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Nashville Arts Magazine is a monthly publication by St. Claire Media Group, LLC. This publication is free, one per reader. Removal of more than one magazine from any distribution point constitutes theft, and violators are subject to prosecution. Back issues are available at our office for free, or by mail for $5.00 a copy. Email: All email addresses consist of the employee’s first name followed by @nashvillearts.com; to reach contributing writers, email [email protected]. Editorial Policy: Nashville Arts Magazine covers art, news, events, entertainment, and culture in Nashville and surrounding areas. The views and opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily represent those of the publisher. Subscriptions: Subscriptions are available at $45 per year for 12 issues. Please note: Due to the nature of third-class mail and postal regulations, issues could be delayed by as much as two or three weeks. There will be no refunds issued. Please allow four to six weeks for processing new subscriptions and address changes. Call 615.383.0278 to order by phone with your Visa or Mastercard number.
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LINDA DYER Antique and Fine Art Specialist
JOE NOLAN Critical i
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MARK W. SCALA As I See It
JUSTIN STOKES Film Review
RUSTY WOLFE Pieces & Parts
TONY YOUNGBLOOD Art in Formation
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36 Arts & the Business of Art Arts & Business Council
38 Film Review by Justin Stokes
39 Pieces & Parts by Rusty Wolfe
40 The Bookmark Hot Books and Cool Reads
42 Art in Formation by Tony Youngblood
44 As I See It by Mark W. Scala
55 Public Art by Van Gill Maravalli
58 NPT
86 Poet’s Corner by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay
97 Critical i by Joe Nolan
97 Theatre by Jim Reyland
100 Art See
102 Art Smart
109 Backstage with Studio Tenn by Cat Acree
110 Paint the Town by Emme Nelson Baxter
113 Beyond Words by Marshall Chapman
114 My Favorite Painting
FEATURES
2O1513 Spotlights
25 Carroll Cloar & Leslie Holt at David Lusk Gallery
29 Sherrick & Paul New Gallery • New Art
32 Damian Stamer Visual Spaces
48 CG2 Cumberland Gallery Launches Satellite Location
56 Attitude Nashville Ballet
63 Nashville Gems
73 Ted Jones Man of Faith
79 Polly Cook Lost & Found: A Story of Love and Heartbreak
82 Alison Poland Cities in Color
84 Anne McCue Q & A
87 Charles Brindley Celebration of Trees
89 Jaume Plensa Dramatic Sculptures
90 Steve Earle Terraplane
93 Rory White Nashville 6 A.M.
98 Ann Cowden A Profile in Portraits
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Art Creates a CityPUBLISHER'S NOTE
Fields of Investigation: A Collaborative Exhibit from Sarratt Art Studios Faculty
Detailed images of work by David Heustess, Audry Deal-McEver, John Toomey, JC Johnson, Kelly Kessler, Jenni Ohnstad
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F ebruary is the time for heart and soul, and this issue is oozing with it. Lovers are encouraged to profess their passions . . . and jewelry is one demonstrable way. Our feature
Nashville Gems, showcasing jewelry-makers Erin Herb, Brooke Griffith, and Debe Dohrer, might give you some ideas on how to express your feelings (see page 63).
Explore the ups and downs of the romantic sphere in the narrative artworks of painter and ceramic artist Polly Cook on page 79. If the whole Valentine’s Day business brings you down, check out our Steve Earle story on page 90. He knows the blues, and he’s bringing them to us on his new album.
The heart of Wedgewood/Houston is growing as it adds CG2 (page 48) and Sherrick & Paul Gallery (page 29) to its already fertile creative community. Youth Poet Laureate Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay evokes the spirit of the city in her poem on page 86.
Black History Month calls us to connect with history and celebrate our African American community. Ted Jones, one of Nashville’s finest artists, made a career in art and teaching at Fisk University. See his arresting work on page 73.
We welcome new columnist Mark W. Scala, who will provide monthly reflections on great art in “As I See It” (page 44).
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FEBRUARY CRAWL GUIDEThe Franklin Art Scene happens on Friday, February 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. with more than 30 galleries and working studios participating. Gallery 202 is showcasing works f rom over 35 gallery artists. Boutique MMM is featuring drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculpture by Sketch Bourque. The Williamson County Visitor Center is hosting photographer a n d p a i n t e r R a c h e l K a r r . Parks is exhibiting work by Bess Kearns. Shuff ’s Music and Piano Showroom is presenting photography by Cory Plowman.
The First Saturday Art Crawl Downtown takes place on Saturday, February 7, from 6 until 9 p.m. The Arts Company is presenting their annual gallery showcase Of Things to Come. Tinney Contemporary is showing New Abstractions by Martica Griffin, Jeanie Gooden, Jason Craighead, and Mildred Jarrett. The Rymer Galler y is exhibiting Anima: New Paintings by Luke Hil lestad . Downtown Presbyterian Church is featuring Anna Marchetti ’s mixed-media exhib i t ion Red Ve lve t , which includes photo-based work and a collection of writings and drawings. In the historic Arcade, COOP Gallery is hosting an opening reception for Ordinary People by Pakistani American artist Asma Kazmi. WAG is presenting On Screen, a multimedia installation by Watkins Fine Art senior Kayla Saito, which investigates the representation of individual identity in social media. Corvidae Collective is
launching the exhibit Rebel & Riot, a visual commentary on modern politics through the lens of old-school punk-rock artistic perspectives. Hannah Lane Gallery is showing new work by Hannah Lane. Hatch Show Print’s Haley Gallery is featuring historic re-strikes of original posters from
their collection and Master Printer Jim Sherraden’s monoprints. The Community Corridor at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is showing iPod Artwork by Jeff Grady.
Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston happens on Saturday, February 7, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Seed Space is presenting Talking House, Andrew O’Brien’s installation comprised of a custom-built deck and a series of radio transmitters. Julia Martin Gallery is launching Dedicated to the One I Love: New Works by Michelle Farro, which includes paintings based on personal memories, family photographs, found imagery, and still-life motifs. Zeitgeist is featuring Once Upon a Time in the West by Jeremiah Ariaz and Scissor Bell by Lain York. The new CG2 Gallery is opening with a reception for their artists (see page 48). Channel to Channel is exhibiting Maximum Velocity, a selection of abstract paintings by recent Austin Peay State graduate Alexander Wurts. David Lusk Galler y is showcasing Start to Finish: Paintings & Woodcuts, abstract works by mid-century artist Ted Faiers. Sherrick & Paul Gallery is opening with an exhibit of paintings by Damian Stamer (see page 32). abrasiveMedia is presenting Tony Youngblood’s Modular Art Pods (MAPs) event, an art tunnel in which attendees crawl through a series of over 30 individually curated, four-foot micro art galleries (see page 24). 444 Humphreys St Pop Up Gallery is hosting Nashville native and
recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Emma Schwartz, whose paintings are like urban folk art, capturing day-to-day scenes in life. The Packing Plant is presenting Ariel Lavery’s installation Open Drawer, digitally remastered drawings, silk screen prints, and sculpture. Fort Houston is celebrating its third anniversary with a Birthday Bonanza inc luding a l ively combination of Arts & Music!
Third Thursdays at Riverwood Mansion takes place on February 19. This month features art by Jim Osborn and a musical performance by Jonell Mosser.
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Michelle Farro – Julia Martin Gallery
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The Healing Arts Project, Inc. (HAPI) advocates for individuals in mental health and addiction recovery by giving them opportunities to participate in a wide range of
artistic endeavors, which often plays a major role in their journeys to recovery. HAPI also aims to raise community awareness and help combat stigma about these disorders. The Phoenix Art Gala, now in its fifth year, benefits HAPI community programs and artistic services. This year’s gala includes a HAPI Art Exhibit, a casual dinner, and honoring of four Friends of the Healing Arts Project, Inc. for their service. These Friends will be presented awards for their significant efforts to further the arts in recovery. Original paintings, drawings, jewelry, ceramics, and weaving from over 50 Middle Tennessee HAPI artists will be offered through the art shop and by silent auction. Also featured in the silent auction will be an Epiphone Guitar signed by Amy Grant and Vince Gill and Demarcation, an oil painting by Kirk Seufert. Nashville guitarist Jonathan Brown is the featured entertainer.The Healing Arts Project is sponsored in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Metro Nashville Arts Commission. The Phoenix Art Gala takes place on Thursday, February 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn Vanderbilt. For tickets and information, visit www.healingartsprojectinc.org.
Phoenix Art Gala to Benefit Healing Arts Project
John L. Butts, Jr., Faces, Acrylic on canvas, 6” x 4”
Hilton Garden Inn Vanderbilt • February 5
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Late last year the Customs House Museum asked Nashville Arts Magazine to curate a year of monthly exhibits for the museum’s Planter’s Bank Peg Harvill Gallery. The call for
entry brought in submissions from across Middle Tennessee that were juried into 11 solo shows. Visit our website for a complete listing of who will be showing when. Opening on February 3 is the exhibit Pray to Love by Anne Goetze.For over 20 years, Anne Goetze made repeated journeys to Annecy, France, to visit her Aunt Helen, Soeur Margarite Marie, at the Monestere de la Visitation, home to the Visitation Order. In this small order, over 400 years old, the nuns live closed cloistered, a simple, contemplative life that does not include interaction with the public. Anne was not permitted inside the monastery, but on every visit she documented her impressions and photographed the grounds and village surrounding the monastery. Over the years, Anne grew to love the small group of women, and they became accustomed to having her there with her camera.
“Each time I was filled with so much emotion by the beauty and spirit of the place. And each time when I returned home from one of the oldest cities in the Alps, I knew that I would never be the same again,” Anne wrote. She saw her Aunt Helen for the last time in November 2013. “She was just shy of her 85th birthday when I returned in January 2014 for her funeral. Once again I roamed about with my camera; this time I was freely allowed within the interior walls of the monastery.” When Anne returned from the funeral she became completely immersed in painting the imagery she had collected for decades. Now she is ready to exhibit this cohesive body of work that is somewhat documentary in style. Its title, Pray to Love, is a saying the nuns use frequently. Anne says, “While it is a very personal project and definitely not commercial, it also draws community. No matter what your faith, you can relate to the peacefulness and serenity.”
Anton Weiss became so enamored with the series that he developed the prototype for the frames. Pray to Love includes a dozen pieces with captions written by nuns from the closed-cloistered Tyringham Monastery in Massachusetts. Anne and her son, Nathan Collie, created a film documenting Anne’s experiences and the creative process, which is projected on one wall of the gallery. Pray to Love by Anne Goetze will be on view February 3 through March 1 at the Customs House Museum’s Planter’s Bank Peg Harvill Gallery in Clarksville. Anne Goetze will be at the gallery during the Clarksville Downtown Artwalk on February 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. For more information, please visit www.customshousemuseum.org. To see more of Anne Goetze’s art, visit www.annegoetze.com.
Pray to LoveAnne Goetze’s Photographic Journey
Emerges as Mixed Media Solo Exhibition
Do You Have the Right Soul, Ashes, oil, archival ink, canvas, 40” x 30”
Customs House Museum • February 3 to March 1
Cobblestone Rue, Ashes, oil, archival ink, canvas, 30” x 40”
Monastere De La Visitation, Ashes, oil, archival ink, canvas, 20” x 30”
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D igital technolog y has allowed for increasing i n n o v a t i o n i n t h e
approaches artists may take to abstraction. American Abstract Artists: AAA 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio examines the attitude of the American Abstract Artists group, founded in 1936, as they embrace new pr intmaking technolog y. While previous portfolios have focused on traditional methods, this exhibition exclusively features archival inkjet prints. Works in the show range f rom digital images of traditional works, as with Thornton Willis’s Untitled, to completely computer-designed works such as Gilbert Hsiao’s Disco 3000, and everything in between. The varied techniques are unified
in the exhibition through a display of 48 works of the same size and medium.Organized by the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the American Abstract Artists: AAA 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio exhibition is the first of a two-part series focusing on abstraction in America. American Abstract Artists: AAA 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio is on view through February 27 at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information,
please visit the gallery’s website at www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery.
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Alice Adams, Beaded Circle, 2012, Archival fine art digital inkjet print, 13” x 10”
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Once again, the Grammy-nominated ALIAS Chamber Ensemble is poised to offer its audience an
evening of artistic excellence and innovative compositions. The ensemble’s Winter Concert showcases arrangements by six American composers, four of whom are from Nashville. Three world premieres are slated for performance: Nashville composer Daniel Elder’s work The Ties Eternal, which is scored for two violins, two celli, percussion, and soprano; a commissioned string quartet by Nashvillian Conni Ellisor; and a string quartet by ALIAS’s Chris Farrell. The program will also feature works by Nashville composer Matt Walker and a trio by Leonard Bernstein. Also included is an unusual, unpublished work by Aaron Copland from 1932, discovered by former Nashville Symphony librarian Wilson Ochoa in the archives of the Boston Symphony. All proceeds f rom the ALIAS Winter Concert will be donated to Open Table Nashville, a non-profit, interfaith organization that provides housing to the homeless while
disrupting cycles of poverty and educating the public on issues about homelessness.The ALIAS Winter Concert takes place at 8 p.m. on February 17 at Turner Hall, B la i r School o f Mus ic a t Vanderb i l t
University. Tickets are $20 for adults, $5 for students with ID, and free for Blair students. For tickets and information, visit www.aliasmusic.org. For more information on Open Table Nashville, please visit www.opentablenashville.org.
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Every February since 1922, the all-girls school Harpeth Hall has held a pageant called the “George Washington Birthday Celebration.” The school’s seventh grade girls are costumed as Founding Fathers such as
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin. The greatest honor is reserved for two eighth graders who are elected to appear as George and Martha Washington.
Painter Morgan Ogilvie, who describes the pageant as “a strangely beautiful, vaguely Gothic affair,” has depicted the girls in costume through a series of 16 oil paintings, on view at Harpeth Hall February 11 and 12.
Ogilvie explains, “I am touched by the girls’ poise and grace as they reenact this singular interpretation of our national identity. The event has given me a chance to further explore the emotional landscape of childhood and early adolescence, one of my chief preoccupations as a painter. As regional experiences become more homogenous in the United States, vestigial events such as this take on even greater significance against the background of an ever-encroaching monoculture.” Washington will be on view February 11 and 12 at the Harpeth Hall Wellness Center. A reception for the show is slated for Thursday, February 12, at 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.morgan-ogilvie.squarespace.com.
Young Lady Dressed up as George Washington, 2013, Oil on canvas, 48” x 24”
George Washington Birthday Celebration
Haynes Galleries • through February 28
The Wyeths: A Limited Edition Collection, on view at Haynes Galleries, features fine art collotypes and giclées of some of Andrew Wyeth’s most beloved works. Through a large number of limited edition
pieces, the various stages of the legendary artist’s career are represented. Included in the exhibition is an edition of the rarely seen 1956 Triton Press Portfolio, color collotypes of ten Wyeth paintings chosen by the artist.
Also presented are the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Andrew Wyeth Drawing Portfolio and Painting Portfolio. Produced in conjunction with the 1976 retrospective of Wyeth’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, each portfolio contains ten collotypes with each signed by Wyeth. These portfolios are among a very limited number of portfolios that were signed in their entirety by the artist.
