Nineveh:
a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman
Presented by 21c & UofL Hite Institute
September 16 - October 17, 2009
Located at The Cressman Center for Visual Art
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.
2009 Exhibitions
Here Now, There Then
Letitia Quesenberry
August - December 2009
Gallery 4
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exhibition details
To coincide with the exhibition
Creating Identity: Portraits Today.
Going Home: El Dia de Los Muertos
21c Museum Celebrates El Día de los Muertos with a Site-Specific Installation
by UofL Students
November 1 - 23, 2009
In conjunction with November Trolley Hop
On display on the 7th Street sidewalk,
in front of the entrance to 21c Museum Hotel
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exhibition details
James Baker Hall: Photo/Synthesis
September 2008 - October 2009
in the Atrium, Galleries 1 & 3
Opening reception Thursday, September 4, 6pm
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exhibition details
Nineveh
a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman
Presented by 21c & UofL Hite Institute
September 16 - October 17, 2009
Exhibited at The Cressman Center for Visual Art
Opening reception September 16, 2009, 6pm
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exhibition details
Constant World:
The Work of Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
March - August 10, 2009
Street Level Gallery
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exhibition details
Past Highlights & Acquisitions
from our ongoing exhibition
New Acquisitions & Highlights
January 2007 - August 2009
Atrium Gallery
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exhibition details
Ross Gordon: Ceremony Series,
Lamboka Kenya
July - August 2009
Gallery 4
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exhibition details
Paris Kyne: The Colour of Racing
April - June 2009
in the Garage Street Level Gallery
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exhibition details
UK College of Design Proposals to Revitalize Shippingport, Louisville
May 25 - June 8, 2009
Atrium Gallery
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exhibition details
All's Fair in Art and War:
Envisioning Conflict
October 2008 - March 2009
Street Level Gallery
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The Photographs of Dominic Rouse
December 2008 - March 2009
in the Garage Street Level Gallery
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exhibition details