Nashville Arts Magazine » PAINTING http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:04:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 David Wright | The American Frontier http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/31/david-wright-the-american-frontier/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/31/david-wright-the-american-frontier/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:35:13 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=11207

David Wright is a time traveler. The Gallatin-based artist transports himself from the twenty-first century to the eighteenth century as deftly as the bilingual bounce from tongue to tongue in the same conversation.

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Many artists take a conventional path in their education, attending art school, college, university, or doing an apprenticeship with a master.

Jeff Faust joined the carnival.

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Conjure in your mind’s eye an artist whose work appears to be inspired by Rorschach-test prints, Francis Bacon, and Cubism. The art is produced on raw canvas that has been folded, unfolded, and sometimes pleated. Small sets of angel-hair-thin…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/02/myles-bennett/feed/ 0 Jimmy Abegg http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/jimmy-abegg/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/jimmy-abegg/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:44:34 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=11014 As a photographer, Jimmy Abegg is a collector of moments. In Abegg’s latest abstract paintings, however, still moments take a back seat to the movement between them, and his new paintings evoke this flow with their frenetic, color-saturated, wide-swept brushstrokes. Everything moves or…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/jimmy-abegg/feed/ 0 Fly Girl | A.D. Maddox http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/fly-girl-a-d-maddox/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/fly-girl-a-d-maddox/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:36:23 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=11006

While looking closely at the paintings of AD Maddox, it was obvious to me (a lifetime fly-fishing fanatic myself) that she was onto something fresh, bright, and tantalizing—mind expanding, really—as to what wildlife painting could look like. I had…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/fly-girl-a-d-maddox/feed/ 0 Maximilian Wiedemann & Olivia Steele http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/30/maximilian-wiedemann-olivia-steele/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/30/maximilian-wiedemann-olivia-steele/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:00:59 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=10692 International artist Maximilian Wiedemann recently flew into town with partner, muse, and Nashville native Olivia Steele. The power couple held a well-received show in the magnificent Steele home (featured on page 45 for a peak inside). Though Wiedemann and Steele…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/30/maximilian-wiedemann-olivia-steele/feed/ 0 Lisa Mergen | Fabric Painter http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/lisa-mergen-fabric-painter/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/lisa-mergen-fabric-painter/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:51:46 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=10688 When Lisa Mergen couldn’t find fabrics that were elegant enough for the Italian-inspired clothing she was designing for her Memphis clients, she learned to make her own. What began thirty years ago as a cottage industry has evolved into a…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/lisa-mergen-fabric-painter/feed/ 0 Arden von Haeger http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/arden-von-haeger/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/arden-von-haeger/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:02:13 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=10698

Arden von Haeger knows who he is. Well grounded, he is as sage as Yoda. Yet his work is an explosion of evolving color and motion. When showing and talking about his work, he exudes a childlike excitement. There’s…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/arden-von-haeger/feed/ 0 Bruce Matthews http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/bruce-matthews/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/bruce-matthews/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:40:20 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=10700

He is a tall and lanky gentleman, standing head and shoulders above everyone around him. His smiling eyes and gaunt face make him appear something like a mix between David Bowie and an elf from the Lord of the…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/bruce-matthews/feed/ 0 Duy Huynh http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/01/duy-huynh/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/01/duy-huynh/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:37:06 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=10534 Duy Huynh infuses his lyrical, dreamy paintings with imagery suggesting transformation, metamorphosis, and travel. His muted palette and occasional use of gadgetry drawn from the early twentieth century suggest faded or sepia-toned photographs of a bygone era. His is a…

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