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LouisvilleLost Suppers
May 2013
Meals, in preparation, consumption, and destruction, are the subject-lens through which these works address issues ranging from identity and domesticity to science and politics. Leonardo Da Vinci’s iconic 15th-century mural depicting Jesus’s last meal inspires Vivek Vilasini’s Last Supper—Gaza, in…
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LouisvilleStill, Life
May 2013
Dating back to 17th-century European painting, the vanitas tradition is a reminder of mortality and an admonition to reject the vanity of the material world in favor of spiritual values. Still life paintings of food, flowers, and animals in various states of…
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LouisvilleBill Luster: A Retrospective
May 2013
“Photography,” says Luster, “is the greatest time machine invented. It shows us context, space, and those that love us and have loved us.” In this retrospective exhibition, rhythmic patterns of form and color, disembodied shadows shifting across space and time,…
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LouisvilleYOLO
Apr 2013
Family and friends, colleagues, artists and performers from all over the world joined Steve to celebrate in style. Louisville-based photographer Ross Gordon was on hand to capture the excitement, energy, and entertainment of the evening. My Predicted Lifetime, an electronic ticker-tape artwork…
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LouisvilleWild Card: The Art of Michael Combs, A Fifteen-Year Survey
Apr 2013
Growing up on Long Island’s East End, Michael Combs was raised by generations of hunters, fishermen, boat builders, and decoy makers. Instead of becoming an avid hunter himself, however, the artist responded to this upbringing by developing a passion for…
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CincinnatiOFF-SPRING: New Generations
Nov 2012 – Jun 2013
A pioneer of painted figuration, American artist Judy Fox infuses the Western figurative tradition with a contemporary consciousness of the body that addresses the development and expression of identity. Power Play combines two related installations featuring four children with an…
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CincinnatiOFF-SHOOT: Serial Explorations
Nov 2012 – Jun 2013
Claude Monet’s painted waterlilys and haystacks, Eadweard Muybridge’s film-based motion studies, Marcel Duchamp’s multiple readymades of found objects: serial explorations of subject, form, and media has been a hallmark of modern artistic practice since the advent of photography in the…
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LouisvilleChristyl Boger Sculptures
Oct 2012
As a social animal, humans continuously shift between seemingly contradictory states – impulse and control, individual versus group, suppression and openness, transition versus boundary. Christyl Boger is interested in the intersections between these states, and how their limits are defined…
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LouisvilleLOVE
Oct 2012
A true icon of American Pop Art, LOVE was originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art for a Christmas card design in 1964. The artist then transformed his signature stacked text into a series of sculptures, which have since…
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LouisvilleWhat the Flock?!
Apr 2012
Dozens of near-life-size seagulls are flying or falling throughout the dining areas, the bar, and toward the front door windows, as if attempting escape. What cataclysm is occurring here? The artist says the piece is inspired by the urban myth…
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CincinnatiTime Capsule
The site for Brooklyn-based artist Anne Peabody’s commission at 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati is the elevator cabs. To transform these spaces into unique, interactive works of art, Peabody engaged in a process both research- and labor-intensive: she gathered information and…
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CincinnatiHealing Tiles
A new media artist working with cutting-edge science and technology, Brian Knep is artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, where he works side-by-side with scientists, adapting their tools and techniques to explore alternative meanings and ways of connecting to the world.…
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CincinnatiRefraction
“Refraction is the change in the direction of a wave when it enters a medium, for instance, a ray of light entering water. Hypermnesia is a state of highly developed memory, based on registering experiences by associating them to mentally…
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CincinnatiUros
Uros, a light sculpture by interdisciplinary artist Grimanesa Amorós, is installed in a corridor just off the lobby gallery, visible from both the elevator lobby and the reception lobby gallery. Part of a series of works originally commissioned by the…
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CincinnatiField of Grass
San Francisco-based Ryan Wolfe describes himself as a “device artist and interaction designer” whose works explore spatial and kinetic patterns. Wolfe’s Field of Grass, which spreads across the stairway wall up to the 21c spa, distills and recreates the feel…
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CincinnatiChannel Two
