Gallery Talk: Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song - Frist - 11-18-09

Gallery Talk: Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song
Wednesday, November 18, Noon
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Join Katie Delmez, Curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song.

Exhibition Description:
In conjunction with the Nashville Public Library’s call for a city-wide celebration of beloved author Mark Twain, the Frist Center will present a selection of drawings and watercolors narrating Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by another promoter of American narratives and everyday life, Thomas Hart Benton.

A second section of the exhibition will focus on another source of inspiration for the artist—one particularly appropriate for Nashville—folk music and musicians. Benton’s lifelong admiration of Americana music is well known, yet works of this subject matter have not yet been assembled as an exhibition.

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Circle of Early American Modernists - Frist - 11-14-09

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Circle of Early American Modernists
Saturday, November 14, 11:00 a.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Vivien Fryd, Ph.D., professor and chair of the history of art department at Vanderbilt University, will examine the art of the early American Modernists associated with the so-called Stieglitz circle—painters Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Joseph Stella, and Charles Sheeler as well as photographers Gertrude Käisebeir, Anne Brigman, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Steichen. The styles, themes, and historical contexts of these modern visual images will be examined, focusing especially upon themes of sexuality, the city, spirituality, and nature.

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times - Frist - 11-12-09

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times
Thursday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Join Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of fine Arts, Boston, which includes superb examples of some of American Modernism’s greatest artists, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Sheeler.

Gallery Talk on Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris - Frist - 10-29-09

Gallery Talk on Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Thursday, October 29, 7:00 p.m.
Included with gallery admission
FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

Join Katie Delmez, curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of this Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris.


Exhibition description:
Including more than 120 photographs by such artists as Man Ray, Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Hans Bellmer and André Kertész, Twilight Visions celebrates Paris as the literal and metaphoric foundation of Surrealism. In addition to examining the revolutionary social, aesthetic and political activities of the movement between the world wars, the exhibition focuses on works—predominantly photographs as well as select films, books and period ephemera—that evoke the mystery of the chance encounters experienced by the Surrealists as they wandered through the labyrinthine city streets.

Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts with guest curator Therese Lichtenstein, Ph.D.

Surface + Insight Artist Talk - April 9, 2009

Surface + Insight Artist Talk
Thursday, April 9 - 7 to 9p

Join the artists as they discuss their work in this exhibition full of surprises, not only in subject matter, but in the use of materials like gold leafed hair, mysterious hovering particles in colorful fluid and bandages on symbolic limbs. Portraying materialized conversations between bodies, memories of abandoned objects, animal-like images on skin, the exhibition features photography, video and installation with fresh conceptual approaches. This show includes work from five artists currently working and residing in Nashville, two of them recent alumni of Watkins College of Art, Design & Film.

THE ARTISTS

Ruth Zelanski

Laura Young

Stephanie Brooke West - artist in residence

Jennifer Campbell - artist in residence

Ryan Hogan - artist in residence

Curated by Sabine Schlunk

Show runs through April 26

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Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines: “Flesh Made Paint” @ Frist - April 4, 2009

Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines: “Flesh Made Paint”
Saturday, April 4, 11:00 a.m.
Frist Center
Included with Gallery Admission, Members FREE

Portrait paintings offer us close encounters with the faces and bodies of their subjects. But because portraits are the product of prior face-to-face contact between artists and their sitters, they also make claims about the ways the intimate encounter of flesh with flesh can be represented in a painted image.

Gregg Horowitz, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will examine the ways the transformation of fleshly encounters into paint has, over the course of the past century, become an increasingly less reliable means of leaving an identifiable record of the sitter. He will explore this topic by examining paintings by Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud, and John Currin.

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ARTini @ Frist: Paint Made Flesh

ARTini: Paint Made Flesh
Friday, March 28
7 p.m.
FREE

Join Hans Schmitt-Matzen, associate exhibitions designer at the Frist Center, as he leads an informal conversation focusing on paintings by Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud that are included in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.

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ARTini @ Frist: Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Friday, March 20
7 p.m.
FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Join Anne Taylor, curator of interpretation at the Frist Center, as she leads an informal conversation on one or two works of art in this exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.