The Wyeths: A Limited Edition Collection also includes works by Jamie and Carolyn Wyeth, Andrew’s son and sister respectively. Though both Jamie and Carolyn have their own signature styles, Andrew Wyeth’s influence is evident. Jamie’s unique pictures of animals serve more as portraits or character studies. Carolyn’s ominous yet introspective scenes explore the world with which she was most familiar, her home and the rural land surrounding it.The Wyeths: A Limited Edition Collection is on view through February 28 at Haynes Galleries. For more information, visit www.haynesgalleries.com.
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F or one night only, Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston visitors at abrasiveMedia can experience a literal art crawl by participating in Tony Youngblood’s Modular Art Pods
(MAPs) event. An open source, multi-disciplinary, collaborative project, MAPs is an art tunnel in which attendees crawl through a series of over 30 individually curated, four-foot micro art galleries. Youngblood came up with the idea while attending art openings where he often found it difficult to experience art with crowds of socializers surrounding him. “I thought it would be great to create these little pods where people can experience art all by themselves, and then there is the novelty of the changing environments as they travel through the art tunnel.” A behind-the-scenes tour is available for those unable to crawl. With over 35 artists enthusiastically participating, Youngblood says this is his most ambitious art endeavor to date. He hopes to organize another MAPs event that will last longer, and he’d be thrilled to see his concept used by artists in other cities. Youngblood’s inaugural MAPs event takes place at abrasiveMedia during Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston on February 7 from 6 to 10 p.m. For more information, visit www.modularartpods.com.
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by Joe Pagetta
David Lusk Gallery pairs two artists born fifty-six years apart in a new exhibit running through March 21 at the Wedgewood/Houston
location. Carroll Cloar, born near Earle, Arkansas, in 1913—he died in Memphis in 1993—and Leslie Holt, born in Maryland in 1969, are artists very much of their time. Cloar’s social realist work concerns itself with images of rural America. But it’s his evolution from the stark, crammed, almost cartoonish drawings in the 40s to the defined, colorful, and minimal scenes of his work beginning in the late 50s that is most striking. We see an artist at work, approaching mastery, over the years. The result is folk life, but not folk art, that will certainly appeal to fans of Edward Hopper or Robert Gwathmey. Many will recognize Cloar’s style from his 1966 painting Faculty and Honor Students, Lewis Schoolhouse. The work, depicting children holding a backwards American flag, was reproduced on a poster commemorating Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. Holt came of age post pop art, and the influence of the modern era and its focus
on concept and messaging is clear. She’s best known for her Hello Masterpiece series, begun in 2008. In the oil-on-canvas works, Hello Kitty, the popular Japanese icon, is painted into reproductions of famous art masterpieces by Matisse, Warhol, Munch, and Mondrian, to name a few, the size of a postcard. The result is whimsical at first, but touches on the meta when Hello Kitty, a brand so ubiquitous and representative of commercial culture, finds itself inside an image equally as silkscreened on T-shirts and tote bags, like Warhol’s Marilyn or Mondrian’s colorful grid. The David Lusk show, titled Hello Masterpiece: Farewell Tour, sends off the series in grand fashion, with some scenes as large as 36” x 48”.Cloar’s and Holt’s works have shown in Nashville before, most recently in 2012, when Holt’s Hello Masterpiece series hung at the Sarratt Gallery in 2012, and a selection of Cloar’s work appeared at Belmont University. Cloar was first exhibited in
Music City in 1983 at the Tennessee State Museum. His pieces are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington.
Carroll Cloar and Leslie Holt’s art will be on exhibit at David Lusk through March 21. For more about the exhibit please visit www.davidluskgallery.com/nashville.
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Leslie Holt, Hello Cezanne (Whole Foods), 2014, Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”
Carroll Cloar, Marked Tree Scene, 1992, Acrylic on masonite, 28” x 40”
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Leslie Holt, Hello Gauguin (Sun Hat), 2014, Oil on canvas, 20” x 20”
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Q What is your background?
My dream and passion is my art and I work very hard at that. I’ve also
always loved science and I work as a chemist in the nuclear division of TVA.
Q How did you come up with your city/state collage concept?
My son was born in Kentucky and my wife asked me to create an art piece she could hang in his room depicting all the interesting things that make Kentucky unique. I made it the shape of Kentucky and filled it with a whimsical collage of all things Kentucky. Friends saw it and wanted prints and then inspired me to do other cool places.
Q What is your medium of choice?
I use Prisma colored pencils because they afford me the ability to get really detailed and they just feel more natural than paint brushes.
Q How much time goes into the creation of one of these pieces?
It takes time to do the research for the piece and I also encourage people who follow my work and are native to an area to get involved and give me ideas. I then layout the concept on paper and transfer it with carbon paper and ink it in. The piece actually comes to life once I add the colored pencil pigment and I love giving people updates on the pieces as they progress. From start to finish a single piece can take up to 300 hours of work.
Q Tell us something interesting about your work and particularly this Nashville piece.
When I started creating my city pieces I added hidden objects. Some of these hidden objects have personal meaning. For example, the Nashville piece has a little dog hiding amongst plants that represents our little dog that was lost in the woods for twenty-five days when our home was destroyed by a tornado in 2012.
Q What other subjects do you enjoy drawing?
Besides the state and city collages, I get back to my love for science and draw very detailed butterflies,
dragonflies, hummingbirds, and so forth. My wife and I are active in animal rescue and I’ve done a lot of pet portraits as well.
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The first fine art piece Susan Sherrick ever bought was a black-and-white photograph of a New Orleans jazz parade. She was working at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and had fallen for the gritty 1950s cityscapes of one of the gallery’s artists, Lee Friedlander. Paging through his MoMA catalogue, her eye fell upon that
NOLA image, and her mind rushed back to a New Orleans night when she was 20 years old. Sherrick’s brother, Stephen, 17, had died
a few months before; she and her parents couldn’t bear Thanksgiving at home in Hershey, Pennsylvania, without him, so they got on a southbound plane and hoped they could forget.
They could not. After Thanksgiving dinner, the three stepped out of Commander’s Palace just as a brass band marched into the gorgeous decay of Lafayette Cemetery #1. For them, the funeral procession was a resplendent farewell to Stephen. “I will never forget that music as long as I live,” Sherrick says. “Then I saw the photo that Lee took, and I could hear that music again.”
The photograph hangs next to her front door, where it conjures in her, every day, the exquisite ache of loving and losing her baby
Susan Sherrick Brings an International Roster of Artists to Houston Station
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brother. For Sherrick—art dealer and curator, and new Nashville gallery owner—that’s what great art should do: It should provoke and agitate; it should stir up a tangled inner turmoil, and reflect a complicated push-pull between wrenching and lovely, hideous and mesmerizing.
As co-owner of the new Sherrick & Paul contemporary art gallery, Sherrick is poised to infuse a whole lot more of that kind of top-tier, cutting-edge art into the booming Wedgewood-Houston arts community. At the gallery’s inaugural opening night in November of 2014, the house was packed with decked-out locals ogling Barry McGee’s vivid surfboard installation and Vivian Maier’s urban streetscapes. “[Sherrick’s] bringing in museum-caliber artists. And she’s doing it in this neighborhood, which is fantastic,” says Lain York, Nashville artist and director of Zeitgeist Gallery. “I think it’s a huge game changer. This is work that Nashvillians who are collectors are going to art fairs and to New York to buy.”
Before launching the gallery, Sherrick did a few test runs to see what Nashville collectors might do if more world-class art came to them. She partnered with Nashvillian Libby
Callaway in a series of pop-up events called “Joint,” which paired well-known artists like William Eggleston with talented locals such as Heidi Ross and Yve Assad. The result? “We sold work,” says Sherrick, at all different price points—including an Eggleston photograph for $60,000.
“And then, I was like, OK, maybe this can happen,” Sherrick recalls. Nashville Scene arts editor Laura Hutson thinks maybe it can, too—especially as Nashville’s demography shifts. “The middle of nowhere is the new center,” she says, pointing out that “flyover” cities like Nashville and Denver are attracting more twenty-something college grads than ever before. And those educated young people are going to want big-city amenities like great restaurants and a thriving arts scene. Hutson draws parallels, in fact, between culinary and visual arts cultures—and how a city’s tastes evolve, as tastemakers introduce better and edgier art forms and seed people’s cravings for more.
But even as Nashville’s arts scene grows, can a small city compete for serious art collectors’ dollars? Former Nashville curator Veronica Kavass suggests that Nashville shouldn’t try to outdo New York on its own terms. The big-city art scenes “can feel so stuffy and intimidating, so cutthroat,” she says. “The Southern market for art collecting could be a respite.”Kavass believes that Sherrick’s big-market connections and tastes, combined with her low-key, personal approach to the business of art, might be just the right recipe for Nashville collectors. Maybe that’s
William Eggleston, Untitled, 1968, Photograph, 44” x 64”
Marcel Dzama, Miss Disco, 2014, Spray paint, ink, and collage, 18” x 16”
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why so many big-name artists Susan has worked with, through such storied galleries as David Zwirner, Marian Goodman, and Howard Greenberg, are willing to take a chance on Nashville. “I don’t think it would happen if it weren’t for Susan. She was a breath of fresh air for those artists,” Kavass says. “She’s personally interested in them. She wants to take good care of them.”
“For me, it was a no-brainer,” says New York artist Wendy White, whose solo exhibition comes to Sherrick & Paul in April. “I think I said, ‘I’d follow you anywhere’ when she asked me. She has an impeccable resume and amazing taste. Also, Nashville is a really interesting city. It offers the opportunity to work outside the well-worn art world avenues.”
There are two types of people Susan Sherrick and her partner—healthcare executive and art collector Paul Gilbert—are hoping to lure to the gallery: art-curious types, soon to be converted, and swooning art lovers who spent childhoods roaming the Whitney and the MoMA. Sherrick believes those present and future fine-art aficionados won’t be hard to find in Nashville. “They’re totally here,” she says. She recalls watching an MTSU student at one of the Joint pop-ups gazing at an Eggleston photograph. He turned to Sherrick. “Thank you,” he said quietly. “I never thought this kind of art would be in Nashville.”
For more information about Susan Sherrick please visit www.sherrickandpaul.com.
Nick Goss, Voices Under the Lindens, 2013, Oil on linen, 75” x 69” Susan Sherrick
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D amian Stamer ’s paintings are multilayered meditations on memory, loss, nostalgia, and sentimentality. Heavily worked, rich surfaces yield clues to the history contained in images of abandoned buildings and rural landscapes.
In his most recent work, the structures and fields of his native North Carolina are often engulfed in a whirl of broad, gestural strokes—obscuring the images while evoking the effect of time’s passage on a rapidly fading memory.
As a child in North Carolina, Stamer often explored the deserted structures and fields near his home. “These are the same old barns, relatively unchanged, that my bus passed every day to and from school over twenty years ago,” says the artist. Maintaining a connect to the landscape of his youth is important to Stamer, and so he splits his time between studios in Brooklyn and Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he photographs the structural elements that become the basis for his paintings.
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(above) Damian Stamer standing in front of Patrick Rd. 8, 2013, Oil on panel, 72” x 95”(left) St. Marys, 2014, Oil on panel, 72” x 48”
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Stamer’s photographic library from the region now contains thousands of images from which he paints. “The only exception to date,” according to the artist, “is my use of Dorothea Lange’s photographs housed at the Library of Congress. In 1939, Lange visited Person County—a stone’s throw from the places I paint—to document the tobacco workers on behalf of the Farm Security Administration. Although time separates me from her images, I feel a kinship to both the artist and these sites by furthering their stories in paint.”
Conceptually, Stamer’s work strikes a balance between the intuitive and the theoretical, relying heavily on the evolution of the image through his mark-making process. One concept that figures heavily into his work is the German idea of Heimat, or homeland, and the notion of how one is deeply connected to the land in which one was born and raised. Growing out of that concept are issues of regional taste and sophistication and how less urbane aesthetics are perceived by “a predominantly urban-centric art world.” For Stamer, “The simple act of making my work, alone in the studio, through a relationship with humble materials, displays a decided politics of creation—one that contrasts sharply with other modes of artistic production found today.”While Stamer engages with concepts such as these that connect his work to a broader critical and theoretical conversation, he states that he is “mostly a formalist at heart.” The images lurking beneath his paint surfaces are his painting’s skeletons and the springboard for his process. “There comes a time when these biographical and identity-laden concerns fall away, like the rockets of a space shuttle after launch. Chance and intuition take over. Painting becomes a dance outside the realm of language and concept.
“My most exciting times in the studio come when I discover how to make a new mark or surface effect,” says the artist. “I’m like a scientist, always tinkering and experimenting with unique ways to push my medium. When I find a new way to use paint that I’ve never seen before, I feel like I am adding to a conversation that began thousands of years ago.”A good example of the balance Stamer strikes between formal and conceptual approaches can be seen in the evolution of a predominately monochrome color palette used in much of his work from the past two years. According to Stamer, the monochromes developed partly out of his desire to better highlight newly developed marks and surface treatments. Conceptually the use of monochrome also lent itself to his central themes of memory and loss—referencing “the difficulty of accessing information and emotions of years past, translated visually through faded colors and erasure.” Stamer says that “these works also hinted at black-and-white photography, perhaps our most common window to the past, with white borders and dappled aging.”Anselm Kiefer’s monumental depictions of historically loaded landscapes and interiors have been an important influence on New Sharon Church Rd. 11, 2014, Oil on panel, 24” x 36”
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Stamer’s work, as has the work of Matthias Weischer, Neo Rauch, and Gerhard Richter. Other older influences that Stamer cites include Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andrew Wyeth, and Édouard Manet. Stamer says that showing his work in New York has not necessarily affected its development; however he does feel that living there has had an overall positive impact on the path of his painting. “New York has a unique energy and hustle. Combining this vitality with the number of galleries, museums, artists, and overall brilliant thinkers New York has to offer provides an ideal atmosphere to push my work.” Sherrick and Paul Gallery in Nashville will be exhibiting Stamer’s recent work from January 15 to February 28, 2015—an ideal opportunity to experience the surface intensity of his work. “The surface nuances of these works are incredibly important,” says Stamer, “and operate best when seen with the naked eye. I still believe in the magical power of painting. It hooked me years ago, and I’d like to share that same excitement and energy with others.” For more information about Damian Stamer, please visit www.sherrickandpaul.com.
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One of the ways the ABC supports artists is to help them become successful as business people. While each artist has his/her own market and therefore
appropriate marketing channels, here are a few general tips to help promote your work:
Be authent ic : Successful brands are or iginal and authentic. The best artists have a distinct voice that connects authentically with their audiences. Maximize this advantage; accentuate and own your differences and originality.
Have a USP: Be able to describe your unique type of creative work and/or style in one easy-to-repeat (and understand) sentence. I can’t understate the importance of a USP (unique selling proposition) to selling your work and having clients easily recommend you to others. Think about it, write it down, practice it.
Maximize your online presence: Google yourself. Yes, you can do this without shame—it’s for your business. That’s what your potential customers will do. Also make sure your various social media avatars, bios, contacts, images, and portfolios are up to date and show you in your best light. How can you make what comes up look better? Digitize your work for easy sharing with customers, media, and opinion leaders. Be accessible to the market you’re trying to reach. Also, be thoughtful about what you post on social media, as you are your brand.
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Many local filmmakers see the appeal of the “shootout” competition: You’re given a set time and narrative parameters under which your teams must make a great film. Partnering with Nashville Arts
Magazine, Middle Tennessee’s 54 Film Fest holds the same style of competition with a few “tweaks” that may make all the difference for prospective entrants.
