Spring 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

John Day: Light Without Memory
February 14 - February 28, 2025
Reception: Friday February 21, 6-8pm

MFA Gallery
1616 Rowan St
Louisville, KY 40203

In confronting the tension between visual language and its inability to fully retain or communicate personal history, the work considers photography not as a fixed document, but as a fragmented and evolving dialogue between presence and absence. Using photographic and digital processes, the work reflects on the shifting role of photography as a personal and collective tool for preservation. As physical images deteriorate, their transformation into artifacts of loss parallels the expansion of digital imagery, where unprecedented volume and algorithmic organization further detach images from lived experience. 

A reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday February 21 from 6-8pm. This event is free and open to the public. 

Eisey Eisenhardt: I'm Still Eating Crayons
Reception: Thursday March 6, 2025 | 6-8pm
MFA Studios Gallery | 1616 Rowan St Louisville, KY

Please join us for the second of our Spring 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions! 

I'm Still Eating Crayonsserves as a reflection of past events experienced in trying conditions after many years of ruminating. Not all made discoveries were victories, nor do they place my conscious in a better position than it was at the height of my past confusions. However, the acknowledgment of the past’s affects/effects now has offered extended clarity mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally through a reparative mode. This exhibition is that acknowledgment, orchestrated in the only way I can feasibly imagine it at this point in time. It has been designed to grow, be destroyed, repurposed, and re-imagined as many times as necessary to keep up with the momentum of life, as new understandings arise. 

Vitrification in the Post-Cataclysmic Era
John Clay, MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 4 - April 11, 2025

Reception: Friday April 4, 2025 | 5-7pm
Wood F. Axton Gallery | Enlightenment Technologies Inc
1616 Rowan Street Louisville, KY 40203

At the behest of the Morris-Reynolds Company, Enlightenment Technologies is pleased to present an examination of innovations in the field of Vitrification through the lens of our sponsored artist, John Clay. 

A reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday April 4th from 5-7pm at the Wood F. Axton Gallery, located on the first floor of ETI’s Louisville branch offices in the historic Portland neighborhood. This event is free and open to the public. 

Image Courtesey of Morris-Reynolds’ Co. 

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Exhibition: Untitled: Study 
A solo exhibition by Annabela Cockrell
April 18 - May 11, 2025
Reception: Saturday April 18 | 6-8 PM

Free and open to the public! Join us!