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The Avant-Garde Executive and Advisory Council invites you to join us at Frist Fridays on June 27th featuring Lori McKenna. 

Frist Fridays are the perfect way to end a long work week, enjoy great music, and make new friends. McKenna is sure to draw a crowd, so bring a friend or just yourself and come celebrate with us. You won’t want to miss it!

Frist Fridays
Friday, June 27, 2008

6:00–9:00 PM, Rain or Shine

UPCOMING EVENT

Join your fellow Avant-Garde members at the 21st Annual Shakespeare in the Park presenting Coriolanus in Centennial Park.

Coriolanus is the story of a war hero who finds himself caught in the political machinery of Rome where he reluctantly becomes a candidate for the highest office in the land. One of Shakespeare's most political and ironic tragedies, Coriolanus crackles with action, political intrigue, and humor.

Stay tuned for further details.

Helen Frankenthaler, Off White Square, 1973.  Acrylic on canvas. 79 1/2 x 235 inches. Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York. © 2007 Helen Frankenthaler


AT THE FRIST

Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975

June 20, 2008–September 21, 2008

Ingram Gallery

Exemplified by the work of Joseph Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, and Frank Stella, the paintings featured in this exhibition constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field encompasses approximately 40 large-scale canvases.

Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975 is organized by the American Federation of Arts and made possible, in part, by grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast
June 20, 2008–September 21, 2008

Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery and Education Gallery

This exhibition presents the works of four Southeastern artists: Kell Black (Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee), Sue Mulcahy (Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, Tennessee), Jane Allen Nodine (University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina), and Carol Prusa (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida). Each artist employs a limited palette of black, white, and gray in exploring ambiguous relationships between figure and ground, as well as reality and the imagination.

Shades of Gray was organized by the Frist Center.

Jennifer Steinkamp: Miss Znerold
June 20, 2008–September 21, 2008
Ingram Gallery

One of today’s leading practitioners of new media art, the Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp creates projections in which animated fields of colorful shapes ripple and undulate in patterns that translate the sensation of phenomena such as wind, waves, and light into visually intoxicating, vertigo-inducing environments. The artist considers  her work to be a means of integrating painting, video, and installation art to induce “a physical state of pleasure.”

Jennifer Steinkamp was organized by the Frist Center.

LOCAL GALLERY FEATURE:

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is one of the premier art exhibition venues in Nashville. Featuring up to six exhibitions each year that represent the diversity of artistic production today, as well as throughout the history of Eastern and Western art, it serves Vanderbilt's vibrant creative community as well as the general public. Exhibitions are drawn from the permanent collection and are organized from public and private sources as well. A number of traveling exhibitions are also presented. Periodically, the Gallery sponsors lectures and other programs related to its schedule of shows.

The venue's current exhibition (on view through August 15th), Views from the Collection III, is the third in a three-part series of installments of art drawn from Vanderbilt's permanent collection. Highlights include examples from the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance paintings, and two remarkable paintings that have recently received conservation treatment—the first by the nineteenth-century French painter Jules Adolphe Goupil, and the second, a portrait by the late seventeenth-century Dutch painter Michiel van Müsscher. Other highlights include a selection of contemporary Japanese ceramics by masters of the medium such as Toshiko Takaezu and Hamada Shoji; a selection of etchings by the American master printmaker John Taylor Arms; and an unusual multiple by American composer, philosopher, writer, and printmaker John Cage.
 

On August 28^th, the Gallery will launch its 2008–2009 season with a compelling three-person exhibition of photography and video curated by Joseph Whitt. The exhibit will showcase an intimate selection of original Polaroid and silver gelatin prints by Andy Warhol (recently gifted to the gallery from Warhol's Foundation for the Visual Arts) juxtaposed with the work of contemporary New York artists Grant Worth and David Horvitz. Whitt is also organizing a comprehensive retrospective of paintings and sculptures by Brooklyn artist Jules De Balincourt that is scheduled to open in late October.
 

Website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery
Phone: 615.322.0605
Address: 23rd and West End Avenue on the campus of Vanderbilt University

Special summer gallery hours (effective through August 15th):
Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–4:00 p.m.
Saturday, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday and Monday

Regular gallery hours (starting August 28th):
Monday–Friday, 12–4 p.m.
Weekends 1–5 p.m.
Closed during academic breaks

Admission to the gallery is free!


Above: Grant Worth, Nico and Elaine Mayes, 2008. Polaroid photograph, 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.

AVANT-GARDE MEMBER PROFILE:

Carla Stokes
Avant-Garde Executive Council Member

Profession: Marketing and Sales

Hobbies: I enjoy traveling with my boyfriend, working out, trying great wines, movies, yoga, and spending time with family and friends.

How long have you been a member of the Avant-Garde: 2 years

Favorite artist: Gustav Klimt

Best alternative gallery to the Frist Center: There are so many wonderful galleries in Nashville, but just recently I visited EZ Gallery and loved the contemporary art there.

Fun personal fact: I love playing golf on the Wii.