Artists Talk With LVA: August 18 2022

Ying Kit Chan is a Chinese American artist who was born in Hong Kong. In the 1970s, he studied art in several colleges in Hong Kong. In 1979, Chan continued his study in the United States and received his BFA from the University of Oklahoma (1981) and MFA from the University of Cincinnati (1983). Between 2003 and 2005, he attended the European Graduate School (Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought) in Saas-Fee (Switzerland) and Paris and has taken seminars with some of the world’s most visionary thinkers including the late Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard.

Chan has presented his artwork in over 200 exhibitions in the United States as well as in Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Korea, Japan, England, Hong Kong, Poland, Taiwan, and Portugal. He is currently a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Art and Design at the University of Louisville.

Moremen Gallery is pleased to announce Not In My Backyard: New Work by Ying Kit Chan, on view from August 26 through September 24. 2022, Moremen Gallery, 710 West Main Street, Louisville, KY

Artists Talk With LVA: August 4 2022

Pyro Gallery opens ZECK featuring Suzi Zimmerer, Juli Edberg, Nancy Currier, & Keith Kleespies on Aug 5 so we talked with the 4 artists. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk to LVA.

PYRO Gallery presents: ZECK featuring Suzi Zimmerer, Juli Edberg, Nancy Currier, and Keith Kleespies

August 5 - 28, 2022

Opening Reception: Friday, August 5, 6-9 P.M.

Gallery Talk: Sunday, August 7 AT 2 P.M.

Artists Talk with LVA: March 17, 2022

Clare Hirn received a significant scholarship to attend the New York Academy of Art – Graduate School of Figurative Art, located in Manhattan. The curriculum continues to focus on strong foundational skills for working “realistically” from life and the figure.

After graduating with her masters in painting and drawing in 1990, Hirn worked for a mural design firm in NYC, learning the techniques of working large scale. Upon returning to her hometown of Louisville, KY she pursued both mural work and her personal painting, participating and receiving awards in many regional shows. Hirn’s fine art murals and paintings grace many homes, businesses, and public spaces and have appeared in numerous publications.

Shohei Katayama is a Japanese American artist who explores the space between light and dark, life and death, beauty and danger, nature and man. His work includes line drawings, sculpture, and installation art. ​

Katayama received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center, the Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Art at the Frontier Award, and a finalist in the 21C Artadia award, among others. His work has been exhibited nationally, and internationally in Venice, Italy; New York; Portland, OR, and more. Katayama has participated in residencies in Norway; Brazil;  NJ; Tough Art Residency Program in Pittsburgh, PA, and at the Asia Institute Crane House in Louisville, KY.