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Date:
June 27 through August 22, 2009 |
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| Exhibit Description: |
| Earth Fire Light |
Earth Fire Light
Zeitgeist is pleased to present new works by
three artists that have long lasting personal
and professional ties. All three are well
known to the music industry and have also
established themselves in the fine art realm.
Jimmy Abegg was born in Alliance,
Nebraska in 1954. He is a self-taught
musician, painter and photographer. He is a
creative contributor on recordings, books,
and film and in galleries. As art director
and working artist, photographer and
craftsman, his eye plays particular attention
to other places, other countries, and other
people exploring the melancholy drift of why
we are where we are. These questions remain
unanswered except by the visual poetry of
image making and the distilling of those
insights in this latest suite of paintings.
Abegg most recently completed a series of
paintings for Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.
Nashville-based sculptor Buddy
Jackson's figures presented in terra
cotta and plaster assume classical poses
while dealing with narratives of faith,
salvation, supplication, and ecstasy in a
style evoking Thomas Hart Benton and the
Regionalists. Jackson's previous bodies of
work document explored fundamentalist
churches in the American South and the
practice of snake handling.
Jackson is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee
who moved to Nashville in 1975 and founded
his own design firm Jackson Design in 1983.
His graphic design work has received numerous
local and national awards including several
Grammys and has been featured in How, Print,
Communication Arts, and Photo Design magazines.
His sculptures have been purchased for the
permanent collections of the Tennessee State
Museum, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport,
Vanderbilt and Baptist Medical Centers as
well as many private collections throughout
the country. He recently completed a
life-sized bronze commission of Adelicia
Acklen for the Adelicia high rise in MidTown
Nashville.
Frank W. Ockenfels 3 is a Los Angeles
based photographer who has spent 18 years
working as a portrait photographer
photographing musicians, celebrities, other
well-known (and not so well known) figures in
Amercian culture. His images have appeared on
the covers of Rolling Stone, Esquire,
Premiere, FHM, Blender, Newsweek, Wired,
Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and New York
Magazine.
He has worked with most major record labels
(over 200 album covers and press shoots),
photographed movie posters (Vanity Fair,
Harry Potter, Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind), and TV campaigns for all the
major networks including The WB, ABC, NBC,
CBS, Lifetime, Showtime TNT and Fox.
His latest body of gallery work is a visual
diary and sketchbook compiled over the past
several years.
Jimmy, Buddy, and Frank were featured in "Out
of Their Minds", one of Zeitgeist's first
shows some 14 years ago in Cummins Station.
The gallery is very excited about this
reunion. As the gallery and the Nashville
artist community have evolved, we see this
show as a closing circle, a milestone for
Zeitgeist, and an opportunity to celebrate
new work with friends.
This exhibition closes on Saturday,
August 22, 2009. |
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