Ellen Fleurov

Ellen Fleurov is an American museum curator and photography historian.

Fleurov lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia and is the founder and President of "Ellen Fleurov & Associates LLC/Crossroads Traveling Exhibitions". The founding curator of the photography department at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Fleurov has curated more than 50 exhibitions, site specific projects and multimedia installations. Many of Fleurov's exhibits have toured internationally and have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Art in America. [cite web | url = http://www.crossroads-exhibitions.com/about_ellen.php | title = Crossroads Founder Ellen Fleurov | accessdate = 2006-08-28] In March of 1997 Ellen Fleurov was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts"

Works

* Curated & Produced first major museum exhibition on the life and career of Otis Redding (marking the 40th anniversary of his death) for Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Macon. "Otis Redding: I've Got Dreams To Remember" includes more than 250 artifacts as well as four interactive kiosks, two special video compilations and four wall text panels created exclusively for show. Named Best Exhibition of the Year in 2007 (for project budgets over $100,000) by Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries.
*Curated All Eyez on Me: Hip and Photography, Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta, GA, November 13, 2006 -January 8, 2007,the largest exhibition on subject ever seen in the Southeast, with work by Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger, Jonathan Mannion, Danny Clinch, Jim Fiscus, Nitin Vadukul, Jerome Abertini, Janette Beckmann, George DuBose, David Corio, Estevan Oriol, Piotr Sikora, Roger Erickson, Eric Johnson, Michael Schreiber, Shannon McCullom, and Simone English-Green
*Developed creative concepts and wrote study determining competitive market potential, communications strategy, technical feasibility and costs for international sculpture exhibition at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. :Niki in the Garden" became second best-attended attraction in Garden’s history, with 210,000 visitors over five-month period.
* Second Sight: The Photographs of Edward Sturr, 1961–1970 (Joseph Bellows Gallery: La Jolla, CA, 2002, 31 pp.).8No Sun Without Shadow: The Art of Harry Sternberg (California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 2000, 148 pp.).
*Foreword, Eloy Tarciscio: Recent Work /Obra Reciente (California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 2000, 48 pp.). * "This Sporting Life, 1878-1991" (High Museum of Art and University of Washington Press, 1992).Exhibition was named 1992 Museum Exhibition of the Year by Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, 1992.
* Curated "Sites Unseen—Shimon Attie: Public Projects and Photographs, 1992-1998" Organized by Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, November 17, 1999–January 16, 2000Venue: Museum, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, February 13–May 7, 2000
* Curated "To the Moon and Beyond: Astronomers and Photographers Explore the HeavensOrganized by Museum, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, October 7, 2001–January 11, 2002(Featured the highly acclaimed photographs from Michael Light's Full Moon, coupled with over 50 images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini, Voyager and other unmanned space voyages since the 1960s.)
* *No Sun Without Shadow: The Art of Harry SternbergOrganized by Museum, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, October 8–December 31, 2000(accompanied by catalogue of same name).
* "Ralph Gibson/Light Years: Recent Gifts from the Kuniansky Family Collection" (High Museum of Art, 1997).
* "Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill Collection" (High Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997).
* "Pictures from Home: Six African American Studio Photographers in the South, 1900-1950" (Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA, 2005). [cite web | url = http://www.apgphoto.org/gallery/biographies/fleurov_ellen.shtml | title = Ellen Flurov Biography | work = Atlanta Photography Group | accessdate = 2006-08-28]
* Successfully designed,launched and directerd only Southern California presentation of landmark, international touring exhibition, "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" with 500 photographs, honoring the first anniversary of 9/11, opening in San Diego'sGaslamp Quarter on September 10, 2002. Positioned as the “must-see” event of fall 2002, serving 52,000 visitors over a 56-day run. Generated $1.54 million for restaurants, hotels and retailers in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter. Lead Sponsor was Viejas Enterprises(Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians.
* "The South by Its Photographers" included many Southern artists, among them William Christenberry, Jack Spencer, Melissa Springer and Thomas Tulis among others. This exhibition traveled from the Birmingham Museum of Art to Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina and the Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The exhibition was also made into a book by Susan Sipple Elliott, with an introduction by John E. Schloder and a short forward by Fleurov and other jurors "The South By Its Photographers". [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/s/south_photographers.html - ISBN 0-87805-954-7]
* Fleurov authored "Walker Evans Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill". [http://www.ecampus.com/isbnbrowser2/isbnstart/08109 - ISBN 1080963620] whichwas named as one of the top 50 American books of 1998 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award
* Her Olympic exhibition http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_n4_v25/ai_20418249 "Picturing the South"] while curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia The exhibit was also made into a book, "Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present" (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996)and was awarded the Mary LoPresti Award for Excellence in Publishing, Art Libraries Society, North America, 1997.

External links

* - [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:3U5myBTDmqkJ:www.legis.ga.gov/legis/1997_98/leg/fulltext/hr455.htm+%22Ellen+Dugan+fleurov%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4 -Georgia's Women's History Month]