May 10, 7:00 pm
Indeterminacies: Secret Keeper with Mary Halvorson and Stephan Crump
NYC jazz guitar impresario Mary Halvorson and bassist Stephan Crump's
Secret Keeper project
with local writer Veronica Kavass
for a night of amazing music and conversation.
sponsored by zeitgeist and
writer and critic Rodger Coleman
zeitgeist fine art
Friday November 30; 6-7:30PM; public invited
Maria Finn
Plum Velvet
“Hidden Narratives”
Zeitgeist is pleased to present an evening with Copenhagen-based artist Maria Finn. Finn has published five issues of her magazine “Plum Velvet. The latest issue on the theme “Hidden Narratives” will be presented at Zeitgeist at an artist talk Friday November 30th 6-7:30 PM.
Finn edits “Plum Velvet” herself, changing theme with each issue. Volumes are developed through a dialogue with participating artists. “Plum Velvet” explores the magazine as a format to present art within, with its advantage of being easy to distribute. The first issues focused on fashion and urban space, while the latest issues explore landscape and narrations related to travel and documentation.
“Hidden Narratives” is collaboration between Maria Finn and Vesna Pavlović, Assistant Professor of art at Vanderbilt University. It takes as a starting point a collection of travel slides documenting one American family’s travels around the world between the 60’s and the 80’s. While Pavlović used slides as objects, Finn appropriated them into a series of pencil drawings. This series of drawings titled “Unfinished” refers to the fact that part of the images from the slides were erased or left out during their translation into drawings. This act also refers to photography’s function as memory, its unreliability and changing over time. “Hidden Narratives” was shown at BKS Garage, a project space run by the Royal Academy of Fine Art, in Copenhagen in June this year. On this occasion, Pavlović showed her slide installation “Search for Landscapes”, and Finn produced a new video, “Boxes”. The video’s title comes from a short story by Raymond Carver, about a woman constantly moving from one place to another. It is another take on travelling and moving between places.
Finn has been working with the relationship between literature and film for quite some time. She will show two other related videos, “Las babas del Diablo”, 2010, exploring the short story that inspired Michelangelo Antonioni for his film “Blow-Up”, and her latest video, “The Go-Between”, with quotes from L.P.Hartley’s novel, which Joseph Losey adapted to a film in 1970.
Bio: Maria Finn is a Swedish artist living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is educated at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1991 – 97, where she also wrote her Ph.D. thesis ”Images Between the Word and the Film” 2007 – 2010. The thesis explores the relationship between literature and film, with a focus on landscapes ability to create and mediate a narration. Finn has exhibited internationally in institutions as Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Freud Museum, London and lately in project spaces in Denmark such as BKS Garage, Traneudstillingen, Antechamber. She curated group show ”Technically Sweet” at the Participant Inc. gallery in 2008, in New York. Her magazine ”Plum Velvet” is an on-going project since 1996, where different artists are invited to reflect upon various themes in each issue.
Friday, November 16
Insight? Outta Site!
Please join us 6-7:30pm, Friday, Nov. 16, for a visit with Amy Mackie at Zeitgeist Gallery, as part of Nashville Cultural Arts Project (NCAP) 2012 Insight? Outta Site! participatory potluck forum, designed to ignite creativity and discussion about contemporary art and social engagement.
*This is a potluck event. Please bring a dish/drink/question to share!
Food/drinks 6 - 6:30 pm. Talk 6:30 -7:30 pm. Join us for either or both!
Amy Mackie is a curator and writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the Director of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans from 2011 to 2012. In February 2012, she launched NOLA NOW, an online artist database and blog featuring the work of over 500 artists based in the greater New Orleans area. She is currently working on a book that
traces the evolution of the artist-run spaces and alternative arts organizations and publications in New Orleans from 2005 to the present.
Mackie was a Curatorial Associate at the New Museum in New York from 2007 to 2010, where she curated numerous exhibitions. She completed a fellowship in 2010 at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England, where she researched the work of Helen Chadwick and was the recipient of a 2009 CEC Artslink Grant to produce a project in Sofia, Bulgaria. Mackie has lectured at Bard College, Brooklyn College, the College of Charleston, and Yale University, and written for FANTOM Photographic Quarterly, Universes in Universe, Pelican Bomb, and the New Museum and Art21 blogs.
Mackie was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
Insight? Outta Site!
Playing on the success of NCAP's Outta Site! series, which brought internationally prominent artists, architects, and urban planners to Nashville, Insight? Outta Site! redefines the traditional lecture model. Rather than bring in speakers to simply give a speech and leave, Insight? Outta Site! facilitates interaction between invited speakers and the local community. We thank MNAC and TAC for their financial support.
Insight? Outta Site!
Wednesday, March 28 6-7:30pm
In Sight? Outta Sight!
Please join us as Nashville Cultural Arts Project (NCAP) and zeitgeist kick off the spring 2012 Insight? Outta Sight! lecture program with artist/writer Sharon Butler in the gallery.
INSIGHT? OUTTA SIGHT! is a series of participatory potluck forums designed to ignite creativity and discussion about contemporary art and social engagement.
schedule of events:
1) wednesday, march 28: Sharon Butler
2) friday, april 20: Bill Carroll
3) thursday may 17th: Rehema Barber
All presentations will be held at zeitgeist gallery. This is a potluck event so please bring a dish/drink/question to share! Food/drinks 6-6:30pm. Discussion 6:30-7:30pm. Join us for either or both!
two coats of paint
March 1, 2012
Indeterminacies/Hillsboro Village Art Crawl
Alan Valentine (President/CEO of the Nashville Symphony)
and
Blair School of Music's Blakemore Trio
please join us on Thursday, March 1st at 6-8PM for an evening of performance and discussion. Free and open to the public, Indeterminacies offers listeners a glimpse into the world of composition, performance, and more experimental music. A brief reception begins at 6PM with performances beginning at 6:15. Seating is limited so please come early.
thanks to Brandon and Kristin at Steinway Nashville!
follow link to see review of show at Art Now Nashville
blakemore trio
Indeterminacies 2012
Please join us for the 2012 season of zeitgeist's award winning performance series, Indeterminacies.
