Artists Talk with LVA: January 20, 2022

The Hite Art Institute presents Asia in Motion, an exhibition of contemporary work from students and faculty of the Hite Art Institute. Presented in Partnership with the 2022 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, the artwork in Asia in Motion presents the wide range of media and conceptual topics currently being explored by artists of Asian descent within the Hite Art Institute. 

Students participating in Asia in Motion include Jonathan Loyd (BFA), Xin Chen (MFA), Xuanyi Wang (MFA), Yuran Seo (BFA), Suyun Son (MFA) Shachaf Polakow (MFA) and Jingshuo Yang (MFA).Faculty participating include Ying Kit Chan, Moon-He Baik, Dimitri Kim, and Delin Lai.

In this interview we speak with three of the artists: Examining gender and cultural differences between China and the United States, artist Xuanyi Wang, who was born and raised in China before moving to the U.S., explores conceptions of the self within her artwork and specifically how the self is defined by and altered by one’s personal environment.

The photography of Shachaf Polakow, documents Palestinian resilience and resistance under the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank. As a member of the artist collective ActiveStills, Polakow seeks “to confront the Israeli settler-colonial project in the region of Palestine.”

Jingshuo Yang’s ink and watercolor illustrations for example, examine the connections between spiritual Chinese philosophy and the work of the Western philosopher Nietzsche. Using the butterfly as a symbol of peace and freedom, she juxtaposes the delicate tactility of the butterfly against chaotic and colorful washes of ink to explore ways of balancing the stress of the world with the search for inner tranquility.

Asia in Motion
January 14-February 18, 2022
Cressman Center for Visual Arts

Artists Talk with LVA: January 13, 2022

Tad DeSanto & Tia Wells are the newest members of Pyro Gallery and are exhibiting there together right now. That's what we talked about this week on Artists Talk With LVA, Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday @ 10 am.

Tad DeSanto is a 75-year-old self-taught artist who has been showing and selling his work since 2005. He has exhibited at the New York City Outsider Art Fair, the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile, Edenside Gallery, Gallery Hertz, Swanson Contemporary, the Good Folk Fest, and other venues. He has also sold work in Dallas, San Francisco, Phoenix, Ann Arbor, Lexington, Georgetown, CT, South Carolina, and Scotland! 

Tia Wells attended Governor’s School for the Arts in high school and graduated from UofL with a double major in Psychology and Fine Art where she studied with Mark Priest. The imagery in her large oil paintings is primarily naturalistic or hyper-realistic but she is beginning to explore digital painting and printmaking. 

THE TAD & TIA SHOW

January 7 through January 29, 2022 at Pyro Gallery
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12-6 pm, Sundays  1-4 pm
Closing Reception/Artist Talk: Saturday, January 29, 2-4pm

Artists Talk with LVA: January 6, 2022

Skylar Smith opens an exhibit at fifteenTWELVE this week and Megan Massie Ware is directing the world premiere of Zac Hoogendyk's play Ossietzky. We talk to all three this week on Artists Talk with LVA. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to listen in.

Skylar Smith is an artist, curator, and educator. Her work deals with micro and macro perceptions of the natural world, and human-scale politics that influence perception. 

She is a founding member of Kentucky College of Art + Design (KyCAD), and she has taught college-level art studio and art history courses for over a decade, in addition to teaching at non-profit and alternative-education venues.  

In 2020 Smith curated BallotBox, a contemporary art exhibition examining past and present voting rights with support from Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville Metro, Louisville Visual Art, and Great Meadows Foundation. BallotBox was on display in Louisville Metro Hall and at 21c Museum Louisville through March 2021. 

skylarsmith.com/
@skylarsmithart

Megan Massie Ware is an actress & director, known for the films Reading Kate & Wretch and the web series Bagged and Bored. Onstage she has worked with Kentucky Shakespeare, Stage one Family Theatre, Derby Dinner Playhouse & Actors Theatre.

Hailing from Arizona, Zac Campbell-Hoogendyk is an actor & playwright now working in Louisville. He has worked at the Repertory Theatre of St.Louis, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Gulfshore Playhouse in Florida, and several theatre companies in NYC.

Ossietzky: A Peace Play January 20 - 30 at The Mex Theatre in the KY Performing Arts Tickets at kentuckyperformingarts.org

Artebella On The Radio: December 30

.Brigit Truex, Fayette, Enrolled Member (Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi [Vermont], and Fred Nez-Keams, Anderson, Enrolled Member (Navajo) are both in the Native Reflections exhibit now in Metro Hall. They speak about their work and Fred performs on the flute this Thursday at 10 am. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each week to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission and the Kentucky Heritage Council worked together to invite American Indians living in Kentucky to share their visual art. A panel of American Indians and experts on Native American heritage selected works to include and the result is this amazing collection.

As required by law and custom, the Native Reflections exhibit labels indicate whether an artist is an enrolled member of a state- or federally-recognized tribe, or if they are not currently enrolled or recognized. Each artist is listed as either “Enrolled Member” or “Native Inspired.”

To learn more about how American Indian people receive or apply for enrolled status, contact the Kentucky Heritage Council or find links and resources at http://heritage.ky.gov.

Artebella On The Radio: December 23

Mary Carothers, new chair of the Hite Institute of Art & Design, & Kat Cox, the new Ceramics/Fiber instructor, join us this week to discuss new growth at U of L. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Mary Carothers has been a professor at Hite Art Institute, Louisville, Kentucky since 1998 and is currently the Department Chair. Her artworks are often site-specific. Carothers’ collaborative project with Sue Wrbican , The Frozen Car (2008) was featured on the Discovery Channel, Floating Seeds (2013), juried by COD+A (Commission of Design and Architecture) received an international merit award and most recently, her sculptural commission Beneath the Surface was recognized by Americans for the Arts as one of 38 of the most outstanding public art projects created in 2015. Beneath the Surface was reinstalled permanently at Great Meadows Estate owned by Al Shands in 2016. 

Originally from Southern California, Kat Cox joined the Fine Arts faculty at University of Louisville in the middle of 2021. Previously, Kat was living and working in Northern California as an Art Lab Technician and Adjunct Professor. She is a 2019 graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with her Masters of Fine Arts in Art focusing on ceramics. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach in the spring of 2015. She has worked in clay and fibers since a young age and uses both mediums within her work. Kat’s work has been exhibited at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, and The Epperson Gallery.