Artists Talk with LVA: January 2, 2025

“Shadows in the Sun” by Nathaniel Hendrickson & Douglas Lucas, opens at  Maybe Its Fate on January 4th, as part of its Winter Exhibitions, and the two artists speak with us about their collaboration. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

“Shadows in the Sun” is a collection of mixed media, sculpture, sound, film, video, photography, and more that squints at over thirteen years of collaboration and dialogue between Nathaniel Hendrickson and Douglas Lucas.

Nathaniel Hendrickson is an interdisciplinary artist, painter, curator, documentary filmmaker, and freelance producer based in Casey County, KY. Their work explores the edge of performance and visual art and has worked on collaborative projects internationally with the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Italy/Turkey/Lebanon/USA); Hyunji Park (Korea/Finland); Gianluigi Biagini (Finland/Italy); Pietro Varrasso (Belgium); They most recently staged an intervention with Pietro Varrasso at the University of Liege School of Architecture’s: Borderscapes 2023 on the unique geopolitical region of Mt. St. Pierre, and presented their work at the Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methodology conference at the University of Liege School of Anthropology. ‍

Based in an undisclosed location, Douglas Lucas works in various locations in the fields of sound, film, text, collage, performance, and installation. He has run two record labels; Arcana Machine, releasing esoteric sound recordings, and NONE Records, the only label ever to release anti-records exclusively. He also has curated numerous performances, exhibitions, and screenings.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 26, 2024

"New Beginnings" opens at Pyro Gallery on January 3 and will feature work by Janet Dake and Erica Chinise Wilcox, Janet joins us in the studio this week to talk about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Janet Dake is a figurative painter from Versailles, Kentucky, now based in Louisville. Her work is about people, both real and imagined. Dake’s paintings tell stories. Through intricate (and often made-up) backgrounds, Dake creates narratives that reflect contemporary social issues and cultural phenomena. In 2021 she completed an Artist Residency in Toronto, Canada, where she had her first solo show entitled Human Nature. In 2022, her work was selected for the Ferrara Showman Gallery for their annual No Dead Artists group show and the Post Roe Louisiana show at the Carrollton Gallery at Tulane University. Her work was recently displayed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for the annual Louisiana Contemporary showcase. Dake is currently a member of Pyro Gallery in Louisville, KY. 

“New Beginnings”, in which Janet will be exhibiting with Erica Chinise Wilcox, opens at Pyro Gallery on January 3, with a reception from 5:30-8:30 pm

Artists Talk with LVA: December 19, 2024

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is now open at Capacity Exchange Gallery, and we talk to the artist about her work. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

For over twenty years Elizabeth Foley has exhibited work regionally and has art on view at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington, UK Chandler Medical Center, May Department Stores, and Kentucky OneHealthcare Network.

She also taught art; five years at Wyoming Middle School in Wyoming, Ohio and fifteen years as the Upper School 3D Art Teacher at Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. Since moving to Louisville, she has also been teaching art at Assumption High School.

Elizabeth is a founding member of the Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative in Lexington and was Executive Director for ten years.

She is a member of the Kentucky Crafted Program, the Kentucky Arts Council Artist in Residence Program, and was a cohort in the 2017-18 Hadley Creatives Program. In 2020 she received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is showing at Capacity Contemporary Exchange through January 5.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 12, 2024

Ken McCormick’s Wild Bison Boulevard installation took place on the Portland Wharf in Louisville in September 2024. He also participated in the 2024 Open Studio Weekend. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA

“It’s the obligation of each new generation of artists to repaint the icons on the walls of the cave.”

Ken McCormick is a visual artist and deep ecology advocate who traces his ancestry back to the cave painters of France and Spain— the richest source of Palaeolithic art in the world. Ken paints modern art from a neo-archaic perspective, reworking the themes of Indigenous and pre-agricultural small-scale societies for a contemporary audience in contemporary times. As his ancestors ventured into these caves, painting their visions onto the walls— so too he speaks with respect for the spirit of our wild lands and the rewilding of human values.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 5, 2024

John & Peter outside the WXOX Studios.

Lida Gordon: Process and Materials runs December 6 through February 25, 2025 at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. There will be an opening reception Friday, December 6 from 5 - 7 pm.

Peter Bodnar III is an artist living in Louisville and Vinalhaven, Maine. He was an Assistant Professor at the Louisville School of Art from 1976 to 1983 and has taught at the University of Louisville. He was also a Visiting Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Spalding University. 

John Begley is a Printmaker, Installation, and Video Artist. From 1975 to 2014 he was a Curator and Gallery Director, including 19 years as Executive Director of LVA and several years with the UofL’s Hite Art Institute.

Lida Gordon's drawings and installations deal with archetypical female imagery in a contemporary context. She won many fellowships and awards including the Al Smith Fellowship: Kentucky Arts Council- National Endowment for the Arts in 1993, the Southern Arts Federation - National Endowment for the Arts in 1992, the Kentucky Arts Council Professional Assistance Award Fellowship in 1992, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women Visual Arts Grant in 1988. She was an Assistant Professor at the Louisville School of Art and founded the Fiber Art department at the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute for Art + Design.