The 54 Film Fest started as a side project of Seek First Productions. Established in 2007, Seek First started with wedding videos and the occasional short film. The desire to submit those first short films into the festival circuit got the upstart company twenty-seven awards that include an Emmy from the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Now a full-fledged player in production, Seek First’s expansion into commercials and narrative work includes Road to Nashville that sees them teaming up with DreamWorks off-shoot Awesomeness TV to capture the struggle of teenage musicians pursuing their dreams.
It was the submission period as fresh filmmakers that helped the members of Seek First Productions value the importance of a film festival, and in 2011 they started the 54 in Knoxville with twenty-three short films that sold out its inaugural screening. Now, the 54 Film Fest has kept its Tennessee focus while expanding to cities all over the U.S. The Middle Tennessee competition anticipates over 500 filmmakers representing the top talent in the area.
“We want there to be an emphasis on making a fun competition that still helps you put out great work,” says Chris Keyes, Director of Digital Content for Seek First Productions. “We view the 54 Film Fest as more liberating, since this is a light-hearted atmosphere, as opposed to the objective standards of a competitive job. The quirky direction, the ease of registration, and the fact that we’re an entity that started in Tennessee will—we hope—make this worthwhile.”
The 2015 Middle TN 54 Film Fest competition will run in Nashville, Franklin, and Murfreesboro February 27 through March 1. The films will be shown at Regal Hollywood Theatre, 719 Thompson Lane, on March 21. For times, registration and other information, visit www.54filmfest.com.
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by Rusty Wolfe
T he cultural landscape of the U n i t e d S t a t e s h a s c h a n g e d dramatically in the sixty-plus
years that I have lived in it. Modern cities now showcase a diverse range of designs and architectural styles. Today’s homes often display an eclectic mix of furniture and artwork from across many design periods.
The design movement of mixing the old with the new has developed over the years, and I first started contributing to it in the 1970s. In 1972 I purchased a condemned house in the Richland-West End neighborhood from notorious local landlord Carrie Sissom. The dilapidated, single-story house had 1,300 square feet. I more than doubled that square footage by raising the roof and adding a second and a third story. I approached the project with the goal of repurposing old pieces
and parts as design elements into my new, contemporary home. I outfitted the house with twelve stained-glass windows in addition to many modern, clear-glass windows. I decoupaged the floor of my sons’ bathroom with antique sheet music, used barn wood to fabricate contemporary lighted soffits, and incorporated antique tiles into a modern fireplace. One of my favorite elements was a wall of mismatched antique drawers built into the wasted space beneath the staircase. This detail proves to be the inspiration for the piece of furniture that is featured in this month’s column.
I needed an interesting piece of furniture to house my television and stereo equipment, so I started with some simple oak slabs. I stained the oak black and accentuated it with natural mahogany for a clean, contemporary cabinet. I required both form
and function from this piece, and I achieved that by treating the left and right sides of the cabinet in different ways. On the right side, I used 200-year-old English pine to make a simple bank of drawers for DVD storage. Wanting to mix in some antique details, on the left side I incorporated antique drawer fronts and other antique parts used as drawer fronts for a potpourri effect. The first four drawers are made from the corner blocks of Victorian door frames. The rectangular drawer with the cutouts came off an Eastlake music cabinet. The drawer pulls span more than a hundred years and represent a wide variety of hardware periods. The overall effect is a contemporary piece of furniture with an eclectic mix of antique pieces and parts.
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Mr. Mac and Me ESTHER FREUD Ann Patchett says, “A compelling tale beautifully told, Mr. Mac and Me is as close to a perfect novel as anything I’ve read in a long time. I loved every page of it.” What more do you need to know? Perhaps a bit about the plot, a fictional story about an actual person: In 1914, legendary Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh moved to a small village on the Suffolk coast of England, where he and his wife met its inhabitants. Freud uses that as a starting point for a fascinating book about unlikely friendship and suspicion in the time of the First World War.
Soul Food Love ALICE RANDALL AND CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMSHere’s a new spin on tradition with a regional flavor. In 2012, bestselling novelist, songwriter, and Nashville resident Alice Randall wrote an op-ed for the New York Times called “Black Women and Fat,” chronicling her quest to be “the last fat black woman” in her family. Together with her daughter, the poet Caroline Randall Williams, she has updated centuries-old recipes and created healthful, affordable, delicious versions.
We Are Pirates: A Novel DANIEL HANDLER Neil Gaiman calls this one “the strangest, most brilliant offering yet from the mind behind Lemony Snicket.” We’d have to agree. Somehow Handler manages a mash-up of genres and characters that don’t normally go together. At the center of this story about pirates wreaking havoc on the San Francisco Bay, you have teenagers who wish they were swashbuckling adventurers and a middle-aged dad who wishes he were a brave rebel. If it sounds bizarre, that’s because it is—but trust us, it’s amazing. Meet Handler on February 14 as part of the Salon@615 author series.
A Spool of Blue Thread ANNE TYLER This may be Anne Tyler’s 20th novel, but she’s at the top of her game. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author excels at writing about families and how their histories, triumphs, and secrets affect the individuals therein. This time, the people at the center of her story are Abby and Red Whitshank, one of those couples who appear at first glance to have mastered modern marriage and parenthood. Of course, nothing is exactly as it seems for these four generations of characters. A great read for fiction lovers.
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Duality marks the beginning of Alex Hall’s new series of paintings Semiotics. In preparation, Hall has been researching
images and words from other cultures and religions, which take on particular symbolic meaning within a context. In the new works, he combines various visual metaphors to create art that engages the viewer to explore his own connection with the imagery.
In Duality he wanted to contrast two opposing ideas represented by the light and dark gloved hands. The blindfold symbolizes the conscious and unconscious, suggesting that things can be understood from the heart and not necessarily the eyes. The gold of the blindfold is associated with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of self. Alex Hall is represented by The Rymer Gallery, and his paintings will soon be on view at The Unit Gallery in London. To see more of Alex Hall’s work, please visit www.alexhallart.com and www.therymergallery.com.
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A llen Welty-Green was always drawn to the synergy between music and image. In 1986, inspired by the Twyla Tharp and David Byrne ballet The Catherine Wheel and the
works of Laurie Anderson, he teamed up with mime/magician/dancer Jason Litchford for a multimedia show at the John Galt Theater. Two packed houses and standing ovations marked the beginning of Mind’s Eye, a groundbreaking performance group that fused movement, music, and media.According to Welty-Green, “Those three components—movement, in the form of dance or pantomime; music, in the form of my own original compositions; and media, in the form of film, slides, video, stage effects, lighting, etc.—were equally and inextricably melded into a common aesthetic.”To create music using movement, Mind’s Eye attached triggers to Litchford’s body and engineered invisible grids of infrared sensors, years before microcontrollers standardized such methods. They also innovated black-light techniques like pumping fluorescent paint through a costume to change its color and painting the entire backdrop fluorescent “so it would ‘capture’ a dancer’s shadows in a flash of light.”After Mind’s Eye disbanded in 1992, Welty-Green moved to Atlanta where he co-founded the performance art group Gnosis, served on the board of the experimental arts venue Eyedrum, and performed in various ensembles. He still draws lessons and inspiration from his Mind’s Eye experience, but he can’t go back. “If I’d known then what I know now, Minds Eye likely would not have happened. When Jason and I started doing our work, we had no rules, no expectations, and the only limits were our available resources. Today, there would be too many inner voices saying, you can’t do that, or, that will never work. I’ve learned a lot, and experienced a lot, which is a good thing—but there is something to be said for inexperience and naivety, especially in art.”Learn more at www.gnosisarts.org/Minds_Eye.
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W ith this exhibition of 17th Century Dutch and Flemish art, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) sheds light on rare works that are not often on view. While many of the artists’ names are
recognizable as “the greats,” these small-scale paintings have received less attention from researchers, scholars, and curators because these petites tend to remain in private collections rather than in public exhibitions, and scholarship consistently develops with museum presentations. BMA’s Curator of European Art, Robert Schindler, commends organizers, the North Carolina Museum of Art, who coordinated this traveling exhibit, saying, “It’s a courageous undertaking to have a show of all small art.”Many paintings on display are portraits made as hand-held heirlooms, such as van Dyck’s Portrait of Nicholas Rockox. Unlike larger works made to go on walls, these works were created as
SMALL TREASURESRe m bR a n dt, VeR m eeR, Hals a n d tH ei R Con t e m p oR a R i e s
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portable likenesses—to carry around or send to relatives far away. Practical and personal, works like these remind us that sharing family pictures was very different before photography. Another theme presented in the show is that of tronie or a character study, as in Rembrandt’s Bearded Old Man and Vermeer’s Young Woman Seated at a Virginal. These works were used to represent moods through rich colors and dramatic expressions and were popular at the time of of their creation. Paintings of this size and detail demonstrate the artists’ techniques and were often used for marketing commissions. In his Self-Portrait, Dou depicts himself lavishly dressed in furs and leather with an easel to indicate his profession. The work positions the artists as stylish, successful, and skilled; however, these business-card-esque pa in t ings a re s c a rce because they were not highly collected or exhibited. With time though, these intimate works have become significant and are appreciated because of their unique beauty. This exhibition opens the door for people to connect with the small treasures that served as the foundation on which these artists built their reputations. Smal l Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals and Their Contemporaries is on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art through April 26. For more information visit www.artsbma.org.
(below) Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of Nicholas Rockox, 1636, Oil on panel, 7”
Gerrit Dou, Self-Portrait, circa 1638–42, Oil on panel, 5” x 4”
Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, circa 1670–72, Oil on canvas, 10” x 8”
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The Canadian collaborators Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller employ video, robotics, and sound in constructions that raise questions about the
individual in fraught negotiation with the invisible mechanisms of culture. Perhaps their most powerful sculpture is The Killing Machine (2007), an installation which was inspired by the artists’ opposition to the death penalty as well as to the war in Iraq and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison camp. The work has added relevance today, with newly invigorated debates about the legitimacy, efficacy, and even the definition of torture, and nationwide demonstrations focusing attention on the use of deadly force by police departments across America. The artists have observed that “In our culture right now there is a strange, deliberate, and indifferent approach to killing.”1 Their work is a call to introspection and conscience. The imagery of The Killing Machine was derived from Franz Kafka’s story “In the Penal Colony,” in which an explorer is invited to observe the execution of a condemned man by a horrific machine. As the story unfolds, we learn that the prisoner has had no trial, does not know the charges against him, and is unaware of his sentence. An officer says, “There would be no point in telling him. He’ll learn it on his body.2” In any case, a fair trial is irrelevant; “guilt is never to be doubted.3” The machine holds needles, which penetrate deeper and deeper into the condemned man’s skin, spelling out the charges in unreadable text. Over twelve excruciating hours, the script becomes increasingly clear. At the point of death, the prisoner can finally read it, to learn with horror that he is being executed for sleeping on the job. In The Killing Machine, tall robotic figures holding retractable needles move in a mesmerizing dance over an empty dental seat covered in pink fur—disturbingly evocative of flesh—toward which they poke and jab like taunting cobras. A megaphone
circles the tableaux, mechanically intoning instructions to the presumptive prisoner, who would be strapped to the chair. The sense of portent is intensified by a discordant sound track, Heartstrings, composed by Freida Abtan. As the sculpture’s cycle unfolds, spots of light are projected onto the gallery walls. They move with ever increasing agitation until the climax, when the machine stops, the lights go out, and, we imagine, the spirit of the invisible prisoner has at last escaped the body and the machine. Kafka’s parable is concerned with elevating machinery (including the invisible systems that shape society) at the expense of human rights. The Killing Machine raises similar questions about how we value life in the face of rationalizations about cultural necessity. There have been many films and books about such subjects, but where Cardiff and Miller’s meditation differs is that we do not simply
read or watch; our senses are immersed in a spectacle of sound, objects, and light. The work enables us to empathize through our senses, “to learn on our bodies.” We might even imagine ourselves as the condemned one, taking the place of the nameless and faceless who, guilty or innocent, have been in such seats over the course of history.
Endnotes1 www.cardiffmiller.com2 Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” in Franz Kafka, The
Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and Other Stories (New York: Schocken Books, orig. pub. 1946, 1988 ed.), 197
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, The Killing Machine, 2007, Mixed media, audio installation, pneumatics, robotics, Duration: 5 minutes, 10’ x 13’x 8’
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Tina Barney. The Brocade Walls, 2003. Chromogenic
color print. Courtesy of the artist. © Tina Barney
Januar y 19 – May 10
Tina Barney: The Europeans was organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Explore the visual richness of aristocratic living in this collection of photographs by Tina Barney which take us through her journey to the elite inner circles of Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
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In February, Cumberland Gallery will be opening a new location, identified as CG2 Gallery. With Lydia Denkler now managing the original Cumberland Gallery, director Carol Stein
and preparator Jason Lascu set about planning a new gallery with a focus on young, emerging artists. CG2’s inaugural exhibition will be on February 7. Jason Lascu will be the director of this exciting endeavor.
I met with Jason on a cold morning in January to discuss his vision for the new location. To a certain degree, it will serve as an extension of the original gallery, which is perhaps made evident with the name CG2. The focus of the new project, however, is quite different. The original Cumberland, established in 1980 by Carol Stein, is now a recognized entity in Nashville and as such has found its market and established a healthy roster of artists, most of them well into a career. The goal of CG2 will be to create a new vision while encouraging more interaction between artists and the community, especially those artists who are only now emerging onto the Nashville arts scene. “CG2 is an extension, but it’s going to be its own space,” Jason informed me. “It will have its own identity. It is different, in that the focus will be on emerging, mid-career artists. For us, I think it is important to have a smaller roster of artists, and right now we have ten. We want to work with artists and build a relationship, and we feel like we want to grow with the artists.”Positioned in the Track One building on the corner of 4th Avenue and Chestnut Street, the new location will seek to establish a presence in the burgeoning Wedgewood-Houston district, populated by Fort Houston, The Packing Plant, and Track One galleries, to name but a few. In this particular area of Nashville, to focus on growing a
roster of local, regional, and national artists, building a sense of community seems an intelligent decision, one which reflects the changing arts scene in our city. There are also plans to hold events featuring the artists on site to talk about their work or their process and to further engage with the community. These events will vary according to the artist: “We want to make it as comfortable for the artist as possible,” said Mr. Lascu. These interactions won’t be a requirement but an occasion to generate buzz and facilitate dialogue, something this community needs more of. There is a desire to instill a new approach to the arts scene in Nashville and create a space removed from the expectations of the past. “In this new setting the artists can take more risks, and the work will hopefully be more challenging. We are excited about a new direction and doing something different. We want to push things and create a new dialogue.”Shortly before departing I was invited to browse a collection of images from the ten artists currently represented by the gallery. Mr. Lascu told me the name of each artist and gave me information about their work and where they were from. This was perhaps a minor episode, but the fact that he so effortlessly provided such information, and that he is already so invested in these artists, certainly bodes well for the future of CG2. The opening show on February 7 will feature a variety of artists from the CG2 roster, including Jen Uman, Andrea Heimer, Christina West, Fred Stonehouse, and Marcus Kenney. For more information visit www.cg2gallery.com.
