The idea of “The Joker" was open to discussion recently at the Broadway Gallery in Soho. Participating artists explored this flexible and rich notion of what the ominous joke might be. The group exhibition, co-curated by Basak Malone and Tchera Niyego, found its inspiration in a bit-story by the grandfather of existentialism—Danish philospher Kierkegaard, and […]

For six and a half years, TAG art gallery has been offering Music City a taste of what’s going on in the art world at large. TAG quickly made its mark as the place to go for contemporary art in Nashville, whether it’s in terms of collecting or just in terms of viewing. Since moving […]

One of the newest additions to the growing Nashville art scene is tucked into in a 364 square foot space on the second floor of the historic Arcade Building in downtown Nashville. SQFT Gallery is owned and operated by Rhode Island School of Design graduate, and local Nashvillian, Aaron Durnin. Durnin is a furniture designer […]

Reuben Paterson is a New Zealand artist of Maori descent. A recent studio resident at the International Curatorial Studio in New York, Paterson has spent the past years working in America and the European cities of Athens, Pescara and London.  Primarily a painter, Paterson has become widely known for his re-interpretations of Maori iconography, which […]

The big story is this: you have a desire, whether it is something you should have or something you shouldn’t and you chase your desire, but to attain it, you must overcome who you are; you must either grow past your limitations, or find out what your true limitations are. When you have overcome—preferably a […]

Noah Fischer’s “Rhetoric Machine” presents a whirlwind tour of American history since 1941: a ten-minute-long narrative installation in kinetic sculpture, lights and recorded sound. Snippets of pop songs, sound effects and recordings of speeches by every president from F.D.R. to Clinton accompany the sculpture’s ten-minute sequence of light and animatronics. Some of the sculptural elements […]

Recently, installation art has begun to engage narrative and conceptual language. In my own video installation work, I am interested in using recent technologies, including video, DVD and virtual space. Narratives here include personal constructed histories as well as the experience that the viewer brings to the installation, ultimately completing the sculpture. Much of my […]

In attending various galleries and museums this past October, such as the Sculpture Center and Jack the Pelican in New York, I noticed a trend: many exhibitions were set up as installations in the form of a narrative, whereby each part of the story was broken up into “stations” that the viewer was to view, […]

Although by the early 90s installation art had emerged as a particular mode of art-making, encompassing structural and procedural components such as the immersive and experiential environment; the blurring of the boundaries between viewer and art object; and the bold mixing of media to include the performative, it maddeningly retained its fluid borders, admitting a […]

The purpose of this text is to explore the artistic relationship between the concepts of thing, space and experience; to suggest some philosophical principles at work and to consider a recent example of their application in an exhibition by Cheyney Thompson. To speak broadly and evoke general categories like thing, space and experience is to […]