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Nashville Area Artists’ Drawings Illustrate Themes of Mystery and Transformation
April 23, 2012 — Works by four Nashville-area artists—Erin Anfinson, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford and Chris Scarborough—will be on view in the Frist Center’s Conte Community Arts Gallery from June 8 through October 28, 2012. The exhibition, entitled Metamorphoses, features 41 drawings, all of...
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Canadian Artist Edward Burtynsky’s Photographs Provoke Serious Thought
March 28, 2012 — The Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery will feature the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky in an exhibition entitled Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime from May 25 to September 3, 2012. Fascinated by landscapes that have been intentionally and...
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Frist Center Presents Acclaimed Folk and Self-taught Alabama Artists
March 28, 2012 — This summer the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present two exhibitions exploring parallels between folk and self-taught artists of the American South. Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial includes 44 works—20 quilts...
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Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum opens at the Frist
March 28, 2012 — Opening June 22, 2012, Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum will be presented in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Upper-Level Galleries through September 30. The exhibition explores the role of the oil sketch in the artistic practice of John Constable,...
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Frist Fridays Concert Series Kicks off May 25 with Legend Rodney Crowell
March 22, 2012 — Frist Fridays, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ popular summer concert series, opens the 2012 four-concert season Friday, May 25 with legendary singer-songwriter and Grammy winner, Rodney Crowell performing in the Turner Courtyard. This year the series takes place May...
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Frist Center for the Visual Arts Elects Five New Members to Board of Trustees
March 21, 2012 — The Frist Center for the Visual Arts has elected five accomplished community leaders to the Board of Trustees, and Steve Turner and Bernice Gordon have been named the Board of Trustees’ first honorary members, Chairman Billy Frist announced. Joining the...
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Frist Center Supplies 1000 Disposable Cameras for the Public to Capture Images of Nashville
March 19, 2012 — The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will distribute 1000 disposable cameras, inviting the Nashville public to photograph aspects of their community that move them. Once the cameras are returned, the film will be developed and the resulting photos juried to be included in...
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British Artists John Wood and Paul Harrison Combine Physics and Humor in Video Installations
December 8, 2011 — Work by British artistic duo John Wood and Paul Harrison, whose humorously dynamic video installations speak to the triumphs and trials of creating art and living life, will be on view in the Frist Center’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery February 3...
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To See as Artists See: American Art From The Phillips Collection
December 8, 2011 — Opening Feb. 3, 2012, To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection features more than 100 works by 75 important artists, including outstanding paintings by Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles...
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Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
December 8, 2011 — Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to symbolize life’s mysteries, desires and fears, opens Feb. 24 and remains on view...