LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum presents Video Lounge: Promise and Loss, on view July 10- October 28, 2007. This exhibition presents four video works that relate to ideas of affirmation and melancholy by video artists Beth Moyses, Oscar Munoz, Robin Rhode, and Mark Wallinger. Beth Moyses video of a wedding is marked by an image of the bride’s lifelines being sewn in black thread into her white lace gloves. Mark Wallinger combines three generations of family and film layering home movies from the Aschers family, made before they escaped to the US in 1938, in the Jewish Museum in Berlin and refilming his own film of it against a neutral backdrop. Oscar Munoz video loop shows the artist’s hands cupping water. As over and over it drains away the viewer becomes aware of the artist’s reflection in the water. Robin Rhode creates animated images that use real children set against chalk drawing on the ground. Kids on a drawn see-saw, horse, roundabout, and bike come enchantingly to life with the pleasure and melancholy of memory.

A national leader in arts education, serving over 30,000 children each year, the Speed Art Museum has repeatedly been voted Kentucky’s best museum and is considered one of the top ten sites each Kentuckian should visit. The Speed honors its mission to bring great art to our communities through its distinguished collections and as the Commonwealth’s number one venue for international art exhibitions.

Rated one of the top ten audio guides in the country by MSNBC.COM, “Passport to the Speed,” offers insight into selected works in the collection, and is available for free at the Museum’s Welcome Center. The Speed Art Museum: Highlights from the Collection, a new companion guide to the Speed’s distinguished collection will be available December 2007.