Nashville, Tennessee
Contemporary Art Gallery


 
237 Rep. John Lewis Way N. 37219
Tuesday–Saturday 10:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.

615.255.7816



REPRESENTED ARTISTS


EXHIBITED ARTISTS




RECENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS


Upcoming:
  
Sisavanh Phouthavong | Solo Exhibition

Elspeth Schulze | Solo Exhibition

Jodi Hays curation | The Sink


Recent:


Reed Anderson | Tender Garden

Madiha Siraj | Bridging the Infinite

Jane Braddock | 3 Rivers
Lovie Olivia | Beauty as a Method
   
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Jaq Belcher

 





Jaq Belcher is an Australian-born artist currently living and working in New York City.  Belcher’s paper works are created through meticulous and detailed cutting and folding.  Her work explores the experience of consciousness and mindfulness in the process of creation. 

Through her cuts and folds, Belcher engages in a process of subtraction, taking away from the white void of the blank paper in order to envision new forms. These cuts result in beautifully detailed, undulating patterns, that reflect the meditative quiet of their creation.

Jaq received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and her Master of Arts Administration from the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally.






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Patricia Bellan-Gillen







“Somewhere in my brain, personal narrative mixes with fairytales. Historical events intertwine with the imagined and a veil of nostalgia blurs the border between fact and fiction. ”

Patricia Bellan-Gillen was born in Beaver Falls, PA and lives and works in rural Western Pennsylvania. She recently retired from Carnegie Mellon University after 29 years as a professor in the School of Art where she held the Dorothy L. Stubnitz Endowed Chair.  The university honored her with the Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching in 2000.

Bellan-Gillen’s paintings, prints and drawings have been the focus of over 50 solo exhibitions in venues in Washington DC, Nashville, TN, Houston, TX, Las Cruces, NM, Albany, NY, Bloomington, IL Portland, OR, Grand Rapids, MI, Wellington, NZ and Wimbledon/London, UK.   Her work has been included in numerous groups shows in museums, commercial galleries, university galleries, and alternative spaces.  Venues have included: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, NY, The Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL, Frans Masreel Centrum, Belgium, University Art Museum, Laramie, WY, Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan. 





Exhibitions



Solo exhibition, Words & Other Weapons, 2022

Solo exhibition, Willful Wondering & Disorderly Notions, 2016

Solo exhibition, Disorderly Notions, 2013

Solo exhibition, Stealing Stories, 2011

Group exhibition, Metaphysical Materiality, 2010





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Jane Braddock







“Somewhere in my brain, personal narrative mixes with fairytales. Historical events intertwine with the imagined and a veil of nostalgia blurs the border between fact and fiction. ”


Jane Braddock has a BFA from Syracuse University. After a stint of 16 years in NY designing and coloring fabrics for the decorative trade, she moved to Nashville to pursue a full time career as a painter.

Her abstract paintings, based on a grid format, explore pattern and color. She considers these to be fundamental expressions of light. Like light, their juxtaposition creates a vibration or energy which transcends language—though Braddock’s works often incorporate text, the words appear fragmented and severed from their original contexts. A new gestalt meaning is created by this act of re-contextualization.

These quotations are culled from various sources spanning over 1000 years. These range from Du Fu, an ancient Chinese poet, to Muktananda, an esteemed holy man, to John Prine, singer songwriter. These in one way or another reflect her spiritual journey, which she considers the essence of her life and work.





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Solo exhibition, 3 Rivers, 2023

Solo exhibition, Ashes to Snow, 2018

Solo exhibition, Drip Paintings, 2016


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Arden Bendler Browning







“The longer I look, to keep learning to see—to create something of this world that is also not at all of this world. I am an explorer, always wanting to know more. Poured, brushed, wiped, drawn, erased, stained, dripped. It is never one thing —always multiples, always plural. The longer I look, the more I am noticing the ways the colors talk to each other, becoming vague and then specific and then vague again - like a still image that is moving”

Arden Bendler Browning creates vibrant abstract paintings, small works on paper, and virtual reality (VR) environments referencing cities, landscapes, and perspectives of place. In Arden’s words, “My work explores connections and gaps between memory and presence, the impossibility of landscape as a singular idealized image, and the way that digital media affects perception. Through lap-size drawings made while in motion, virtual reality environments made in response to enlarged versions of those drawings, and wall-size paintings made in response to the VR works, my practice is continually fed by a cycle of layered experience…”

Browning often draws inspiration from her travels and works from sketches taken of the moving landscape on road trips, emphasizing a liminal and fluid experience of place. Her large-scale paintings on round panels are akin to the round lens and visual range of the virtual environments she creates. She describes a symbiotic relationship between the process of creating the physical painting and the virtual one, in which observations in one medium inform the other: “…this cycle of works informing and diluting subsequent products is my way of combining traditional art materials and technology to enhance and play with the ways we abstractly experience the world in the 21stcentury.”

Arden Bendler Browning lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here work has been exhibited and collected internationally.



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Tiffany Calvert







“My work takes up the “digital shift” in image production that rather suddenly antiquated late modernism’s various flatnesses (including, in particular, Rauschenberg’s flatbed picture plane). Today we view our screens and the world they occupy as a shallowly layered space of overlapping desktop windows. The picture plane has tilted up again from the flatbed to float in front of our eyes. My paintings in turn depict an intermediate space, where the verticality of the still life paintings cohabitate with these digital panes. ”


Tiffany Calvert’s paintings incorporate diverse technologies, including fresco, 3D modeling, and data manipulation. John Yau, in his Hyperallergic profile, compares their “improvisational riffs and fractured views” to de Kooning. Calvert’s work has been exhibited at the Lawrimore Project (Seattle, WA), E.TAY Gallery (NY), the Speed Museum (Louisville, KY), the Susquehanna Art Museum (PA), and Cadogan Contemporary (London, UK), among others. Residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, I-Park, and ArtOmi International Arts Center where she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. Calvert has received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is Associate Professor of Art at the Hite Institute of Art & Design, University of Louisville and a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid curatorial collective.





