Nashville, Tennessee
Contemporary Art Gallery237 Rep. John Lewis Way N. 37219
Tuesday—Saturday
10 a — 5 p
615.255.7816
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EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING:
Caitlin Blomstrom, Morgan Ogilvie, & Ripley Whiteside | Suspect Terrain
RECENT:
Paloma Wall & Hannah Rose Dumes | Shell Game
TINNEY/20
Wendy Walker Silverman | A brief pause between two mysteries
Patricia Bellan-Gillen
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
“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.
