21c & UofL Hite Institute present Nineveh:
a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman
Located at The Cressman Center for Visual Art
September 16 – October 17, 2009
100 East Main Street
Phone: 502-852-0288
Gallery Hours: W-F, 11-6pm; Saturday 11-3pm; 1st Friday, 11-9pm
September 16, 2009
Opening Reception: 6–8pm
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October 2, 2009
5:30pm Discussion with artist
Prior to First Friday Trolley Hop
Center offering extended hours until 9pm
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Artist Statement
Vast, hanging plateaus of grass and their direct relationship to the irrigation
system suspended above them sharpen the general ideas of conception, growth, and
environmental sustenance prevalent in Nineveh. This relationship between the two
elements, life-support (irrigation) and organism (grass) is symbolic for the survival
of life forms in unnatural and uninhabitable places. As people navigate through
the passageways cut through the plateaus, they inevitably come face to face with
a stranger traveling the same route but in an opposing direction. A negotiation
must be reached between the two people as they stand, unable to pass one another,
surrounded by the constrictive, hanging fields. This negotiation and subsequent
compromise in how to proceed through the corridors becomes allegorical for the cooperation
necessary between human beings to assist and sustain the environment, particularly
in places where different cultural groups share the same ecosystem.
-Ezra Kellerman
About the Artist
Ezra Kellerman is a Louisville-based sculptor who returned to Kentucky after graduate
study at Louisiana State University. He has twice instructed and assisted at the
Museum of Steel Sculpture at Coalbrookdale, England and has exhibited in several
group and solo shows in England, Kentucky, and Louisiana.
Commissioned by the International Contemporary Art Foundation, Kellerman started
fabricating the work in late May of 2009. The project is a site-specific installation
for the Cressman Center for Visual Art and was realized by joint efforts from the
Foundation, 21c Museum, the University of Louisville, and the artist.
All's Fair in Art and War:
Envisioning Conflict
October 2008 – March 1, 2009
street level gallery
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Life as Art: Live Art Installation
Lauren Argo
June 4 – 24, 2006
enclosed window space at 21c Museum Hotel’s restaurant, Proof on Main
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dominican Moves
August 3 – November 2007
gallery street level
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Blue Apple Players:
an exhibition of tableaux vivants
May 13 - July 31, 2008
gallery 3
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Ballads of the Barefoot Mind
Daniel Dutton
October 2006 – January 6, 2007
atrium gallery
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21c Museum Celebrates El Día de los Muertos with a Site-Specific Installation
by UofL Students
In conjunction with November Trolley Hop
On display on the 7th Street sidewalk,
in front of the entrance to 21c Museum Hotel
November 1 – 15, 2009
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Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead
Saturday, November 1 to Sunday, November 9, 2008
gallery 4, off the street level gallery
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Marvin Francis: Prison's Paper Trail
August – January 2008
gallery 4 street level
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Anthony Goicolea
Ramp
November 2007 – January 2008
street level gallery
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Ross Gordon: Ceremony Series,
Lamboka Kenya
July – August 2009
gallery 4
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Ilse Haider: Selected Works 1997-2002
March 13 – August 3, 2007
gallery 4 street level
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Photo/Synthesis: James Baker Hall
Open September 2008
in the atrium, galleries 1 & 3
Opening reception Thursday September 4, 6pm
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Hybridity
The Evolution of Species and Spaces
in 21st-Century Art
April – September 2006
street level gallery
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exhibition details
21c & UofL Hite Institute present Nineveh
a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman
Located at The Cressman Center for Visual Art
September 16 – October 17, 2009
Opening reception September 16, 6pm
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exhibition details
Paris Kyne: The Colour of Racing
April – May 2009
in the garage street level gallery
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Constant World:
The Work of Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
March – August 10, 2009
street level gallery
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Past Highlights
from our ongoing exhibition
New Acquisitions and Highlights
atrium gallery
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Here Now, There Then
Letitia Quesenberry
Fall 2009
gallery 4
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To coincide with the exhibition
Creating Identity: Portraits Today.
The Photographs of Dominic Rouse
Winter 2008/2009
in the garage street level gallery
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Everybody Always Thinks They Are Right:
Stefan Sagmeister
September 3-28, 2008
Outdoor public installation on north corner of 7th and Main St
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Marc Swanson
Beginning to See the Light
July 2007 – January 2008
street level gallery
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Tangled Up In You
Connecting, Coexisting, and Conceiving Identity
street level gallery
February – September 2008
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Through the Rabbit Hole
Sleights of Scale and Flights of Fantasy
November 2006 – June 2007
street level gallery
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UK College of Design Proposals to Revitalize Shippingport, Louisville
May 25 - June 8, 2009
atrium gallery
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John Waters: Unwatchable Series
October 6 – December 11, 2006
street level gallery
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Mickie Winters
Learning to Bend Series
gallery 1 atrium level
Opening reception in conjunction with Ben Sollee cd release performance Nov 16th
and 17th 2008
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