Past Exhibitions
Our archive of exhibitions previously viewed at the Frist Center.
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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...
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2011 Mayor’s Art Show
March 31, 2011 – May 5, 2011 — The Mayor’s Art Show featured artwork created by students from Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. It was composed of two sections. From March 31–April 14, the first show featured works by students from seven clusters including Antioch, Cane Ridge, Glencliff, Hillsboro, Hunters Lane, Pearl-Cohn, and...
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Simen Johan
February 20, 2011 – May 29, 2011 — Simen Johan’s works reflect uneasy connections between humans and other species. His digital photographs, which show live or taxidermied animals Photoshopped onto various natural and human-made landscape environments, blur boundaries between the real and unreal, animal and human and beauty and brutality. His sculptures...
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Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
February 20, 2011 – May 29, 2011 — Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior was the first major museum exhibition to focus on Vishnu—one of Hinduism’s three major deities. More than 170 paintings, sculptures, and ritual objects made in India between the fourth and twentieth centuries provided a brief survey...
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Hindu Home Shrines
February 20, 2011 – May 29, 2011 — What is the center of your home? The kitchen, the living room or den? The most important space in a Hindu home is the shrine room. It is a place reserved for reverence and meditation, a sacred space for...