Cumberland gallery Launches satellite in Wedgewood/Houston
by Jesse Mathison
Marcus Kenney, I Ain’t Tryin’ To Be A Hater, Mixed media on canvas, 36” x 36”
Christina West, Unmet (#3), Pigmented Hydrocal, 13” x 7” x 6”
Fred Stonehouse, The Lost Remember, Acrylic on wood, 36” x 48”
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Tina Barney. The Brocade Walls, 2003. Chromogenic
color print. Courtesy of the artist. © Tina Barney
Januar y 19 – May 10
Tina Barney: The Europeans was organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Explore the visual richness of aristocratic living in this collection of photographs by Tina Barney which take us through her journey to the elite inner circles of Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE 919 BROADWAY FRISTCENTER.ORG
ROBIN AND RICHARD PATTON
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by Van Gill Maravalli Public Art Project Coordinator, Metro Nashville Arts Commission
In September of 2013, a panel of community members, artists, and leaders in business from the Antioch area selected artist Paul Vexler to create a site-specific public artwork for the new Southeast Davidson County Public Library, Regional
Community Center, and park, which, in addition to the Ford Ice Center next door, makes up the new Commons at the Crossings
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from The four Corners
multi-use complex. The design for the public artwork titled From the Four Corners was heavily influenced by the communities surrounding the new library and community center.
The large sculpture, suspended from the ceiling in the central lobby area, was hand crafted by the artist in his home studio in Snohomish, Washington. Vexler used four different types of wood laminate, which he shaped into curling, spiraling strips and intertwined into a loose knot in the center of the sculpture. Each of the four wood pieces stretches from the center knot to a different corner of the lobby space. Vexler describes From the Four Corners as “a sculptural metaphor celebrating a rich, diverse community.”
Vexler often pushes the limits of his medium and works in unconventional ways, which also means that he creates new tools and methods. For example, he made his own plywood for From the Four Corners, so it had just the right strength and flexibility to create the ribbon-like shapes. Regardless of where his sculptures are displayed, Vexler says one thing rings true for all his work: “I want people to approach my work and feel compelled to walk around it and view it from different angles. I want them to walk around it two or three times because the work is helping them to learn to see things that they missed the first time.”
From the Four Corners was installed in July 2014 and dedicated in October 2014. For more information about the artwork and the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, please visit publicart.nashville.gov.
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Nashville Ballet’s Attitude, the third major program in its 2014–15 season—following Swan Lake and The Nutcracker—finds the company taking advantage of a
welcome opportunity to extend the range of its gifted dancers. Here, the vision of established, wor ld-c lass choreographers merges with cutting-edge and classic musicians and composers, with the ensemble’s movement enhanced in part by a uniquely complementary contribution from the world of visual art. The latest Attitude, February 13–15 at TPAC’s Polk Theater, presents three distinctive pieces to the Nashville dance audience, two of them local premieres and the third a revival of a work previously performed in Music City. The program opener, Fanfare, features six dancers performing the choreography of Graham Lustig, an internationally recognized choreographer and teacher—and also artistic director of his own company in New Brunswick, New Jersey.Fanfare pays homage to Lustig’s longtime friend and fellow artist Singapore’s Choo San Goh, capturing the essence of Choo’s elegant, linear style.“Fanfare challenges the performers with its super-virtuosity,” says Sharyn Mahoney, the ballet’s director of artistic operations. “It’s difficult work, similar to dancing Stravinsky, with his wild time signatures.” This is the second time Nashville Ballet has performed one of Lustig’s works. The intricate rhythms and engaging themes of the music come courtesy of British composer and pianist Graham Fitkin, whose oeuvre falls broadly into the minimalist and post-minimalist categories. Fitkin is particularly known for his works for solo and multiple pianos, and here his percussively charged Flak will be rendered by four onstage pianists seated at two pianos—Bruce Dudley (a jazz pianist and professor at Belmont University), Chris Smallwood (pianist for Beatles imitation group RAIN), Elena Bennett (who has performed with Nashville Ballet multiple times), and Robert Marler (musician with the Nashville Symphony and professor at Belmont University).
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The second dance piece is called Moonshine, featuring four dancers, choreography by Christopher Bruce, and the music of Bob Dylan, drawn from bootleg recordings of the great songwriter’s early folkie period (c. 1961–63). British choreographer Bruce originally created Moonshine for Nederlands Dans Theater. He is no stranger to choreography with popular song, having created a number of pieces inspired by the music of the Rolling Stones (“Paint It Black,” “Ruby Tuesday,” “Play with Fire,” etc.).“Moonshine explores the emotional, sometimes dark stories of four traveling performers,” says Mahoney. “The four travelers, or troubadours—two women, two men—interact like a family or a group of friends, and Bruce’s contemporary movement creates abstractions that allow the audience to draw their own conclusions about the action.”This piece marks Bruce’s debut with Nashville Ballet. Also, in a special concession to the company, no royalties were charged by Dylan’s publishers.After the intermission, the ballet program’s major piece commences—choreographer Gina Patterson’s 45-minute interpretation of the music of Nashville-based singer-songwriter Matthew Perryman Jones, who performs selections from his CD Land of the Living live onstage. The performance also offers an extra-visual component as painter Emily Leonard works on a large (7’ x 22’) canvas in full audience view.“I’ve always loved all kinds of music,” Patterson says. “I gravitate toward experimentation, and I love collaborating with singer-songwriters. When I heard Matthew’s music I immediately felt a connection. So I familiarized myself with his work, and we started having conversations about music and process and inspiration.”Entitled ...but the flowers have yet to come, Patterson’s work was first presented in Nashville in 2013. It features the efforts of the ballet’s main company plus apprentices, a twenty-two-strong ensemble led by gifted, homegrown, Nashville Ballet-trained talents Jon Upleger, Christopher Stuart, Mollie Sansone, and Sadie Bo Sommer.
“I think the success of the piece,” continues Patterson, “is that it is unfiltered. From Matthew to Emily to the dancers—everyone allows themselves to be vulnerable, and the audience will see and feel truth, and that’s what makes it a powerful work. As for the style of the dance, I would say my language has become a mix of classical and contemporary. The lines are blurred, but it’s geared more toward the modern.” With Jones singing live, along with his band and a second vocalist, and with artist Leonard painting over the course of three days, this program might certainly be considered epic.“It reflects an emotional journey,” concludes Patterson, “in which we may not have all the answers but know we are moving in the right direction.” Attitude will be presented at TPAC’s Polk Theater February 13 (7:30 p.m.), February 14 (7:30 p.m.), and February 15 (2 p.m.). For tickets and more information visit www.tpac.org.
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Arts Worth Watching
NASHVILLE CONNECTIONSNow in its fourth season, Front and Center presents live performances by an eclectic mix of Grammy winners and chart-toppers. This month is no exception, and many of this season’s shows were taped locally at Marathon Music Works. First up is the CMA Songwriters Series with Dierks Bentley on February 6 with some of Nashville’s best songwriters. On February 13, Joe Satriani honors the pioneer of the electric guitar, Les Paul. Trio Lady Antebellum sing their biggest hits on February 20, and superstar Keith Urban performs nearly all sixteen of his No. 1 songs on February 27. Front and Center airs Friday nights at 11 p.m.Few shows highlight Nashville’s talented musicians better than Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Café, airing Friday nights at 7 p.m. The series’ second season kicks off February 13 with the Steep Canyon Rangers, one of America’s most accomplished bluegrass bands. A.J. Croce opens the February 21 show with sophisticated songwriting worthy of his late father, Jim Croce.
There’s “always a Nashville connection” on Austin City Limits, seen Wednesday nights at 11 p.m. Tune in on February 4 to watch the Black Keys play hits from their No. 1 album Turn Blue. On February 11, enjoy highlights from the ACL Hall of Fame Special with performances by Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Guy, and more.The five-part series Speakeasy offers some of the world’s most iconic musicians the opportunity to discuss their illustrious careers. The series continues on Thursday, February 5, when the “King of Calypso” Harry Belafonte interviews Grammy Award-winning guitarist Carlos Santana. Rush bandleader Geddy Lee talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon on February 12. Both episodes air at 11 p.m.
NPT LOVES SHAKESPEAREFour more episodes of Shakespeare Uncovered run on Friday nights in February. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Morgan Freeman famously starred in a Wild West version of The Taming of the Shrew. On February 6 at 8 p.m., he sets out to better understand one of the
Bard’s first works. David Harewood was the first black actor to play Othello on stage. On February 6 at 9 p.m., he unravels the complex issues of prejudice and jealousy threaded throughout the play. Kim Cattrall has played the title role in Antony & Cleopatra twice; on February 13 at 8 p.m. she meets others who have played Cleopatra. On February 13 at 9 p.m., Joseph Fiennes, star of Shakespeare in Love, examines Romeo & Juliet to understand why the love story remains the most performed of all of Shakespeare’s works.It’s the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? On Friday, February 6, at 7 p.m., actor Vanessa Redgrave and others explore the true authorship of the ever-popular plays and poems in Last Will & Testament.
LAST LAUGHOn Thursday, February 5, at 9 p.m., American Masters takes a hilarious year-long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare the struggle and thrill of life as a groundbreaking female performer.February is for sweethearts, and we hope you’ll show us some love by supporting quality public television programming. Go to www.wnpt.org and click on the “donate” button.
NPT is known for bringing you lots of quality entertainment, concerts, and musical events from around the world. This month, we’re also showing off our hometown: February is filled with a
variety of events featuring Nashville singers, songwriters, and venues.
American Masters takes a hilarious year-long ride with iconic comedian Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life.
Dierks Bentley (left) and some of Nashville’s best-known songwriters—Jon Randall, Brett James, Jim Beavers, and Ross Copperman—perform and discuss their biggest hits on Front and Center.
Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman discuss The Taming of the Shrew,
one of Shakespeare’s first works, on Shakespeare Uncovered.
Conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan takes viewers on a stunning visual journey in this five-part series.
Series Premieres Wednesday, February 48:00pm
Music City RootsThe second season of shows recorded at the Loveless Cafe kicks off this month with performances by The Steep Canyon Rangers, A.J. Croce and others.Friday nights beginning February 137:00pm
Independent LensThrough A Lens DarklyThis film by Thomas Allen Harris tells the story of pioneering African-American photographers working from slavery to the present. #indielensMonday, February 169:00pm
#earthanewwild
Weekend Schedule Saturday 5:00 am Martha Speaks 5:30 Angelina Ballerina 6:00 Curious George 6:30 Curious George 7:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00 Sesame Street 8:30 Dinosaur Train 9:00 Sewing with Nancy 9:30 Sew It All 10:00 Garden Smart 10:30 Growing a Greener World 11:00 Simply Ming 11:30 Cook’s Country 12:00 noon America’s Test Kitchen 12:30 pm Victory Garden Edible Feast 1:00 Food Forward 1:30 Martha Bakes 2:00 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 2:30 Best of Joy of Painting 3:00 Woodsmith Shop 3:30 American Woodshop 4:00 Rough Cut with Tommy Mac 4:30 This Old House 5:00 Ask This Old House 5:30 Hometime 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 pm Tennessee’s Wild Side
Sunday 5:00 am Sid the Science Kid 5:30 Peg + Cat 6:00 Curious George 6:30 Curious George 7:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 7:30 Word World 8:00 Sesame Street 9:00 Tennessee’s Wild Side 9:30 Volunteer Gardener 10:00 Tennessee Crossroads 10:30 Nature 11:30 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 12:00 noon To the Contrary 12:30 pm The McLaughlin Group 1:00 A Chef’s Life 1:30 Mineral Explorers 2:00 Globe Trekker 3:00 California’s Gold 3:30 Wild Photo Adventures 4:00 America’s Heartland 4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe 5:00 Antiques Roadshow 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 pm Charlie Rose: The Week
Daytime Schedule 5:00 am Classical Stretch 5:30 Body Electric 6:00 Odd Squad 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:00 Curious George 7:30 Curious George 8:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:00 Sesame Street 10:00 Dinosaur Train 10:30 Super Why! 11:00 Peg + Cat 11:30 Sid the Science Kid 12:00 noon Caillou 12:30 pm Thomas & Friends 1:00 Sesame Street Shorts 1:30 The Cat in the Hat 2:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog 2:30 Curious George 3:00 Arthur 3:30 Arthur 4:00 Wild Kratts 4:30 Odd Squad 5:00 Martha Speaks 5:30 WordGirl 6:00 pm PBS NewsHour
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Three Nashville Jewelers wiTh wildly differeNT aesTheTics creaTe The way we see accessories iN 2015by Stephanie Stewart-Howard
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Nothing Ordinary
28.13 carat emerald ring in platinum with diamonds23.36 carat emerald earrings with diamonds
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Erin Herb’s architecturally driven designs flow with the movement of the body, the shape of the bone beneath the skin—and that’s no accident. Born into a family of architects, Herb also had a career in interior design before turning her focus to jewelry, and her awareness of
line, function, and form echoes her training. That’s not to suggest that her work is cold or without artistry—far from it. Herb’s work is absolutely the result of artistic consideration as much as formal design. The results are exquisite linear works that complement your face, neck, ears, and arms. Their beauty is undeniable.
“[When I was] a child in a family of architects, there were always materials lying around. For example, small ceramic tiles, tiny gray hexagons. I’d take the found objects and turn them into something else. It was very simple, but I could visualize ways to repurpose them. I used to do that a lot, look at the positive and negative forms and shapes. That even extended to watching a movie—I’d look at shadow and negative space. I have always taken inspiration from non-traditional sources.” Her father took her to his design sites, showing her the beauty in everyday objects, teaching her to use all her senses to evaluate line and form.
Herb’s parents taught her that “less is more” and the importance of what she calls “honest design”—design with minimal form and a lack of superfluity. “To me, minimalism is using only what you need. So my jewelry is responsive to the body, pure form and weightless feel, so it merges as if it’s part of the person wearing it—and it doesn’t wear you.” That’s why her earrings,
for example, may be tiny or mid-sized, but will never be bulky or heavy.
Erin Herb’s Architectural Creations
She follows a four-part design process reflecting her background: first, programming “the best part, where the dream is born.” Here she creates a vision statement and image boards. Then comes schematic design, translating a concept into sketches and models. Next, design development means refining the idea and working out details. Finally, what she refers to as the “construction
documents” from an interior design point of view means the literal creation of the piece in its final form.
Her current work is focused on a rich palette of neutrals, with gray pearls and 14-karat gold-filled wire. Though she admits to a love of color, the starkness of these pieces stands out. Her work with semi-precious stones also makes a profound statement—clean, elegant, and strong.
“I don’t want to be predictable. I want to surprise my customers,” she says.
For more about Erin Herb, visit www.rinjuel.com.
RINJUEL
(page 63) Wood, onyx, orange raku ceramic bead, hematite, grey freshwater pearls, and metallic glass spacers with a sterling silver clasp
(center) Hand formed 14K gold-filled frame and metal feather with a red poppy jasper round stone
(right) Hand formed 14K gold-filled frame and metal feather paired with paper beads and a piece of rough cut lapis
(left) Diamonds and jade set in 14K gold
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Victorian pressed glass charms on vintage brass chain
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Brooke Griffith’s designs repurpose old pieces into incredible new ones. Her line, Glen & Effie, takes its name from her grandparents, who shared with her an appreciation for the aesthetic and the values of the times
prior to the 1950s. Growing up, she spent summers at their farm, learning the value of craftsmanship, the real value of handmade objects, and an appreciation for detail that she believes was common to their generation but less so with the current ones.
Four and a half years ago, she made the move to Nashville for college at Belmont and remained here as an interim teacher at Hume Fogg and as a tutor. She sees teaching as a profession just as creative as making art.
Griffith’s mother (an East Tennessee designer) and grandmother made a practice of taking the young girl to flea markets, estate sales, and the like, where on her small budget she began to build up a personal collection of trinkets and jewelry bits. As she grew older, her stash grew bigger, and the connections she made with dealers along the way became firmly established.
