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3/15/2008 through 5/27/2006 |
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| Exhibit Description: |
| 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. |
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