CURRENT EXHIBITS
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PREMIERE GALLERY
The Premiere Gallery is located on the first floor at the Tennessee Art League. It is the largest of TAL’s exhibition spaces and is open to TAL member and non-member artists. Artists selected for the Premiere Gallery exhibits receive a two-month solo exhibit. Interested artists can submit an application to be considered for the Premiere Gallery. Exhibits are juried yearly.
PREMIERE GALLERY: LORI PUTNAM - RECENT WORKS
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Lori Putnam travels all over the world, painting small to medium-sized plein air sketches and finished works. She also creates large-scale paintings in her studio located in nearby Franklin, Tennessee. Prior to becoming a full-time artist in 2005, Lori owned and managed a successful graphic design agency for 13 years. Although Lori has had an interest in drawing and other art forms since she was very young, she considers herself self-taught, having studied independently as an adult with many of the nation’s best painters. Among them, Dawn Whitelaw, Quang Ho, Scott Christensen, and Kim English are a few she considers her most influential. In 2008 and 2009, she traveled to Italy for more than seven months with the sole intention of study, and growth. During this time she painted almost 200 pieces from the southeastern Adriatic coastline to the northeastern Italian Riviera and many towns in between. Her intense work during this period brought a greater maturity to the paintings she creates today. She enjoys sharing this growth with her students across the U.S., the Caribbean, and in Europe.
Lori is a member of, and has exhibited with, many respected organizations including the Salmagundi Club in New York City, the Oil Painters of America (OPA), and the American Impressionists Society (AIS). Lori was the 2011 Show Chairperson for AIS and became their Vice President in 2012. Additionally, Lori participates in several juried and invitation-only plein air events. Lori recently won awards in California, Wyoming, Florida, Georgia, and Ireland. Her work is in the permanent collection at The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, the Jack Warner Collection, the collection of Plein Air Magazine, and in private and corporate collections and galleries worldwide. Featured in numerous issues of American Art Collector Magazine, and most recently, Plein Air Magazine, Lori is recognized as one of the finest American Impressionists of our time. She will be serving as a mentor for Plein Air Magazine’s 1st Annual Plein Air Convention in Red Rocks near Las Vegas in April 2012.
The exhibit opens Saturday, April 7th and will hang through Friday, May 4th. A reception will be held Saturday, April 7th, from 6 - 9 P.M.
Artist's website: http://www.loriputnam.com.
APPLICATIONS
Applications for artists who would like to be considered for an exhibition in the Premiere Gallery in 2012 will be available soon. Please contact TAL for more information.
ETHEL SMITH GALLERY
The Ethel Smith Gallery is located on the first floor at the Tennessee Art League. Artists exhibiting in the Ethel Smith Gallery receive a one-month solo exhibit. Exhibits for this gallery are juried yearly and open to TAL members only.
ETHEL SMITH GALLERY: PAINTERS FROM LIFE - AUGUST IN MAINE
This is a landscape exhibition and art sale by Nashville-area group 'Painters from Life':Jean Gauld-Jaeger, Shirley Fachilla, Gale Haddock, Jean McGuire, and Pat Mayo. The paintings were done “en plein aire,” a French term meaning literally “in open air.” This group is dedicated to this creative process which usually begins with a pencil sketch, photos, and a small painting, done from nature and progresses to the finished pieces.
These plein air painters go back to their studios and, working from the visual information they have gathered on the spot and the sketches they painted, produce larger and more detailed paintings. These steps are an outline of this process and the actual execution may skip one step or another, depending on circumstances. All painters make the process their own. Paintings in the exhibit range from very small to medium large, with subjects ranging from sunsets on a bay, to laundry drying, to a lighthouse in the mist, all done well by these seasoned artists. Many of the artists belong to the Chestnut Group, a well-known Nashville landscape painting cooperative.
The 'Painters from Life' decided to go to Maine after one of their members brought some breathtaking vacation photos to their usual Monday gathering. The images were so astonishing that the group began almost immediately to plan a paint-cation. They traveled to New Harbor, Maine last August and began their work the next morning, standing on the granite rocks over the harbor entrance. They also visited the Farnsworth Museum to see the work of the Wyeth family of painters and stopped to take pictures of coastal life. The group looks forward to returning to Maine soon. “Everywhere you look there is a painting, waiting to happen!,” said Gauld-Jaeger.
The show will open April 7th and will close Friday, May 4th. A reception will be held Saturday, April 7, from 6 - 9 P.M.
APPLICATIONS
Applications for TAL member artists who would like to be considered for an exhibition in the Ethel Smith Gallery in 2012 are available. Please click on the link below.
Ethel Smith Gallery Application
MEMBERS' GALLERY
The Members’ Gallery is located on the first floor at the Tennessee Art League and displays work created by TAL members.
THE TENNESSEE ART LEAGUE MEMBERS' ART EXHIBITION & SALE
Artworks by Tennessee Art League members will debut Saturday, April 7th. Many mediums will be featured including - photographs, oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylics, and pen and ink. A reception will be held Saturday, April 7th, from 6 - 9 P.M.; the exhibit will run through Friday, May 4.
DEADLINES
Deadlines for TAL members to bring artwork for the upcoming members’ exhibits are below and are subject to change.
Wednesday, April 25th, is the artwork drop off deadline for the May Members' Show
APPLICATIONS
Applications for membership with the Tennessee Art League are always being accepted. If you are interested in becoming a member, please fill out the application form and return it to the Tennessee Art League.
(link to membership application)
STUDIO A - 2ND FLOOR GALLERY
SECOND FLOOR GALLERY - STUDIO A ARTISTS GROUP - Studio A Group's featured artists for April include Jamie Sanderlin Parks, Jason Erwin, Fran Werner, Noriko Register and Vinci Kolodziejski. A reception will be held Saturday, April 7th, from 6 - 9 P.M.; the presentation closes May 4.
POSTON3 GALLERY
The Poston3 Gallery is located on the third floor and is open for exhibits by artists’ groups, non-profit organizations, after-school programs and other community outreach projects. These exhibits are scheduled yearly.
POSTON3 GALLERY - FUNDRAISER FOR THE JOHNSON SCHOOL
Artworks from students at the Johnson School will be featured in a variety of mediums and themes, focusing mostly on abstract and landscape paintings. 20% of the sales of the paintings will go to students with the remainder being furnished to the school's general fund. Johnson School is located at 2nd Avenue and Chestnut Street in downtown Nashville and offers a variety of programs, including visual arts, culinary arts, library media and technology, and transitions to adult learning. A reception will be held Saturday, April 7th, from 6 - 9 P.M.; the exhibit will run through Friday, May 4.
UPCOMING EXHIBITS
APPLICATIONS
Applications for organizations who would like to be considered for an exhibition in the Poston3 Gallery in 2012are available. Please contact TAL for more information.