Eventually, she decided to deconstruct and rebuild the collection to create her own line—one that was taken up by David Fox at Leiper’s Fork’s The Copper Fox. Word got out, and Glen & Effie has been very much in demand since, with a New York trunk show scheduled in January.
The component materials that go into Griffith’s work range from the Victorian era through the 1940s. “I was really fortunate,” she says. “When I was buying pieces at flea markets and sales, people were more than willing to share their knowledge of an item’s history, to teach me how to identify things.
“I am a storyteller,” she declares. “My work is manifested through my jewelry. It all comes down to the story—and my family loved telling stories. When you reuse vintage and old things, they bring the past to light and give it a new story. This is about more than beads that have been strung together to make something new. They all come from different times and places to make a story in itself. Everything has its own journey, its own story—and our society sometimes seems to move too fast for us to recognize that.” Brook Griffith is the featured jeweler at Sotheby’s/Lipman Featured Artist Event on February 17. For more about Glen & Effie, visit www.glenandeffie.com or www.thecopperfoxgallery.com.
The Look of Vintage Modern
I am a storyteller. my work Is manIfested through my jewelry.“ ”Victorian brass belt buckle and dress pin, vintage Bakelite belt buckle, and glass and rhinestone flapper beads c.1920
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Brooke Griffith wearing Glen & Effie earrings
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Debe Dohrer didn’t plan her jewelry design career; she began by working as an image consultant, dealing primarily with men in high-end professions, helping them find ways to present themselves in their best light. The Scottsdale-born Dohrer’s success in this endeavor brought her to the NFL in 2005, at which point she became the only female clothier at the time working directly with coaches,
execs, and players on self-presentation.
Shortly thereafter, she started dressing NFL quarterback Brett Favre and his wife, Deanna. Deanna Favre, a breast cancer survivor, was making numerous TV appearances at the time, promoting the couple’s charity, Farve4Hope, and Dohrer wardrobed her for The Today Show and other occasions. At the same time, on a whim, Dohrer took a beading class in Nashville with Titan’s coach Jeff Fisher’s assistant.
Reconstructing ChicDebe Dohrer Design
3mm brass ball chains, Roman coin and key, and signature clasps
Two toned restructured chain and brass mesh discs
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“I made a charm bracelet in the class,” she says. “But afterwards I looked at it, and it was just not me.” She returned to the jewelry studio and found herself drawn to glass-bead weaving, especially to peyote stitch—as an Arizona native, it had a resonance for her. She learned it, went home, and spent the next five hours with a tube of 4mm beads, making with them a two-and-a-half-inch slab of woven peyote stitch.Dohrer showed the piece to normally conservative dresser Deanna Favre, and she loved it. A concept was born.Before long, Dohrer had a jewelry collection of her one-of-a-kind pieces at The Perfect Pair. Then Paul LeQuire and Company asked her for an exclusive line, and she complied. MODA Boutique followed, and soon she was also selling in a gallery in Santa Fe. She continued doing her peyote stitched pieces but built upon them, combining them with bits of chain and found objects to create strong, impactful pieces—often flexible in terms of wear. A piece might be a lariat-style necklace worn one way, a bracelet or cuff worn another. “The older I get, the more I want it to be strong, but also
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simple, straightforward, and versatile,” she says. She makes use of semi-precious stones, fossils, and strong, distinctive clasps and toggles to differentiate her work from the ordinary.“My aesthetic is very architectural, industrial,” she says. “I use a lot of reconstructed chain, some found objects. My goal is to truly enhance the wearer’s wardrobe. I see the outfit as a canvas and the accessories as something to enhance. I want that one little feature to stand out, to turn heads. The jewelry that you wear all the time, to me, is something that should make you feel you’re at the top of your game.” Debe Dohrer Des ign is avai lable in numerous locations around Nashvi l le. Please visit www.debedohrerdesign.com and www.paullequireandcompany.com.
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In 1924 Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first Afr ican Amer ican painter to achieve international acclaim for his work wrote about his religious subject matter. He
explained that the most important goal of an artist’s effort should be “to try and convey to your public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to you, which is the primary cause of their choice.”
Like Tanner, Nashville-based artist Ted Jones is a purveyor of reverence and elevation. Jones draws his inspiration from the wealth of human experience, specifically the black experience, and, more recently, Old and New Testament subjects. Over the course of his career, Jones’s work has made a transition from a racial discourse to a religious one. In his latest work, he reinterprets a nd moder n i z es icon ic re l ig iou s scenes, picking up a torch left by early-twentieth-century masters such as Tanner, Thomas Eakins, and Abbott Handerson Thayer. His earlier prints and paintings, which depict everyday life in the African American community, carry out a mission similar to that of artists like Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Hale Woodruff.
He works in a variety of media, largely focusing on copper repoussé reliefs, pr i nt m a k i ng , pa i nt i ng , a nd wood Ted Jones, Charlotte Street Woman, 1980, Wood block print, 49” x 26”
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sculpture. While his medium often changes with each new project, Jones has developed a signature graphic style that has carried on throughout his career. Curvaceous lines, bold figurative elements, rich detail, and an expert use of negative space can always be expected in his images.
Charlotte Street Woman, a two-color w o o d blo c k pr i nt fe at u re d i n t h e Te n n e s s e e S t a t e Museum’s 2014 exhibition, A Creative Legacy: African American Arts in Tennessee, i s a pr i me e x a mple of Jones’s trademark style. A m at r i a rc h a l f i g u re i l lustrated entirely out of or nate st ippl ing sits f ront-a nd- center on a simple chair. She exudes grace, power, and authority. The heavy red background draws all of our attention to the organic outline of the subject and creates an aura of divine femininity. The figure is voluptuous and her features exaggerated just enough to be emphasized w ithout becoming car icatur ized. She sits
beneath a classic archway that harks back to ancient frescos and Renaissance portraiture.
The subject matter of his large-scale woodblock pr i nt R e q u ie m P ro ce s s ion fo r t h e Yo u n g
Brothers, which was included in last year’s Jubilee! exhibition at Fisk University’s
C a r l Va n Vec hten Ga l ler y, i s unapologetically solemn. It is
an image about young black men dy i ng need less ly a nd t he s u f fe r i n g i t c au s e s within a community. While the message may hit the viewer with a heavy dose of solemnity, the beauty of his figures and the flawless composition transport us to a place of awe.
A tall man with a wiry frame, trademark over-sized glasses,
and a thick New Orleans drawl, Jones is a soaring presence whose
ebullience rarely goes unnoticed. Referring to his studio as his “chapel”
and his artwork as his “offering and prayer,” Jones has a distinct calling, divine or otherwise, to create.Arise Maiden, 1995, Block print, 36"
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Born in New Orleans, Jones studied art at Louisiana’s Xavier University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He went on to earn graduate degrees in art at Michigan State University and the University of Montana. Unlike many seasoned pros in his field, the years have done nothing to quell his spirit or his passion. Jones maintains that art should never be a chore but a source of joy.
Jones has numerous gallery and museum exhibitions under his belt, and his work is collected in museum, private, and corporate collections across the nation. Yet what is most inspiring about Jones is that he has figured out how to truly live the artist’s l ife. He has achieved something rare: a critical balance that has resulted in a life-long career of fervent, joyful art-making. Jones has lived and worked in Nashville since the 1970s, and to all those who are acquainted with him and his work, he is considered a local legend.
In addition to a busy studio practice, he has had a successful career as an educator. Currently a professor at Fisk, he has also taught at Tennessee State University and Florida A&M. Known for his straightforwardness in the classroom, his philosophy of art-making and teaching can be boiled down to three words: “Make good work.” He stands by it. He also stresses
Plant & Shadow, Block print, 54" x 33"
the importance of enjoying the process and putting your heart into whatever you create. “The process of creating art is where the fun happens.”
Jones’s work ethic and prolificacy are almost dizzying. Since the 1990s he has turned his attention almost exclusively to producing work, churning out dozens of new series and exploring new techniques. “If you’re going to be an artist, you’ve got to make work,” says Jones. “It’s that simple.” The key to his on-going, prolific practice is he doesn’t get too attached to the final product. He is quick to sell his work, donate it to institutions, or on some occasions give it away to friends and family. “The product is just a record or representation of what has happened, so I always look forward to getting to work on the next piece,” he said.
For the people who know him, Jones is somewhat of a mystic and a spiritual beacon. He’s the kind of person who doesn’t have to search too hard for transcendence because it’s always been in his shirt pocket. A true artist, Jones harbors a grand and peaceful
acceptance of the way the world turns. With a smile and a shrug he says, “It is what it is.” Contact Ted Jones at [email protected].
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P oems of the Romantic era, German Expressionist woodcuts, Leonard Cohen’s songs, 1940s movies, the Texarkana landscape—these are some of the things that color Polly Cook’s small ceramics, paintings on canvas, and especially her large-scale tile paintings. But her most obvious inspiration comes from love and relationships. Her colorful, complex compositions depict people falling in and perhaps out of love, pining for absent lovers, or trying to remember what they saw in their partner.
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Polly CookLost and Found: a story oF Love and Heartbreak
Sometimes You Win, Ceramic tile on wood, 29” x 23”
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“I do so many things with romance and love, then I get kind of self-conscious that I’m still interested in love, I still have the cupids,” Cook said from her home in Texas. “Then I think, songs do it, movies do it.”
The Nashville native keeps her local ties strong through visits and representation at York and Friends Fine Art. While romance and relationships loom large in her work, she incorporates many other images and themes into her compositions. In Tell Me a Story, a 46” x 48” tile painting, she recycled illustrations from old children’s books as wallpaper patterns, drawing them freehand. A photograph from Cook’s travels to Scotland provided the misty scene glimpsed through a window.
“Sometimes for the large pieces I’ll do sketches in a sketchbook, but most of the time I will just start in,” Cook explained. “I try not to think too much about it, let my subconscious come out. As I’m working, I’ll get little ideas, different little scenes, layers. I try not to analyze it. I just try to put things in that come to me.”Café My Love, Ceramic tile on wood, 26” x 33”
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Cook goes back and forth between clay and canvas projects, but clay is her first love and her preferred medium. It ’s been that way since she discovered it as a 10-year-old in an art class at the art center in Centennial Park. She earned a BFA in ceramics at the University of Tennessee and began participating in craft fairs organized by what is now known as Tennessee Craft. She made lots of bowls, trays, and little sculptures that she covered in drawings.
From these she soon moved on to larger surfaces, eventually reaching the extended proportions of her tile paintings. “I was like, these need to be bigger,” Cook said. Now she rolls out slabs of clay on large worktables before covering the clay with an under glaze so she can carve into it like a woodcut technique. Sometimes she cuts the clay so the tiles come out relatively straight; other times she allows the clay to break as it dries. “I like it to look like old ruins, so sometimes I’ll just cover it over so it won’t warp and just let it crack.”She then fires the tiles, reassembles them for glazing, and fires them again (in little pieces). Finally she glues them onto plywood to complete the painting. “The big ones end up pretty heavy and nobody wants to help move them,” Cook said, “so I hire a couple of really strong, piano-mover-type guys.”
Her tile paintings depict not only numerous scenes along the course of a romance, they showcase her strong sense of composition. On the left side of Love Returns (28” x 46”), an elderly woman leans on a tree under a canopy of autumn foliage, a path stretching behind her through greenery and blue skies. The right side of the piece shows a couple dancing in their small apartment. Wispy white sheers hang at a window through which a row of buildings with glowing lights is visible. A woman with wavy hair and large eyes is at the center, bridging the two halves of the painting.
Many of the elements in this painting show up again and again in Cook’s work: buildings with columns of windows, couples embracing, and someone ruminating about the state of their relationship. The paintings are also packed with patterns and texture. Hotel Recuerdo, a painting in warm hues of red and orange, exhibits a proliferation of patterns: on a dress, on walls, on a series of windows on a neighboring building—even a vase of flowers features a design.
Whether a large tile painting or a smaller vase, Cook’s ceramics tell stories of romantic relationships, but to say they are love stories doesn’t adequately describe them. They’re complicated. They are presented like songs; they offer the gist of a story. “For a long time I thought I might be a writer,” Cook said. “Then I found myself spending more time in the ceramics studio. But coming from that background of loving writing and loving reading, I just wanted to start to try to make visual stories.” For more information about Polly Cook visit www.pollycook.com. Her work is available locally at York & Friends Fine Art. www.yorkandfriends.com
Return of the Native, Ceramic tile on wood, 28” x 46”
Hotel Recuerdo, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”
Love Returns, Ceramic tile on wood, 28” x 46”
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by Erica Ciccarone
What do you get when you cross the calculated precision of an architect with the emotive sensibilities of an abstract painter? Alison Poland is an artist of two minds who explores the tension between the abstract and technical in her charcoal and watercolor paintings.
Studying to earn her architectural license, Poland finds inspiration in the constructed world. Her work focuses on different subject matters, the strongest being her pieces that manifest her perception of city streets and buildings. Poland marries her skills here, combining her perspective as an architect with the emotional resonance she gleans from the subject matter.
Alison PolandCities in Color
#8 U Street, Acrylic, watercolor, and charcoal on watercolor paper, 10” x 30”
(left) #32 American Indian Museum Façade, Watercolor and charcoal on watercolor paper, 30” x 10”
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Using color and lots of blurry, diagonal lines to create interest and movement, Poland abstracts buildings to capture their natural rhythm, often twisting them around landscapes.
“I believe everyone has a skill set that they use to communicate with other people,” she says, “whether they write well, whether they speak well. My skill is being able to draw and convey an emotion and capture the context of a community. I think it’s my obligation.” In this way, she seeks to preserve a place’s essence. “Years down the road, the streets may have changed, the building may have changed, but the feeling’s still there. That’s what drives me.”
Poland is relatively new to Nashville. She arrived six years ago via DC and has easily made the city her home. Inspiration in the arts came early. At age four, she painted on mirrors with her father using images from National Geographic, a memory that’s been up front for her this past month as she’s mourned his recent passing. She
went to business school, currently works as a project manager, and is expecting her third child in March, but she’s always looked for artistic outlets. “No matter what I’ve done in life, I’ve always been an artist first.” As much as possible, Poland tries to pay it forward by donating her work to auctions for charitable causes.
She approaches the art-making process much the same way she does when drawing a building for a blueprint. She sketches five to seven pieces at a time and then starts the charcoal build-up. She adds fixate, lets it dry, and repeats, working in layers. If she wants to create something more abstract, she slices the drawing vertically and scoots the section up or down, creating a hiccup that shifts the piece.
Poland said she had to work very hard at attaining the precision and detail required in architectural drawing, keeping her artistic impulse at bay. She has the restraint and know-how to do so now, but she’s still an artist at heart. “I fell in love with the impressionists. I think that’s why I always play with that tension of abstract and the technical drawing I’m skilled in. These pieces are a great way for me to marry what I’ve been trained to do and what I naturally think.”
Alison Poland will be the featured artist showing in the gallery at Hampton Home Furnishings, located at 2106 21st Avenue S. A reception with the artist will be held February 26, 4 to 7 p.m. Visit www.facebook.com/PaintedWhiteCanvas to learn more about her.
