Catherine Irwin

18" X 24"

oil, gouache and acrylic paints, colored pencils and crayons on a wooden panel.

$2500

Catherine Irwin is a painter and songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky. Her paintings can be found in the homes of some rich people -- who's dining rooms she also may have painted -- as well as in the private collections of certain well-connected hipsters across the land.

Catherine Irwin makes records under her own name, and with the bands FreakWater and FREAKONS. 

Letetia Quesenberry

17 x 14

panel, plaster, paint, film, resin

2022

$1800

Letitia Quesenberry lives and works in Louisville, KY, and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati. Through the play of material, surface and process, she creates layered objects that expose anomalies in optical experience. Recent solo exhibitions include New Discretions, New York and David Smith Gallery, Denver CO. Her work has been exhibited with 57W57, New York; Ryan Lee Gallery, New York; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville; the Speed Art Museum, Louisville. She is the recipient of grants from SouthArts, Great Meadows Foundation, as well as the Al Smith Fellowship, the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and the Vermont Studio Center Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship.

Scott Anderson

20” x 20” 

acrylic on panel

 2024

$750

Scott T. Anderson is a representational painter whose work sometimes veers into abstraction. His work is practiced through the scope of a lost nostalgia and his interest in the processes of time, history and myth. He often employs archetypes of Americana from the vantage point of modern western life. He currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Wendy Walker Silverman

acrylic on canvas

 60 x 36

 2024

 $4500

Wendy Walker Silverman is a Nashville-based painter who received a B.F.A. in Studio Art from Louisiana Tech University. Represented by Tinney Contemporary, her work is in private collections throughout the U.S. and multiple corporate collections, including Four Seasons Nashville and Pinnacle Bank.

John Brooks

20 x 16

oil on canvas

2021

$2200

Visual artist and poet John Brooks explores themes of Queer identity, memory, death, and place; his work is centered around questions of contemplation, the expression of emotion, the transformative power and the emotional resonance of particular experiences and what Max Beckmann described as “the deepest feeling about the mystery of being.”

Brett Douglas Hunter

acrylic on wood silhouette

10 x 12

$200

Creatures, monsters, cryptids, crinoids… whatever you want to call them, Brett Douglas Hunter is known for making large sculptures using papercrete. Lately he has been scaling back with plywood cutouts, impulsively searching for new weird trails to follow.

Elsa Hansen Oldham

courtesy of Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami

37 x 54.5

gold, silver, silk, velvet and ribbon hand embroidery on linen.

2023

$14,000

Elsa Hansen Oldham (b. 1986) embroiders fiber works with an eccentric array of tiny characters plucked from history, pop culture, politics, and personal association. Using a cross-stitching technique that resembles early computer graphics, her finished works merge the look of arcane digital rendering and traditional American craft. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Oldham worked for the artist Tom Sachs in New York. Her influences include video game design, Agnes Martin, Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, and Gunta Stölzl.

A statement about the piece:

“I am so honored to be a part of this show.  David was such an incredible human being and inspiring artist.  He was the first character that I stitched on this piece.  We miss him deeply and will always be grateful for his contributions to our lives.”  

Elsa Hansen Oldham

Richard Peyton

hand painted end table

21 x 29.5 x 17

2024

$500

Richard Peyton is one of the most prolific artists to arise from the Louisville underground. For most of his life, he has created drawings, paintings, cartoons, and elaborately illustrated sketchbooks. Although he sometimes makes detailed realistic portraits, much of his work flows ceaselessly between representation and abstraction, words giving way to shapes and figures becoming language. Known to many as “Mooch,” Peyton first entered the public eye with the original flyers, posters, and t-shirts he designed for punk rock bands like Kinghorse and Malignant Growth. For many years now, he has decorated repurposed furniture with bold geometric designs, including each hand-painted bookshelf at Surface Noise. Peyton lives with his wife Lisa in Audubon Park, where he continues to draw, paint, and fix welding equipment as a way of life.

Elizabeth Williams and Kevin Reilly

model 747 airplane, polymer clay, rotten candy purple acrylic paint, polyester batting, dye

$800

J.E.Williams (b.1986), a native East Tennessean, lives and works in Ashland City. By day, Williams helms New Hat Projects, a surface design studio co-founded in 2016. By night, there is dabbling.

Kevin Reilly is an artist and musician living in Ashland City, TN. His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nashville Review, Seven Days, Public Books, The Rumpus and other publications amenable to smudged-pencil genre fiction and moth-related ephemera. He fixes bicycles to make ends meet and enjoys strolling and pondering in the woods in his free time. @kevinb_reilly. 

In one of his most affecting poems, The Double Bell of Heat, David imagines the moment a deaf child sees the Slow Deaf Child sign being installed on his street: “He watches it out the window, knowing what it is, watching it gather the world around it like a mountain in the Bible.” Encountering David’s art had a similar world-gathering effect on our lives: it pointed to another America – a far daffier, dreamier, wittier and more heartbreaking place than we could access in the bedrooms of our suburban childhoods. And yet, it affirmed something we’d somehow always known: that great art can be silly and serious and stupid and smart all at once. It felt like the only way for us to respond to this show was to make something that, we hope, David would recognize as the fruit of his labor.

Nick Woods

ink and watercolor on cold press paper

30 x 22

2024

$1800

Nick Woods is a songwriter and visual artist who splits his time between Nashville, Tennessee and Richmond, Virginia.

Julia Martin

wax pastel and latex on archival paper

18 x 21

2024

$650

Julia Martin, a native Nashvillian, is a visual artist and owner of the eponymously named gallery that opened in 2013.

 About the piece:

Begun in 2019, and finished in 2024, this piece has always reminded me a little of Rabbi Flip - a very kind, colorful and welcoming rabbi.

Cierra Evans

24 x 30

Oil on Canvas

$1800

Ceirra Evans is a Kentucky (US) based painter depicting Appalachia and the working-class southern narrative. Ceirra’s work has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, The New Yorker and other publications. Her work has been exhibited in 21c Museums in Louisville, Kentucky and Bentonville, Arkansas. In 2023, Ceirra had a solo show “Come Home With Me” at Virginia Tech’s Perspective Gallery (Blacksburg, VA) and a solo show “A Wild Weed '' at Gallerie Geraldine Banier (Paris, France). Her most recent show “Be Careful Out There” was held at Moremen Gallery (Louisville, KY). Her work is held in multiple private collections in the United States and UK. Ceirra has a degree in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies from Spalding University (Louisville, KY). She currently lives and works in Louisville, KY.

Sabrina Rush

giclée print on photo luster paper

$500

*unframed prints available upon request

Sabrina Rush is a musician and artist living in Nashville, Tennessee. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, dropped out, joined a band, and spent the next 11 years of her life touring. Her visual art practice is largely private. She shares her endeavors here for the first time in 15 years. 

Wayne White

Acrylic on found vintage landscape painting

$20,000

If you are unfamiliar with the genius of Wayne White, there is an exceptional documentary film called Beauty is Embarrassing, a deeply inspiring TedTalk, a highly entertaining interview at Google headquarters, five seasons of PeeWee’s Playhouse – for which Wayne created loads of sets and puppets – and so much more for you to sink your teeth into. Get to work.