FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS PRESENTS SHOWCASE OF
CONTEMPORARY WORKS BY NASHVILLE ARTISTS
THE FRAGILE SPECIES: NEW ART NASHVILLE
JUNE 17 – SEPTEMBER 25, 2005
NASHVILLE, TENN. (March 25, 2005) – On view in the Frist Center galleries from June 17 through September 25, 2005, The Fragile Species: New Art Nashville includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints and video art that have been created by artists in the Nashville area. Although they work in very different idioms, these artists are united by their interest in conveying central aspects of experience that, while deeply personal, are global in their relevance.
For Michelle Anderson, Kristina Arnold, Patrick DeGuira, Carol Mode and Jack Dingo Ryan, the focus is on illness (often their own) and the effects of aging. Kathryn Dettwiller, Erin Hewgley, Andrew Kaufman, Lesley Patterson and Chris Scarborough create or respond to images of danger or trauma. The subject of loss and absence, as implied by discarded or reconfigured artifacts and materials, is explored in works by Michael Baggarly, Victor Simmons, Tom Thayer and Barbara Yontz. Kristi Hargrove and Julie Roberts turn their gazes inward, in Hargrove's case by a close scrutiny of her mother's reality as a harbinger of her own, and in Roberts's exploring psychological dualities within the self. Finally, Emily Holt, Mark Hosford, Adrienne Outlaw, Billy Renkl and Lain York employ a wry language of metaphor—often linking human life with other, more short-lived forms—to express the ephemeral nature of existence.
The works in the exhibition were selected by Frist Center curator Mark Scala, who notes that “although they are quite moving, these intensely human themes are not conveyed with sentimentality or pathos. Instead, they contain observations about the human condition with a beauty and emotional substance that I feel reaches a very deep level.”
With its focus on artists’ experiences of life, health, and ultimately the resilience of humanity, The Fragile Species enables the Frist Center to help visitors “connect with art” by relating it to their own experiences of these universal concerns.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES:
Curator’s Perspective
Mark Scala: “The Human Bug”
Saturday, June 18
2:00 p.m.
Auditorium
Free
Mark Scala, Frist Center Exhibitions Curator and organizing curator of The Fragile Species: New Art Nashville, will examine the historical and contemporary use of artistic metaphors relating humanity to other species. Scala will explore the way that such metaphors allow us to come to terms with difficult aspects of human experience--particularly involving illness, death, and physical or psychological trauma--when a more literal use of language and imagery are insufficient to convey the emotional resonance of such events.
Adult Printmaking Course
Saturday, June 25 & Sunday, June 26
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.; Sunday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
$30 members; $45 non-members
Fees include gallery and workshop admission plus all supplies for entire weekend.
Mark Hosford, professor of art at Vanderbilt will lead this two-day intensive seminar on printmaking. On Saturday, Mr. Hosford will begin the program with a discussion of his own work in theThe Fragile Species. After which the class will move to the Vanderbilt campus for the hands-on portion of the program. On Sunday the class will re-convene at the Frist Center for a critique. Fees include a continental breakfast on Saturday morning, workshop and gallery admission, and supplies.
Artists’ Perspectives: Conversations with Contemporary Nashville Artists
Thursday evenings, July 21 – September 15 (except August 4)
6:30 p.m.
Ingram Gallery, meet at the Information Desk
Free with gallery admission
The Fragile Species: New Art Nashville reflects the wealth of artistic expression that can be found in our own artists’ community. Enjoy this opportunity to hear different artists speak about their work in the galleries during this weekly program. A complete list of speakers will be available shortly on our website at www.fristcenter.org.
Summer Art Camp
June 6 – July 29
Half day and whole day sessions available
Please call 615.744.3247 or visit www.fristcenter.org for registration and fee information.
Some of the artists represented in New Art Nashville share their talents by instructing some in-depth art classes offered during this summer’s Art Camp program. Summer Art Camp classes are designed to encourage artistic expression, art appreciation, interpretation and imagination; offering children an opportunity to explore and create art through a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, digital art, video art and movie making. During orientation, “campers” will also be introduced to ArtQuest, the Frist Center’s popular interactive gallery, where basic art concepts, media and techniques can be explored every day.
To register a child for the Summer Art Camp, please request a registration form by calling the Frist Center’s Tour and Programs Coordinator at 615.744.3247 or download a form from the Frist Center website, www.fristcenter.org. Enrollment is limited to 20 participants per class, and programs fill quickly. Open registration began January 31, 2005.
Films at the Frist: Tokyo Story
7:00 p.m.
Auditorium
Free
Recently re-released on a beautiful new 35 mm print, this cinematic masterpiece contemplates humanistic themes such as family, generational conflict, aging, and mortality, with refined simplicity and poetic subtly. Legendary Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing. Too busy to entertain
them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill, she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her. From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all Japanese films. This film relates to themes explored in The Fragile Species: New Art Nashville.
Japanese with English subtitles (Yasujiro Ozo, Japan, 1953, 135 minutes)
Films at the Frist: The Seventh Seal
Friday, September 9
7:00 p.m.
Auditorium
Free
After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess. More than forty years after its initial release, Ingmar Bergman's stunning allegory of man's search for meaning remains a textbook on the art of filmmaking and a compelling contemplation of mortality. Swedish with English subtitles. This film relates to themes in The Fragile Species: New Art Nashville. Swedish with English subtitles (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1957, 96 minutes)
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW WITH FRAGILE SPECIES:
Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art
May 20 – August 28, 2005
Ingram Gallery
Splendid Palette: Painting in France from Monet to Bonnard
May 20, 2005 – April 30, 2006
Ingram Gallery
Stylistic Connections: Renaissance to Rococo
May 20 – August 28, 2005
Education Gallery
Gregory Crewdson: Twilight
May 20 – August 28, 2005
Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, U.S. and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions. The Frist Center’s Martin ArtQuest Gallery features 30 interactive stations relating to Frist Center exhibitions. Gallery admission to the Frist Center is free for visitors 18 and under and to Frist Center members. Frist Center admission for adults is $8.50, $7.50 for seniors and military, and $6.50 for college students with ID. Discounts are offered for groups of 10 or more with advance reservation by calling 615.744.3246. The Frist Center is open Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and Sundays 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. The Frist Center is open extended hours Thursdays until 8:00 p.m. and Fridays until 9:00 p.m. The Frist Center website can be accessed at www.fristcenter.org.
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