Biographies

Scott T. Anderson

Scott T. Anderson  born Louisville Kentucky, a multidisciplinary artist with an emphasis in painting. Often employing multiple gestural languages and application processes. The work often is practiced through the scope of a lost nostalgia in Americana, the realities of modern western life, and the processes of time.  

Scott currently lives and works in Louisville , Kentucky 

Raven Burns-Gibson

Raven Burns-Gibson is a Louisville native artist who specializes in printmaking. Her work usually features macabre and fantastical creatures, beckoning the viewer to contemplate the dark and mystical connotations we carry regarding our lives and our mortality.


Catherine Irwin

Catherine Irwin is a Louisville painter and songwriter from the twentieth century, or what is now commonly referred to as “the nineteen hundreds.” Her paintings can be found in the homes of some rich snobs, as well as in the private collections of certain well-connected hipsters across the land. She makes records under her own name, and with the bands Freakwater and Freakons.

Nina Kersey

Nina Kersey is a visual artist working in Louisville, KY. Their work consists of navigating life conflicted with emotional turmoil and public identity.

Dustin Marcum

Dustin Marcum is Hairbrushing, etc. MS-Paint Art and Audio from Jefferson County, Kentucky and beyond. 

Zonny Mondo

Zonny Mondo is a self-taught artist and musician whose visual pieces are often inspired by the intersection of science and chaos.

Carrie Neumayer

Carrie Neumayer creates images related to place— both internal and external. She co-founded the youth-based nonprofit Girls Rock Louisville (now Out Loud Louisville), taught art in JCPS, and is currently pursuing a degree in Art Therapy with plans to work in community mental health. She plays guitar and sings in the band Future Fossils and has also played with Second Story Man, Julie of the Wolves, and Minnow.

Jason Noble

Jason Noble was a prolific visual artist and musician who remained active in the Louisville underground from the early 1990s until his death in 2012 at the age of forty.  His bands—including Rachel’s, Rodan, and The Shipping News—continue to inspire and influence musicians throughout the Derby City and beyond. 

Eileen O’Bannon

Eileen O’Bannon is a Louisville painter born during the city’s punk music hey day and raised in a clan of outsider artists, where she received a DIY education in the Classics and cultivated an eccentric taste in music and literature. 

While her painting career did not begin in earnest until well into her thirties, her artwork is displayed in the homes and businesses of local luminaries and inspired degenerates.She spends her days helping children and families navigate complicated medical diagnoses and raising an equally eccentric daughter. Her nights are frequently spent sleepless and covered in paint. 

Her current work is based off of the true story of Carl Tanzler and his morbid love of Elena Milagro de Hoyos

Richard Peyton

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.

Josh Sachs

Josh Sachs born in 1974 and raised in louisville. working in Collage, assembleage, found object sculpture, photography, mail art, xerox zine (hobrofessor), found book reconstruction  and installation. Implementing “Urban foraging” Josh uses found objects to create a language of mystical shrine building, maintaining Art as a exercise and a means of communication through visual imagry and the written word.

Josh has shown art work in new york, paris, oregon, california and kentucky.