Indeterminacies was conceived as a forum for the performance and critical discussion of new music. The title is taken from a John Cage idea of processes whose outcome is not predetermined. Events begin at 6:00 pm. There is no charge.
Spring series 2012
March 1 Alan Valentine (Nashville Symphony Director) moderator with invited guest performers
April 12 Michael Gardiner with guest moderator Kyle Baker
May 2 special event to be announced
Fall series 2012
September 6 Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd with guest moderator Stan Link
October 11 LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams
November 1 Stan Link
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October 6, 2011
HackNash
Zeitgeist will feature a HackNash installation and performance in the gallery Thursday October 6 from 5:30-8PM for First Thursday in the Village. HackNash is a community of bricoleurs dedicated to deconstructing and repurposing production electronics to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.
HackNash is a place for Nashville makers to share ideas, knowledge, and resources. We are dedicated to the three b's: building, bending, and breaking. Our members host workshops, meetings, open-builds, and special performances. If you read Make magazine and/or create crazy contraptions, then this group is for you!
HackNash is an open community without a hierarchical structure. Anyone can join. Anyone can host a meeting or event. Membership is free. The direction and output of the group depends entirely upon what you put into it. Collaboration and involvement with other local maker and hackerspaces is expressly encouraged.
HackNash does not currently have a central community space, but we still consider ourselves a Hackerspace. We meet in the garages, workshops, and back porches of our members. What is a Hackerspace? Find out here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackspace.
November 8, 2011
Indeterminacies: John Latartara
Indeterminacies welcomes experimental composer and musician, John LaTartara who closes out the fall season by premiering new work . John's latest compositions continue to feature primarily computers and synthesized sound. An audience conversation about the work will be moderated by musician, critical thinker, and managing editor of The Nashville Scene Jack Silverman.
Also featured in this evening's performance is video work from Mississippi-based artist Brooke White.
John Latartara is associate professor of music theory and music technology at the University of Mississippi. He received his doctorate in theoretical studies from the New England Conservatory of Music. His research interests include performance analysis using spectrographic technology and he has published on a wide variety of Western and non-Western music including Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, Beethoven, Chopin, twentieth century computer music, the Chinese qin, and Japanese gagaku music.
Dr. Latartara's analytical essays have appeared in numerous journals including Indiana Theory Review, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Current Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, and Ethnomusicology; he has lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Thailand. He was granted a Fulbright Senior Scholar award to Thailand for 2008-2009 where he researched and lectured on traditional Thai music. Dr. Latartara is also a composer who specializes in the use of computer technology to create music. His music is released on the Centaur, Sachimay, and Visceral Media record labels.
(Again) A Hearty Thank You goes out to all who have helped to make Indeterminacies the Nashville Scene's best place to see contemporary classical/experimental performances in the city.
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April 12, 2010
Indeterminacies: Mark Snyder and Jonathan Marx
Zeitgeist and AIA Middle Tennessee's Spring 2011 Indeterminacies series welcome composer Mark Snyder and musician and critical writer Jonathan Marx who will present a music/multi media performance and discussion program.
Mark Snyder is a composer, performer and teacher living in Florence, Alabama. Mark has written for orchestra, choir, wind ensemble, various chamber combinations, multi-media, film, theatre and dance. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Argentina, Europe, New Zealand, Taiwan and selected for festivals and conferences that include Third Practice, Electronic Music MidWest, National Flute Association, North American Saxophone Alliance, SCI, SEAMUS, Ocean, Imagine and the Imagine 2 Electro-Acoustic Festival which Mark founded and directed. His work has been supported by generous grants from several organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mark is currently Assistant Professor of Entertainment Industry at the University of North Alabama where he directs the Electroacoustic Juke Joint. Dr. Snyder earned his D.M.A. from the University of Memphis, an M.M. from Ohio University and a B.A. from the University of Mary Washington.
Jonathan Marx is a longtime ghost-in-the-machine of the Nashville music and critical scene. He is a member of the internationally acclaimed outfit Lambchop, Hands Off Cuba, and has collaborated with countless other elements of Nashville's under ground music community and beyond. Jonathan covered arts and culture for the Tennessean and served for many years as Nashville Scene's managing editor. He is currently Communications Director for The Nashville Symphony
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March 15, 2011
Indeterminacies: Stan Link, David Maddox
Zeitgeist and AIA present a new season of
creative dialogue: Indeterminacies
with
Stan Link and David Wood
at Zeitgeist
Tuesday March 15
6-8pm
public invited
Art in the gallery:
Barely There: an international group exhibition
Zeitgeist and AIA Middle Tennessee's Spring 2011 Indeterminacies series premiers with composer Stan Link and moderator and general Ghost in the Machine, David Maddox who will present a music performance and discussion program. Please bring short written texts as patrons will be asked to contribute during the performance.
Stan Link is a composer and Associate Professor of the Philosophy and Analysis of Music in the Composition and Theory department of the Blair School of Music. He brings to Indeterminacies an original composition titled Toda la Tierra for guitar, voice, and electronics along with other works. Critical writer, musician, and aesthetician David Maddox will join Stan to ask compelling questions of the composer and audience and explore ideas presented in the work.
Dr. Link holds degrees from Oberlin (B.M.) and Princeton (MFA, Ph.D.). He has studied with Steve Mackey and Claudio Spies (among others), received the ASCAP composition prize and a Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship, and has contributed to the publications Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Spectrum, Mikropolyphonie, and American Music.
David Maddox is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. and continues to write about art for a couple of publications, and hosted the Perambulating the Bounds blog for material that doesn't quite fit into the format or schedules of those publications, and to range a little farther afield.
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December 4, 2010
Tatsuya Nakatani, LYLAS, Bluff Duo
Voight-Kampff Music presents....
Saturday, December 4th at Zeitgeist (1819 21st Avenue S. in Nashville)
Tatsuya Nakatani (Kobe, Japan) - percussion
LYLAS (Nashville) - Kyle Hamlett (Guitar, Uke, Banjo) and Kelli Shay (Violin, Saw)
Bluff Duo (Nashville) - David Maddox (reeds) and Brady Sharp (prepared guitar)
Show starts at 8:30 SHARP, and will include an improvised set at the end, time permitting.
