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Date:
4/22/2008 through 5/27/2006 |
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| Exhibit Description: |
| Frayed |
Jeff Hand
Many in the Nashville area are familiar with Jeff Hand’s work that features images of history, vintage children's books, celebrity spokes models, medical diagrams, and paint-by-number sculptures and compositions constructed of faux or "fake" fur.
Frayed, the artist’s latest series operates along similar sensibilities but offers a few new twists. His new faux fur sculptures, felt assemblages, and watercolor and marker drawings are combined to make a statement about violence in contemporary culture. Materials and images referring to innocence and “safe zones” are violated and recontextualized to comment on violence through out history and the numbing effect the materials lend to the realization of violence.
Brightly colored and textured faux fur is stuffed and sewn and is a variation of Jeff’s bold and colorful painting technique he has been developing over the years. While the work remains playful and camp, it also addresses the relationship we as individuals have with notions of violence, our relationship to each other, and how we process this information.
Jeff Hand lives and works in Nashville, has had exhibitions at PlusUltra gallery in New York and had his work featured in art fairs in Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Spain, and will be taken by Zeitgeist to this year’s installment of Art Chicago’s Arts in the Park later this month. He has work in the permanent collections of The Nashville International Airport, The Tennessee State Museum, The Downtown Public Library, and in numerous private collections across the county. Jeff has also collaborated on a site-specific out-door installation and gallery show at Vanderbilt University and has been involved in the Nashville art community for years not only as an artist but also as a curator. |
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