Tennessee - Art

Walking at night in the city seems to be an extension of the day. The surrounding lights so bright they add an an air of excitement. The artwork is painted in detail then covered i...

When the cinematic Bond was born. The most complete account of the making of the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). “Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal...

In FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE 4, Amanda Joy Brown augments the tradition of landscape painting through her use of multicolored overlays. Drawing inspiration...

In HWY 70, Amanda Joy Brown augments the tradition of landscape painting through her use of multicolored overlays. Drawing inspiration from a scene sh...

Alexander Girard designs belong in a museum. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Sig...

This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells was created for an exhibition titled "Gradience." A large oblong shape takes on biomorphic qualities, as its iridescent "skin" exhibits several ...

This painting on cut linen canvas by Linda King Ferguson depicts a diamond shape that is dominated by a horizontal vesica piscis shape. The two intersecting circles are a dark salmon orange and a deep wine red (left to right). The canvas at the intersection of the two circles has been cut and peeled back to reveal that the back of the painting has been painted pink. While the trangular shape above the interseccting circles has been painted an ashy brown, the lower section has been left raw. Her Equivalence Series began as a feminist project; works that subvert the historically male gaze and a material language speaking of gendered concerns. Her color choices first came from Helen Molesworth’s essay, Painting With Ambivalence, published in WACK! Art of the Feminist Revolution. The Essay includes a large reproduction of Mary Heilmann’s 1979 painting...

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"Summer's End " captures the soft patterned shadow of the leaves. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates a...

How the West was played. By kids. And adults. And Texans. And Mid-Westerners. Well, actually, by anyone who dreamed of being a cowpoke one day. Or IS one. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: T...

Eclipse I is composed of oil and wax on Arches paper. Signed, titled, and dated on the back. Paper oil paintings can be framed behind glass or mounted on board to create a floating c...

Ocean’s Edge is composed of oil and wax on Arches paper. Signed, titled, and dated on the back. Paper oil paintings can be framed behind glass or mounted on board to create a float...

"Mirror" is a site specific installation that was exhibited in the show "Dialects of Place(s) by Land Report Collective at COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN. In this piece, Jobe uses industrial materials such as insulation foam, concrete, window screen, and graphite tracing paper to create a patterned structure that protrudes from the corner and carries the viewer's eye upward. At the bottom of the piece, we see delicately balanced concrete on top of pale blue insulation foam. The patterned concrete and insulation foam carries the viewer's eye upwards towards another pop of blue on top of the aluminum window screen frame. The screen gives the viewer a window in which to look through the piece. On one side, this mesh frames the graphite paper and on the other side the viewer can see the patterned concrete and insulation foam. Review from "The Rib" about "Mirror" One of the more surprising works here is Nashville-based Brian Jobe...

Formless is a project that attempts to replicate the logic of color, which is that color only exists because of and upon a background. Each cube is TIG welded from stainless steel an...

In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 5, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, architecture and fiber, structure and knots. Drawing special influence from a repurposed metal headboard...

This museum-quality photographic print on handmade paper by Carleigh Thomas measures 9 x 6”, and is on a mat that measures 14 x 11”. The photograph was taken in Tainan, Taiwan and is...

I liken my process of finding a spot to paint to be like foraging for mushrooms. I typically wander through the woods with my gear, looking at the ground, finding places of intrigue ...

There is so much to see in the city. The beauty of the art and the people are everywhere if you look and take the time to notice what's around you. The painting is on wood with hange...

Watercolor on paper on panel. Some surfaces are textured with raised areas, sanded areas, marks and scrapes, all protected by an acrylic coating. This is part of the artwork. The way...

"I welcome the continual emergence of change, evolution, and the inevitable challenges that form a large part of a working artist’s life." With CHEF'S HAT, a recent and evolving work, I am moving into more dimensionality and space. My intention is to push patterned and embellished surfaces on paper from its naturally flat surface into a more structural and spatial plane. This involves making sculptural pieces from paper and experimenting with new construction methods using strips and lengths of paper over-lapped and fastened together, shaped into objects with physical presence. I feel I am migrating from the flat surface into the third dimension. I envision the paper constructions as a landscape to be wandered in and out of, through and around, a space that invites all and sundry to enter on their own terms. I hold firmly to the belief that my work exhibits a playfulness that belies a more serious assessment of our social world. I am interested in how something that is initially perceived as frivolous and celebratory can constitute a reaction against and resistance to the shadowy world of misfortune, hard luck, and weariness. Born in 1959, Lanie Gannon was predominantly inspired by the 1970s. Conceptualism is often perceived as a reaction to Minimalism, and the leading art movement of the 1970s, challenging the boundaries of art with its revolutionary features. The movements that succeeded were all representative of a strong desire to evolve and strengthen the art world, in response to the tensions of the previous 1960s. Process art branched...

In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 01, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleabi...

Art Edition (No. 76–150), with the print Jean Shrimpton, 1965. The book and print are both numbered and signed by David Bailey, accompanied by a bookstand designed...

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This painting by Alex McClurg depicts an underpainting of dark grey equilateral triangles with hard-edged bright blue lines forming a multi-layered upside...

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In RAIN BOKEH, Amanda Joy Brown augments the tradition of landscape painting through her use of multicolored overlays. Drawing her initial inspiration from t...

