WheelHouse Art

WheelHouse Art WheelHouse Art, LOU
2650 Frankfort Ave., Louisville, KY 40206
(502) 896-6687
[email protected]
Tues-F 10-5:30, Sat 10-3

WheelHouse Art, LEX
500 W.
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Short St., Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 266-2766
[email protected]
Wed-Sat, Noon - 5pm WheelHouse Art is an art gallery that has been operating out of Louisville, KY since 1990. WheelHouse Art serves the art community by providing quality digital and physical contemporary fine art, museum-quality custom framing, art installation, and other art services. WheelHouse Art represents local, regional, and

national artists. Artists exhibiting with WheelHouse Art:
Betsy Anderson, Stephen Brown, Richard Bruland, Lynn Carden, Gary Carpenter, Madison Cawein, Henry Chodkowski, Teri Dryden, Pam Folsom, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Robyn Gibson, Ellen Glasgow, Gwen Gugell, Carolyn Young Hisel, Ming Ying Hong, Kit-Keung Kan, John Paul Kesling, Robert Knipschild, Stacy Leeman, Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid, Yasharel Manzy, Matthew McDole, Colleen Merrill, Yoko Molotov, Monique Motiff, Cynthia Kelly Overall, Barbara Pihos, Carolyn Plochmann, Liz Price, Martin Rollins, Tony Saladino, Richard Schlecht, Patricia Seggebruch, David Shiner, Keith Spears, Robert Stagg, Jeffrey Vaughn, Steven Walker, M.P. Wiggins, Barbara Young, Aggie Zed.

Coming up at WheelHouse Art, LOU...Wednesday, JULY 1: "Out There, In Here," GARY CARPENTER at The Wine RoomOpening Recep...
06/23/2026

Coming up at WheelHouse Art, LOU...
Wednesday, JULY 1:
"Out There, In Here," GARY CARPENTER at The Wine Room
Opening Reception Wednesday, 6:00 - 8:00pm
2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206

Thursday, JULY 2:
"Shawn Spills the Tea" at WheelHouse Art, LOU. Join us for tea, snacks, a collage art demonstration, and Q&A with featured artist Shawn Marshall.
5:30 - 7:00pm
2650 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206 https://nps.soundestlink.com/ce/v/0/6a39e4f203ec671f7a151fe2

Louisville lost a giant this weekend. Porter Watkins was the kindest, most supportive person in the Louisville visual ar...
06/21/2026

Louisville lost a giant this weekend. Porter Watkins was the kindest, most supportive person in the Louisville visual art community and beyond.
WheelHouse Art sends our condolences to her family. We will miss her so, and give thanks for everything she blessed us with. Thank you, Porter, and God bless.

06/19/2026

Get 15%/Give 15%!
Have you picked up your artwork from LVA’s 13th annual art[squared] auction yet?

Get 15% off when you frame your art[squared] winning pieces in a white float frame by Studio Moulding, and WheelHouse Art will donate an additional 15% of every sale back to LVA! It’s a WIN-WIN!

Only $98 to frame the standard 8 x 8 inch canvases (like this one by Aberlyn Sweetland-May), or $123 for the standard 12 x 12 inch canvases!

Some restrictions apply, contact WheelHouse Art, LOU for details.

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patrick ADAMS + teri DRYDEN: pieced TOGETHER Adams’s canvas-based works are constructed through painted layers, scratche...
06/18/2026

patrick ADAMS + teri DRYDEN: pieced TOGETHER

Adams’s canvas-based works are constructed through painted layers, scratched marks, and fragments of older
painted surfaces. His compositions carry the energy of revision and discovery, balancing painterly gesture with
a strong sense of structure.

Dryden’s mixed media works are built from paper, drawing, paint, and found materials. Her panels hold traces
of memory, place, impermanence, and personal history, with surfaces that feel intimate, intuitive, and alive with
texture.

Together, the artists create a compelling conversation around what it means to build an image from parts. In
pieced TOGETHER, collage becomes more than a material process. It becomes a way of thinking about time,
memory, change, and the transformation of one thing into another.

WheelHouse Art, LEX
📍500 W. Short Street
Lexington, KY 40507

On view through July 25, 2026
Gallery Hop: Friday, July 17, 5:00 – 8:00pm

Featured:
TERI DRYDEN
Heart of the Matter, 16 x 12 inches
The Solstice of Open Spaces (Violet), 14 x 11 inches
Most Important are the Pauses, 16 x 12 inches

PATRICK ADAMS
Further Up, Further In, 72 x 75 inches
At First Light, 48 x 37 inches

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06/16/2026

Patrick Smith engages the human body as both subject and symbol. Figures are rendered with striking attention to detail—skin tones, anatomical structure, tattoos, adornments, and surface imperfections are all treated with equal importance. His compositions often combine vulnerability with iconography: skulls, serpents, ornamental patterns, and tattoo imagery appear alongside the figure, transforming portraiture into a layered visual language that addresses identity, mortality, desire, and transformation.