#37 City of Rooftops II, Charcoal/watercolor on watercolor paper, 30” x 20”
#29 Baltimore Towns II, Charcoal, watercolor on watercolor paper, 30” x 20”
Years down the road, the streets may have changed, the building may have changed, but the feeling’s still
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Songwriter, Guitar Player, Producer, Radio Show Host
Anne McCue
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Interview by Paul Polycarpou Photograph by John Scarpati
I t ’s a long way from Melbourne, Australia, to East Nashville, but that’s where you’ll find this dynamic and thoughtful performer these days. With her signature look and sound McCue is wowing audiences and critics on
both continents with her finely crafted songs and heartfelt guitar playing. We caught up with this Renaissance woman between recordings for her new album Blue Sky Thinkin’. As talented as she is beautiful, McCue has a lot to say, and it’s all worth listening to. Catch Anne McCue at The Sutler on February 14. For more visit www.AnneMcCue.com.Nashville Arts Magazine (NAM): Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Anne McCue (AM): “Amazing.” I say it all the time. NAM: Are you living at the right time?
AM: Yes. For a woman, this is the best time. If I was a man I would want to live in the 1920s in Paris with all those great writers.NAM: What is your mantra?
AM: “The time of the lone wolf is over, gather yourselves, we are the ones we have been waiting for.” I put that on my new album.NAM: What is your greatest fear?
AM: Mortality is constantly on my mind. It drives me to get things done. NAM: Which living person would you most like to meet?
AM: The Dalai Lama and Leonard Cohen. I met Cohen one time. He was wearing a pork-pie hat. He said goodbye, but he never said hello.NAM: A person you want to have coffee with?
AM: Oprah. I think she’s pretty amazing. NAM: What do you sing when you’re alone in your car?
AM: I sing my own songs; I make stuff up, songs that have not been written yet.
NAM: If your life were a song, what would the title be?
AM: Blue Sky Thinkin’. That’s the title of my new record. It’s very uplifting. NAM: What are you really bad at?
AM: Organization. I don’t know how to organize things. NAM: If you were 80, what would you tell your children?
AM: Meditate every day, do yoga, and be a vegetarian. Lay off the sugar, and stay off the Internet, unless you really have to. NAM: Are you messy or a neat freak?
AM: I’m messy. I don’t have time for neat. NAM: What’s your favorite thing to eat?
AM: Indian Food. I like Woodlands a lot. NAM: What do you most like about yourself?
AM: My empathy towards others. I try to stay in touch with that all the time.NAM: What was the last book you read?
AM: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. I reread it. Great book.NAM: What about you would most surprise people?
AM: I love to play golf. NAM: Who has most inspired you?
AM: When I was younger it was the writers, James Joyce, Samuel Becket, Sartre. In music it was Neil Young, Lucinda Williams.
NAM: Who is your favorite artist?
AM: I like Degas, and I like Van Gogh. His use of color. Nowadays: Connie Schwarz, Jules McCue, Lisa Galipeau.NAM: Why Nashville?
AM: I joined a band in Melbourne, Australia, and we got a record deal with Columbia Records in New York. It was never in my plan, but I came to America for music. NAM: What do you like most about the city?
AM: It’s a beautiful city. Peaceful and exciting all at the same time.NAM: Which song can you not live without?
AM: I love the song Greensleeves—it’s an old Indian melody—and the song Joan of Arc by Leonard Cohen. NAM: Are you happy with where you’re heading?
AM: I am. I love my new album. I have a new children’s book coming out. I think 2015 is going to be a busy, productive year for me. NAM: What’s it like being you these days?
AM: There’s less push and pull in my life. I’m more confident of who I am, more in the moment. I feel like my life is more stable now.NAM: What is your greatest extravagance?
AM: I don’t really get to go shopping much. I love hats. A friend dyed my hair the wrong color, and I started wearing hats. I feel safe in hats.
Q A&NAM: What can you not
leave the house without?
AM: I can’t leave without my hat.
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The city never stops givingon the corner of 5th and Broadwaywhere downtown traffic is a harrowingconsistency, when the light turns green,it doesn’t always mean go.Roy Orbison wrote “Oh Pretty Woman,”emboldened by the femme of mercybelow his apartment balconywhere tourists and the music leave a warm taste of affinity,by the Starbucks in the Renaissancethat snags money from teenagerswho rendezvous before school.They never spell my name righton the little cups filled with magic.From this crosswalk, electricity ripples through the crooked streets of the city.The paths of headlights mature into veinsof a breathing atmosphere.The wait is forgiving, and when we don’t like what we see and all significance is lost, we turn around softly and walk the other way.A newfangled story in a blink and a sigh,blinkers signaling a right turn,people staring straight ahead,headlong into the bright eyesof a symmetrical world. So beginsthe journey across the black and white,when everyone becomes familiarand nothing feels strange. Every stepfalls into the heartbeats of a millionlonely people, and when the crosswalk ends,so does another chance encounterwith a supreme stranger that you never would have otherwise met—a James, a Taylor, a small life changer,the old love of a never ending familymeets the new love of a never ending home,and the city never stops giving.
Poet’s Corner
The City that Never Stops Giving— Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay serves as Nashville Youth Poet Laureate, a program of the Nashville
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by Skip Anderson
Nashvillians have long associated beautiful trees with the Cheekwood estate, since the Cheek family built the English-style mansion in the wooded hills of West Nashville in 1932. The family’s fortune is largely attributed to Maxwell House Coffee, which a
pair of Cheek cousins developed and eventually sold to a precursor of General Foods a year before the stock market crashed. Various family members occupied the estate’s home until the late 1950s when they sold it for the sole purpose of establishing an art museum and botanical garden, which opened to the public in 1960.
Now, fifty-five years later, Cheekwood is celebrating the trees whose canopies give its fifty-five-acre campus shade, shape, color, and life with a series of tree-themed exhibits throughout 2015 called A Celebration of Trees. The exhibits will also honor Tennessee’s Arbor Day, National Arbor Day, and Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for trees. The first exhibit to open, Trees of Myth and Legend, brings approximately seventy hyper-detailed drawings and paintings from
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landscape artist Charles Brindley. Most of the works in the collection prominently feature trees, including four drawings and one painting of the campus’s signature chinquapin oak that famously defines the estate’s Swan Lawn. “The exhibit at Cheekwood has two bookends,” Brindley tells Nashville Arts Magazine. “One represents my lifelong commitment as an artist of drawing, which has defined me as an artist and as a person. The other bookend will be the paintings, which have a very strong color element and harmony.” Trees of Myth and Legend is Brindley’s third exhibition at Cheekwood. He first exhibited there in 1982 and again in 1996. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Brindley not only sketches on-site field drawings of his well-rooted subjects; he also frequently paints large-scale works in the field, rather than working in a studio from two-dimensional representations such as drawings or photographs.
The exhibit Charles Brindley: Trees of Myth and Legend is open Tuesdays through Sundays until April 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ancient Red Oak on Edge of an Agricultural Landscape, 2008, Oil, 30” x 40” Old Beech Tree at the Edge of an Old Forest, 2012, Oil, 18” x 24”
Charles Brindley
Beech Tree in Summer–Spirit of the Greenwood, 2007, Oil, 40” x 48”
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by Skip Anderson
Cheekwood recently announced that it teamed up with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts to bring
to Nashville a major exhibition by Jaume Plensa this spring. The internationally acclaimed sculptor has had solo shows at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain; the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the United Kingdom, among many others. The exhibit, titled Human Landscape, will run May 22–November 1. The show will include two new works by Plensa: a double sculpture titled Soul of Words and a “monumental cast-iron head” titled Laura with Bun, a 23-foot-high cast-iron portrait that will greet visitors at the entrance of the West Nashville estate’s wooded grounds. “Cheekwood has this duality of obviously a garden but also beautiful interior spaces,” Plensa, native of Barcelona, Spain, said in a release. “Even more for me, thinking that it was once a private home; it does not have the dimensions or concept of a museum. I’m extremely curious about the garden but also about the house.” The forthcoming exhibition is born from a partnership between Cheekwood and
the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. The Frist will also display four of the artist’s sculptures, including Isabella (2014), which will mirror a “sister” cast-iron sculpture sited at Cheekwood.
Also at Cheekwood will be Plensa’s Heart of Trees (2007), which features seven seated bronze figures “embracing” a live tree. Each figure is a self-portrait of the artist with the names of his favorite composers covering it. In preparation for the installation, Cheekwood planted Kentucky coffeetrees, an ornamental species known to grow quickly. The installation will also include Silent Music (2013), a seated stainless steel figure comprised entirely of stainless-steel musical notes. “We are proud to be bringing another major exhibition by an internationally renowned artist to Cheekwood,” says Jane MacLeod, Cheekwood’s president and CEO. “Cheekwood’s beautiful landscape and historic origins offer such a unique venue for the display of large-scale contemporary sculpture. With each exhibition of this caliber, we continue to build recognition as a national treasure and our reputation as one of the Southeast’s premier art destinations.”
Jaume Plensa’s sculpture will be on exhibit at Cheekwood May 22 to November 1. For more information visit www.cheekwood.org.
Jaume Plensa Dramatic Sculptures Coming to Nashville
The Heart of Trees, 2007, Seven bronze figures and seven trees, earth, 39” x 26” x 39” each
Nuria & Irma, 2007 and 2010, Stainless steel, 158” x 158” x 118” and 158” x 158” x 114”
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“I’m a lover a fighter a prophet a foolThe keeper of confidences the Lord of Misrule
A consummate Jack-of-all-trades of the Dickensian School But they ain’t never made no love I couldn’t lose...”
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Legendary Songwriter Brings Home the Blues with His New Album Terraplane
But those Chess Records? Those were black jukebox records, designed to get people moving, and they didn’t last more than three minutes ’cause the jukebox operators wanted you to keep putting money in.“That’s the visceral thing to the blues: it is about sex. No way around it.”Admitting his music, which appeals to veterans, activists, a certain kind of blue-collar rock or country fan, can be heavy on testosterone, Earle acknowledges his yearning ballads keep the girls in the room. “I have to look at my audience, and they’re getting uglier and hairier every year. . . . I started playing music because I’m from Texas and don’t play football, and I wasn’t crazy enough for rodeo—so it’s always been about girls. But writing about sex is hard.”
If writing randy was challenging, Terraplane delivered. He read his talking blues “The Tennessee Kid” at the St. Mark’s Poetry Marathon, “and it worked.” Like his bluegrass The Mountain, stylistically committing appealed to him.“There’s a sense of accomplishment, working to forms. ‘Put me in a box. Give me a limited vocabulary and special tools . . . .’ Like a haiku. To achieve that, you’ve achieved something. “The blues are pretty much iambic pentameter. Not really just the words, but taken together, the beats, the lyrics, the music, and playing, that’s what it is. So I’m as proud of this as I am The Mountain.”
Recorded in five days with blues producer R.S. Fields at Berry Hill’s House of Blues Studio, there’s a greasy, gritty texture to the tracks and a sense of swagger that isn’t flexing. “That’s just it,” Earle muses. “‘Bringing It All Back Home’ and “Highway 61” were blues records. Most Dylan records since then are. It was intentional. It ’s also a good form to work from.“But you know, I’ve done it. Now I’m thinking about my next records.” His next two projects—a duet project with Shawn Colvin, then a country record—are already percolating. But don’t think he’s coming to save today’s mainstream country. Laughing, he chides, “Please! It won’t get on country radio. I’m too old, and I’m not getting a lobotomy any time soon.” For now, Terraplane needs touring, and Earle is ready for the task. He will bring his lean four-piece, featuring crackerjack husband/wife duo the Mastersons, to City Winery March 6 and 7. Steve Earle and The Dukes’ Terraplane will be released on February 17. For more information visit www.steveearle.com.
Steve Earle always knew he’d make the lean blues Terraplane. The man who pioneered a muscular hybrid between the Outlaws and Guns N’ Roses is better known for his long
association with Townes Van Zandt than Lightnin’ Hopkins, but Hopkins was around Houston as Earle was finding his way.“Townes was all about the blues,” Earle continues, words landing like spent casings. He used to say, “There’s two kinds of music: the blues and zippa-dee-do-dah.” He spent a lot of time with Lightnin’ Hopkins, “so a lot of what I know I got from Townes. . . . But I spent time with Lightnin’, even though he died right after I moved to Nashville.”Earle pauses for a nanosecond, which feels like a minute. “I know people who know a lot more are gonna say [Terraplane] doesn’t dot this “i” or cross that “t”, but they weren’t in the room with Lightnin’ Hopkins. Townes and Guy and I were. So I know there’s more to it than just the form; there’s how you write and the feel, the whole thing.” The sixty-year old roots icon isn’t defensive. He’s sure of his intentions, pleased with the execution. From the first harmonica blast of “Baby Baby Baby (Baby)” through the last exhaled breath on “King of the Blues,” Terraplane works various blues forms to create twelve songs of raw want, ache, and reckoning. “I’ve got a guitar player who cut his teeth on Texas blues, and Chris [Masterson] drew me back. I’d hear it at sound check; it brought me back to that part of Texas music I grew up on.” Though Guitar Town hit like a wrecking ball thirty years ago, Earle’s earliest music was equal parts outsider country and the blues. His first concert: Canned Heat. His first band: the Speed Blossom Blues Band at 13. “1968: East/West, Shuggie Otis, and the first Zeppelin albums came out,” he marvels. “And those first two ZZ Top records were flat out blues.” Like the Chess Records Earle cites through the conversation, they were sexy. If he eschews his usual political bent, there’s plenty of sex in the grooves, whether the acoustic backdoor “The Usual Time,” the low-sloping Stones-ish “Go Go Boots Are Back,” or the Chicago blues “You’re the Best Lover that I Ever Had.” “‘Lover’ started out to be Lightnin’ Hopkins. But I realized it was “Smokestack Lighting” the more I played it. You know, when the blues got athletic maybe the girls just weren’t that interested. NashvilleArts.com February 2015 | 91
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At 6 a.m. there’s already a hustle downtown—in breakfast joints, on construction sites, and elsewhere—but that’s an exotic story to most folks I know. People I know are still at
home, and the story of 6 a.m. is a fuzzy, transitory time when the world pushes in from outside against sleep, excuses a messy bed, and encourages time spent over a cup of coffee.
This photo project is about bedrooms, with or without the room’s tenant, with the exception of an artist who stayed up all night and didn’t touch her bed till after 6 a.m. on the shoot date.
Each room is shot with the “camera obscura” technique: every window is darkened with black plastic except for a nickel-sized aperture in a window. The view from the aperture in the window is inherently projected upside-down and backwards opposite the aperture against the walls, representing the outside world’s siren call of dawning light.
My gratitude belongs to the subjects of this series for their early morning grace, patience, and accommodation.For more about Rory White visit www.rorywhite.com/RORYWHITE.
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(previous page) The Bachelorette sleeps with her dog. He doesn’t bat an eye while staring the camera down throughout this 30-second exposure.
(left) The New Parents are, of course, already out of bed. They don’t need to wait for the sun to coax them from their slumber.
(below) The Girl’s Room stars the color pink. The mother confesses, “She doesn’t like to sleep in here; she says the drawings frighten her.” None of the drawings frighten me, except one of the gingerbread man with the caption: “Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man.”
(top right) The Bachelor also sleeps with a sweet, loyal, and deaf dog. The dog’s master is a drummer. It’s a P.E.T.A. match made in heaven.
(bottom right) The Artist’s Loft overlooks downtown Nashville. She paints all night and has not been to bed yet. Her bedroom doesn’t even have a window, so I make an exception and photograph her in the kitchen holding a cup of coffee.
(last page) The Fisherman lives on the river and keeps a painting over his bed that’s remarkably similar to the inverted projection. He kept a fishing rod in the adjacent room that I failed to stand in the corner. Where is the fisherman? At 6 a.m., fishermen fish.
