‘It Is What Is Not Yet Known’ By Kiah Celeste

Kiah Celeste’s first solo exhibition is composed of large sculptures. Once a photographer, she now creates assemblage with a focus on the environment. But, she realizes her use of industrial leftovers is a contradiction. “Celeste also finds inspiration in the natural world,” gallerist John Brooks explains, “employing these manmade materials to mimic what she sees as its inescapable, certain and ultimately unsurpassable beauty.” It’s all in how you look at it; in what once was discarded junk is now art.

Through March 6

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827 E. Market St.
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‘It Is What Is Not Yet Known’ By Kiah Celeste

Jo Anne Triplett is the contributing visual arts editor at LEO Weekly. She’s a past member of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Public Art, was the content advisor on the Glassworks Building video, and has written for Louisville Magazine, Kentucky Homes and Gardens and the national publication Glass Craftsman. Jo Anne came to Louisville from Washington, D.C. where she worked as a researcher and writer for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 

 

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