Price: $6-$10 suggested at the door, all going to Tatsuya. Pay what you can, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
ABOUT TATSUYA NAKATANI:
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) is originally from Osaka, Japan. In 2006 he performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD.
He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
In addition to live solo and ensemble performances he works as a sound designer for film and television. He also teaches Masterclasses and Workshops at the University level. He also heads H&H Production, an independent record label and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was selected as a performing artist for the Pennsylvania Performing Artist on Tour (PennPat) roster as well as a Bronx Arts Council Individual Artist grant.
October 28, 2010
The Singing Shadow: Puppets/Music/Halloween Performance
featuring:
LYLAS
Adrian Rose
Kelli Shay Hix
Ben Marcantel
Thursday October 28th starting at 7PM
public invited
Nashville band, LYLAS, in conjunction with puppeteer and puppet-maker, Adrian Rose (of the Nashville Public Library's Wishing Chair Productions and the Mechanical Animals Puppet Caravan) presents the premiere of their musical shadow puppet piece, The Singing Shadow. Through live music, live action, and the magic of shadow puppetry, the piece tells the story of The Singing Shadow, a wayward creature of the night who stumbles into Halloween, where he encounters a world of bizarre creatures led by the stately Miss Halloween.
The Singing Shadow is a 15 minute piece incorporates live music written and performed by longtime Nashville band, LYLAS, and video animation by local filmmakers Ben Marcantel and Kelli Shay Hix. The show is recommended for adults and for children over 7 years of age and will be followed by a question and answer session and a short chat on shadow puppetry and its history. The entire program is scheduled for 45 minutes.
There will be a suggested donation for the troupe of $5.
Kyle Hamlett composed the music for, and performs in, LYLAS present… The Singing Shadow. Musician and songwriter Kyle Hamlett founded the musical project LYLAS over ten years ago. LYLAS morphed over the years into an amorphous musical project, utilizing a rotating cast of some of the finest musicians living in Nashville and incorporating a vast array of instrumentation from cello and violin to theramin, pedal steel, and the singing saw.
Adrian Rose is the primary puppeteer and puppet-maker for the show. For the past five years, she has worked as puppeteer and puppet-maker for Nashville's Wishing Chair Productions at the Nashville Public Library. Adrian has built puppets for companies including Dollywood and BriAnimations, and performed with the Nashville Symphony's production of Peter and the Wolf. In 2007, she founded the puppet company, Mechanical Animals Puppet Caravan.
Kelli Shay Hix is animator, screenplay writer, and violinist for LYLAS present… The Singing Shadow. Hix is also a solo musician and member of several bands in Nashville, including LYLAS and the Forrest Bride Collective, and maker of visual art and short films.
Ben Marcantel created the video effects for the performance. Marcantel is one of the founders of the Nashville musical collective, Forrest Bride (named one of the top 10 bands to watch 2010 for by the Scene), and has created numerous short videos and music videos for bands including Hands Off Cuba, William Tyler, and LYLAS.
April 12, 2010
Indeterminacies: Mark Snyder and Jonathan Marx
Zeitgeist and AIA Middle Tennessee's Spring 2011 Indeterminacies series welcome composer Mark Snyder and musician and critical writer Jonathan Marx who will present a music/multi media performance and discussion program.
Mark Snyder is a composer, performer and teacher living in Florence, Alabama. Mark has written for orchestra, choir, wind ensemble, various chamber combinations, multi-media, film, theatre and dance. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Argentina, Europe, New Zealand, Taiwan and selected for festivals and conferences that include Third Practice, Electronic Music MidWest, National Flute Association, North American Saxophone Alliance, SCI, SEAMUS, Ocean, Imagine and the Imagine 2 Electro-Acoustic Festival which Mark founded and directed. His work has been supported by generous grants from several organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mark is currently Assistant Professor of Entertainment Industry at the University of North Alabama where he directs the Electroacoustic Juke Joint. Dr. Snyder earned his D.M.A. from the University of Memphis, an M.M. from Ohio University and a B.A. from the University of Mary Washington.
Jonathan Marx is a longtime ghost-in-the-machine of the Nashville music and critical scene. He is a member of the internationally acclaimed outfit Lambchop, Hands Off Cuba, and has collaborated with countless other elements of Nashville's under ground music community and beyond. Jonathan covered arts and culture for the Tennessean and served for many years as Nashville Scene's managing editor. He is currently Communications Director for The Nashville Symphony
June 8, 2010
Indeterminacies: Jonathan Neufeld
Tuesday Evening, June 8, 6-8PM
This month's Indeterminacies series features
philosopher Jonathan Neufeld of
Vanderbilt University.
Jonathan's research interests are in
Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Political
Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law. He is
particularly interested in problems
surrounding performance and interpretation.
Neufeld was awarded a Collaborative
Interdisciplinary Reserch Grant with Jennifer
C. Lena (Sociology) in April 2009. Their
project, "Music, Authority, and Community,"
will investigate notions of legitimate
authority, coercion, taste, and deliberation
in musical communities. It will culminate
with a lecture series, and a commission of a
new work from Gabriela Lena Frank (Guggenheim
and Latin Grammy Award winning composer) to
be premiered in 2010 by the Nashville chamber
music group Alias and recorded on Naxos.
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April 18, 2010
Paul Harmon Booksigning at Sunset Grill
Artist Reception and Signing for Paul Harmon's
new book Crossing Borders
Sunday, April 18
4-6 PM
The public is invited to view the art and celebrate the life's work of Paul Harmon
Sunset Grill
2001 Belcourt Avenue
Nashville, TN
in Hillsboro Village
Zeitgeist invites you to join us as we celebrate the achievement of Nashville's own, Paul Harmon.
Paul Harmon is an internationally exhibited artist who from 1986 to early 1998 divided his time between permanent studio/residences in Paris, France and Brentwood, Tennessee. The Harmon work is well represented by numerous galleries and museums across the United States and Europe. Collections include the Tennessee State Museum, the Tampa Museum of Art, the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the Museum of the Principality of Monaco, the city of Caen, France and major corporate and private collections in Europe and in the USA. Paul Harmon currently lives and works in a 1793 farmhouse and studio in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Crossing Borders is an exquisite 360 page monograph on the paintings of this internationally exhibited artist. The book includes 650 photographs; 526 selected paintings reproduced in fill color from five decades covering the years 1961 through 2009. An illustrated essay by esteemed art historian Robert L. McGrath, Professor of Art History, Emeritus, Dartmouth College accompanies an art-related biography including snippets of reviews, interviews, lectures, and correspondence providing the reader with valuable insight into the work.