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"PRLS-1000" is part of Eric Mack's urban grid series. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack creates movement across the piece with dynamic techniques of washy underpainting underneath matted pieces of paper, and thread. His paintings have been described as "intellect on top of emotion." Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world. His most recent show “Charting the Terrain” is on view now at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was covered by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, and LALA Magazine. His last solo exhibition was titled "Impossible Architectures" at The University of North Carolina...

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This painting by Alex McClurg depicts an underpainting of purplish grey equilateral triangles with hard-edged pink lines radiating from the center on top ...

In this abstract work, Mexico-born artist Yuri Figueroa uses bright, dynamic colors on a stark, white background to point the viewer towards larger issues ...

This sculpture by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist landscape and an abstraction of a home or "castle." Stone tiles create a small walkway and steps to an archway, where a blue foam ...

As she walks away from the crowd on her own she seems intent and focused on the task at hand. The painting is soft and blurred to add to the feeling of peace and serene that is felt...

This painting by Alex McClurg is an abstract geometric composition. The first layer of this painting consists of a blue and grey equilateral triangle patt...

This painting by Alex McClurg features multiple layers of geometric pattern paintings. The first layer consists of dark grey pattern vertical hard-edge li...

"Hidden away behind a floral veil, a shield so thin that her own breathe can make it falter, yet shielded enough to regain her bountiful confidence." In F...

VIEW is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates an image on paper then stretches a silkscreen on top of the image to create the...

VERT DE GRIS is an oil on canvas painting by Jered Sprecher and a piece in his series of works depicting grayscale flowers. The initial impulse behind the piece came from the idea of...

This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. It depicts two blue inflatable chairs a...

This painting by Alex McClurg consists of an underpainting of grey equilateral triangles with a labyrinth of mint green lines overlapping the geometric de...

The artist created this portrait of a pregnant woman carrying her child on her back while visiting California. The painting is rendered on top of a floral ...

SUNDOG 12 is an acrylic on canvas painting belonging to the Sundog series inspired by the meteorological phenomenon of Sundogs (parhelia), occurrences of bright spots straddling the ...

This painting is a small framed early work by Heather Hartman. The majority of the canvas is overcast with ivory and grey cloud cover. In the lover left-hand quadrant of the painting...

I love Christmas decorations, and have been known to leave a Santa or two up year round. There is just something so cheery about it. This black cat is based on my cat, Skittles, a f...

In BLUE CIRCLE QUILT, 1, Natalie Harrison deconstructs both the historically domestic crafts of molding and quilting and her own personal creative history to create a new work of collage. Shaping multicolored, leftover paint from her past work through a candy mold...

This painting is the artist's rendering of Purgatory. Some of the faces are barely visible through the murky atmosphere, their expressions are frightened, yelling into the void. The ...

"Decorator 68" is part of an on-going series of paintings by Chloe York centered around marine biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the process "decorating", which is in her word “metaphorical for the way clothing and makeup prepare her for social interaction. These paintings are anthropomorphic portraits encrusted with oceanic and organic shapes and patterns, a nod to the decorator...

This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. It depicts a home basement that is covered in gold metallic tassle curt...

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This abstract photograph of parked scooters by Carleigh Thomas is contemporary and urban. The photograph was taken while the artist was visiting Taiwan. This specific photo was shot ...

This piece by Brian Jobe consists of two separate stacks of concrete and steel. The stack to the left is a bit taller than the other stack, as the top-most block of corrugated concrete has been turned on its side. Beneath the corrugated concrete blocks on each sculpture is a steel plate that balances the concrete blocks on top of two breeze blocks...

SUNDOG 1 is an acrylic on panel painting belonging to the Sundog series inspired by the meteorological phenomenon of Sundogs (parhelia), occurrences of bright spots straddling the Su...

This painting by Omari Booker depicts himself and his sister when they were children. Originally painted as a study for a mural in Nashville, Tennessee, Booker reworked this very personal piece to stand alone. On the left side of this painting, Omari's sister sits in a pink and white polk-a-dot dress with a bow in her hair. She looks lovingly at her brother to the right, who is wearing a black and white button-up. The artist recalled that his mother made those outfits by hand, and he alludes to the special nature of textiles in his history by utilizing found fabric rather than a canvas as his medium. Omari Booker, a Nashville native, began his journey in the visual arts at Montgomery Bell Academy. Since then, he has studied and displayed his work at multiple institutions including Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State...

Yuri Figueroa builds depth by layering in "Science Fiction Snow No. 1." Figueroa combines techniques of blending, dripping and smearing with the use of...

Raymundo was a dishwasher in a number of Hillsboro Village restaurants. I chose to highlight him because he is one of those overlooked essential workers...

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a half-diamond shape, with an ellipsis cut-out close to the scalloped right edge. A red cotton thread completes the second half of the diamond shape, then hangs from the bottom corner, evoking the image of a kite. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

PALOMA by Omari Booker was inspired by the December 2020 Vogue cover featuring Paloma Elsesser. The model was styled by Booker's cousin for the shoot, ...

Beth Reitmeyer is a visual artist based in Nashville, TN. Her current installations are based upon landscape topography and geology, specifically sinkholes, caves, geodes, and rocks....

The Juvenile 3.25 x 7.0 x 3.75, 5.0 lbs Bronze Engraved signature Artist's Commentary: "The Juvenile is a bronze sculpture inspired by a real encounter near the Gatlinburg Bypass,...