Artists Talk with LVA: January 30, 2025

WheelHouse Art is pleased to present Amalgamation, a group exhibition featuring 46 artists on view now through February 15, 2025.T wo of these artists, Robert Stagg and Ethan Osman, will join us live in the studio this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

2025 marks the 35th year of WheelHouse Art/B. Deemer Gallery, founded in 1990 by Brenda Deemer. Amalgamation celebrates the gallery's history by pairing together 23 B. Deemer Gallery legacy artists with 23 artists who started exhibiting here since the transition to WheelHouse Art. This exhibition brings into focus the continuing threads of talent, quality, and conceptual interests of the artwork featured in the gallery.

WheelHouse Art will host several receptions throughout the exhibition on Saturday afternoons from 1:00 - 3:00pm. Each reception will feature a handful of artists with artist talks at 2:00 pm.

February 1, 1:00 - 3:00pm: Robert Stagg, Ethan Osman, Lindsay Moremen, and Megan Bickel

February 8, 1:00 - 3:00pm: Thaniel Ion Lee, Liz Price, Brian Harper, Tiffany Carbonneau, Robyn Gibson, and Sabra Crockett.

Since graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2006 with a BFA in Animation, Ethan Osman has continued a studio practice of making hand made, process based animated films. In its approach, the work is largely informed by parenting a neurodivergent child, his experience managing StudioWorks, an art studio that supports neurodivergent adult artists and his own experience living with learning disabilities. In recent years, he has developed collaborative relationships, shown work in film festivals, and galleries, and created commissioned work. This year, a music video was made for the song “Bananas” to promote an upcoming album by Bonnie Prince Billy.

Born in New Orleans, Robert Stagg has been an artist based in Louisville for more than 40 years. He holds 4 degrees in studio art and art history from the University of Kentucky, theUniversity of Louisville, and Louisiana College. He has work in several private and corporate collections including Brown-Forman, Corp., Capitol Holding, Commonwealth Insurance, the University of Louisville, and Louisville Gas & Electric.  

Artists Talk with LVA: January 23, 2025

Louisville quilter “Sunshine Joe” Mallard joined us to talk about his piece, the Obama Tie Quilt, which has been accepted into the collection of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each week at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

For more than 50 years, American Quilt Maker Joseph Mallard also known as ‘Sunshine Joe’ has chronicled world, national, and local events through his vibrant and intricately detailed thread collages. Born of brilliantly-colored embroidery floss, fabric, patience and time, Mr. Mallard’s work competes in national and international quilt shows.

Sunshine Joe’s exquisite tapestry-quilts consist of thousands of tiny hand tied knots. They take 4 to 5 years to complete. They pulsate with color, energy, and joy.  He uses his quilts as a teaching tool in classrooms, community Centers, homeless shelters, senior citizens facilities, libraries, juvenile detention centers and quilting guilds.

Mr. Mallard was inducted into the McComb, Mississippi Wall of Fame for his quilting and his work with children in November 2019.

His exhibit, Joe Mallard:  Threading His Grandmother’s Needles, is on view at the National Quilt Museum through February 25.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 16, 2025

Erica Chinise Wilcox. Born in 1990 in Cleveland, Ohio. She moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2014 where she eventually found mentorship with artist Bob Lockhart.

Now she is a member of Pyro Gallery and is exhibiting with another new member, Janet Dake, in “New Beginnings”, which runs throughJan 26, 2025.

“I began my journey into pencil artwork when I was 17 years old. I didn’t use creation to escape life, but I instead used it to process and understand it. At that age, trying to understand my queerness and my place in the world as a young black woman brought on a large bought of depression.  It wasn’t until I discovered art within Spiritual Alchemy that I gained a deeper understanding of myself and artwork. Spiritual Alchemy reminds me of the workings of my mind and my artwork – I strive to understand who I am and the people around me to heal myself, thus healing the world.

With my Intuition, Meditations, and Alchemy being my main inspiration, I strive to capture the link between human and Godlike energy. My goal is to evoke deeper thinking to encourage mental, emotional, and spiritual understanding. Many people will say that I am an activist – If I am an activist, it is one for spirit and the connection with self that we desperately crave. We all need the reminder of connection with self and others; Balance is vital in this world.“

Artists Talk with LVA: January 9, 2025

Bailey and Andrew

KyCAD faculty Andrew Cozzens & Bailey Moorhead joined us to talk about the school recently being granted institutional accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Andrew Cozzens is a visual artist who researches time subjectivity and its effect on human experience and aging. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at Georgian in Ontario, Canada; the Arenes du Lutece in Paris, France; SCOPE at Art Basel in Miami Beach, FL; a solo exhibition during the Taipei Biennial in Taipei, Taiwan; Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO; and the Siena Art Institute in Siena, Italy. In 2018 he received his second Artist Development Grant from the Great Meadows Foundation and in 2010 he was an Artist in Residence at the Cite’ Internationale Des in Paris, France. He is a contributing member of the International Society for the Study of Time, and recently Andrew has curated multiple exhibitions and has been published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies and the Louisville Health Equity Report.

Bailey Moorhead’s research and teaching interests are multidisciplinary, drawing together U.S. literature and history, film and media studies, writing studies, and gender studies. Recent areas of focus include modernism, historical materialism, and critical race theory. Bailey earned their PhD in English from the University of Mississippi, where they taught courses on literature and composition. They also served as the Assistant Director of the UM Writing Center for three years. Before joining the faculty at KyCAD, she spent time at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, teaching courses on writing, literature, film, and American Studies.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 2, 2025

“Shadows in the Sun” by Nathaniel Hendrickson & Douglas Lucas, opens at  Maybe Its Fate on January 4th, as part of its Winter Exhibitions, and the two artists speak with us about their collaboration. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

“Shadows in the Sun” is a collection of mixed media, sculpture, sound, film, video, photography, and more that squints at over thirteen years of collaboration and dialogue between Nathaniel Hendrickson and Douglas Lucas.

Nathaniel Hendrickson is an interdisciplinary artist, painter, curator, documentary filmmaker, and freelance producer based in Casey County, KY. Their work explores the edge of performance and visual art and has worked on collaborative projects internationally with the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Italy/Turkey/Lebanon/USA); Hyunji Park (Korea/Finland); Gianluigi Biagini (Finland/Italy); Pietro Varrasso (Belgium); They most recently staged an intervention with Pietro Varrasso at the University of Liege School of Architecture’s: Borderscapes 2023 on the unique geopolitical region of Mt. St. Pierre, and presented their work at the Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methodology conference at the University of Liege School of Anthropology. ‍

Based in an undisclosed location, Douglas Lucas works in various locations in the fields of sound, film, text, collage, performance, and installation. He has run two record labels; Arcana Machine, releasing esoteric sound recordings, and NONE Records, the only label ever to release anti-records exclusively. He also has curated numerous performances, exhibitions, and screenings.