Current Exhibitions
Licia Priest: I Am We
​Crafting Community in Paper Tole
April 25th - August 17th, 2025
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Since the mid 1980’s, Louisville based artist Licia Priest has been teaching art and developing a practice that brings together her experiences working in painting, fiber art, sculpture, and photography. Her most recent work emerged from a research trip to Zimbabwe where she documented the food, flora and fauna, architecture, city, rural and family life, along with views and customs of care for the elderly. Photos from this trip are manipulated, first through digital color changes, merging scenes, and alterations to line, space, and shape. Priest then cuts up and organizes copies of her treated photos into multi-layered images that create the perception of depth. Her contoured figures and stacked layers ultimately become impressive, wall-mounted, high relief sculptures.
Licia Priest, The Chariot of Tradition, 2025. Archival inkjet print, acrylic, mixed media.
where the rivers run muddy and the mountains are bare
May 30th - August 17th, 2025
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The 2025 KMAC Triennial, where the rivers run muddy and the mountains are bare, explores artists’ relationship with the natural world and the ways in which we navigate our changing planet amid climate crises and an augmented physical connection to our environment. The exhibition questions how the ever-widening gulf between the real and the virtual can be mediated through artistic practice. Furthermore, the exhibition underscores Kentucky’s striking landscape and identity in the wake of political conflict, resource extraction, and extraordinary weather events.​
Upcoming Exhibitions
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The South Arts 2025 Exhibition of the Southern Prize and State Fellows for Visual Arts
August 30th - November 2nd, 2025
Reception: Friday, August 29th from 5:00 - 8:00 PM
$8 at the door, FREE to KMAC Members
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Established in 2017, the Southern Prize and State Fellowships
program was created to bring more visibility to the artistic
talent and breadth among the Southeastern region.
Artists: Loretta Pettway Bennett (Alabama), Gonzalo Fuenmayor (Florida), Masela Nkolo (Georgia), Travis Townsend (Kentucky), Edgar Cano (Louisiana), Stephen Phillips (Mississippi), Lydia Thompson (North Carolina), Felicia Greenlee (South Carolina), and Tabitha Arnold (Tennessee). Learn more about SouthArts at southarts.org/programs/exhibitions-previous-state-fellows.
Travis Townsend, One Fine Thing,1 993 - 2023. Plywood, wood, paint, clamps, string, and mixed media.
UNREST
In Conjunction with the Louisville Photo Biennial
August 30th - November 2nd, 2025​
Reception: Saturday, August 30th from 5:00 - 9:00 PM
$8 at the door, FREE to KMAC Members
Unrest, the first solo exhibition by Louisville native, New York-based photographer Urban Wyatt, is a coming-of-age story of wanderlust and homesickness. Best known as the photographer behind Jack Harlow's album covers, including the viral image for his 2023 album "Jackman," Wyatt places a spotlight on counterculture as the camera becomes an extension of the artist himself, mediating the spaces between the confidence and uneasiness of newfound independence from one's hometown.
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