When one creative outlet becomes mundane, artists tend to find another. That search changed Simon Levy’s life fifteen years ago. He had introduced countless new musical artists and helped set the visual course for superstars as an art director designing album covers for Warner Brothers in Los Angeles, for MGM…
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…
Peter Callesen is a Danish philosopher who also happens to be a contemporary artist. In examining the works of his career, it is clear that Callesen is consumed with a search for answers to profound subjects. In performance art,…
Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, the ancient city of Kyoto is home to traditional arts, temples, festivals, and the Gion District. Here, geiko, a woman of the arts, can still be found in full regalia heading to an evening engagement…
When I first heard Brad Sells’ name I was standing on a rock at the edge of an autumn-reflecting lake in Northern Ontario staring at the upturned root system of a tree that had fallen in the water fifty…
When Herb Williams says Plunderland is his life’s work, he could be speaking literally or metaphorically. Plunderland, which required 250,000 crayons and a year to create, is his grandest piece to date and also an apt commentary on the current…
Sculpting Workshop at Harpeth Art Center & Gallery
French sculptor Philippe Faraut brings his talents to the midstate this month. Participants have traveled from all corners of the United States to take part in the sculptor’s series of…
Nashville recently welcomed its newest “citizen,” and, judging from appearances, he is friendly, tall, and artsy. Citizen is actually a glass and metal sculpture that features a male and female figure. North Carolina artist Thomas Sayre was chosen in 2006…
Handcrafted Rocking Chairs
Alan Daigre is a chair maker and hand-tool craftsman living in Readyville, Tennessee, a rural farming community sixty miles southeast of Nashville. Daigre developed an appreciation for history and heritage growing up in beautiful Natchez,…
The owners of Finer Things Gallery, Kim Brooks and Rusty Wolfe, lost almost everything in the historic Nashville flood. Their home, studio, workshop, and outside sculpture garden were all destroyed. Several member galleries of the Nashville Association of Art Dealers…
06.29.2010 | ANTIQUES, EVENTS, JEWELRY, NEWS, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT