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September 11, 2010
Bill Daniel SONIC ORPHANS lost music films 1965-87
Film Tramp and recent Guggenheim fellow, Bill Daniel is back in the van and on tour with a new program of recently unearthed16mm footage.
SONIC ORPHANS is a compilation reel of lost and found clips projected on 16mm; some silent, some that rock. They are all rare and strange celluloid gems, many have been seen by almost no one and have never seen the light of youtube. Most of this footage is truly orphaned film--- abandoned, lost, found, and now presented raw without editing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_film
The presentation includes a discussion of “orphan films” as they are called by archivists, and at some venues on tour, a one-night photo exhibit. Featuring: The Beatles/Avengers/Huns/Boy Problems/Sonic Youth/Tennessee Ernie Ford/Butthole Surfers/Johnny Cash
According to Bill: “There is a flavor of goofy nostalgia to much of the footage, but the images are also haunting--- rock and roll ghosts, still singing, pogo-ing, sneaking hits on cigarettes, making direct eye contact from 20, 40 years ago.”
Each of the films has its own story, like if a stray dog at the pound could tell you how he got there. Part of the evening’s presentation is a telling of some of these stories, and a discussion on the relationship between underground music and film cultures.
As some of the footage has no sound, an improvised soundtracks will be performed live by Nashville's own, Forrest Bride.
Part of the thesis of this show is to present the kind of intimate cinema experience that is based on being there. None of this material is available on video or the internet. One of Daniel’s motivations is a reaction against the kind of 'remote viewing' that has become our primary way of viewing motion picture:
“on little computers, alone, while multi-tasking...This show is a communal, participatory experience… feeling the responses of the people sitting near you... the smell of dust burning on the projector bulb, like caveman story time around the fire.”
Bill Daniel website
October 9, 2010
Big Draw Nashville
Everyone Draws!
All Ages • All Levels • All Backgrounds
Bring your paper and pencils — NO Competition — Just have fun drawing!
Choose your neighborhood
Meet at 9 AM at one of the following spots:
Tennessee Art League, Downtown
Zeitgeist Gallery, Hillsboro Village or
Billups Art (The Building), East Nashville / 5 Points
Weʼll start with registration +
brief talk on local buildings and history + quick tips on drawing.
Draw houses and buildings in the neighborhood 9:30 till Noonish.
June 6, 2009
Art in Open Spaces: Emerging Artists
Zeitgeist invites you to join us for the Downtown Art Crawl as we open the doors
to the fifth in a series of art exhibitions titled, Art in Open Spaces. This fifth and final exhibit in the Art in Open Spaces at Terrazzo Series moves the art up to the 11th floor into a 2 story 3,000 sq foot gallery space.
This particular installment introduces a number of younger artists new to the exhibition community. Some have most recently established themselves with gallery shows and are forging new bodies of work:
Harry Gold/ New York City
Jonathan Lisenby/ Nashville, TN
Justin Terry/ New York City
Others in the show are just now emerging from the academic community:
Lani Asuncion/ Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
Kelly Bonadies/ Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
Molly Brooks/ Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Elizabeth Frierson/ University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Christine Peterson/ Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
Kendra Schirmer/ Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Patrick Schlafer/ David Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
Anna Zeitlin/ Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Nate Zeitlin/ Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"We are very excited about this opportunity to join the downtown art galleries in their monthly celebration of local art. We also are thrilled to be able to showcase local artists in this new urban setting.......'where art and architecture intersect' ". Janice Zeitlin
Thursday December 3, 2009
Oblique Strategies- Dec 3: John Janusek, PhD, Archeologist
Dr. John Janusek is an archaeologist interested in the development of complex societies in the South American Andes. His theoretical interests include: social identity and collective memory, human agency and power relations, urbanism, rural landscape, religious ideology and the rise of complexity, and household archaeology.
He has worked in the Bolivian highlands since 1987, conducting research focused principally on Tiwanaku and its precursors. He currently directs an inter-disciplinary research project at the sites of Khonkho Wankane and Iruhito in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin.
Significant publications include Craft and Local Power (Latin American Antiquity 10, 1999), Out of Many, One (Latin American Antiquity 13, 2002), Tiwanaku and its Precursors (Journal of Archaeological Research 12, 2004), Household and City in Tiwanaku (in Andean Archaeology, Helaine Silverman ed., Blackwell 2004), and five chapters in Tiwanaku and its Hinterland Vol. II, Alan Kolata ed., Smithsonian Institution, 2003.
His two books are Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities through Time (Routledge, 2004) and Ancient Tiwanaku: Civilization in the High Andes (Cambridge, forthcoming).
Discussion will begin at 6:15 pm. There is no charge but seating will be limited.
The gallery will be open until 8 pm as we participate in Art After Hours with other gallery members of Nashville Association of Art Dealers. For more information visit www.nashvilleartdealers.net.
The Oblique Strategies discussion series strives to change how we see art and architecture by refracting it through the lens of other related or completely unrelated disciplines. The discussions are first Thursday of each month.
November 5, 2009
Oblique Strategies- Steven Tepper, PhD, Sociologist/author,
Zeitgeist and AIA Middle Tennessee presents the seventh program in the Oblique Strategies series, Steven J. Tepper, associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy,
Thursday, November 12.
Steven J. Tepper is associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and assistant professor in the department of sociology at Vanderbilt. Prior to Vanderbilt, Tepper served as deputy director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.
Dr. Tepper will speak about his research and teaching focusing on creativity in society; conflict over art and culture; and cultural participation. Recently, he has published two cover stories for the Chronicle of Higher Education focusing on creativity and cultural participation, "The Next Great Cultural Transformation," (with Bill Ivey) and "The Creative Campus: Who's Number 1?".
Tepper is co-editor of and contributing author to the book Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life (Routledge 2007). He is currently completing a book on cultural conflict and social change in American cities.
