Tennessee - Art

This drawing by Austin Reavis is from a series of abstract works that build lines and forms, suggestive of construction elements, as a foreground to chan...

A gift yet come to fruition, the boys destined from the start for greatness or infamy. Laid out before him, a life full of visions longing for a chance to be conjured and revealed.

My favorite color is the blue of the sky in October in Tennessee. It is an intense, electric blue that is created in part through color theory: as the leaves turn, the reds, oranges,...

This is the largest work I’ve ever created, and so I went big with the content too. This work was inspired by great cathedrals and the works by master artists found in them. I thought of the idea of “ascension” be it the ascension of Christ...

Imagine the swelling sea in an electric storm—fútbol/soccer fans in a packed stadium at night, their thunderous roars in the moments leading up to kickoff, their focus on one player on the field, the tension in the crowd increasing exponentially in contrast to the calm confidence of an expert, the distortion of space and time as she moves her foot ever closer to the ball—The Creation of Adam—a growing...

INTERGALACTIC BOTTLE SERVICE is a playful title, it draws the viewer into the work by activating the imagination—that playful part of ourselves that makes artistic creativity possible. I titled this work based on my wife’s reaction, who upon seeing the work exclaimed "It's like drinking champagne on a spaceship!" When viewers look at this piece, I would delight in them having the same reaction, and running away with their imaginations. Now, when I look at this work, I imagine my partner and I propelled five hundred years into the future, where this work is displayed in a very exclusive VIP lounge on a luxury spaceship. Here, in the red velveteen booth beneath this painting the bourgeoisie are wearing white 1920’s...

This is the first of my dimensional works which operates across multiple panels. The larger of the two is the first dimensional panel on which I put a curved edge, blurring the line ...

The composition in this work is a fractal pattern based on the golden ratio: golden triangles in which each larger triangle is divided into smaller triangles. The high-gloss black wh...

This piece was from a series that began in Olympic National park during my residency there. Foxglove 2 was the second iteration of the study that...

In my most current forest wanderings, I am consistently fascinated by the entanglements of species and how they tend to create their own ecosystem. Although the desolation of defores...

This painting was a revisitation of ‘Woodland Shrine’, upon finding yet another site with a deer skull, it seemed uncannily familiar. This moment with the woods documented in paint b...

This piece is about the allegory of being “lost in the woods” and the many different things that can mean right now. I always come by a site for my paintings by wandering into the wo...

Commentary portraiture and the vacuous shell that currently holds the human condition and the relationship between internal spirit and external exhaustion.

Echo IV is a composite of images collected from my daily surroundings (light, architecture, and botanical forms) combined and reimagined as an attempt to grapple with larger questions of ecology and mutability. Layers of paper and cut Tyvek are painted and manipulated beneath the surface – pushed and pulled in and out of focus...

Everybody Eats No matter what it looks like Hunters get their prey

Collaging fragmented scraps of magenta, orange, and black magazine, Sue Fox utilizes color and movement to express the sanguine beauty and catastrophic horror experienced during the ...

In this work, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a painting which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representation...

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Amanda Joy-Brown is a visual artist based in Nashville, TN. She received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has...

James Perrin’s abstract oil paintings create a visual language which, though appearing chaotic at first, reveal their meticulous craftsmanship and intuitive-driven intentions. In Pe...

JOSHUA EDWARD BENNET lives and works in New Orleans, LA. He received his MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 2019 with a concentration in digital arts. Bennett received ...

A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...

A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...

A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...

A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...

Andy Harding is a sculptor living and working in Nashville, TN. A range of interests from Eastern philosophy to contemporary science inspire and influence his work, but the practical...

This video is an original artwork by McLean Fahnestock. It depicts a burning palm tree on black and white film. The artist has replaced the "fire" with gold glitter in this animation...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awf...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awf...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...

Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires ...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires ...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires with water. The "water" in this case, has been replaced with glitter by the artist. Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires with water. The "water" in this c...

Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service, but it is also due in a large part to global climate change and massive drought. Wildfires are not relegated to the western US. They happen across the country and often occur in the Smokey Mountains, just on a smaller scale.” McLean Fahnestock...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires ...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires with water. The "water" in this case, has been replaced with glitter by the artist. Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service...

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a somewhat trapezoidal shape, with a scalloped top edge. A red cotton thread completes the remainder of the diamond shape. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

DORMANT by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. This painting, titled "Dormant," is the Winter-inspired piece in the series. After the first frost of winter, all of the leaves of the kudzu plant fall off of the vine, leaving it limp and bare. Here, we see the stark outline of a kudzu vine...

WATER AND LIGHT (THE THIEF) by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. "Water and Light" is the spring-inspired painting of this seasonal series. During the spring, the kudzu plant begins to awaken from its winter dormancy. The predominantly light blue/sage green atmosphere of this painting gives way to the vibrant curve of a rainbow on the right-hand side of the painting. The leaves of a tree in the background give us the sense that plant life is beginning to flourish. The silhouette of a bare kudzu vine...

TENDRIL by Heather Hartman was created for her show titled "Kudzu Season." This painting titled "Tendril," depicts a kudzu vine in white, layered over an at...

This piece by Heather Hartman was created for her exhibit titled "Kudzu Season." This painting, titled FROST, depicts Kudzu during the winter season. It is an enlarged cropped compos...

This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist, abstracted landscape of a house. Arches or cloudy blue skies intertwine with dark, geometric shapes. Flashes of steel and aluminum are interwoven by green garden hoses...

This piece by Kenzie Wells was created for a series titled "Strange Houses." "Strange Houses" is a series of dimensional paintings and objects that consider the physical and psycho...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...