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The Progression of Regression, 2010, Taxidermic German shepherd and old wolf pelt, 73” x 49” x 42”
Story BreakersDavid Lipscomb University • through February 6
by Joe Nolan
In the introductory text Mike Calway-Fagen wrote for his Story Breakers exhibition at the John C. Hutcheson Gallery at David Lipscomb University, the artist acknowledges that our capacity
for apprehending the world around us is directly proportional to our ability to use language to tell each other the stories of our cultures. However, in this display of photographs, collage, and sculpture, the artist attempts to interrupt that conversation with humor, jarring juxtapositions, and a fisherman’s lie or three.
The Progression of Regression encapsulates the show’s themes, offering a taxidermic German shepherd perched triumphantly on a large, old wolf pelt. The work suggests an evolutionary narrative, picturing the success of the domesticated dog over the feral wolf. However, it’s disturbing to see a domestic animal preserved in such a way, and it made me wonder if being proud and dead was better than propagating one’s species toward such humiliating ends.
Clap Quick the Immortal Child wins the Best Title in Show award for its onomatopoeic musicality and the manner in which it evokes the wild, innocent sensuality of this rolling sculpture, which features parts from an old chair and a kid’s xylophone toy. The piece is one you want to touch—or bang on—more than you want to talk about it, and it reminded me that the action and sensation of simply being alive is often obscured by our semantic understanding of the world.
Mike Calway-Fagen’s Story Breakers continues at the John C. Hutcheson Gallery at David Lipscomb University through February 6. For more information visit www.lipscomb.edu.
No Shame is a brand new, very cool concept, open mic theatre with three rules: Must be original, must
not exceed five minutes, and you may not hurt anyone or anything, including yourself. It happens every third Thursday at The Building on Woodland, which is also a very cool concept. The theme of the February 19 show will most likely have something to do with Valentines, funny or otherwise. It will get started at 6 p.m. for sign-ups; 7:30 p.m. is show time. Admission is $8 (free if you perform). BYOB. So get your act together at least once a month and take it to where there’s No Shame.
See and participate in No Shame Theatre on Febr uar y 19 a t The Bu i ld ing in Eas t Nashvil le. More information is available at No Shame Theatre Nashvil le on Facebook at on.fb.me/1CU4Lgn. Kevin Baxley at No Shame Theatre
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by Jim Reyland
For artist Ann Cowden, a portrait is not just a reflection of a likeness but a glimpse into an individual’s character and personality. Her
portraits are born out of careful study and intentionality. She is determined to create pieces that will be treasured for generations, and her clients would testify that she has done just that.
Cowden has been an ar tist f rom the time she was a child, always eager to capture on paper what she saw with her eyes. It was a hobby that developed through her adulthood and continued as she raised her children, painting with them at the kitchen table. Throughout her career in interior design, painting was a love that persisted.
When she became a grandmother, her inspiration became more specific. She wanted to paint portraits of her grandkids. She recalls her first attempt at a portrait after years of painting landscapes and abstracts and remembers that her initial response was, I can’t do this. But instead of putting it aside, her lack of experience pushed her to study. So she began to visit
A Profile in PortrAitsby Gracie Pratt
Nashville Architect Stephen Wells, 2011, Oil, 42” x 30”
Ann CowdenSketches from Life, 2014, Oil, 14” x 11”
Sketches from Life, 2014, Oil, 14” x 11”
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museums, collect art books, and attend workshops with renowned portrait artists such as Anthony Ryder and Max Ginsburg. Her initial interest turned into an intense study of portrait artists and their techniques.
She found Nashville to offer a rich art community. “Nashville is unusual in that there are so many good artists here.” Even now, though she has produced hundreds of portraits, Cowden considers herself to be in the constant state of learning from other artists.
With a degree in art f rom Vanderbilt University, Cowden is experienced in myriad art forms. She has worked with mediums from watercolor to pottery, but oil painting has become her medium of choice because of its “permanency, richness, and transparency.” According to Cowden, it “passes down through generations beautifully.”
Cowden keeps an assortment of sample paintings and regularly adds to this collection with new landscapes and portraits, but the majority of her paintings are commissioned. Though Cowden often works from a photograph, she likes to see the subject in person so that she can capture details such as eye color, skin tone, and face structure precisely. As she works, she invites the family to visit the studio to see the portrait develop.
Not only has she painted pictures of loved ones for families, she has also been commissioned for higher-profile projects. When she was selected by the University of Virginia Law School to paint a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, she recalls poring over photographs from old newspapers and records in preparation for beginning the portrait. She also read a full biography of Wilson, determined to capture not only the physicality but the personality of the president. It is a factor that characterizes all of her portraits, a component that Cowden believes is absolutely essential.
Ann Cowden’s portraits and landscapes will be on view February 6–8 at Lipscomb University. For more information about the artist visit www.anncowden.com.
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Rivers Wildhay, Ellis Eberle at Coop Gallery
Garrett Mills at The Rymer Gallery
Andrew Shapero, Andrew Kline, Esther Lindstrom at The Rymer Gallery
Michael Weintrob, Carl Thomason at The Arts Company
Marlos E’van, Terry Thacker at WAG
40AU Gallery
Holly Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Alex Blau at David Lusk Gallery
Emma Allen Jamison, Rachel Siegman at Corvidae Collective Gallery
The Arts Company
Hrag Vartanian, Vekan Gueyikian, Adrienne Outlaw, Mark Hosford at David Lusk Gallery Meg Tackett, Brock Colyar at The Rymer Gallery
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Erica Ciccarone, Tony Youngblood at Julia Martin Gallery
Julia Martin and Mollye Brown at Julia Martin Gallery
The Rymer Gallery
Santhosh Velaga, Vadis Turner, Chelsea Velaga at Zeitgeist
Justin Loring, Kelly Devereaux at The Rymer Gallery
Jonathan White, Jamie Germain at Julia Martin Gallery
Cassidy Conway, Dameon Guess at The Arts Company
Mika Agari, Richard Friley, Sharon Friley, Marlos E’van at WAG
Betsey Mator, Austin Littrell, Harry Underwood at Julia Martin Gallery
Patrick DeGuira, Andrea Zieher at ZeitgeistSusan Chopson, Alexandra Chopson at Tinney Contemporary
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ARTSMARTA MONTHLY GUIDE TO
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TENNESSEE ROUNDUP
Poetry Out Loud—Not the Typical Student Competition
Imagine walking into a school and, intermingled with the typical buzz of students and teachers, you hear the
rhythmic hum of poetry being recited. Classic poets Keats, Dickinson, and Poe, as well as modern lyrists Ellis, Clampitt, and Clifton, join the lineup of sports teams, hairstyles, and math lessons. Across Tennessee, students are
celebrating poetry with the same competitive spirit they have when rooting for their favorite sports team. They are working to represent their school this spring at the statewide Poetry Out Loud (POL) competition, which will be held March 14 at the Nashville Children’s Theatre. Each competitor will recite three poems without the use of props, costumes, amplification, or music.Tennessee’s winning student will receive $1,000 and a trip to Washington, DC, to represent Tennessee at the national finals and compete against fifty-two other high school students from across the country and its territories.
“Throughout POL’s ten years, students have benefited from their time spent in the competition. Through memorization and competitive per for mance, the students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, improve reading skills, and develop an appreciation for
poetry and literature,” says Anne Pope, Tennessee Arts Commission Executive Director. Open to all public, private, and home school high school students in Tennessee, POL satisfies more than half of both the National Council of Teachers in English (NCTE) language arts standards and Tennessee’s language arts standards by providing a wide range of poems from many periods and genres.“My students have gained many skills during the POL preparation. They have learned to dig deep to find the meaning behind the words of the poetry they read. They have learned to be students who stand out and don’t blend in with the crowd. They have learned to take pride in being unique and special,” says McEwen High School
(McEwen, TN) English and journalism teacher Shannon Tolene.Last year, Tennessee State winner Anita Norman went on to win the National Championship. She was the first Tennessean to win, beating out 365,000 students from around the country. I recently received a call from Anita’s father, Edward Norman, who called to tell me Anita had been accepted to Yale. He said that when the competition is as fierce as it is for openings at top schools, you need to have that edge. He felt that Poetry Out Loud was Anita’s edge and was grateful that she had the opportunity to participate. I would like to encourage high school students and teachers to consider becoming a part of Poetry Out Loud for 2016 and to join us in Nashville on March 14 to size up the competition.
by James Wells, Poetry Out Loud State Program Coordinator and Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Education Special Projects Coordinator
Poetry Out Loud 2014 finalists Sidney McCarty, Clarksville High School; Emily Bass, Cedar Springs Homeschool; Juliet Lang, Fairview High School; Anita Norman, Arlington High School
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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL OOPSby Cassie Stephens | Photography by Tiffani Bing
About a month ago, I received a letter in the mail, which was pretty neat for a couple of reasons. One, I love getting mail. It’s so
unusual these days that it’s almost like opening a gift on Christmas morning. And, let me tell you, this letter was truly a gift. The condensed version read like this: Would I be interested in having my
students go to a real live recording studio to sing on a real live single?
Okay, this was way better than any Christmas gift I’ve ever received.The man behind the letter was Mark Meckel, executive producer of said single. Mark’s been working with children’s book authors to create songs that accompany their books. His latest project is a song titled “It’s a Beautiful Oops” to go with the book Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg. If you’re not familiar with the book, it’s a yellow-covered box of a book chock full of flip-tabs, pop-ups, and magic that explore the idea of turning your mistakes, or “oopses,” into something beautiful. It’s the perfect book for an art teacher to read to her students as it encourages them to let go of the notion of perfection and explore the process of creating and all the possibilities it holds. I’ve been reading it to my students since it came out, so I was extra excited to have them be part of this adventure.Now, I’m no music teacher. Thankfully, I work with an incredible one. I immediately took Mark’s letter to Leah White, who jumped on board without hesitation. Together, we decided our class of seventy
Students painted while listening to “It’s a Beautiful Oops”
third grade kids would be the perfect recording stars. From there, we gathered support from our administration and the third grade team of teachers. With only a week and a half of practice, Leah prepared the students for their big debut.
I have to admit, I was a nervous wreck the day of the session. Not because I didn’t think the kids would do a great job; Leah White is seriously a master music teacher. Because I didn’t know what to expect, the fear of the unknown, you could say. However, all that was gone the moment we entered The Blue Room recording studio in Berry Hill. The studio itself was beautiful, but what impressed me the most were the guys working there. They were so kind to our students, so thoughtful in answering their countless questions and so generous with their time. Mark was buzzing with a contagious excitement that made the entire session electric. He was even thoughtful enough to have the students Skype with Barney Saltzberg, the book author, after their session. It was truly a magical day that I know none of us are likely soon to forget.
Music teacher Leah White, art teacher Cassie Stephens, third-grade teachers Amy Gordon and Susanne Johnson, The Happy Racers Nathan Meckel, Mark Niemiec, and Layne Ihde with recording stars from Johnson Elementary
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ON THE HORIZON: AMERICAN VISION NOMINEES
ROBERT GREEN
by DeeGee Lester | Photography by Christopher Hamrick
For the 24th consecutive year, Cheekwood partnered with the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers to host the regional art competition and exhibition for Middle Tennessee. This exhibition displays the 63 Gold Key-winning pieces (from 1,385 student submissions) and celebrates the most outstanding works from the 2015 competition. The following American Vision Nominees were selected as Best in Show from the Gold Key awards. For more information, visit www.cheekwood.org.
As the son of an art teacher, Robert Green had no intention to do art. He
admits that he was “more of a science guy” and loved the theoretical side of math and physics. He was also into non-stop action sports such as ice hockey or soccer. “I tried to avoid art, but I came back around in high school,” he admits.Now, interspersed with a rigorous academic schedule, including a Vanderbilt calculus class last fall and this semester’s independent study of calculus-based physics, Robert has found a balance through art. “Without art, I would have been crazy,” he says.
His efforts have paid off with an American Vision nomination for Split. “The idea started with a photo. A friend and I were taking pictures, and he took one that was blurred. I decided to try to recreate the feeling of the look through drawing,” Robert says. “It took some time to figure o u t t h e p r o c e s s . W h e n p e n c i l o n paper didn’t work, I decided to use paper vellum. Using plastic gloves, I dipped my
finger into powdered graphite and built up the darks by rubbing it onto the very slick surface. I used erasers to blend and to pull out the lights.”The result is a strange, artistic rendering that appears to be not quite drawing and not quite photography—an eerie double image that hauntingly captures and lures the viewer.
Looking at Jack Ladd’s piece End of the Line, the truth of the famous quote “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure” comes to mind. Indeed, this particular pile of junk, tossed into
a dumpster from a work site, has resulted in an American Vision nomination for the Hume Fogg senior. “I was really surprised,” Jack says. “There were so many applicants. It was the first time I had submitted a piece, although I’ve been in art for four years and attended the Governor’s School for the Arts last summer.” For that class, he decided to do something with a child’s bike. His idea was to give it some poignancy—perhaps showing a bike in pieces. “We were having work done at our house, and I photographed a bike that had been tossed in the dumpster with construction materials. I scrapped the idea of a dismantled bike. Everything is just as it appeared. I didn’t climb into the dumpster and arrange things. So I didn’t suffer for art,” he laughed. The result is a nostalgic reminder of growing out of childhood.He hasn’t decided on a college major, but he knows he wants to continue with his art. “It’s a place to calm down from the stress of other classes.” He plans to attend Oberlin College, which offers a small, intimate learning environment as well as experimental classes in which students get credit for taking or teaching a class. “I might teach a class on acrylic painting.”
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Robert Green, Split, 2014, Graphite powder on vellum, 22” x 19”
JACK LADDHume Fogg High Academic Magnet
Jack Ladd, End of the Line, 2014, Acrylic on canvas board, 16” x 20”
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At once dramatic and whimsical, Duyen Pham’s Vision Award Nomination In Full Bloom demonstrates the capabilities of technology as another medium for the creation of artworks
that captivate the viewer.A student at Hendersonvi l le High School, Duyen arrived with her family from Vietnam in 2009 and began the challenging process of learning English while keeping pace with classmates. She also began exploring the creation of digital art. “Since my artwork has mainly been digital art on the computer, I haven’t used much of my culture in my artwork, but I am still working on my digital portfolio, and I would like to have a few
pieces of work incorporating Vietnam.”For In Full Bloom, Duyen says, “I used Adobe Photoshop to create the entire piece. We study different styles and technical ways to create digital designs. For In Full Bloom, I was able to make it three-dimensional. I am very detailed with my artwork, and this is my most complex piece. I spent probably twenty hours on this project, and it has over twenty layers.” She plans to attend the University of Tennessee in Knoxville next year. Duyen is strong in math, taking honors trigonometry and calculus, and plans to study accounting or engineering, but “art will always be my hobby,” she says.
While attending the Governor’s School for the Arts last summer, Lisa was introduced to the process of making sculpture. With a passion for the newly acquired medium and challenged in class
at Brentwood to create wearable art that showed emotion, she created a headdress inspired by African tribal tradition. The result is a Vision Award Nomination that is both flamboyant and majestic—a piece that elicits both surprise and awe in viewers.“It’s a lot of fun,” Lisa says, “but it is not fun to wear. It’s heavy and hurts your head.”Inspired by African tribal headwear and animals such as the antelope and armed with sketches, Lisa crafted the headdress that rises from a welded steel crown. Using the school’s welding machines and wood shop, she added the massive horns and created details with an impressive array of feathers and beads. The one word title, Pride, reflects the diversity of life and culture.Lisa embraces the arts and believes it is important for every student. “Art gives you a better feel for the world, better perception, and opens you to change. I can’t imagine my life not having art in it,” she says.The high school senior has been admitted to Washington University in St. Louis through early decision. She has yet to decide on a major but wants a minor in art.
