Visual artists John Brooks & Andrew Cozzens will be joining us this week to talk about the changing landscape of gallery exhibits in the age of COVID. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10:00 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.
Visual artist and poet John Brooks explores themes of identity, memory, death, place, and the transformative power and emotional resonance of particular experiences and what Max Beckmann described as “the deepest feeling about the mystery of being. His Quappi Projects gallery is located in the NuLu neighborhood of Louisville.
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; 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. Recently Andrew has curated multiple exhibitions and his essay Simultaneity and the Parallax in Art: The Fallacy of Absolutes was published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies.
Andrew has taught Art History, Sculpture, Environmental Art, 3D Design, Field Study, Art Appreciation, and Drawing courses on the collegiate level. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Center for the Environment at the Kentucky College of Art and Design.