Gallery Talk @ Frist: "I've . . . shed my skin / This is the new stuff": March 21, 2009

Gallery Talk: "I've . . . shed my skin / This is the new stuff"
Saturday, March 21, 11:00 a.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE

Dr. Dana Malone Kennedy, assistant professor of English at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film will present a gallery talk in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition titled, “I've . . . shed my skin / This is the new stuff” (from Peter Gabriel's song “Sledgehammer”). Her focus will be on the use of the body in the poetry of Anne Sexton, who also speaks of shedding skin as an approach to the divine. However, Sexton and feminist theorists have more to say about the body, and Dr. Kennedy will give feedback on paintings toward that end, including Susan Rothenberg’s Orange Break, Daniel Richter’s Duisen, Cecily Brown’s Figures in a Landscape, and Jack Levine’s 35 Minutes from Times Square.

Art: Up Close & Personal: Ben Caldwell @ Williamson County Library March 9 2009

Art: Up Close & Personal

* Co-sponsored by Williamson County Public Library & O'More College of Design *

Williamson County Public Library
(main conference room)
1314 Columbia Pike
Franklin, TN 37064

We are proud to present a new evening series for 2009. Some of the most renowned local artists will share an up-close and personal glimpse into their lives and their work. The evening starts with a powerpoint presentation, followed by a question and answer period.

March' s Guest:

Ben Caldwell, Copper/Metalworker

March 9

6-8 pm

Ben was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. His interest in art was sparked by his parent’s passion for all things well crafted and beautiful. The weekends of his childhood were spent in antique stores and the studios of artists and craftsmen across the country. Being dyslexic, school was difficult and art became the oasis he went to for sustenance. He studied painting in Boston and New York. After graduating from Tufts University, he spent ten years building musical instruments. Then he apprenticed under Terry Talley, a nationally known coppersmith and silversmith in Bradyville Tennessee. The most important thing he learned from Terry was how to earn a living as a fulltime artist. Today he lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee and supports himself and his family with his art.


Description of Process

Ben starts with a large sheet of copper and applies powdered enamel to create a design. The enamel is torch fired to the copper section by section at temperatures between 1500 deg. F and 1800 deg. F. This allows the copper to oxidize and mix with the enamel and change color. After the copper cools, it is then shaped with a hammer. It is then re-enameled and shaped while still red hot until the final shape and color are achieved.

Gallery Talk: "Through the Eyes of a Psychopath" @ Frist: Feb 28, 2009

Gallery Talk:
"Through the Eyes of a Psychopath"
Saturday, February 28, 11:00 a.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE

Dr. Stephen Benning, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, will present a gallery talk in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition titled, “Through the eyes of a psychopath: How individual differences impact perception of paintings.” Based on research involving the ways different individuals process similar emotional material, this talk will focus on the way persons possessing high levels of fearless dominance and impulsive antisociality might perceive paintings in the exhibition.

Gallery Talk: Medieval Treasures @ Frist Feb 26, 2009

Gallery Talk:
Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Thursday, February 26, 7:00 p.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE

Join Trinita Kennedy, associate curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of Medieval Treasures. Medieval Treasures offers an unprecedented opportunity to view the Cleveland Museum’s celebrated Early Christian, Byzantine, Western Medieval, and Early Renaissance works of art in Nashville. The exhibition spans the history of Western art from the adoption of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century to the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.

The Image of the Black Female in Art and Education Panel Discussion: FEb 18, 2009

February 19, 6pm, panel discussion

Room 126 at Vanderbilt University’s Wilson Hall
The Image of the Black Female in Art and Education

TSU Art is partnering with Vanderbilt Studio Art and Watkins College of Art and Design


The panel discussion, organized by TSU ART and hosted by Vanderbilt University, includes Ms. Aisha Cousins (Artist, Brooklyn, NY), Ms. Cynthia Gadsden (Artist, Educator, TSU Art), Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Artist-Educator, Vanderbilt Univeristy) and Jewell Winn (Educator, Women's Center, TSU). The panel will be moderated by Jodi Hays (Artist-Gallery Director/Instructor, TSU Art ).



Ms Cousins will give an informal artist talk at Tennessee State University's Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery on Thursday, February 19th at 1pm.



She will speak to Wakins College of Art and Design students on their campus on Friday, February 20th at 10am.

