Past Exhibitions
Our archive of exhibitions previously viewed at the Frist Center.
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A Decade of Community Outreach
October 20, 2011 – February 19, 2012 — In August 2000, well before the grand opening on April 8, 2001, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts launched its outreach programs by developing community partnerships with respected community organizations in Davidson County. From the beginning, the Frist Center’s intent has been to reach out...
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Egypt and the Creation of Desire
October 7, 2011 – January 8, 2012 — Ancient Egypt has had a significant impact on the cultural imagination of the West. Since the early nineteenth century, its images have been integrated into American literature, architecture, art, film, politics, and religion. This fascination for all things Egypt still exists today. Egyptomania...
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To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
October 7, 2011 – January 8, 2012 — Following the incredibly successful Quest for Immortality exhibition, which came to the Frist Center in 2006, To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum includes 109 important works from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum that illustrate Egyptian beliefs regarding the defeat of death and...
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys
October 7, 2011 – January 8, 2012 — The Cuban-born artist María Magdelena Campos-Pons creates photographs, video, and multi-media installations that tell the story of the survival of African cultures by evoking rites, myths, and narratives that have evolved through generations. Her work symbolically follows the history of the slave trade from...
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Telling Your Heritage: A Community Partner Art Show
September 16, 2011 – October 24, 2011 — Location: Upper-Level Foyer FREE Partnering with more than fifteen different community organizations, the Frist Center’s outreach team has worked to create the opportunity to celebrate our varied heritages through artwork inspired by personal family stories and memories. Inspired by Connecting Cultures:...
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Tracey Snelling’s “Woman on the Run”
September 9, 2011 – February 5, 2012 — Tracey Snelling’s sculptures of rundown buildings on the outskirts of town show a keen sensitivity to the psychological tensions and hidden narratives of ordinary life. “Woman on the Run”—the artist’s most ambitious work to date—is composed of nearly life-sized...
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A Divine Light
September 8, 2011 – February 5, 2012 — A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery and its accompanying catalogue, which have been awarded financial support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, presents twenty-eight works of art from one of the finest collections of Old Master...
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Vesna Pavlovic’
June 24, 2011 – September 11, 2011 — This exhibition will include photographs taken in Vesna Pavlovic’s native Serbia and the United States over the last two decades. Focusing on sites and events of cultural significance, Pavlovic examines the power of photography to shape the perception of history as an expression of people’...
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Warhol Live
June 24, 2011 – September 11, 2011 — Over the course of his meteoric career, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) used the medium of music to transform himself from fan to record album designer, producer, celebrity night-clubber and rock impresario. Warhol Live presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s work as experienced through the lens...
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Gather Up The Fragments
May 20, 2011 – August 21, 2011 — Gather Up the Fragments focuses upon the collection of Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, who from the 1920s through the 1960s formed a large and important assemblage of Shaker art and pioneered Shaker studies. This comprehensive exhibition includes more than 270 objects...