Visiting Artist: Nell Warren

Nell Warren Selected Counterpart of James Lavadour : Both Bring a New Landscape to Nashville

Today’s visiting artist feature is Oregon mixed media artist Nell Warren. Nell seeks to illuminate the story behind her mark making by using paints, molding paste, marble dust, and other tactile media to explore and rediscover the surface. Nell has studied and developed her practice internationally and earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.
Ask us about her available works! And to learn more about Nell Warren, visit our website- under the Artists Select Exhibition page:

http://www.cumberlandgallery.com/Exhibit_Detail.cfm?ShowsID=90

Fred Stonehouse + Michael Noland

Known for his unorthodox figural work, Wisconsin artist and professor Fred Stonehouse chose his respected colleague and friend Michael Noland to participate in Artists Select. While their art differs in style, the two painters have influenced each others’ careers and experiences for the past 25 years. Based in Milwaukee, Michael’s imagery channels pattern and a bold palette toward indigenous subject matter. Stonehouse says, “His work comes from a very deep and personal place and that is something that I respect more than anything in an artist.”

View the artists’ catalogue of work in the Artists Select online gallery. You can view resumes and CVs of each artist on our website exhibition page.

Lori Field Selects Hanna von Goeler

Lori Field and Hanna von Goeler

 

Known for her encaustic works, mixed media artist Lori Field selected her friend and neighbor Hanna von Goeler, a skilled painter from New York. With a critical use of currency, Hanna questions the prevailing emphasis on money in the world and the interplay between economics and environment. A critical tone  towards contemporary culture and currents events is also offered in Lori Field’s work, as she creates her own mythology. Animal hybrids, androgynous figures are elegantly rendered, provoking themes of beauty and innocence.

View the artists’ catalogue of work in the Artists Select online gallery. You can view resumes and CVs of each artist on our website exhibition page.

John Fraser Selects Steuart Pittman

Born in Chicago, multimedia artist John Fraser has shown his work at Cumberland Gallery for nearly ten years. Steuart Pittman, a painter who recently earned his MFA at Mills College in Oakland, CA, creates a type of painting that “disarms” with its confidence.Linked by a minimalist aesthetic, these two artists share a sacredness of visual language. About Steuart’s work, John Fraser says, “[The paintings’] reduced forms, equally recognizable and remote, perhaps alien, hover in balanced, air-tight, surrounding fields of color, suggestive of both shallow and deep space.”

View the artists’ catalogue of work in the Artists Select online gallery. You can view resumes and CVs of each artist on our website exhibition page.

Artists Select 2016 Opening this Saturday

ARTISTS SELECT 2016 

APRIL 16 – MAY 21

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY  APRIL 16,  6:00 – 8:00PM

Admission is free to the public

 

CONTACT: Carol Stein

PHONE: 615-297-0296

ADDRESS: 4107 Hillsboro Circle,

Nashville, TN 37215

GALLERY HOURS: 10:00AM- 5:00PM, Tuesday- Saturday

 

 

For the first time in 12 years, Cumberland Gallery presents Artists Select. This exhibit brings together eleven CG artists and eleven new artists they have recommended. We have created a space for distinguished, well-established artists on our roster to reach out and include other professionals with whom they share respect and artistic experience. We are pleased to introduce some new folks to the gallery in April side-by-side with Cumberland Gallery artists including: Bob Nugent, Cheryl Goldsleger, Dan Gualdoni, Fred Stonehouse, Jim Lavadour, John Fraser, John Henry, Leonard Koscianski, Lori Field, Marilyn Murphy, and Tom Pfannerstill.

Recommended by the artists above, visiting artists both emerging and established include Mark Eanes, Joanne Mattera, Tom Reed, Michael Noland, Nell Warren, Steuart Pittman, Bryan Rasmussen, Marcia Goldenstein, Hannah von Goeler, Michael Kempson, and Caroline Waite. This show arranges a diverse grouping of subject matter and style with media ranging from 2-D works in color-rich oil and rendered graphite to 3-D representations in wood, steel, and found objects. Showing each CG artist alongside his or her recommended colleague will provide viewers with context and a deeper insight surrounding the artwork.

The following artists will be present at the opening: Marilyn Murphy, Tom Pfannerstill, Caroline Waite, John Henry, Cheryl Goldsleger, and Marcia Goldenstein.

 

Visit our website  to find out more about Artists Select and the participating artists .*For more information on the artists, visuals, and other details, contact our managerial team: Inge Klaps (inge@cumberlandgallery.com) or Georganna Greene (Georganna@cumberlandgallery.com). Our director Carol Stein can be reached at carolart@aol.com.

 

Carol Stein: Cumberland Gallery Director interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek

Entrepreneurs 25 Years After H.R. 5050?

By Karen E. Klein November 14, 2013

Last month marked a quarter-century milestone for entrepreneurship policy that few entrepreneurs were likely aware of, let alone celebrated. On Oct. 25, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Women’s Business Ownership Act. The law, designated H.R. 5050 for the equality it set out to establish for female entrepreneurs, banned discrimination against women seeking business loans and improved access to educational and technical assistance. Despite the gains that the legislation, and the women’s movement that sparked it, have brought about over the past quarter-century, women have not achieved anything close to true equality in business… (read the rest of the article including Karen’s interview with Carol here)

Greg Sand: Once Removed

Sometimes you just develop a crush on an artist and it’s tough not to think about the work A LOT. I’ve had these crushes on just about every artist represented by Cumberland Gallery but today I’d like to focus on photographer Greg Sand who recently paid us a visit with an extensive portfolio of work for our upcoming exhibit, Under The Radar, opening January 11th, 2014.