Artist's Perspective: Mike Hoolboom: Free lecture @ Frist: Feb 14, 2009

Artist's Perspective: Mike Hoolboom
Saturday, February 14, 2:00 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE

Join experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom as he discusses his work. Hoolboom’s Imitations of Life integrates compelling images drawn from mainstream cinema, newsreels, and science fiction films. In it, sequences of deconstructed and recombined imagery, variously haunting and playful, hypnotically cast the cumulative effects of film as a force that shapes our subconscious image of self in relation to the stream of history and the trajectory of humanity.



Image: Mike Hoolboom. Still from Imitations of Life, 2003. Video, 21:00. Courtesy of the artist

Curator's Perspective: Reflections of the Medieval World: Free Lecture @ Frist: Feb 13, 2009

Curator's Perspective: Reflections of the Medieval World
Friday, February 13, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE


Stephen N. Fliegel, curator of medieval art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will present a thousand years of aesthetic culture—from the austere spirituality of the Byzantines to the exalted frivolity of French Gothic secular art—in this lecture on medieval masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

These works of art, which were precious in their time, remain so today, not simply because they are beautiful, but as the inheritance of European culture. These works effectively offer us a glimpse of the past that is our own. Whether preserved in church treasuries, buried in the ground, or forgotten in some chest or unvisited corner of a building, objects of the medieval period are survivors of a lost age.

The constant factor throughout these centuries was the common center around which most life was organized—the Christian Church. Fliegel’s lecture will examine sublime sculptures, painted altarpieces, and illuminated manuscripts created in the service of faith and devotion. He will also discuss objects commissioned by some of Europe’s great aristocrats—King Charles V of France; the Duke of Burgandy, Philip the Bold; and Queen Isabella of Spain—as expressions of their personal wealth and taste. The lecture will also present an overview of the Cleveland Museum’s medieval collection, which is internationally recognized as one of the world’s finest.

Image: A Bridal Pair, 1400s. South German. Oil on panel, 30 ½ x 20 1/16 x 2 15/16 in. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1932.179

State of the Art Lecture: Dawoud Bey—Representing the Human Subject @ Frist: Dec 4 2008: Free

State of the Art Lecture: Dawoud Bey—Representing the Human Subject
Thursday, December 4, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE

The State of the Art lecture series focuses on issues in the contemporary art world and feature presentations by nationally and internationally renowned authorities.

This lecture coincides with an exhibition on view at the Frist Center: The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection, which features more than 200 iconic photographs, films and film-related materials selected from the world-renowned collection of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York.

Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, Harlem, USA, that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery (London), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), where his works were also included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. The Walker Art Center (location) organized a mid-career survey of his work in 1995 that traveled to institutions throughout the United States and Europe. A major publication, “Dawoud Bey: Portraits, 1975-1995,” was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Bey’s works are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Ga.), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), National Portrait Gallery (London), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and many others. He has received numerous awards and fellowships over the course of his career including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bey has taught at colleges, universities, and other institutions for the past 30 years, and is currently professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University School of Art, and is presently represented in the United States by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

Photography Lecture Series @ Frist: Nov & Dec 2008: Free

Photography Lecture Series
Thursdays, November 6, 20 & December 11, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE

The Frist Center is pleased to present a special three-part photography lecture series, featuring expert speakers who will each address a different aspect of the medium. The series is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, The Best of Photography and Film From the George Eastman House Collection. The series is free to the public.

Thursday, November 20
Photography Lecture Series, Part II
“Is the Medium the Message?”

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan declared that the “medium is the message.” Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D., executive director and CEO of the Frist Center and photography scholar, examines his claims in the context of the history of photography. She discusses how images produced by photochemical processes immediately altered perceptions of time and space. Her talk confirms that the medium of photography changed the course of police work, medicine, journalism, the visual arts and material culture. In the digital age, even the social consequences of photography are changing. What is the message of this medium? How is the digital divide changing society?


Thursday, December 11
Photography Lecture Series, Part III
“Civil War Photography”

Guest speaker Brooks Johnson, consultant to the Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, Va.), explores the work of photographers of the Civil War and iconic photographs on view in The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection. In addition, he explains the various photographic techniques used during this time period.

