We had a huge turnout for the Americana Music Benefit last night! We enjoyed awesome performances from Jack Clement, John Haitt, Kix Brooks, Sam Bush, Mike Farris, and Mary Gauthier, as well as an amazing and exciting auction! Check out some highlights from last night and be sure to become our fan on Facebook and see even more photos!
All of the handwritten lyrics donated by some of the greatest songwriters of our time will be on display. To view these items on line visit www.americanamusicauction.com
We would like to share some photos from Artrageous! We had a blast! Here are the highlights. Be sure to check our Facebook Page for more photos and updates.
What do you get when you cross Tinney Contemporary and taffy?———–This year’s ARTRAGEOUS!!!
We are proud to be participating in the 22nd Artrageous benefiting Nashville Care’s, an organization which has been fighting HIV/AIDS in Middle Tennessee for the last 24 years. Attracting a stunning mix of glamorous party-goers from across the nation, Artrageous has attained near-legendary status as Nashville’s largest indoor charity event.
This years’ theme is “Sweet Imagination” inspired by the all time favorite movie Willy Wonka and is guaranteed to be a very eventful night! As you tour each gallery, you will experience a unique sugar rush with a different candy theme and a custom created drink sponsored by Absolut Vodka. Tinney Contemporary is going TAFFY and you can look forward to our specialty drink the “Zephyr”, food provided by City Club and the can’t miss photographs by David Teplica! This will be an Amazing night you won’t want to miss!
Purchase your tickets now at www.artrageous.org
After the Art Crawl at the beginning of this month, David Maddox of the Nashville Scene, came back into the gallery to get a better look at our current exhibit Of Sight and Sentiment. His review of the show came out in the Best of Nashville 2009 Edition. So be sure to pick up The Scene and read the article found on page 110. Or read the online version here
Tinney Contemporary is honored to participate in the first annual ARTDOCS Benefit on Thursday, October 15th from 6 to 9 pm downtown at the Fifth Avenue Arcade. ARTDOCS will offer much-needed medical care to visual artists, writers, musicians and other performing artists in need of routine and urgent health services. One of the first programs of its kind in the country, ARTDOCS will give members of Nashville’s creative community a place to turn to address their often-overlooked medical concerns.
The Event features live music (Drummers, Percy Person, Charles Butler Group, Matt Urmy Band), food, wine and beer, fire dancers, the Nashville Rollergirls, Miss Lolly Pop’s Burlesque Coterie, Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School, Playing by Air’s juggling and circus acts, the Spinderella’s Hula Hoop Extravaganza, live works by Graffiti artist Ragoe (Jon Judkins) and other Bizarre and amazing events. There will also be a silent auction and a small live art auction where extraordinary curios, mysterious and valuable gewgaws and fine art works will be auctioned off. 100% of these proceeds will go to ARTDOCS as well as 10% of all gallery sales for the evening. Finally, an art auction that benefits artists!
A $10 wristband charge at the Arcade entrance, which grants admission to this extraordinary event, also benefits ARTDOCS. Come celebrate with us! It’s guaranteed to be a blast!
We are really looking forward to the October Art Crawl, not only because it always proves to be an exciting night, but also to welcome Todd Gordon back to the Nashville art scene! The last time Gordon’s work was on exhibit in Nashville was a little over 3 years ago and he got rave reviews. During his last show in August of 2006, David Mattox wrote this about Todd Gordon.
“The most appealing work in the show is a series of plein air urban landscapes by Todd Gordon. He goes to scruffy parts of Brooklyn – empty lots, industrial zones, canals – and paints what he sees in a horizontal format.” click here to continue reading
Later that year, Gordon was listed in The Scene as Best In Art
“Nashville was inundated with great art in 2006 including Todd Gordon. In a very literal approach, he tries to show exactly what he saw, which gives the paintings a bit of fisheye perspective distortion, and that lends them a greater sense of scale, like they are straining to pull in the entire vista. A painting of the gray water of New York Harbor, subtly curving upward with the city pushed to the margins, was majestic.” click here to continue reading
We also are excited to welcome for the first time to Nashville, Julyan Davis! Davis is a landscape painter whose work often expresses certain themes. This show will feature new work from his Southern music-based series. Davis says he has always been drawn to folksong and folklore and often uses it as inspiration in his paintings.
