarati
At Capacity Contemporary Exchange extended through December 5

There will be an Art Book Sale in Kore Gallery today from 12 to 4pm. Organized by Cédric Ballarati & Tom Coash, several vendors will be selling books.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 14, 2024

Britany Baker from Art Sanctuary, Lalana Fedorschak from the Hite MFA, and Ken Wuechter from Atelier Louisville joined us to discuss the 2024 Open Studio Weekend. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Britany Baker attended Xavier University in Cincinnati on full scholarship and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting in 1991. Since then she has worked extensively in scenic design/painting for theater and television, mural painting, illustration and fine art. She has been a designer and creative director for multiple media outlets and ad agencies over the past 25 years. Britany is also currently the creative director for Wingspan Integrating Marketing and the studio manager for Art Sanctuary, a nonprofit arts group with studios in Louisville’s Germantown neighborhood.

Lalana Fedorschak is an artist exploring experiences within individual and social bodies. Working across a range of different materials and techniques, their practice focuses primarily on abstract figurative ceramics, often including metal, wood, textiles, and photography. Lalana’s interests include animal behavior, body horror, practical effects, and queer theory.

Lalana was born and raised in Prescott, Arizona. They hold a BFA in Ceramics from Northern Arizona University and an MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University. Lalana is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Louisville, and formerly held teaching positions at Vincennes University and Indiana University Southeast. Lalana will be at the Hite MFA Building in the Portland neighborhood. 

Ken Wuechter will be at The Atelier Louisville located at 3220 MARION CT. The corner of Marion Ct and S. Bayley in the Crescent Hill neighborhood.