Artist's Forum @ Frist: Vanderbilt Student Panel: Free

Artist's Forum
Friday, December 12, 6:30 p.m.
Rechter Room, FREE

Artists Forum gives local and regional emerging and recognized artists an opportunity to discuss the thoughts and processes behind their work.

Friday, December 12—Special Student Edition
Featured artists: panel of art students from Vanderbilt University

Lecture by art group Let's Re-Make: November 21: Frist: FREE

Lecture by art group Let's Re-Make
Fri., November 21st, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Frist Center for Visual Arts

The internationally recognized collaborative art group Let's Re-Make will talk about their work at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts as part of a year-long Nashville Cultural Arts Project (NCAP) initiative called ART MAKES PLACE: Contemporary Artists make Community-based, Public Art in the form of Temporary, Site-specific and Performance-based Artworks, or AMP. The talk will be followed by a round table discussion with other AMP artists working in the public sphere. The talk is free and open to the public. Entrance to FCVA exhibitions that evening is free to all college students.

As part of the Art Makes Place project, Let's Re-Make will be in Nashville Nov. 17-21 to learn about vulnerable Nashville populations and work with Vanderbilt students and others in the community to create a poster art project focusing on issues of shelter. At the end of the week they will put their posters up in publicly accessible sites throughout Nashville.
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Art Makes Place Panel Discussions
Fridays, Nov. 1, Dec. 19, Feb. 27, March 27--at 6:30 p.m.
Studio B, FREE

The Frist Center will be the site for a number of presentations in conjunction with ART MAKES PLACE: Contemporary Artists make Community-based, Public Art in the form of Temporary, Site-specific and Performance-based Artworks.

Art Makes Place is organized by the Nashville Cultural Arts Project, in collaboration with Metro Nashville Public Schools, Vanderbilt University, and the Frist Center, with funding from the Metro Nashville Arts Commission.

Additional information about AMP is available at www.n-cap.org/amp.html.
http://www.letsremake.info/

Schedule

Friday, November 21, 2008
Let's ReMake, an internationally recognized collaborative art group

Friday, December 19, 2008
Michael Cooper

Friday, February 27, 2009
Julie Roberts

Friday, March 27, 2009
Bonnie Fortune

Friday, April 17, 2009
Lindsay Obermeyer
Location: Rechter Room at the Frist Center

Friday, May 22, 2009
Mike Calway-Fagen

Friday, August 14, 2009
Mel Zeigler

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Adrienne Outlaw

Tennessee Photographer John Guider Talk at State Museum: Nov 9

Tennessee Historical Society and the Tennessee State Museum
Third Annual Book Fair
at Tennessee State Museum

Sunday November 9, 2008
1:30-4pm

Several presenters will be participating in talks including...

John Guider
Tennessee photographer
The River Inside
3 PM

Tennessee photographer John Guider stepped into his 16-foot canoe on Spencer Creek in Williamson County five years ago and began his incredible journey. He canoed down the Harpeth, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Ohio rivers, before paddling the mighty Mississippi and arriving at his final destination of New Orleans. Guider completed the upper portions of the Mississippi in three subsequent solo canoe trips taken from 2005 to 2007.
In a journal chronicling his daily routine, Guider recorded the life he observed along the riverbanks and the details of what he felt were narrow escapes from life-threatening situations. The River Inside, is the title of both the State Museum exhibition and corresponding book that speaks to the resonance between life-sustaining water sources and human beings.
Guider's book is a compelling narrative of his life-changing journey, as well as a work of art, with high-impact photographs and graphics. With a cast of colorful characters, a series of near-deadly mishaps, a respect for the Mississippi as a wonder of nature and of commerce, and the wit and wisdom of a true poet, The River Inside is a one-of-a-kind tale.
At 3:00 p.m., Guider will present an account of his journey. Visitors to the book fair will be able to view Guider's exhibition, which includes 75 platinum prints from a selection of more than 10,000 images he took along the way, his canoe, river maps, and camera equipment. A short documentary film, distilling the essence of Guider's trips, produced by Brittany Hailes and Coke Sams of Nashville's Ruckus Film, complements the exhibition

LINKS
http://www.tnmuseum.org/exhibitions.cfm/68

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIxw0Hx6plQ

The Tennessee State Museum is located at Fifth Ave. and Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville. Free parking is available on the weekends in the state parking lots to the north and west of the Tennessee State Capitol.