742 E. Market Street
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 414-1ART
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Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 11 am – 7 pm, Sunday – Monday: 11 am – 5pm
Galore
Featuring Ryan Grant
Dates: September 5 – 29, 2025
Events: Opening Reception September 5, 6 – 9 pm
Ryan Grant is a Louisville-based photographer who specializes in creating bold imagery consisting of vivid colors, dramatic lighting, and lens-obscuration. As a Commercial and Portrait photographer, Grant’s vision stylizes the mundane advertisement, headshot, or event image. Grant began his photographic journey in 2020 as a way to interact with the world through his own lens, leading him to ambitious photographic styles and prospects. He studied under fellow Louisville photographer Clay Cook, joining him in KMAC Couture, and the J.B. Speed Art Museum’s “Speed Ball” among other national commercial projects. In addition to his mentorship, Ryan has worked as a Production Assistant in the Film and Commercial Industry with companies and organizations such as Queer KY, The Anchal Project, Alani Nutrition, and Churchill Downs. As an emerging artist in Louisville’s photography community, he has proven himself to carry a dynamic voice to the medium, and continues to grow his craft.
Galore is a contemporary surrealist photography project in the dialogue of aesthetics in fashion photography. Signifying different gender expressions and body types, his images focus on the exploration of gender expression by utilizing elements such as costume, performance, and positioning. The direction of each photograph integrates his exploration of color balance, lens manipulation, and lighting distortions to invoke the fantastic, dreamlike perceptions of individual identity. Quoting German avant-garde Helmut Newton’s captures of androgynous figures, he re-conveys the notion that ‘fashion’ isn’t simply concealed by an orientation of fabric material, but in the performance of the individual. The abundance of these interpretations serves as a visual chorus of figures—each image becoming a site of transformation, where traditional binaries dissolve and new forms of embodiment emerge. Galore’s surrealism is not imagined as escape, but as confrontation—an invitation to witness identity in flux and to recognize the performative
potential that lies in the aesthetics of the gendered facade.