DUYEN PHAMHendersonville High School
Duyen Pham, In Full Bloom, 2014, Digital art, 9” x 11”
LISA QUBrentwood High School
Lisa Qu, Pride, 2014, Mixed media headdress, 44” x 22” x 11”
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ART CLASSES FOR ALL AGES
CUPS OF CO-OPPORTUNITYGrowing up at the University School of Nashville, Lila Weiss had the opportunity to explore many art mediums—painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture,
and printmaking. Although trying them all, her focus remained on painting.
Many artists find inspiration in recurring themes. For the second year, Lila submitted a portrait to the Alliance competition featuring her friend Katie, and for the second year her work has been recognized with a Vision Award nomination. (L as t yea r, she won a National Gold.) Her friend since arriving on campus dur ing her freshman year, Katie, Lila’s repeat art subject, permits her one last portrait before t h e g i r l s s e p a r a t e f o r college.
The project began with spontaneous photos on a bench in the school cafeteria. “I wanted her face and hair to stand out against the plain wall,” Lila says. “The colorful outfit was just luck; nothing was pre-arranged. I then used the photo to recreate the portrait. The hardest part was to get the right dimensions on canvas.”Always shy, Lila found art to be a place of fun and imagination. “I can always express myself and say a lot through my art.”Art has also opened opportunities for her, including a two-week early college program at the Art Institute in Chicago last summer. Inspired by continued success, she plans an art major in college and a possible art teaching career.
LILA WEISSUniversity School of Nashville
Lila Weiss, Muse, 2014, Oil on canvas, 40” x 46”
Beginning this month, the Gordon Jewish Community Center is offering a wide array of art classes for
people of all ages. Choose from drawing and painting classes, knitting lessons, art journaling, and bookbinding. Learn new ski l l s in a papercut art workshop, tips and techniques for travel photography, making a textile matzoh cover, and more. With convenient scheduling, r e a s o n a b l e r a t e s , a n d professional instruction, the Gordon Jewish Community Center once again provides a wonderful opportunity for people of all ages to grow their creativity. For a complete schedule of art classes and to register, please visit www.nashvillejcc.org/art-classes.
The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-op • February 21
The 5th annual Cups of Co-opportunity hosted by The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-op benefits VSA Tennessee, a nonprofit supporting art opportunities for artists with disabilities.
Last year, these ceramic artisans made 275 handcrafted mugs to sell at their Cups of Co-opportunity event and were able to donate $2,500 to VSA. This year, they plan to offer over 350 mugs in hopes of raising more than $3,000.
In addit ion to suppor t ing such a wor thy cause, Cups of Co-opportunity is a fun, family-appropriate event with plenty of hot beverages and activities. At 9 a.m. they will open the gas kiln to offer even more brilliantly colorful mugs.
Cups of Co-opportunity benefitting VSA Tennessee takes place on February 21 from 7 to 11 a.m. at The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-op. For more information, visit www.theclaylady.com.
Hebrew House Blessing, 2015, Paper cut, 14” x 11”
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MUSIC MAKES US: COME ON, JOIN THE BAND
John Early Museum Magnet Middle Band Program
by Rebecca Pierce | Photography by Tiffani Bing
One of the goals of Music Makes Us was to ensure that all middle and high schools have band programs, but in schools with high poverty rates, it is a lot easier said than done.
To establish and grow the band program at John Early Museum Magnet Middle Prep ( JEMMMP), which has a 92% poverty rate, it is taking the dedication and hard work of Executive Principal Risè Pope, Band Director Ila Nicholson, and Aspiring Teacher Toby Deaver. They credit Dr. Nola Jones of Music Makes Us for bringing them together, and the Country Music Association for providing 95% of their instruments.
Executive Principal Risè Pope talked about some of the obstacles and how the school is making it work. “Like many other schools with high poverty levels, it is often difficult for families to imagine funding an instrument when basic needs are a challenge. In addition to financial barriers, our population often lacks familiarity with the band experience. Gaining trust is critical before parents will enroll and fund students in band. All the performances,
promotional materials used throughout the year, and community chatter really make the difference when it comes to gaining the support of parents and exciting students about joining band.”The band program at JEMMMP is the third new band program Ila Nicholson has started. She has total command of the room, and when she takes the podium, all sixth grade squirming comes to a halt. She demands a lot from her students musically and in terms of personal responsibility, but they know she cares about them. She interacts with her class as she conducts, shouting out compliments as individual students achieve success and declaring, “I’m so proud of you guys!” when the band gets it right.
Mrs. Nicholson explains her approach. “I want to give a positive musical experience to our kids. I want our kids to achieve at a high level so they can grow as musicians and as team members. My ultimate goal is to build self-esteem through musical achievement.”
This year Mrs. Nicholson shares her podium with Aspiring Teacher Toby Deaver, who is currently in her final year of a 4+1 Bachelor’s + Master’s program at Vanderbilt. It has been a good fit for the duo. Nicholson has allowed Ms. Deaver to test her wings as a band director, and Deaver has given JEMMMP the network of connections and resources she’s collected over the last four years. Through Music Advocacy Week, she connected students and parents to the Nashville Symphony, Vanderbilt University, and the Nashville Jazz Workshop.She considers her greatest success of this year so far to be the number of parents and family members who attended the Music Advocacy Concert at Blair School of Music. “I was floored by the size of the crowd. One of the intents of the Music Advocacy programming was to connect North Nashville and Vanderbilt. Because music education and performance is an accessible academic outlet for parents, I saw the Music Advocacy Concert as an opportunity to spark that connection.”
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When a musician’s persona is as tied to their songs as Johnny Cash’s was, it’s risky to honor them through their own work. But as much as Cash was a man of the people, he
was also a rebel. So to hell with it: The riskiest—and therefore potentially the most rewarding—production in Studio Tenn’s 2014–2015 season is their musical revue The Cash Legacy. Like last year’s The Hank Legacy, it’s “much more than a concert and a little less than a musical,” says Artistic Director Matt Logan. With no dialogue and no script, it’s the most original way to honor an artist ’s enduring relevance and timeless inspiration.Eight musicians will salute the Man in Black through his own music, some of which has been treated to updated arrangements and filtered through contemporary country, Americana, and rock ‘n’ roll, while others are too sacred to touch. Walking that line is Music Director Don Chaffer, who also arranged the music for The Hank Legacy.“There are songs that are legendary Johnny Cash songs, some of which you can’t mess with because that’s how it needs to go, then other songs that you wouldn’t dare try [the original] way, because it’s Johnny,” says Chaffer. The greatest challenge of The Cash Legacy is honoring the man without straying into cliché, in a way that feels genuine to his family. “The goal,” Chaffer says, “is for the audience to walk away with a feeling not only of some sort of core of Johnny Cash, but also with a sense of how he translated to so many different people so many different ways.”The Cash Legacy, presented by Firestone, will run February 19 to March 6 at Jamison Hall within The Factory at Franklin. For more information, visit www.StudioTenn.com.
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symphony ball
A winter chill is enchanting when it occurs at the Symphony Ball. Ask anyone in Laura Turner Concert Hall at the Schermerhorn S y mphony Cente r on a c r i sp,
mid-December e ven ing . Everyone—from white-tied patrons to servers to dance-committee helpers—felt a tingle and welling
of emotion when the four members of Nashville Pipes and Drums took the stage with the symphony orchestra, conjuring a sublime version of “Highland Cathedral.” With Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero casting music about like Harry Potter shooting spells from his holly and phoenix feather core wand, the moment was magical indeed.
And that was just five minutes of a bewitching evening.
Bravo to the resourceful and creative chairmen team of Anne Maradik and Karlen Garrard for their exquisite vision of the 30th Symphony Ball. Not for a moment did any of the 430 guests at the
sold-out event forget why they were there: to support impeccable music.
Music power couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw was presented the Harmony Award, which, as Nashville Symphony Association Board Chairman Jim Seabury put it, “honors the creative energy that pulses through our city each day.”
The evening began in the West Lobby with cocktails and trying on exquisite jewelry offered by the fabulous Zonnie Sheik. Chimes brought guests into the concert hall. On the menu: Oysters Rockefeller, an arugula and pear salad, beef filet, and black forest cake prepared by Kristen Winston.
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Symphony Ball
Giancarlo, Virginia, Shirley, and Claudia Guerrero
Warren and Monteray Smith
Charlie and Laura Niewold
Symphony Ball Chairman Anne Maradik and Rich Maradik with children, Jackson (back row), Maddie and Bo
Frank and Julie Boehm
Photography by Tiffani Bing
Symphony Ball Chairman Karlen Garrard and Louis Garrard with children, Frances and Paul
Under the artful hand of The Tulip Tree’s Mark O’Bryan, the hall’s décor was a nod to the thirtieth, aka pearl, anniversary. Bronze was a unique signature color incorporated into the creamy color scheme. Volunteers on the design team were Kaki Pulliam, Kate Satz, and Melissa Mahanes.
“Our hope was to make the evening luminous, timeless, and celebratory . . . worthy of the thirtieth ‘pearl ’ anniversar y,” said Chairman Maradik. “ Insp i ra t ion drawn f rom pear l s o f a l l shades—greys, blush pinks, creams. Tahitian, South Seas, etc.”
The program included music by the Symphony before Crissy and Bill H a s l a m in t roduced the Harmony Award
recipients. Backed by the orchestra, Hill and McGraw then charmed the audience to “Live Like You Were Dying” and “Where Are You Christmas?”
After closing remarks by Symphony CEO Alan Valentine, guests danced until the wee hours of the morning to the Craig Duncan Orchestra.
On December 9, Amy Grant and Vince Gill had graciously hosted the black-tie patrons party at their Belle Meade home.
Co-hosts for the seated dinner under twinkling lights were Julie and Frank Boehm, Barbara and Jack Bovender, Karen and Bruce Moore, and Laurie and Jim Seabury.
Spotted bewitched by the evening were: Mary Jo and Steve Shankle, Mary and Tom Gambill, Robin and Richard Patton, Katie and Kevin Crumbo, Julie and Bob Gordon, Barby and Govan White, Elizabeth and Bob Dennis, Janet and Earl Bentz, Cathy and Clay Jackson, Margie and Bert Dale, Carolyn and Hartley Hall, Ellen Martin and Gerry Nadeau, Barbara Keith and Richard Payne, Chrissy and Bill Hagerty, Elizabeth and Larry Papel, and Jennifer and Gus Puryear.
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Harmony Award winners Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
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Mary and Mike Spalding
Susan and Luke Simons with Kathy and Bobby Rolfe
Hank Ingram and Chris HartLibby and Ross Cheek
Martha Ingram and Gil Merritt
Phil and Allison Brooks with Cam and Carolyn Sorenson
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Beyond Words by Marshall Chapman
Mind you, I had shopped for days before leaving Nashville, hoping to find a new pair of running shoes to replace the old ones I was now wearing. The soles were so worn the inside lining was beginning to show.“Do you have any women’s running shoes in size 11?” I asked the young woman behind the counter. Those are all size 11s,” she said, indicating an entire rack.Are you friggin’ kidding me? Adding further shock, I found not one but two size 11s in bright, imaginative colors with cool designs that seemed to call out Yes! Buy me. You will never regret it!I tried on the first pair which were a bright reddish-orange. They felt comfortable enough to warrant a modeling session. So I walked outside and asked my friend, our South African driver, and the newly arrived representative from Rancho La Puerta what they thought. Unanimous verdict: they looked great! Then I tried on the other pair, which were lime green and black with white soles.The minute I began walking in them, I thought, Oh, my God, these are the most comfortable shoes I have ever felt in my life!! With each step, it was like the shoes were giving me a foot massage. “I’ll take them,” I told the sales woman. “And I’d like to keep them on.”“But of course,” she replied.As I headed for Customs, I tossed my old shoes in the trash.Later that evening, while taking off my fabulous new running shoes, I nearly fell out when I saw printed on the inside label—SIZE 13! www.tallgirl.com
Shoes have always been a problem for me. I am tall and thin; therefore, my feet are long and narrow. Years ago, I wore a size 10½ narrow. Women’s shoes normally come in half sizes up to 10. After that, it’s 11, 12, etc. So whenever I found a 10½ shoe, it
was cause for celebration. As for finding a 10½ narrow, well, that was cause for even greater celebration. Shoe manufacturers seem to think feet grow wider as they grow longer. They also seem to think women with long feet don’t want to have fun, because style offerings beyond size 10 are extremely limited.I gave up trying to be fashionable years ago, resigning myself to flip flops, tennis shoes, and going barefoot. Then a strange thing happened. About a year ago, I noticed my feet had lengthened a half size. Just last week, I was told the practice of yoga does this—lengthens the foot a half size. Also, my father once proclaimed that, as we age, we become shorter and our feet become longer. So for whatever reason, I now wear a size 11.Last August, something happened at the Mexican border that restored my faith in not only shoe manufacturers, but the future happiness of my feet. I was traveling with a friend to Rancho La Puerta, a wellness center just outside Tecate, Mexico. Due to flight delays and cancellations, my friend and I had missed the last charter bus from the San Diego airport to “The Ranch,” as Rancho La Puerta is referred to locally. So we ended up taking a taxi to the border where a representative from The Ranch was supposed to meet us.As it turned out, our driver was from South Africa and spoke little English. He’d also never driven to the border. But after several conversations with his dispatcher, he seemed confident enough to gun the motor and take off. At this point, my friend and I were so tired and hungry, we were happy to be rolling, even if in the wrong direction.As we neared the border, our driver began saying, “Tennis shoes . . . tennis shoes!” while looking around. We had no idea what he meant. Then I saw a sign next to the border gates that said PAYLESS SHOES.“That must be it!” I cried. So we pulled into the parking lot.The representative from Rancho La Puerta was running a little late, so I decided to check out Payless Shoes.
If the shoe fits . . .
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My Favorite Painting
Terri JordanCurator of Exhibits, Customs House Museum
I’m lucky enough to spend every day surrounded with art and making art. Being a museum curator allows me the opportunity to enjoy great works on a continuous, rotating basis.
The works I own are an eclectic mix, comprised mostly of pieces purchased from artists that I have known in some fashion. My current favorite piece though is a small painting titled Bleeding Hearts by the late Robert Dash. It is very dear to me for a couple of reasons. First, it was a gift on my forty-fifth birthday from someone very special. Second, Dash’s painting reminds me of my younger days growing up in beautiful upstate New York (the Catskill Mountains). It brings back memories of summer vacations and days spent outside. In its simplicity in brushstrokes and color palette, Bleeding Hearts makes me smile—and makes me a little homesick. And isn’t that what great art should do?
ARTIST BIO
ROBERT DASH
A native of New York City, Robert Dash (1934–2013) studied at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; however, his college education did not include formal arts education. He had an appreciation of the visual arts, particularly the abstract expressionists. After a year abroad in Italy he returned to begin a career in the arts in New York City. In 1960, Dash exhibited his paintings for the first time. He continued his career showing in Holland, England, Germany, and around the United States. Aside from his works on canvas, Dash also gardened and wrote in his residence and conservatory, Madoo, near Eastern Long Island’s Sagg Pond.
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Robert Dash, Bleeding Heart, 1970, Acrylic on board, 7” x 7”
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