Question: Which American artist was born in the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
Context: Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.  Known as the "Horse Capital of the World," it is the heart of the state's Bluegrass region.  With a mayor-alderman form of government, it is one of two cities in Kentucky designated by the state as first-class; the other is the state's largest city of Louisville.  In the 2016 U.S. Census Estimate, the city's population was 318,449, anchoring a metropolitan area of 506,751 people and a combined statistical area of 723,849 people.  Due to constant increases in population, Lexington suffers the worst traffic congestion in Kentucky, because two interstates bypass the city to the north and east, resulting in a lack of freeways (besides partial freeway New Circle Road) going through the most populated areas of the city. John Beardman (born December 5, 1937 in Youngstown, Ohio is a contemporary American artist.  He is an abstract expressionist and a major contributor to “art as process” and "action painting" influenced by Willem de Kooning.  His work has been the subject of several exhibitions in New York City, Louisville, Kentucky, Birmingham, Michigan and Nova Scotia, Canada.  Beardman has received numerous creative artist's grants and fellowships.  He currently lives and works in Pennsylvania and has a Studio in Manhattan, New York City. Louisville is the largest city in the U.S Commonwealth of Kentucky. Richmond, Virginia, is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the fifth largest city in the state in terms of population, and the main anchor city for the Greater Richmond Region, the third largest metropolitan statistical area in the Commonwealth, and the 43rd largest in the United States.  The City of Richmond is divided into five distinct districts, each district is further subdivided into several neighborhoods, although there is no formal criterion as to what defines a neighborhood within the City of Richmond.  The five districts of Richmond are Downtown, East End, North Side, Southside, and West End. Ashland is a home rule-class city in Boyd County, Kentucky, in the United States.  Ashland, the largest city in Boyd County, is located upon the southern bank of the Ohio River.  The population was 21,684 at the 2010 census.  Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area; with a population of 363,000.  Ashland is the second-largest city within the MSA, after Huntington, West Virginia.  Ashland serves as an important economic and medical center for northeast Kentucky and is part of the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Kentucky. Louisville ( , or ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th-most populous city in the United States.  It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being the state's second-largest city of Lexington.  Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County. The Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky (SCNK) is an unrecognized tribe based in Kentucky.  Members of the SCNK claim descent from the Cherokee forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1838, and to have first emerged as a distinct political faction known as the Treaty Party before the Trail of Tears, c. 1835.  They report having fled Indian territory, after the American Civil War, c. 1871 for Kentucky to escape Reconstruction era violence.  The City of Henderson, Kentucky published a proclamation stating they have been headquartered there since the late 19th century, and according to the "State-Journal" of Frankfort, Kentucky, they are assumed to be the oldest Native American presence in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  The SCNK states it had an estimated one thousand members as of 2009, living in several US states, and that it is "not affiliated with any other group calling themselves Southern Cherokee". Tennessee ( ; Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ , "Tanasi " ) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.  Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States.  Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west.  The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border.  Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, with a population of 660,388.  Tennessee's second largest city is Memphis, which has a population of 652,717. The Big Blue Nation is the fan base of University of Kentucky (UK) athletics programs, particularly the men's basketball team, the women's basketball team and the football team.  The Big Blue Nation is a reference to both the signature color of UK athletics (blue) and the fact that when the Wildcats play at a neutral site, the school's fans frequently make up a disproportionate majority of the crowd.  For example, Yahoo! Sports columnist Pat Forde, a resident of Kentucky's largest city of Louisville, remarked after the 2014–15 men's basketball team finished its regular season undefeated,The Southeastern Conference tournament is in nearby Nashville, and you can expect the seats to be 90 percent blue when the Cats play.  Then they'll start the NCAA tournament in Louisville's home area, the Yum Center ("sic"), in a city where about 40 percent of the population roots for UK.  The following weekend assuredly will be spent in Cleveland, a manageable drive from the Bluegrass State, and the Final Four is in Indianapolis, which is 114 miles up I-65 from the Ohio River that separates Kentucky and Indiana.  You could put NCAA tourney sites in Kabul, Marrakesh and Reykjavík, and Kentucky would have the most fans in the gym.  But when you make the commute this easy, the Big Blue occupation will be overwhelming.  Fans sometimes range beyond the borders of their nation, with anecdotal evidence suggesting the Wildcats men's basketball team once even drew a sizable horde of blue-clad supporters at an exhibition game in Japan. Brad Downey (born 1980 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American artist.  Downey currently lives in Berlin.
Answer: Brad Downey