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David Onri Anderson






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Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2022



David Onri Anderson is a Tennessee-born French-Algerian Jewish artist, musician, and curator. He graduated from Watkins College of Art in Nashville with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Blaa Galleri Copenhagen, DK (upcoming), Harpy Gallery in Rutherford, NJ, David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN, Atlanta Contemporary, amongst others. In 2020 he published a book of drawings with Zürich-based artist book company Nieves. His work has been reviewed, exhibited and collected internationally with works in permanent collections including the Soho House in Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN, The Joseph Hotel, and the Metro Arts Library in Nashville, TN, amongst others. Anderson is founder and curator of an artist-run space called Electric Shed Gallery in Nashville, TN (2018-present). His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artnet, BURNAWAY, DailyLazy and more.

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Reed Anderson





Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, Tender Garden, 2024
Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2022


Reed Anderson was born in New York City and has been exhibiting work nationally and internationally for over 25 years. He began school at the Cleveland Institute of Art wherehe studied under Julian Stanczak. After 3 years in Cleveland he transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute where he graduated with a BFA in Printmaking.

He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and later Stanford University—graduating with an MFA in studio art in 2009. His work is in public collections that include MOMA, NYC; Albright-Knox, Buffalo; The West Collection, Philadelphia; The Olbricht collection, Esssen Germany and The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Austria among other private collections.


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Scott Andresen





Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, Beyond Repair, 2022



Scott Andresen is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans, LA. His collage and mixed-media based works explore the theme of repair by process of affixing translucent fabric to canvas, creating dimensionality and a subtle relief on the surface of the canvas. Andresen then employs a tedious process of stitching and tinsmithing. This creation and subsequent binding-of-wounds which occurs in each piece reflects the tragic beauty of the Sisyphean task of restoration in the face of entropy.


“My current work explores the nature of repair and other therapeutic actions; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of manually driven processes the work hovers between two-dimensional abstraction and physical representation. Each piece goes through the separate phases of construction, destruction and reparation. The resultant rapair process can become so physicallsy invasive and disruptive that the viewer may feel a mixture of empathy, unease, or even futility towards the actions taken.”

Andresen received his MFA from Yale University and BA from Hunter College. He has shown at Jack Tilton Gallery, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Exit Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, and The Bronx Museum. He has attended residencies at Black Rock Senegal, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council while also receiving fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Andresen’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art and Museum of Arts & Design in NYC. Scott is an Associate Professor at the LSU School of Art.


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Josh Azzarella





Exhibitions

Two-person Exhibition, S/ample Data, 2020



Josh Azzarella interrogates the ways in which images shape collective memory. Through his multi-displinary practice spanning video, digital art, and installation, Azzarella arbitrates the relations between the signifier and the signified, the real and the representation (or re-presentation), by pointing reflexively to the arbitrary nature of media materials (and of language itself, by extension). Azzarella preserves the intrigue of the original and by virtue of technical genius yields a series of artifacts; a museum of our contemporary mythology. Yet, the contents of this museum are not mere pastiche or monument, but an altogether new vision, pieced together from the fragments of a shared mythos.



“We often note, in trying to understand our own history, that the photographs which signify the events we experience come to replace or complicate our own memories. In this way, I intend the works I produce to further alter those collective memories. Moreover, the works often seek a meditative or still moment during which the viewer can stand transfixed. This contemplative moment is an opportunity to introduce the larger context in which we collect and chronicle our communal history.”


-Josh Azzarella



Azzarella was the recipient of the 2006 Emerging Artist Award and related solo exhibition from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT). He has previously shown at the California Museum of Photography (CA), University Art Museum, Long Beach (CA), Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Kavi Gupta Gallery (IL), Academie der Kunste (Berlin), Sean Kelly Gallery (NY), Catharine Clark Gallery (CA), Mississippi State University (MS), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA) and DCKT Gallery (NY). His work is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX), the San Diego Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Margulies Collection (FL), Western Bridge (WA) and JP Morgan Chase (NY).


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Sophia Belkin





Exhibitions

Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2024




Sophia Belkin (b. 1990 Moscow, Russia) currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned her BFA in drawing and printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012. She has participated in residency programs in Vermont, Norway, Russia, and the Narva Art Residency in Estonia. Recent shows include Á Condition at Calaboose in Montreal, Fossil Bloom at The Front in New Orleans, and Svetspalonos, an immersive multimedia exhibition installed in collaboration with Dave Greber and Kanrec Sakul on Juzna Trieda in Kosice, Slovakia.

Sophia Belkin uses dye painting, embroidery, and textile collage to create intricate and dynamic compositions that reference natural processes. She works from a collection of original photographs that are printed on chiffon and attached to dyed backgrounds using a CNC embroidery machine. The appliqué technique references craft and fashion, while the content of the work mimics biological structures and movements. Like membranes within the body, or cell walls of a flower- the forms appear both permeable and rigid. Calibrating between intuitive gestural mark-making and the controlled line of the CNC, the textile paintings create layered, multidimensional environments that imply a constant state of regeneration, expansion and flux.


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