Haunt

Haunt explored the idea of recreating the gallery, located in downtown Louisville, as it would have been during the 1937 flood. A flood consistently referred to in the Artist’s family gatherings, and which forced the matriarch family to relocate from west Louisville to east Louisville. Themes explored were Mother Nature as both the womb and the destroyer. Chelsea Gifford wrote in the Louisville Eccentric Observer, “Even before Michelle Amos opened up her new installation at Zephyr Gallery, people were trying to get in…Amos transforms the downstairs gallery space completely - strips of coffee-dyed muslin cloth covering the walls suffuse the air with an ambiguous organic scent, the stalactite and stalagmite shapes of her woven sculptures undulate and soften the neat corners and sterile walls. Chains of honey locust pods flow over the wood floor planks like silent currents. “