Upcoming Shows and Events
Vesna Pavlović : Search for Landscapes
For her first solo exhibition at Zeitgeist, Vesna Pavlović features her ongoing project Search for Landscapes that was shown as a photographic installation at Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial 2011), along with several new works. Vesna Pavlović's work questions the medium of photography and its "expanded" field of operation. Her projects develop as anthropological studies, analyzing different cultures and their visual representations through particular phenomena. History, identity, issues of taste, desire and expectation, set in different contexts, are prevailing themes in her work. Either presented as photographic prints, or as projected images within installation, the pieces confront photographic representation, and attempt to reveal the layers constituting the image.
Search for Landscapes develops around a group of found vintage slides, which depict one American family's travels around the world during the 1960s - 80s. Vesna Pavlović obtained her BFA in cinematography in the University of Belgrade, and MFA in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University where she teaches photography and digital media. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Le Quartier Center for Contemporary Art in Quimper, France, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt, Austria, Photographers' Gallery in London, Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkerque, France, among other venues. Her work is included in a number of private and public art collections, including the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia.
Opening reception Thursday February 2nd from 6-8pm
@ Zeitgeist 1819 21st AVENUE SOUTH in Hillsboro Village
Zeitgeist is located in Hillsboro Village. For more information, please contact Janice Zeitlin at 256-4805 or visit the gallery at zeitgeist-art.com
Gallery hours are 11am to 5pm Tuesday through Saturday.
SNAP Show at the Gordon Jewish Community Center (GJCC)
This will be a juried show, and our juror will be Mark Mosrie, photographer and photography instructor at Nashville State Community College.
There is room for 28 to 30 photographs in the gallery area, and all must be no smaller than 16x20 framed. Photos should have white or off white mattes and narrow black wooden or metal frames, and be ready to hang via a wire on the back (important). This is a public gallery, in a family environment, so please keep that in mind. Also, out of respect to the GJCC, images should not contain Christian symbolism (churches or crosses, etc).
Submission of images for jury selection will be by going to the SNAP page on the website Ning.com.
If you are on the yahoo group email list you will get an email with an invitation link to Ning.com.
Images for the juror need to be uploaded by January 30th. Active SNAP Members may submit three to five total images for consideration.
If selected for the show, your framed images need to be delivered to the GJCC by Monday February 27th.
The show will hang the morning of February 29th, so please make sure that your ready to hang (wire on the back) photos are there by then, 10:30am at the latest.
Artist Reception and Show Opening is Thursday, March 8th from 7pm-9pm
Gordon Jewish Community Center 801 Percy Warner Boulevard Nashville, Tennessee 37205 (615) 356-7170
Ongoing Shows and Events
The South Through Eight Lenses and a Code
At the core of the festival is the Southern Light Photography Exhibit, featuring a group of photographers living in the South and expressing through their work that art and innovation is alive and well below the Mason-Dixon Line. This display of photographs is a look at the South through their lenses and a code. Exhibition visitors will be able to scan Quick Read Codes with their Smartphones and bring to life a deepened understanding of the images before them. These images may be documentary, landscape, portraits, or even abstract constructs of the Land of Dixie, but each one will reveal a secret about itself.
Through February 18th. Check out the video, or visit The Arts Company/215 5th Ave. of the Arts Nashville, TN 37219 615-254-2040
SNAP member Stacey Irvin has a show up at The Mamie Sheridan Gallery 3801 Hobbs Rd, until February 16th.
For more information visit the link to the show on the Harpeth Hall website.
"Through The Eyes of Women"
Seven women; seven pairs of eyes; seven different perspectives on the world. In these seven women the creative spirit is at work. Opening reception November 21st, shows through Jan 31st. At Scarritt Bennitt Center.
See Flyer for details.
Austin Peay University has some interesting photography exhibiting this month. Check the calendar for details.
For the March meeting Stefan Engstrom organized a bit of an image editing challenge. The idea is simple - He posts an image and it
is up to you to do something fun with it in photoshop, gimp, or if you are Laura, you can print it out, cut it up, and glue it back together
- it is up to you.
Here is how it turned out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sengstrom/sets/72157626103051651/
The Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division, in partnership with institutions throughout the city, is collecting oral histories, still images, text, audio, video and documents relating to the May 2010 flood. They cannot add everything to the permanent collection, but invite the public to share photos from their experience of the May 2010 flood. This will help them to identify additional materials for the collection and assist them in contacting members of the community.
You will be able to see six-foot prints of Nick Dantona's new work "Like Hemingway, But Smaller" at the new Indigo Hotel in downtown Nashville (3rd Ave/Commerce St). He will have some other work hanging there also, on an ongoing basis, and has been adopted (via 7Art) as one of their featured artists. It’s a bit of a departure from a traditional gallery, but it has a cool bar/lounge and a very decent menu. He has also been selected as a finalist for the Jacob Riis Award. As such, this portfolio will be exhibited in Europe, published in a book and featured in an issue of "Eyemazing Magazine". Congratulations Nick!
Chad Wilkerson is having ongoing Epoxy Workshops in his studio for people who want to learn how to work with epoxy and substrates when mounting their work. He is takes a limited number of participants, and provides all materials (aside from your print (11"x14" please!)) with your paid fee of $60 per person. Epoxy Workshops are $60 per person oper8erx@pixeleightart.com or (615)423-0421