Judith G. Levy: Memory Cloud

Judith G. Levy: Memory Cloud July 10, 2009-January 17, 2010 Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion Judith G. Levy is an artist based in Lawrence, Kansas, who until recently lived and worked in Indianapolis. Levy's art deals with themes of private and public history and the role that both fact and fiction play in shaping memories. Levy's installation in the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion will be her first major solo museum exhibition. Titled Memory Cloud, Levy's installation will appear as a monumental "cloud" comprising approximately 1,200 translucent plastic photo viewers that hang on strands of microfilament. Visitors will be able to hold individual viewers up to the light to see an image inside. Each of the viewers will contain a unique photograph, drawn from a collection of thousands of found 35mm slide transparencies that the artist has collected throughout the Midwest. These photographs capture people posing for family snapshots, attending holiday events, working, enjoying vacations, or simply observing the world around them. In some areas, these viewers will be hung out of reach-suggesting a metaphor for experiences or memories that can not be retrieved-while in other areas they will be hung at a height that is accessible to visitors so that they can have the personal experience of peering through the viewers at these familiar yet mysterious images. From press release.

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