Sand’s prints are incredibly intimate, just the right size to gently cradle in your hand. The imagery is haunting, consisting of antique portraits in which the subject has been erased leaving only a trace of their existence represented by a pair of shoes, an empty chair, or the lonely shadow of the photo’s former occupant. In the artist’s words: The photographs are now about the absence of the subject rather than about the subject itself. Hopefully the viewer ponders the removal of the person and concludes, given the obvious age of the portraits, that the subject is dead. “By giving me the absolute past of the pose… the photograph tells me death in the future… I shudder… over a catastraphe which has already occurred.” These words from Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida describe how I feel when I view a photograph as old as the ones used in this series. I feel a connection to the person, followed by a dread of what is to come, followed by a sense of grief at what has already transpired. The removal of the subject–who is very much alive in the photograph–forces the photograph to more truthfully depict the present reality in which the subject is no longer alive.

This is interesting to me on two levels. The first being that I’ve thought about loss a lot lately as our current show, Unique Visions, paints a varied picture of memory and history; a past the exists only in representations and imaginations. There’s a sadness behind the wild patterns and humorous digs at the private lives of the characters that hang on these walls.  One that touches on every aspect of the unseen/unheard self.

The second reason that I find Sand’s work interesting is, simply put, timing. How odd that this poignant imagery should come across my desk just as I’d spent the previous evening looking over the very Barthes essay that Sand references in his statement. Following on the previous night’s dreams of the expression on the face of Lewis Powell, a man convicted and hanged for the attempted assassination of US Secretary of State William Seward during the Lincoln administration. Barthes uses his image as an example of both the gaze of the past and future. The catastrophe that has already occurred before its time. It seems that we might all relate to this idea in a way that is intensely personal and here I am back again at the intimacy of Sand’s photographs. The small images gently reminding me of the passage of time with a nod to the future that fits so perfectly in the palm of my hand. This is one artist that won’t be under the radar for long. Visit his page on our website or make a point of stopping in to see this work in person on January 11th during our opening reception.

Greg Sand, Brothers, 2012
3.75″ x 3.75″ archival pigment print

Carrie McGee: North Meets South

The Green Building Gallery presents

“NORTH MEETS SOUTH”

New work by

Nashville artist Carrie McGee & Cincinnati artist Jeffrey Cortland Jones

October 25th – December 6th, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, October 25th, 5-9p

732 East Market Street | Louisville, KY 40202 US

from The Green Building Gallery: Carrie McGee’s mixed media constructions explore variation within repeated forms. Utilizing transparent resin as a ground, she experiments with natural and chemical processes, such as rust and oxidation, to create luminous works that emanate a meditative pulse. Congrats to Carrie on “North Meets South” and also on her recent commission for First Bank of Nashville. This installation will be visible to the public soon! Check back for installation photos and updates on the big reveal! above: Carrie McGee, “Wild Green Winter”, mixed media, 42 x 60 x 4 inches, 2013.

Unique Visions opens this weekend

What’s the best part of being a Gallery Manager you ask? Well, opening a crate and finding three Marcus Kenney collages inside of course! We are really looking forward to this weekend when Unique Visions opens with a reception Saturday October 19th, 6pm-8pm.  Local artists will be in attendance as well as featured artist Fred Stonehouse.

This group show featuring the likes of  Julie Blackmon, Craig Cully, Andrea Heimer, Mark Hosford, Marcus Kenney, Will Smith and Fred Stonehouse is going to be the coolest thing in Nashville in the month of October and possibly all autumn long.

Gallery Manager Description of Show: Defining the often incongruent relationship between community and self, seven artists wade through social history and personal myth in works that range from painting to animation to photography.  This eclectic mix of mediums is happily coupled with humor, sarcasm, and a subversive drive to expose humanity in all its beautiful, bizarre and grotesque forms.  Expect rich and varied color against swampy backgrounds, quilted suburban secrets, eerily still interior spaces, and the unsettling side of familiar childhood relics.

As a special Artober event, Cumberland Gallery and Sideshow Fringe are joining forces in an evening event that highlights both Unique Visions and site specific theatre.  Sideshow actors will create domestic tableaus around the works in the exhibit and perform those pieces Thursday, October 24^th, 6-8pm.

About Sideshow Fringe: Actors Bridge has always taken risks on emerging talent. In 2011, the commitment reached a new level with Sideshow, a training immersion program comprised of 12 emerging artists. Each ensemble produces professional theatre events as a supplement to the Actors Bridge main stage season including the SIDESHOW FRINGE. Named Best Theatrical Youth Movement in the Nashville Scene’s 2012 Best of Nashville Awards, Sideshow is committed to pursuing innovative forms of theatre.

 

 

Both events are free and open to the public.

Mark Hosford: In The Gallery

You know it’s going to be a good day when it begins with a visit from one of Nashville’s most interesting (and slightly off the wall) artists.  We have had the great fortune of having Mark Hosford drop in to deliver his work for our upcoming exhibition “Unique Visions”.  This show runs October 19th through November 23rd, 2013 and includes Hosford, Frank Stonehouse, Craig Cully, Will Smith, Marcus Kenney, Julie Blackmon and Andrea Heimer.

Look for Hosford’s unique mixed media sculptures made of vintage record players with prisms that reflect macabre animations.  We are also excited about an installation of Mark’s animated video “Bicycle Built for Two”.  Don’t miss the opening reception on October 19th from 6-8pm.