lori larusso

In her bright, graphic and playfully ironic works, Kentucky painter Lori Larusso explores the cycle of consumption and waste in our consumer-driven world. Artist: Born in the little town of Massillon, in Ohio’s Rust Belt. Larusso lived there until she went to college. At the University of Cincinnati, she graduated with a BFA from the college…

steve heine

Although Steve Heine never practiced traditional architecture, the Kentucky native thinks of his modern, multi-layered artwork as architecture on a small scale. Artist: One of nine kids and the second-born of identical twins, Heine grew up in a loud, raucous house in Louisville. He later graduated from the University of Kentucky’s College of Architecture in…