Zipporah Camille Thompson and Richard Feaster in Nashville
Joe Nolan reviews “Texturextra,” the last in a series of two-person exhibitions presented across Tennessee by Locate Arts ahead of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial in 2021.
Nashville (9)
Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses at Zeitgeist
Artists respond to poems by Nashville-based artist Patrick DeGuira in a group exhibition advancing ecocentric ways of seeing and thinking about nature.
Main Squeeze: Eleanor Aldrich at Channel to Channel, Nashville
In new paintings on view in Nashville, artist Eleanor Aldrich combines a variety of materials to create impressions of pinched and protruding flesh. Read BA contributor Melinda Baker’s review.
Skull Microwave: A Conversation with Marlos E’van in Nashville
BA contributor Joe Nolan visits the studio of Nashville-based artist Marlos E’van to discuss violence, resourcefulness, and what happens when art is confiscated by the TSA.
In Defense of Subtlety
In a letter to the editor, writer and curator Robert Grand responds to Sara Estes’s review of Jodi Hays’s recent exhibition God Sees Through Houses in Nashville.
New Releases from Artist-Run Press Extended Play in Nashville
Founded by artist R.D. King in 2017, Extended Play is an independent small press based in Nashville, with projects produced in collaboration between King and other local and regional artists. For example, We Love You We Know You Always Watch We Will Try To Do Better Next Year is an anarchic send-up of Christmas-themed kids’ … Continued
Against Subtlety: Jodi Hays in Nashville
In her exhibition “God Sees Through Houses,” on view from August 27 through October 18, Nashville-based painter Jodi Hays displayed a new body of work at Lipscomb University’s recently relocated Hutcheson Gallery. Comprised of framed drawings and large- and small-scale oil paintings, the work was created during the crisis of family separations at the US-Mexico border created … Continued
Vesna Pavlović’s MixTape at Zeitgeist in Nashville
“For the Constructivists, social condensation was about filling architecture with a sort of revolutionary political electricity. As theorized, designed, and built, the Social Condenser was to be an architectural device for electrocuting people into a communist way of life”.
Brandon Donahue at David Lusk Gallery in Nashville
Nashville-based artist Brandon Donahue is one of the city’s busiest, most prolific creators. His exhibition “No Look Past,” on view at the Nashville outpost of David Lusk Gallery through September 29, is the artist’s third solo exhibition this year, following “Outta Bounds” at Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 and “RIP” at Elephant Gallery. Donahue’s multimedia practice … Continued