While some viewers may initially interpret the work as provocative, Smith’s approach is deeply rooted in one of the oldest traditions in Western art: the sustained study of the human figure. In ancient Greece, the n**e emerged as a central artistic subject because the human body was understood as an embodiment of ideal beauty, proportion, and intellectual virtue. Rather than being inherently controversial, the n**e was a means of exploring what it meant to be fully human.

Patrick Smith’s solo exhibition “Full Sized Bigger Work” is in view through July 4, 2026 at WheelHouse Art, LOU

📍2650 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206

Featured:
PATRICK SMITH
“Karri”
Acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches
$5000.00

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06/16/2026

Two artists. Two cities. Two distinct material languages.

In pieced TOGETHER, Patrick Adams and Teri Dryden each build abstract works through layers, marks, fragments, and surface history. Adams works primarily through paint and canvas, while Dryden works through paper, panel, drawing, and collage. Both artists allow evidence of process to remain visible: scratching, covering, revealing, revising, and rebuilding.

The result is an exhibition about abstraction, memory, imperfection, and the beauty of things assembled over time.

patrick ADAMS + teri DRYDEN: pieced TOGETHER
June 12 – July 25

WheelHouse Art, LEX
📍500 W. Short Street, Lexington, KY

06/15/2026

Coming soon to a gallery near you.

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06/11/2026

“My recent works engage the tradition of the still life as a site of concealed meaning. What initially reads as lush and ornamental abundance, cascading blooms drawn from the Dutch vanitas tradition, reveals itself on closer inspection to be a more unsettling anatomy. Women’s bodies are fragmented, miniaturized, and absorbed into the floral arrangements: figures nestle inside blooms like ornaments, legs emerge upended from bouquets, forms are engulfed and reduced to decorative element. Scattered throughout are fragments of commercial culture, from pharmaceutical advertising to convenience store signage, tucked into the botanical splendor like uninvited guests. The irregular shaped panels themselves participate in this logic, their organic contours mimicking the very excess they contain. By folding these elements into the familiar language of beauty and floral abundance, the work exposes what that language has always obscured: the staging, display, and consumption of the female form as aesthetic object.”
—Shawn Marshall

“un-still,” a new collection of work by Shawn Marshall is on view at WheelHouse Art, LOU through July 4, 2026.
📍2650 Frankfort Ave., Louisville, KY 40206

Featured:
SHAWN MARSHALL
“Trophy”
3 layers of hand-cut collage and archival resin on custom-cut wood panel
22 x 17 inches
$1900.00
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06/10/2026

OPENING THIS FRIDAY at WheelHouse Art, LEX:
patrick ADAMS + teri DRYDEN: pieced TOGETHER

This two-person exhibition brings together Lexington-based Patrick Adams and Louisville-based Teri Dryden,
two artists whose abstract works are built through layers, fragments, revision, and touch.

Adams works through paint, canvas, scratching, and the reuse of older painted surfaces. Dryden builds mixed
media works with paper, panel, drawing, and collage. Together, their work creates a conversation about
memory, material, and the act of piecing something new together.

Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 6–8pm
Gallery Hop: Friday, July 17, 5–8pm

WheelHouse Art, LEX
📍500 W. Short Street, Lexington, KY

06/10/2026

Patrick Smith is a Lexington, Kentucky–based painter whose work merges technical realism with psychological intensity. Recognized for his refined observational skill and distinctive visual language, Smith creates intimate, often unguarded portraits of individuals from within his personal circle. His work captures moments that feel both immediate and deeply symbolic, positioning him as a compelling voice within contemporary figurative painting.

At the core of Smith’s practice is a belief—echoing Oscar Wilde—that portraiture reveals more about the artist than the sitter. In his own words, the act of painting is inherently autobiographical, regardless of subject, and the impulse to morally evaluate an artist before engaging with their work diminishes the deeper, more human exchange that art offers. This philosophical stance is key to understanding the emotional and conceptual framework of his work.

Patrick Smith’s solo exhibition “Full Sized Bigger Work” is in view through July 4, 2026 at WheelHouse Art, LOU

📍2650 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206

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Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

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