Jodi Hays, Center, 9 x 12, oil on panel, 2013
Beth Galston
You might recall a mention of the art collection at the new Music City Center from my own art update a few months ago. This quarter's visual art roundup is centered around the art and artists in our home town collection housed in the new massive building. Nashville showed an increasingly frequent and incredibly cosmopolitan side when it made this collection a priority. Two top notch curators worked tirelessly to see works from artists across the country, and focused some of the funds for Nashville-based (let's not use the word "local" please) artists. Considering the huge budget of the building (5 billion?), a 1.5 million dollar budget for art is nothing, but it is WAY more that usual for this, or most cities. I might be biased (they selected two of my pieces), but the collection is impressive. Any of the artists below would be worth the research and live RIGHT HERE in the South, so open up your pocketbooks for their work in your collection.
One of my favorite painters, thinkers and educators. Happy to call him a friend.
Teaches at Fisk, her work easily transcends the often democratic and populist feel of most commissioned public works.
She used to show her work at Tinney (?) but is based out of Atlanta.
Important artist with a great blog.
I loves his work, and might have accidentally made a "Haston" in my studio the other day.
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