Tepper holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a master’s in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; and a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University
Discussion will begin at 6:15 pm. There is no charge but seating will be limited.
The gallery will be open until 8 pm.
The Oblique Strategies discussion series strives to change how we see art and architecture by refracting it through the lens of other related or completely unrelated disciplines. The discussions are first Thursday of each month.
October 1, 2009
Oblique Strategies- Victoria Greene, PhD, Nuclear Physicist
Dr. Senta Victoria Greene is a Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University.
She received her B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her M.S., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Physics
from Yale University. She is an experimental heavy-ion physicist, and
the aim of her research is to study the quark-gluon plasma, a deconfined
state of matter that is dominated by the strong force.
It is believed that
the universe existed in this state a few microseconds after the big bang.
She is currently a member of the PHENIX Collaboration at Brookhaven
National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and the CMS Collaboration at
the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Professor Greene is active in issues
concerning graduate education and women in STEM disciplines. She is
Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Vanderbilt’s College of
Arts & Science and chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in
Physics of the American Physical Society.
Discussion will begin at 6:15 pm. There is no charge but seating will be limited.
The gallery will be open until 8 pm as we participate in Art After Hours with other gallery members of Nashville Association of Art Dealers. For more information visit www.nashvilleartdealers.net.
The Oblique Strategies discussion series strives to change how we see art and architecture by refracting it through the lens of other related or completely unrelated disciplines. The discussions are first Thursday of each month.
September, 3, 2009
Oblique Strategies- Billy Kemp and Jeni Hankins, Songwriters
Discussion will begin at 6:15 pm. There is no charge but seating will be limited.
The gallery will be open until 8 pm as we participate in Art After Hours with other gallery members of Nashville Association of Art Dealers. For more information visit www.nashvilleartdealers.net.
The Oblique Strategies discussion series strives to change how we see art and architecture by refracting it through the lens of other related or completely unrelated disciplines. The discussions are first Thursday of each month.
August 6, 2009
Oblique Strategies- Dr. Roy Elam
Zeitgeist and AIA Middle Tennessee presents the fourth speaker in the Oblique Strategies series, Roy Elam, MD, Director, Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health, Thursday, August 6th
Dr. Elam has been involved in mind-body medicine in the Nashville community for the past 10 years. He is medical director at the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health where he helps patients develop personalized plans for self care and wellness. Dr. Elam specializes in working with patients who are living with chronic pain, who are seeking information about complementary therapies or who want to improve their health by making lifestyle changes.
Dr. Elam is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt and teaches the Healing Art curriculum at Vanderbilt Medical School. He is a member of the Baptist Healing Trust Board and is the current chair of the Alive Hospice Board.
Discussion will begin at 6:15 pm. There is no charge but seating will be limited.
The gallery will be open until 8 pm as we participate in Art After Hours with other gallery members of Nashville Association of Art Dealers. For more information visit www.nashvilleartdealers.net.
The Oblique Strategies discussion series strives to change how we see art and architecture by refracting it through the lens of other related or completely unrelated disciplines. The discussions are first Thursday of each month.
May 2, 2009
Art in Open Spaces Moves Up
Zeitgeist invites you to join us for the Downtown Art Crawl as we open the doors at Terrazzo to the fourth in series of art exhibitions titled, Art in Open Spaces.
The fourth exhibit in the Art in Open Spaces at Terrazzo series moves the art up to the 11th floor into a 2 story 3,000 sq foot gallery space. This exhibition features a selection of new and viewed works by Zeitgeist artists. Artists include: Caroline Allison, Fred Clarke, Harry Gold, Hans + Gieves, Paul Harmon, Alicia Henry, Farrar Hood, Tim Hussey, Megan Lightell, James Perrin, Nancy Rhoda, Simon Roberts, and Tom Waldron.
Three units on the 5th floor will also be on view on Saturday. The 5th floor galleries feature Nashville area artists Hollis Bennett, Ciprian Contreras, Mike Calway-Fagen, Shane Doling, and David Wright LaGrone and Zeitgeist artists Will Berry, Buddy Jackson, Brady Haston, Richard Feaster, Lain York, and John Donovan.
Art in Open Spaces is curated by Zeitgeist and underwritten by Crosland, developers of Terrazzo.
Please also join us as Zeitlin InTown Realtors host an exhibition of Gene Wilken's photography from 6-8PM in their offices at 909 Division located next door to Terrazzo.
5/31/2008
A Painting and Photography Dialogue at Crosland/Terrazzo
Zeitgeist gallery and Crosland present: a selection of Contemporary Painting on view at the top of The Historic L&C Tower
ADDRESS: The L&C Tower, 30th floor
401 Church St.
Nashville, TN 37219
Zeitgeist gallery and Crosland are pleased to announce a selection of artwork from the artists in the gallery exhibitions: Dialogues: Painting and Photography. This exhibition provides an opportunity to view contemporary painting in one of Nashville’s modern architectural treasures.
Work by:
Caroline Allison, Will Berry, Fred Clarke, Richard Feaster, Brady Haston, James Perrin, Hans Schmitt-Matzen, Mark Tucker
This exhibition is taking place in the recently renovated Crosland offices on the 30th floor of the historic L&C Tower. The space with its spectacular downtown view was restored by Architect Manuel Zeitlin. The 30th floor also features the model loft for the elegant Terrazzo building. The Terrazzo stands as the culmination of the vision and collaboration between Bill Barkley (President, Crosland Tennessee), Manuel Zeitlin Architects and Hastings Architecture Associates. The 109 residential condominiums are located at the intersection of 12th & Division at the gateway to The Gulch in Downtown Nashville.
8/16/2006
Private Dialogue: Vanderbilt University Law School
Artists' Reception October 26, 2006, 5-7pm
Vanderbilt University Law School presents an exhibition of artwork by six artists, three living in Nashville, and three with ties to the southeast. Curated by Zeitgeist gallery, the exhibition is entitled Private Dialogue. This is a show about the personal language that artists use to interpret and react to the world around them.
