Transformation of Images: The Incredible Likeness of Seeing

Hite Galleries - Cressman Center

Transformation of Images

The Incredible Likeness of Seeing

August 7 – September 5, 2009
Reception: Friday, August 7, 6 – 9 p.m.

Some images are hard to forget and they speak to enough artists, and the culture at large, to become part of an ongoing visual vocabulary—icons and archetypes that are touchstones in our cultural discourse.

In his curatorial studies class at UofL this last spring semester, Peter Morrin, the former director of the Speed Art Museum and currently an Executive-in-Residence at UofL, challenged his students to consider the ways in which iconic images undergo continuous transformation. They looked at hundreds of works of art in telling juxtapositions. This exhibition is the result of their efforts, and contains a witty and insightful sequence of comparisons. 

Looking at archetypal themes – Adam and Eve, Hercules, childhood innocence, female beauty, and the romantic hero, among others – the exhibition explores 20th and 21st Century reinterpretations that attest to the continuing relevance and fascination for artists of earlier imagery and iconography.

Works were chosen from the Speed Art Museum, 21-C, and numerous private collections in the city.

The Cressman Center is at 100 E. Main St. (40204), First & Main, in downtown Louisville. 

In addition to the art gallery, the Cressman Center is home to the Hite Art Institute's Glass Studios, which are also accessible during gallery hours and host visiting artists in glass and several public demos and lectures each year. (Map of Hite locations.)

Gallery Hours:  W - F, 11 a.m.  - 6 p.m.;  Sat., 11 a.m.  - 3 p.m.; 1st Fri., 11 a.m. - 9  p.m.

Group Tours: school & other group tours should call Bruce Linn @ 502.852-0288 to make arrangements.