Current Exhibitions
Our 2nd and 3rd floor galleries will be closed until November 15th as we prepare three new exhibitions. These new exhibitions will open with Vernissage, an exhibition preview series, on November 15th, 5-8 PM.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Tiffany Calvert: The Tulips are too Excitable
November 15th, 2024 - March 2nd, 2025
At the foundation of Tiffany Calvert’s work is a disruption of the binary—between craft and new media, the technology of the past and present, the physical and the incorporeal. Using Dutch still life tradition both as inspiration and data, Calvert’s work presents questions related to the screen space, the role of technology within craft, and the perceived incompatibility between the latter.
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The Tulips are too Excitable features work core to Calvert’s practice involving still life tradition, AI machine learning, and painterly abstraction. Combining old and new media, Calvert’s work asks the viewer to consider the impact of the digital screen on the ways in which visual culture is generated and consumed. As the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence turns towards the ethics of cultural production, Calvert’s work exposes the inherent failures that differentiate the machine from the human hand.
Gee Horton: Chapter 3, Be Home Before the Streetlights
November 15th, 2024 - March 2nd, 2025
Chapter 3, Be Home Before the Streetlights is the third installment in a trilogy of exhibitions by Louisville born, Cincinnati based artist Gee Horton. After presenting Chapters 1 and 2 in Cincinnati, Chapter 3 marks Horton’s first time showing in his hometown of Louisville as well as his first solo museum exhibition. Centering on deeply personal stories from his own past along with present day scenes depicting his family still here in Louisville, his images also embody a universal quest for grace, rehabilitation, peace, and reconciliation.
Featuring new additions to his ongoing series of large photorealist drawings, Chapter 3 combines works from the past five years in photography, video, charcoal, graphite, and collage, with found objects and installations using materials from his family archives. Together, his work details his reflections on Black masculinity, family memory, and his own reveries over childhood and youth.
Aqueous USA: The Kentucky Watercolor Society
November 15th, 2024 - January 26th, 2025
The Kentucky Watercolor Society and KMAC are pleased to present the 47th National Exhibition of Aqueous USA. This year’s exhibit is juried and selected by David Becker, an artist, illustrator, author of two books, and an instructor who has taught for over 40 years. The 47th Annual Kentucky Watercolor Society Exhibition, "Aqueous USA 2024," presents a stunning and varied collection of the finest watercolor paintings from across the United States, exhibited within the distinguished walls of the KMAC Contemporary Art Museum. Each work invites viewers to experience unique narratives through the power of creative expression.
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