Schedule of Upcoming Gallery Exhibits and Events
Victoria Boone
1/19/08-4/19/08
West Gallery
January 25 Opening Reception
Victoria Boone has been a working studio artist for thirty years. She is a Nashville resident with a BFA in Painting & Sculpture and a MA in Museum Administration. Boone creates paintings filled with a fabricated language of homemade signs and symbols . What began as the secret diaries of a teenager, substituting pictograms for characters, has developed into her life long work. Her vortex arrangements and moving shapes flow freely within a grid paradigm, stacking characters and shapes to create fascinating paintings.
Marla Faith
1/25/08-4/12/08
East Gallery
January 25 Opening Reception
Faith has a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After traveling for a year in Asia, she returned to receive a M.S. in Museum Leadership from Bank Street College, New York. Her current series of paintings depict diverse women of Nashville. Faith imparts her Asian understanding in confidently colorful and spiritually infused images. She links organic items with her human subjects to draw attention to the connection of women with the earth.
Erika Johnson
Curtain
5/2/08-8/9/08
West Gallery
May 3 Opening Reception
Johnson creates site specific installations on current topics. She formerly was chosen to work with artist Judy Chicago in conjunction with Vanderbilt University’s invitational in 2006. Johnson will fashion an installation addressing the curtains of technological information we receive daily. These waves connect us more with the world. However, they simultaneously hinder our efforts in a call to action on any one problem.
Benaki Museum
Romancing the Acropolis
4/29/08-7/26/08
East Gallery
Greece has always been considered to be a land of beauty and mystery. The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece will loan the Nashville Parthenon a collection of European images depicting Greek subjects from the nineteenth century. This time period was the height of European interest in this ancient place. Dr. Fani-Maria Tsigakou, Curator at the Benaki since 1976, has studied this subject meticulously during her tenure at the museum. Tsigakou will present images specifically of the Acropolis as presented by the European traveler to romanticize the Acropolis.
Kathy Girder Engler
8/15/08-11/01/08
East Gallery
August 15 Opening Reception
Engler is a sculptor from Augusta, Georgia has studied the human form over her long career. She has received numerous commissions throughout the southeastern United States. Engler has exhibited extensively in the US, Italy, Japan, France and New Zealand. For the last twenty years she has used a paper pulp mixture with ingredients such as bone or barnacles mixed with man made objects that have been aged by the environment to create torso fragments. They are delicate in nature but appear to have come from some archeological site unearthing ancient Cycladic figures.
William Rosen
Immersion: A Katrina Room
8/27/08-12/13/08
West Gallery
William Rosen’s home was destroyed when the levees failed on August 29,2005 after Katrina blasted New Orleans. Rosen’s home was literally immersed in water. When the water receded he returned home for documentation and possible recovery of objects. His dramatic photographs will be shown in a life-size room, giving palatable sense to the devastation and destruction of this catastrophe. William Rosen’s show will open on the third year anniversary of this catastrophic event.
Nancy Hellebrand
Earth, Air and Water
11/14/08-1/31/09
East Gallery
Imagine the mystery of seeing photography for the fist time. Nancy Hellebrand creates grainy ethereal images not unlike those from the birth of the photograph in the mid-nineteenth century. She derives her inspiration from Gulf Coast beaches; looking at the water and the clouds. Her new work focuses on the more quiet subjects rocks and brush. Hellebrand photographs these elements in their primal sense. She then returns to her studio and to manipulate the images. She pares them down to imitate early photography and to create spiritual paintings of earth, air and rolling water.