[SOA] Press Release - Wounded Home Exhibition set to open July 20, 2013 at Lloyd Library and Museum

[Anna Heran]

 Lloyd Library and Museum - www.lloydlibrary.org
Media Contact: Anna Heran, Outreach Coordinator
513-721-3707, aheran at lloydlibrary.org
917 Plum St. | Cincinnati, OH 45202

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ANNOUNCES ALL NEW EXHIBITION

 

"WOUNDED HOME"

                                   July 22, 2013 - January 20, 2014

 

 

There will be Civil War battle reenactments, graveside memorials,
photographic expositions, documentaries, and more during the
Sesquicentennial of the United States Civil War. But, you've never seen
or experienced the war quite like this.

 

On July 20 from 5 -7 pm the Lloyd Library and Museum (LLM) will premiere
Wounded Home, an exhibition that takes its inspiration from a Victorian
era parlor ravaged with the losses and upheaval of Civil War America. 
http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/woundedhome.html - for images and
more information)

 

This project began when LLM contacted guest curator, Kate Kern, in
September 2011.  Kern was invited to tackle the topic of the Civil War
for the 150th Commemorative four-year cycle (2011-2015). The Lloyd
wanted to provide a unique experience related to the war as well as
commemorate a special event in its own historical time, namely the
arrival of John Uri Lloyd to Cincinnati, Ohio, to begin his pharmacy
apprenticeship, an act that ultimately led to the formation of the
Library that bears his and his brothers' name.

 

Combining text and images from the Lloyd Library and Museum's (
www.lloydlibrary.org) collection of Civil War resources with their own
aesthetic vision, visual artists Mary Jo Bole, Deborah Brod, Jenny Fine,
Celene Hawkins, Saad Ghosn, Kate Kern and Alice Pixley Young, have
worked together to create a poignant and disturbing room within a room
in the Lloyd's gallery space.

 

Mary Jo Bole's sculptures, book works and drawings often involve
intensive historical research. Bole's wallpaper installation made of
multiple images printed on rice paper using a Vandercook press (thanks
to Jim Chapa and the Logan Elm Press in Columbus, Ohio), features
historical images juxtaposing aspects of her LLM research such as the
image of an elephant, referencing the phrase "going to meet the
elephant" used by Civil War era troops to mean going into battle, next
to images of domestic life and ephemera from 1860's advertisements. 

 

Deborah Brod frequently employs translucent materials and layering
techniques in her sculptural installations. Initially drawn to LLM
sources about botany and medicinal plants for healing, as Brod's
research deepened the theme of slavery captured her focus. Her
repurposed antique table appears wounded with one leg broken. Its
covering refusing to lay flat; as if turned inside out, suggesting a
tangle of viscera, exposed and vulnerable.

 

Jenny Fine is a photographer whose images and environments are inspired
by the rural southern landscape and her family's stories. Haunted by the
presence of the human images in early illustrations of skin diseases,
Fine became interested in making contemporary renderings of diseases
associated with the Civil War. Her series of hand altered photographs
using contemporary individuals is inspired by the aesthetics and process
of these early illustrations.

 

Celene Hawkins creates sculpture, installations and computer manipulated
photo works. She is a partner at Hawkins and Hawkins Custom where she
specializes in bronze casting and welded metal projects.  Her piece, a
working chandelier, built from mixed metals, hydrocal, found elements,
and glass, explores the tragedy of industry and wealth built on
subjugation of the African peoples. With Jarrett Hawkins she is
designing and constructing the room-with-in-a-room exhibition
installation for Wounded Home.

 

Saad Ghosn, an artist as well as medical professional and educator, is
the founder of SOS (Save Our Souls) ART, an annual group art show and
event of sociopolitical expressions for peace and justice. Rather than
focus on the Civil War itself, his wall installation and pair of
photomontages instead address the issue of war in general and that,
irrespective of their stated noble motives, wars always have other real,
hidden motives dealing with politics, control, domination, greed,
profit... and that sadly, their result is always a heavy human toll. 

 

Kate Kern creates drawings, artists' books and installations inspired by
doubt and the act of searching. Kern's installation of a Victorian era
camelback settee reupholstered with fabric printed with bullet entrance
and exit wounds from LLM Civil War medical records, places the chaos and
dismemberment of war inside the home of a nation at war with itself.

 

Alice Pixley Young creates sculptures and installations that explore
memory, identity and mortality. Her Wounded Home installations focus on
the tension created when one is confined to a specific place, role or
identity. A cast glass picture frame with video projection will show
long meditative views of the Ohio river that shift visually from the
river's Kentucky and Ohio sides, marking departure and arrival points
for escaping slaves.

 

An exhibit of LLM books and materials referenced by the artists during
their research will accompany Wounded Home. Schools, classes,
organizations and interested individuals can schedule a tour of the two
exhibitions by contacting Anna Heran at curator at lloydlibrary.org or
calling (513) 721-3707.

 

About the Lloyd: The Lloyd Library and Museum, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit
organization, is a local and regional cultural treasure, which began in
the 19th century as a research library for Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists,
Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the period.  Our
mission is to collect and maintain a library of botanical, medical,
pharmaceutical, and scientific books and periodicals, and works of
allied sciences that serve the scientific research community, as well as
constituents of the general public, through library services and
programming that bring science, art, and history to life.  For more
information, hours, and directions, visit the Lloyd website at 
www.lloydlibrary.org. 

 

 

 

Anna K. Heran

Exhibits Curator & Education/Outreach Coordinator

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

513-721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Bringing Science, Art, and History to Life, Because the Past is the Path
to the Future

 

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