The idea that an art object exists and communicates independently of the maker is central to what Paul Behnke does as an artist. While he believes that the painter has a personal agenda, he acknowledges the spectator will always have a reaction to the work based on his or her experience as a human being, often subordinating the intention of the artist. The act of painting for him (using the language of color, shape, line, and texture) is a private dialogue between himself and the materials that he uses. As the artist puts it, it is “like friends telling secrets.”
Joseph Burwell’s drawings seek to combine subject matter that is expressive, intuitive, and poetic with sensibilities that are lavishly embellished and decorative; in other words, combining the personal with symbols and recognizable elements of the world at large.
The decorative elements he uses are influenced by his early architectural studies and interest in the mesmerizing colors and patterns of illuminated manuscripts. These expressive elements seek to form a language of symbols from more fluid and intangible thoughts. The two contrasting forces, when layered, create a specific mood, which is both seductive and evocative.
Isolation and interaction are common, recurring ideas in Alicia Henry’s work. The complexities and the contradictions surrounding familial relationships as well as cultural differences and how these variations affect individual and group responses to themes of Beauty, the Body, and Identity are central themes that are conveyed in distilled images and symbols. These images are arranged in grids and patterns and serve to convey a relationship of the individual to a larger more organized (or disorganized or disintegrating) whole.
Her current work explores these ideas, addressing the process through which groups (specifically female) navigate these issues.
Kelly Popoff-Punches’ paintings were all made in her first year of motherhood. The works were all completed during her naps and in between diaper changes. The imagery was intuitive but totally influenced by her days’ work of being a mom. “The thoughts of a mother are the force behind all of the work . . . the weight of the enormous responsibility of protector, nurturer, teacher, and the mixed feelings of joy and self-doubt. My mind is filled with swaddles of salty tears and poopy diapers of a milky-breathed, sleepy-headed, thumb-sucking baby.”
Terry Thacker’s paintings allude to landscapes in which specific patterning, color, and texture seek to pinpoint particular elements or sensations within a larger context. The artist sees these specified areas as subsets or parts to a whole that inform the view of a larger, more grandiose scheme. He sees his work arranged in grids and geometric patterns functioning as an installation and also as individual panels.
Once again, this is an attempt to formulate a personal language, one derived from the history of western art as much as personal taste and affinities. Terry has consistently served as a mentor for artists in Nashville area through his role as a university professor and as an active member of Nashville’s vibrant independent artist community.
Faded signs, murals, and censored graffiti act to break up the monotonous American cityscape have become a primary source material that for Brady Haston’s paintings. These sometimes accidental and unplanned forms provide a dynamic background for the more permanent industrial parts and residential fixtures he encountered on a daily basis
6/9/2002
The Artist's Table II
Zeitgeist and Sunset Grill are pleased to present The Artist’s Table II; the latest exhibition of new works on paper by Nashville based painter Paul Harmon. >BR>
This latest suite of The Artist’s Table II follows the success of The Artist’s Table I as an homage to six master artists from the history of art that serve as an inspiration for Harmon. The concept is a marriage of two separate and reoccurring themes in the work of the artist- “the table” and “the history of art.” Restaurateur Randy Rayburn (The Sunset Grill) and Janice Zeitlin (Zeitgeist Gallery) have joined to commission the first and second suite of works. By their talents and professions, they represent respectively, the table and the world of art. The delicate balance in creating these works was to honor the art of the selected artists in an original work by Paul Harmon. The artists chosen are Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, and Rene Magritte. (Artists in the first suite included Picasso, Dali, Monet, Matisse, Van Gogh, and Rousseau. The Artist’s Table I, Suites I-VII are sold out.)
1/3/2008
La Luz de Los Colores: Vanderbilt University Law School
Vanderbilt University Law School presents La Luz de Los Colores, the fifth installment of an exhibition series curated by Zeitgeist gallery. Opening reception is Thursday afternoon March 13th from 5-7PM.
Will Berry is a Franklin native who has spent years living and painting in New York City, the Luberon Valley in Provence, Oaxaca, and Mexico City where he currently resides. Will's large scale abstract paintings, monotypes, and etchings use color and line to record the subtle changes of color and light in the different landscapes in which he finds himself. "Plein air" sketches done in the Luberon Valley and in fields outside of Oaxaca City are then taken back to the studio and translated into compositions that create a sense of motion tracking the change of light.
This selection of Will Berry's work currently on view in the lobby of the Vanderbilt Law School was recently featured in the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico in Mexico City. The images reflect time spent particularly on the Caribbean coast, the area around the Xitle volcano, and the Oaxacan Mountains. Three books featuring Berry’s work have been published by Chichicastle Art- Press: The Light of Colors, The Pull of Air, and Agua. The Light of Color is available at Zeitgeist.
ADDRESS
Vanderbilt University Law School/ North Lobby 131 21st Avenue South Nashville, Tennessee Parking is available in any of the three adjacent lots (marked 5A, 5B, and 12E) across the street from the Law School at the 21st Avenue and Broadway intersection for this event.
1/2/2007
undercurrent: Vanderbilt University Law School
Vanderbilt University Law School presents an exhibition of artwork by four artists and educators living and working in middle Tennessee.
The third installment of this series produced for the Vanderbilt Law School by Zeitgeist Gallery is titled, "undercurrent." It includes four artists whose work concentrates on the relationship between self and various cultural facets of present day society. These four artists have visually expressed common themes of identity, industrialization, and cultural globalization.
participating artists:
Jessica Marvin
Christie Nuell
Sisavanh Phouthavong
Libby Rowe
ADDRESS: Vanderbilt University Law School
131 21st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee
The Vanderbilt University School of Law is open to the public from 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday. For more information please call Janice Zeitlin or Lain York at 615-256-4805.
6/15/2007
Art on the Edge featuring Megan Lightell and Jessica Marvin
Zeitgeist gallery and Crosland are pleased to announce an exhibition featuring two artists new to the Nashville area. This exhibition provides an opportunity to view contemporary art in one of Nashville’s modern architectural treasures.
Recently published in Architectural Digest magazine, Megan Lightell’s bucolic landscapes on canvas feature meadows and pastures from her native Ohio and of her new home-base in middle Tennessee. Her emphasis with these finely crafted pieces is on rolling hills, the meeting of earth and sky, and the diffusion of light imbuing the work with a palpable sense of atmosphere.
