Artists Talk With LVA: May 19, 2022

Teri Dryden & Andrew Preston are both opening new exhibits on May 21 and came together to talk about it with us. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Teri Dryden is a Louisville, Kentucky-based artist, having moved here from Los Angeles following a career in theater and performance. A fiber artist for several years, she eventually became an abstract painter and collage artist.

She is a member of the Collage Artists of America, National Collage Society, and Women Painters West. Her work is included in many private and public collections and has been exhibited in numerous solo, group, and juried exhibitions across the U.S. Her solo show, And We Floated On Home, opens at WheelHouse Art on May 21.

Andrew Preston is the owner/manager of Preston Art Center, a locally owned family business since 1941. But he is also an artist who will be exhibiting his most recent work in Putting the Bling in Marbling to be shown at Preston Art Center’s Jeffersonville location also beginning May 21.

Artebella On The Radio: August 26

Susan Harrison is an artist & educator and is exhibiting at Pyro in September and she will be talking about it with us this Thursday morning. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am.

From September 3 through 26, 2021, Pyro Gallery will present Staying Cozy During Covid: Comfort Designs by Suzy Harrison, featuring the member artist's textile installation derived from her sketchbook India ink designs created in 2020 and 2021. Presented in the form of digitized patterns output into woven blankets, the textiles address what it means to seek comfort during the isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic timeframe.

Harrison's installation runs September 3-26, with a First Friday Reception on September 3 from 6-9 pm and a Sunday Reception on September 5 from 1-4 pm. The show closes with an artist talk at 2 pm on September 26.  

She ia a resident and educator at Brick Street Studios, along with artists Katherine McCadden and Shamia Gaither. Its next public exhibition, entitled "Transitions"  will take place at the end of August. The opening reception is Friday, August 27th from 5 to 9 pm.

Artebella On The Radio: July 8

This week we spoke with Uhma Janus whose solo exhibit is now at Mellwood Art Center. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM or stream on Artxfm.com at 10 m each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Uhma Janus — “Beginnings” at Mellwood Art Center through July 30

Uhma Janus is a native of León, Guanajuato, México.. Her work includes abstract pieces, monographs, and portraits. Some of the elements that can be recognized in them reflect her interests in the fundamental, in all that exists as interconnected and in their inherent dynamism as complex systems, in the disciplines of Geometry, Physics, Biology, Neuroscience, and human physiology.

Her abstract work is emergent from the cyclical repetition of the becoming and unfolding of each trace of a line.

Artebella On The Radio: May 20

Hite Institute just graduated some new MFA candidates and this week we talk with two of them, Karen Weeks & Megan Bickel. Tune in to WXOX 97.1, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to her Keith Waits talk with artists.

Megan Bickel is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer who was a Community Educator at Art Academy of Cincinnati and who operates Houseguest, an independent artist-run project space located in Louisville. Her exhibit l is meditating on two words as they relate to one another in our current moment: illusion and allusion. Specifically, this manifests by inquiring as to how we consume visual data, the probability of factual 'truths,' and cultivating safe, imaginative spaces for the viewer to conceive of ethically superior realities.

Karen Weeks is also a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked with fiber and a lot with the letterpress print studio. Her exhibit, Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions, is comprised of images sourced from common ephemera of the home meant to represent the everyday: notes, discarded letters, open envelopes, unfinished knitting, garments, drawings, math homework. The works in this show seek to reimage this detritus by (re)organizing it into constructed passages that bear witness to the commonalities to be found in homemaking and artmaking, aesthetics and the commonplace, economics, and whining. They are abstract representations of that which is contained within us, by way of what collects in our homes, representations of the aesthetics of and the profundities contained within the mundane.

Megan Bickel, Karen Weeks, Katherine Watts & Rachid Tagoulla

MFA Exhibition
May 7-July 9, 2021

Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202

Artebella On The Radio: May 13

Shayne Hull is showing at 1512 Portland Avenue & Lori Larusso is at Quappi Projects, so I talked with them about the work now on public display. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am.

SHAYNE HULL is an award-winning Louisville-based artist. His paintings have been shown regionally, nationally, and internationally in over 175 exhibits, including 25 solo shows. His work can be found in the public collections of Brown-Forman, 21 C Museum, and the Kentucky Arts Council, as well as the private collections of Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown and the Rev. Al Shands.

Hull has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Maryland Institute, College of Art; a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from the University of Louisville

For 20 years Lori Larusso’s art has graced local, national and international venues. Her consistently experimental and evolving work has earned her multiple awards from the Great Meadows Foundation, SouthArts, Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women. Additionally, Lori has been awarded numerous residency fellowships from institutions including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, MacDowell, and chaNorth. She was the recipient of the 2020 Bill Fischer Award for the Visual Arts from the Community Foundation of Louisville and Louisville Visual Art. Her first solo show in Louisville “Rogue Intensities” is currently up at Quappi Projects through June 12.

Lori’s work is represented by Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, and Mulberry & Lime and Eastin Creative in Lexington, Kentucky. She currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.