As an extension of its mission to make art more accessible, 21c Museum is proud to present Channel Two, a video artwork channel that debuted at opening in 2006. Available for viewing in hotel guest rooms and in the Proof…
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CincinnatiUntitled
As part of 21c’s mission to integrate contemporary art into daily life, thought-provoking works are installed both indoors and out. Adjacent to the Walnut street entrance is Austrian artist Werner Reiterer’s enormous, ornate, brass chandelier, which illuminates and animates the…
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CincinnatiLightmail
The shimmering, shifting spectrum of color emanating from the nine-story interior solarium is Astrid Krogh’s Lightmail, a three-part fiber optic tapestry woven on a loom in the artist’s Copenhagen studio. Renowned as a leading innovator in the intersecting fields of…
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LouisvilleDavid (inspired by Michelangelo)
Conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya made David (inspired by Michelangelo), a double-size, golden replica of Michelangelo’s David, for the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005. Days prior to the opening of the Biennial, the sculpture collapsed shortly after installation. After the collapse, the artist restored the damaged replica and cast two additional copies, one of which was acquired by 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
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BentonvilleGreen Penguin
“We have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms,…
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BentonvilleFLOW 5.0
This interactive sculpture by Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde is a smart wall composed of hundreds of ventilators that respond to visitors. As viewers approach, sensors located within the sculpture are activated as fans, blowing air onto passersby and…
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BentonvilleA Sudden Gust of Wind in Bentonville
Serkan Özkaya’s A Sudden Gust of Wind, Bentonville is comprised of 400 sheets of metal that emulate a scattered stack of 8.5″ x 11″ papers, frozen in motion across the ceiling and walls and descending to the floor. Alluding to the beauty…
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BentonvilleOrange Tree
Orange Tree, Alexandre Arrechea’s large-scale sculpture of a metal tree sprouting basketball hoops and surrounded by basketballs, has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Shanghai. Pepsi-Cola incorporated Orange Tree as part of the company’s “Bronx Flavor Campaign,” an initiative…
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BentonvilleDead Ringer: Slater Bradley and Ed Lachman
“I think the larger issue is, as human beings, how do we cope with loss? If you’re so in love with something, or if something resonates in such a beautiful way with you that it creates this formation of your…
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BentonvilleHybridity: The New Frontier
The evolution of species and spaces in twenty-first century art explores the diminishing boundaries between human and animal kingdoms, recent advances in scientific technology, and the shifting environmental and economic conditions actively altering the Earth and its inhabitants. Employing photography,…
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BentonvilleHide and Seek
“After being approached to create a drawing for glass bathroom walls and partitions, my mind kept going back to the notion of hiding,” says Anne Peabody. “The prospect of being seen by others while enclosed in a traditionally sacred and…
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BentonvilleTree of 40 Fruit
The Tree of 40 Fruit is quite literally a fruit tree that will grow forty varieties of fruit from the family of stone fruits, including peach, plum, apricot, nectarine, cherry and the hybrid species therein. Blossoming in variegated tones of…
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CincinnatiYellow Penguin
“We have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms,…
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BentonvilleChannel Two
As an extension of its mission to make art more accessible, 21c Museum is proud to present Channel Two, a video artwork channel that debuted at opening in 2006. Available for viewing in hotel guest rooms and in the Proof…
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BentonvilleFat Bat
Through drawings, collages, and life-size figurative sculptures, she combines the whimsical with the macabre. In Fat Bat, Barré transforms the comic-book character Batman into a humorous hybrid both fantastical and familiar, effectively deflating the power and idealization of the cartoon superhero while…
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BentonvilleElevator Lobby Wallpapers
Chris Doyle (American) Unfolded, 2010-13 Wallpaper Elevator lobby, fourth floor Referencing paper currency in shape and design, Chris Doyle’s Unfolded belongs to the same body of work as Waste_Generation (2010), the animation featured in the video lounge as part of the inaugural exhibition, Hybridity: The…
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CincinnatiFloor Module Table
Best known for intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Do Ho Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. To experience the artist’s floor sculptures, viewers are encouraged to walk on surfaces…
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