Jessica Marvin’s large scale enamel on wood panel paintings were recently featured in the Undercurrent exhibition in the Vanderbilt Law School. Architectural footprints of buildings ranging from The Church of the Nativity, to The World Trade Center, and a Walmart are rendered as brilliant color studies providing a complex reading of the history of architecture and its role in the development of culture.
This exhibition is taking place in the recently renovated Crosland offices on the 30th floor of the historic L&C Tower. The space with its spectacular downtown view was restored by Architect Manuel Zeitlin. The 30th floor also features the model loft for the elegant Terrazzo building. The Terrazzo stands as the culmination of the vision and collaboration between Bill Barkley (President, Crosland Tennessee), Manuel Zeitlin Architects and Hastings Architecture Associates. The 109 residential condominiums are located at the intersection of 12th & Division at the gateway to The Gulch in Downtown Nashville.
For more information please call Janice Zeitlin or Lain York at 615.256.4805.
8/20/2007
Field Guide: Vanderbilt University Law School
Vanderbilt University Law School presents Field Guide, the fourth installment of an exhibition series curated by Zeitgeist gallery. The four artists chosen are Tennessee natives who are relatively new to the Nashville scene.
Mike Calway-Fagen is a Nashville native and recent University of Tennessee graduate doing community-based, interactive performances and installations that are documented in digital images. He recently received a fellowship grant from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Murfeesboro-based artist Jacqueline Meeks is currently showing 15 drawings of new work at the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee as part of the Perspectives exhibition organized by internationally recognized curator Michael Rooks.
Julian Rogers, another native Nashvillian and recent University of Tennessee graduate who with Mike Calway-Fagan co-founded the new alternative gallery here in Nashville called Sooplex with Mike Calway-Fagan. Sooplex hosts exhibitions from local, regional and nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artsists.
James Perrin is a Kenton, Tennessee native currently living in Enville, Tennessee. He is currently showing at Perry Nicole Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee and holds painting degrees from the Kansas City Arts Institute, Boston University, and has studied abroad through the American University in Washington, DC.
Their work is indicative of the most recent wave of young artists coming up through the commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums on the local, national, and international level.
The Vanderbilt University School of Law is open to the public from 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday. For more information please call Janice Zeitlin or Lain York at 615-256-4805.
9/21/2006
Art on the Edge featuring John Folsom and Lain York
Zeitgeist gallery and Crosland are pleased to announce an exhibition featuring two artists well known to the Nashville area.. This exhibition provides an opportunity to view contemporary art in one of Nashville’s modern architectural treasures.
Recently featured in Southern Accents magazine, John Folsom’s large scale photographic works evoke the spirit and philosophy of the Hudson River School. His landscapes are pieced together from smaller, segmented black and white gelatin prints, forming a whole that is then softened with a wax and oil paint medium. Much like the American painters of the Hudson River School, Folsom’s landscapes embody the harmonious relationship between man and his natural world. Images include scenes from Banff (Alberta, Canada), Real Foot Lake (Tennessee), and Massac Creek (Kentucky).
A fixture in the Nashville Art community, Lain York, is constantly defining and redefining his painting. Identifiable from their images of African and South American ritual masks, Lain questions the mythological and cultural significance of the objects in our own modern day society. His use of complex color schemes and almost sculptural compositions make these works distinctive and unique.
This exhibition is taking place in the recently renovated Crosland offices on the 30th floor of the historic L&C Tower. The space with its spectacular downtown view was restored by Architect Manuel Zeitlin. The 30th floor also features the model loft for the elegant Terrazzo building. The Terrazzo stands as the culmination of the vision and collaboration between Bill Barkley (President, Crosland Tennessee), Manuel Zeitlin Architects and Hastings Architecture Associates. The 109 residential condominiums are located at the intersection of 12th & Division at the gateway to The Gulch in Downtown Nashville.
For more information please call Janice Zeitlin at 615.256.4805.
3/15/2006
Visual Recordings: Vanderbilt University Law School
Vanderbilt University Law School and Zeitgeist gallery present Visual Recordings a group exhibition featuring:
Fred Clarke
Richard Feaster
Jim Ann Howard
Lain York
ADDRESS: Vanderbilt University Law School 131 21st Avenue South Nashville, Tennessee
THE EXHIBITION:
Vanderbilt University Law School introduces an exhibition of artwork by four artists living in Middle Tennessee. Curated by Zeitgeist gallery, the exhibition is entitled Visual Recordings and features a series of paintings, drawings, and photography that record each artists’ understanding and perceptions of their personal experiences.
For the past seven years Fred Clarke has been an official photographer for the International Committee of the Red Cross. It has been his job to document the pain and suffering caused by conflicts. He has traveled from Somalia to the Caucasus, from Russia to South Africa to document the effects of man’s inhumanity to man in conflicts old and new. His photographs reflect and affirm the “resiliency of the human race in conflict or dire disaster situations.” Fred lives with his family in Nashville and Geneva, Switzerland.
A Nashville native who now lives and teaches in Sewanee, Jim Ann Howard, show drawings rendered in hand-made carbon pencils of goddess and animist imagery in prehistoric art. The images were done on-site from the archives of The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Jungian Institute in Manhattan.
Masks and the idea of transformation through masks is a major theme in native Nashvillian Lain York’s artwork. Six-foot tall images of African and Mayan masks are painted on wood panels that extend several inches from the wall and are painted on all sides. While the masks appeal to the artist as a record of the way a culture tries to make sense of the human experience the surfaces of York’s piece carry the record of the many stages the paintings go through.
In his large abstract paintings Richard Feaster says he is often challenged “to uncover some deeply hidden structure, and in the process hopefully reveal some larger truth about our lives and our ability to perceive them….I look for webs or other devices of connectivity within the painting.” Richard returned to the Nashville area three years ago after living in New York for nearly ten years.
The Vanderbilt University Law School is open to the public from 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday. For more information please call Janice Zeitlin or Lain York at 615-256-4805.
