Artists Talk with LVA: July 27, 2023

Lucy Azubuike is showing with Cheryl Chapman at Galerie Hertz this weekend and this Thursday we will be speaking with her live. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Born in 1972, Lucy Azubuike's creative work was primarily influenced by the 1980s. The 1980s were an era of increasing global capitalism, political upheaval, worldwide mass media, wealth discrepancies, and distinctive music and fashion, characterized by hip-hop and electronic pop music. 

This greatly impacted the generation of artists growing up during this era. The fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 1980s marked the end of the Cold War, yet the African Famine also marked the period. During this time influential art movements included Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation, and Neo-Expressionism, which took a stronghold in Germany, France, and Italy. Artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorf, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel were key artists working during this period, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf, who established the street art and graffiti movements, which quickly gained recognition.

Nature Inspired, works by Lucy Azubuike and Cheryl Chapman, opens at Galerie Hertz on Saturday, July 29 with a reception 1- 4 pm

Artists Talk With LVA: October 13, 2022

Open Studio Louisville begins this Saturday so this week features two artists participating for the first time: Rhonda Goodall & Tomisha Loveley-Allen. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Rhonda K. Goodall is a painter living in Louisville, KY.  From her passionate support of the arts to her charitable and civic activities, Goodall is a beloved pillar of the community.  She is the principal and owner of her own consulting firm, Rhonda Goodall – Cre8ive Soulutions, which operates out of Goodall Gallery in the heart of the Clifton neighborhood.  She received her B.S. in Design from Eastern Kentucky University.  Her intuitive approach to art and design naturally ushered her into the forefront of a burgeoning, holistic faction of visionaries evolving the way humans inspire and inhabit spaces. 

Goodall’s paintings are the way she moves through the world; they are a concise expression of natural systems and the complex nuance of human emotion.  She awakens in one ideas they have yet to consider, revealing the true essence of life and channeling abundant heart energy onto canvas. 

Tomisha Lovely-Allen is a self-taught artist from Louisville, KY.  She earned a full scholarship at Northern Kentucky University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Accounting and Associate in Business Administration in 1998 and earned a Certified Public Accountant license in 2002. 

Tomisha began experimenting with watercolor, oil, and acrylics in 2002 but was most taken with oils and has concentrated on that medium and is drawn to figurative and portraiture.   

She has participated in art shows at the Portland Museum, Wayside Expressions Gallery, Maker’s Crucible, Kore Gallery, Roots 101 Museum (curated by Ashley Cathey), and most recently at the Arts Center of the Bluegrass. She obtained a spot to illustrate a historic Kentucky woman in the “Bluegrass Bold” children’s book project along with 35 other female artists, and she has exhibited in the Arts Center of the Bluegrass Show  “The Art of Being Black: Conversations and Experience,” and is a grant recipient from the Louisville Fund for the Arts '“Black Artist Grant”.

Artists Talk With LVA: May 12, 2022

Sarah Battle has been researching Louisville-born artist Kenneth Victor Young & the Louisville Black Artists Renaissance of the mid-20th century. She tells us all about it this week on Artists Talk with LVA. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am.

Sarah Battle works in the education division at the National Gallery of Art and also researches Washington Color School artist Kenneth Victor Young. Sarah has spent much of the last few months on sabbatical to better understand Young's formative years as a painter in Louisville through an oral history project. This project aims to document the mid-century Black art scene in Louisville, KY. The oral history project is made possible thanks to the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and the University of Louisville.

On May 6 she presented her current research on Washington Color School artist Kenneth Young at the 2022 DC History Conference organized by the DC History Center and DC Public Library !

Artists Talk with LVA: February 24, 2022

Andre Kimo Stone Guess is an internationally respected leader who has over 25 years of executive experience. He previously served as CEO of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh and was VP and Producer for Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. In June 2021 he became the President & CEO of the Louisville Fund for the Arts.

Andre's consulting clients include: The Pew Charitable Trusts, William Penn Foundation, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, The Clef Club in Philadelphia, Signature Theatre, MCC Theater, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City Opera, The Esplanade in Singapore, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Aspen Institute, Manhattan Theater Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Workshop, Inc. (Estate of Charles Mingus), Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, Soulful Symphony, Wynton Marsalis Enterprises, Inc. and the Brooklyn Music School. Music management clients include: Christian McBride, Darin Atwater, Sean Jones, Aaron Diehl, Warren Wolf and Nicholas Payton.

Andre received a B.S. in Economics with a minor in Actuarial Mathematics from the University of Louisville. He has finished coursework and completed the comprehensive examinations for a PhD in Urban and Public Affairs with a concentration in Policy Analysis and Evaluation, also at the University of Louisville.  

Andre has served as producer for several recording projects, including one that won a Grammy.  He is also a writer and cultural critic with works published by USA Today, The Courier-Journal, The Root, The Grio and ESPN’s The Undefeated.

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.