Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Skip to Content

 
 
 
  Current Exhibitions 


Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times
Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times
American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
October 2, 2009–January 31, 2010

This exhibition showcases the diversity and dynamism of American modernism and features work by O’Keeffe, Arthur G. Dove, Stuart Davis, and more.

Learn More...


Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song
Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song
October 2, 2009–January 31, 2010

Enjoy a selction of Benton's drawings and watercolors featured in many of beloved author Mark Twain's classic books as well as works on Benton's love of Americana music.

Learn More...


Oliver Herring
Oliver Herring
Common Threads
October 2, 2009–January 31, 2010

New York-based artist Oliver Herring creates photographs cut into jigsaw puzzle-like shapes and adhered to sculpted figures, lending the uncanny quality of a photograph seen in the round.

Learn More...


Twilight Visions
Twilight Visions
Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
September 10, 2009–January 3, 2010

Twilight Visions celebrates Paris as the literal and metaphoric foundation of Surrealism and includes photographs by such arists as Man Ray, Eugène Atget, Brassaï, and Hans Bellmer.

Learn More...


MARTIN ARTQUEST GALLERY
MARTIN ARTQUEST GALLERY
Our interactive education gallery

Learning is FUN in the Martin ArtQuest Gallery! This gallery on the upper level is a colorful, exciting, interactive education space where visitors of all ages discover exciting ways to learn about art. 

Learn More...


George Rickey's Three Red Lines
George Rickey's Three Red Lines
Through December 2010
Rickey’s Three Red Lines is 36 feet tall and features three pointed arms that gracefully move back and forth in an implied parabolic arc.Learn More...


Fletcher Benton's Truckin’ Jumbo Geo
Fletcher Benton's Truckin’ Jumbo Geo
Composed of geometric elements that have been welded together in abstract configurations, Fletcher Benton’s sculptures explore tensions between space and volume, balance and precariousness, and simplicity and complexity.Learn More...


Exhibitions