5/29/2004
A Score of Starck
As we continue to celebrate 10 years of fine art, architecture, and design, Zeitgeist and Manuel Zeitlin Architects, have joined Atlanta’s own Retromodern, the team that brought you Memphis in Nashville, to celebrate twenty years of designer Philippe Starck. Starck’s often irreverent furniture, lighting, interior and product design has made him one of the best known contemporary designers in the world today. Fashion and contemporary culture have always been in the forefront of his thinking but so have the ideas of transcending “fad” and incorporating solid design, integrity, and durability. His has been a quest of designing and creating genuine artifacts that best address the needs of a civilization on the move.
The son of an aircraft designer, Philippe Starck was born in Paris in 1949 where he continues to live and work. Products designed by Starck can currently be seen in the collections of a number of European and American museums, among them the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the Museum of Design in London. Exhibitions of his work have been held in Paris, Marseilles, Rome, Munich, Düsseldorf, Kyoto, Tokyo, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
Philippe Starck was an established interior and industrial designer when he founded the Starck Product company in 1979. As he continued his interior work, designing and refurbishing numerous restaurants, commercial spaces, and private residences all over the world including the private apartments in the Elysée Palace in Paris for President Mitterrand of France, the Starck Product company began designing a wide variety of objects that went into production. The design teams were responsible for Alessi kitchen appliances, toothbrushes for Fluocaril, luggage for Vuitton, "Urban Fittings" for Decaux, office furniture for Vitra, noodles for Panzani, boats for Beneteau, mineral-water bottles for Glacier, as well as vehicles, computers, doorknobs, and spectacle frames.
A Score of Starck focuses on furniture, lighting, and interior fixtures from the company’s design collection over the past twenty years; some still in production and some discontinued. This exhibition is being co-presented by Retromodern.com, a design emporium in Atlanta and also found on-line, Zeitgeist Gallery, and Manuel Zeitlin Architects. We invite the viewer to enjoy and get lost in a playfulness that negates a rational response to function, yet engenders an emotional response to form. Philippe Starck’s design prompts us to question how we think of a lamp, a chair, a bookcase, etc. – dispelling traditional notions of what a functional object is supposed to look like.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with extended hours on Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
2/24/2003
Art on the Edge
Zeitgeist is pleased to announce ART ON THE EDGE, a series of exhibitions of Nashville-area artists in new spaces. ART ON THE EDGE works off the precedents of the East Village of New York in the late 70’s and early eighties and what is currently happening in London. For some time, area galleries in New York and London have sponsored independent and/or gallery artists working more in more conceptual or experimental mediums to show in commercial or industrial spaces. ART ON THE EDGE supports the tradition of warehouse shows produced by Nashville’s independent artist groups and incorporates the architecture and design of the commercial spaces. The exhibitions are produced in an effort to promote a dialogue between the local fine art, architectural, and design communities.
The first exhibition in this series is entitled ART IN OPEN SPACES and is possible through the support of Armistead Barkley and Nashville Urban Ventures, developers of The 12th and Demonbreun Building and Manuel Zeitlin Architects, project architect, for this renovated 55,000 square foot former storage building. The 12th and Demonbreun Building is an anchor in The Gulch mixed-use redevelopment.
ART IN OPEN SPACES is a group-show curated by Murfreesboro painter Chris Scarborough. Artists included are:
painter Michelle Anderson who received her MFA in painting and drawing from New York University and has recently exhibited at Stuyvesent Gallery in New York; Patrick DeGuira whose multi-media installation work has been featured at Cheekwood Museum of Art and at the Nations Bank Center in Charlotte, North Carolina; sculptor Terry Glispin who recently had a Temporary/Contemporary show at Cheekwood Museum of Art and is currently the Fine Art Chair at Watkins College of Art and Design; painter Chris Scarborough who has been featured in New American Paintings; photographer Beth Trabue who is currently showing at the Nashville International Airport; and painter Lain York who was selected for the Tennessee State Museum Best Of Tennessee exhibition.
10/4/2002
Rituals: A Benefit for the Elephant Sanctuary
A behavioral study of African elephants (“Among the Elephants” by Oria and Douglas Hamilton) describes a funeral rite observed by these highly intelligent and social creatures as:
“(w)hen an elephant is dying, other members of the herd make a desperate attempt to save its life, using their tusks to help it rise from the ground. With all hope lost, they set about burying the dead. They dig up earth with their forelegs and tusks and pour it over the carcass. They cover the carcass with tree branches broken off with their noses. Even when the burial is completed, they do not leave the spot. A three-day vigil kept by fellow elephants.”
Ritual is the new exhibition opening at Zeitgeist gallery in which 27 artists (photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed media installation) have been invited to share their interpretation of the idea of ceremonies, holidays, and/or institutions that tie us all together. A percentage of all sales benefit The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.
Participating artists in the Ritual exhibition include:
Will Berry
Jessica Brommer
Kathryn Dettwiller
John Geldersma
Jeff Hand
Paul Harmon
Brady Haston
Alicia Henry
Jim Ann Howard
Tim Hussey
Buddy Jackson
Sara La
Leslie Laskey
Michael Lujan
Todd McDaniel
Peter Monroe
Richard Painter
Chris Scarborough
Heath Seymour
Gene Wilken
Lain York
And some exciting newcomers:
Fred Clarke
Rowena Galavitz
Terry Rowlett
Scott Smith
Anna Zeitlin
Nate Zeitlin
see "Benefit For the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee" selection on gallery page for individual pieces and pricing.
4/21/2001
The Artist's Table I
This suite is an homage to six master artists from the history of art that serve as an inspiration for Harmon. The concept is a marriage of two separate and reoccurring themes in the work of the artist- “the table” and “the history of art.” Restaurateur Randy Rayburn (The Sunset Grill) and Janice Zeitlin (Zeitgeist Gallery) have joined to commission this suite of works. By their talents and professions, they represent respectively, the table and the world of art. The delicate balance in creating these works was to honor the art of the selected artists in an original work by Paul Harmon. The artists chosen are Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, and Vincent Van Gogh.
This suite of six pieces is on view at Sunset Grill and available in seven original editions for purchase through Zeitgeist Gallery located on the corner of 21st and Acklen avenues in Hillsboro Village. With the purchase of each suite, dinner for four will be prepared in the artist’s 1793 farmhouse by a chef from Sunset Grill. Paul Harmon will host the evening that includes a tour of the artist’s studio.