Past Exhibitions
Our archive of exhibitions previously viewed at the Frist Center.
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2011 Franklin Special School District Art Show
February 12, 2011 – February 26, 2011 — The 2011 Franklin Special School District Art Show featured some of the finest artwork created by students in the district. More than 60 young artists from kindergarten through eighth grade were included in this exhibition. Elementary and middle school art teachers selected two works per grade level...
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2011 Wilson County Schools Superintendent’s Art Show
February 12, 2011 – February 27, 2011 — The 2011 Superintendent’s Art Show featured some of the finest artwork created by students in the Wilson County Schools. More than 150 young artists from kindergarten through twelfth grade were included in this exhibition. Elementary and middle school art teachers selected two works per grade level,...
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Young Tennessee Artists 2010
October 29, 2010 – April 10, 2011 — The Frist Center was pleased to present the work of 33 high school students in Young Tennessee Artists: 2010 Statewide Advanced Placement Studio Art in the Conte Community Arts Gallery. This third bi-annual exhibition showcased a selection of the finest artwork created in Advanced Placement...
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The Birth Of Impressionism
October 15, 2010 – January 22, 2011 — The exhibition included 100 masterpieces of mid-to-late 19th-century French painting from the Musee d’Orsay, a museum in Paris dedicated to the art of the early modern period (1840s through the early 20th century). The exhibition provided a broad context for understanding the roots of Modernism by combining seminal...
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Boaz Vaadia Sculpture
August 18, 2010 – February 1, 2012 — Asa & Yehoshafat, a work by New-York based sculptor Boaz Vaadia, is installed near the Demonbreun Street entrance to the Frist Center. Born in Israel in 1951 and raised on a farm where he developed a deep love for the earth, Vaadia creates works...
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The Golden Age Of Couture
June 18, 2010 – September 12, 2010 — Through clothing, shoes, and photographs, this exhibition demonstrates how designers such as Dior, Balenciaga, and Chanel brought glamour back to Europe after World War II. The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957 is an exhibition that transported visitors to the most glamorous fashion houses...
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Presence Or Absence
June 18, 2010 – September 12, 2010 — The Frist Center ‘s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery featured Presence or Absence: The Photographs of Tokihiro Sato, an exhibition of 13 landscape photographs by one of Japan’s most acclaimed and best-known contemporary artists, June 18–September 12, 2010. Originally trained as a sculptor, Sato first...
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Chihuly At The Frist
May 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011 — Dale Chihuly,the most acclaimed glass artist of our time, is beloved for his abstract evocations of sea life, flowers, and other graceful subjects. There are few contemporary artists whose name is as synonymous with the medium in which he works as Dale...
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U-ram Choe
February 19, 2010 – May 16, 2010 — Korean artist U-Ram Choe’s kinetic sculptures are made of delicately curved sections of wrought metal, joined together in movable parts that are driven by motors to expand, contract, or otherwise suggest the autonomic motions of such primitive life forms as plants and...
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Masterpieces Of European Painting
February 19, 2010 – May 16, 2010 — Ranging in date from the 14th to the early 20th century, iconic works by Francisco de Zurbarán, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Bernardo Strozzi, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are included in this exhibition. Founded in 1959 in Ponce, Puerto Rico,...