MaybeItsFate

    1425 Story Avenue
    Louisville, KY 40206
    Website: maybeitsfate.com Facebook:/LouisvilleVisualArt Instagram: @louisvillevisualart
    Hours: Friday and Saturday, 1- 5pm

     

    Pieces

    Featuring Amanda Stoddard and curated by Sean Patrick hill

    Instagram: @amandadelmar

    Dates: September 5 – November 22, 2025

    Events:  Opening Reception September 6, 5:30-7:30pm (Artist Talk at 4pm)
    LASER Talks Louisville October 12th, 11am-1pm

     

    “My father meticulously documented my childhood, and I grew up flipping through our family photo albums. I felt drawn to that nostalgic view through the lens too- small pieces of the whole picture. My parents were married for seven years before having children, and nearly twenty before their divorce. Before I was born, my dad photographed their Alaskan camping adventures. I like to look at the mountains, admire the photos painstakingly posed with a tripod and timer. I like to imagine they were happy. This series explores the complexities of family history; and the role photography plays in
    shaping memory– its reliability, its distortions, and the way it lives as both object and image. My photographs reimagine family photos and keepsakes; combining, layering and re-photographing them to suggest the haunts of family history.

    Photographing a photograph produces a new memory–something familiar yet altered. Every photo in this series is created using the same Nikon 8008s my dad used to take many of the original photos depicted. In black and white, the objects and the image become part of the same visual language– married together in monochrome. The images invite the viewer into a private, shifting interior space– a kind of visual diary. Both memories and photographs are unreliable. Most are real, some are imagined, all are true. ” — Amanda Stoddard

     

    Preservation

    Featuring Mark Dorf

    Website: mdorf.com

    Dates: September 5 – November 22, 2025

    Events:  Opening Reception September 6, 5:30-8pm
    LASER Talks Louisville October 12th, 11am-1pm

    Preservation unfolds as an endlessly scrolling 3D scene, where golden trees are suspended within glass vitrines. These display cases evoke the aesthetics of a museum, a laboratory, and a
    medical facility all at once: spaces of observation, control, and care. Lit starkly from above and below, the trees within the vitrines stand among chrome rocks, as if they has been catalogued,
    archived, and re-staged—transformed into a precious commodity under a human logic. Outside the vitrines, fluorescent tubes and sheets of glass lie scattered, evoking the aftermath of this
    transformation.

    Alongside the animation, lens-based aerial footage of a forest flanks the scrolling digital tableau, pulsing in and out of visibility. These fleeting glimpses of a forest ecosystem contrast sharply
    with the rendered isolation of the vitrined trees, drawing attention to the tightly designed technological simulation.

    As climate collapse advances, Preservation reflects on the paradox of preservation under late capitalism—how ecological systems are both fetishized and destroyed, worshipped in abstraction while subjected to exploitation in practice. Within a culture saturated by images, other than human systems are increasingly encountered as a spectacle—circulated, aestheticized, and consumed as visual and experiential luxury. In isolating and aestheticizing trees as rare objects, the work questions the impulse to preserve through possession, containment, and display. It stages the false binary of Nature and Culture as a shared construction—one that simultaneously mourns what is lost and metaphorically replicates the systems that have contributed to that loss.

     

    Re/construct

    Featuring John Day and curated by Shachaf Polakow

    Instagram: @jgd.art

    Dates: September 5 – November 22, 2025

    Events:  Opening Reception September 6, 5:30-8pm
    LASER Talks Louisville October 12th, 11am-1pm

    Amidst overwhelming exposure, images now permeate our language and shape our worldviews more than ever, distorting our relationship to them and the power they hold. Historically, we sought to deepen their connection to the world — striving to capture subjects in rich detail and vivid color. Today, through advancing technology, we seek to alter them, reshaping that reality to reflect our desires.

    Using family photographs and their subjective nature, this work explores the mechanisms —both material and digital — that breathe life into memory and illusion. Through silver and pixels, we confront our relationship to the human experience: how we preserve it, reconstruct it, and attempt to connect through fragmentation present in photography.

     

    Unspecified Virtue

    Featuring Reuben Merringer

    Instagram:@reubenmerringer

    Dates: September 5 – November 22, 2025

    Events:  Opening Reception September 6, 5:30-8pm
    LASER Talks Louisville October 12th, 11am-1pm

    The photographic image is ubiquitous and in constant motion. Its familiarity as an arbiter of documentary truth is as old as its role in altering it, or its capacity for outright invention. Yet there is something like a virtue to any photographic presence, an aspiration to adhere to some captured perspective. The works in this exhibition incorporate old and new photographic printing media with readymade objects and traditional paint media to explore the photographic image, upending its logic to create space for speculation.

     

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