One of our very talented artists, Pam Longobardi, has a very exciting show this month. The newest Drifters Project installation will be exhibited in Venice during the Venice Bienale at ARTLIFE Gallery. Please take a moment to read her statement on a project that questions everyone’s relationship with our Earth and what Longobardi calls a “portrait of global consumer society, and serves as a reminder to humanity that our actions have pervasive and far-reaching effects.”
Panthalassa
I have built a shipwreck from plastic and nets collected on Hawai’i, Lido and Otranto on the southern Adriatic sea coast. The sculpture also references the infamous garbage barge of New York, an image that has haunted me for over 20 years. The ship’s structure is formed of plastic tubes that wash up in Hawai’i by the millions. They are the spacer tubes of Japanese oyster aquaculture cages. The rest of the plastic is from the Lido and Otranto, gathered from the beach or in the water. I would swim over a mile each time and encounter floating plastic that I tied onto my swimsuit. When I landed on the beach, I was festooned in plastic.
Panthalassa was the name of the one world ocean when Pangaea was the one supercontinent. Though geographic and political boundaries have created 7 seas, it is still one world ocean. The plastic of the world circulates through ocean currents to collect in the North Pacific Gyre, in an area estimated to be larger than the size of the continental United States. Venice and Lido suggest the ghosts of a dying era marking the heights of human culture and its fall into decadence. Grand ducal palaces in Venice and the hotels and casinos that were the jetsetter’s playground of Lido are now in a state of decay that is a metaphor for the decay of humanity and of the planet Earth itself.
The once grand monuments of marble and gold are crumbling. Venice is literally sinking. Several times a year the entire Piazza San Marco and its stunning cathedral are submerged under several feet of water as the sea seeks to reclaim its ground. And yet the plastic proliferates, accumulates and persists. Once valuable materials of the earth, now rare, are increasingly being replaced with plastic substitutes, which do not decay, do not biodegrade and are becoming poison sponges in the waterways of the world. I am intending this work to be a siren call, an alarm of beautiful colors and form that tells us of its dangerous self.
http://tinneycontemporary.com/artists/details/pam_longobardi/
The Nashville Scene is having their annual “Best Of” awards and we would love your vote as Best Art Gallery! Please take a moment to vote for TINNEY CONTEMPORARY in category #107- Best Art Gallery here. Feel free to leave your comments on why you picked us as your favorite gallery. Thank you so much for your support!
Fireworks at Tinney Contemporary? - Quite possibly!
Join Tinney Contemporary for a one of a kind event. In conjunction with MY MAGIC CAPE - Guest curator Andee Rudloff offers you
Don’s Big Show - a multimedia spectacular featuring Artist Don Evans.
Thursday, August 27th doors open at 6:00pm - event begins promptly at 6:30pm
This incredible event will feature Don Evans performing adaptations of his work utilizing 3 dimensional sculpture, sound 
elements, projected media as well as costumed participants culminating in an all out sensory extravaganza.
Take part in this unique opportunity by participating as commemorative
tee shirts will be created on site the evening of the event!
Donald H. Evans, M.F.A. Professor of Art and Art History, Emeritus
Donald H. Evans was born in Murfreesboro in 1939. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1962 with the B.F.A. and earned the M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1968.
After serving as a lecturer at North Carolina State University, Evans joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1969 in the Department of Fine Arts, where he was instrumental in expanding the studio wing of the department into the importance that it enjoys today among peer institutions. He served as director of the Vanderbilt Media Experimentation Center from 1969 to 1980 and offered pioneering courses at Vanderbilt in video art, multimedia and computer graphics.
Evans developed a strong following among students. His instruction in wide-ranging media earned him the reputation of an enlightened and inspiring teacher. Accomplished in many media, Evans is probably best known for his intricate and epic-scaled events, which encompassed live-action performance, spontaneous creation of two-dimensional images, sculptures, music and films. He established a strong national reputation for this sort of ambitious interdisciplinary work, one example was “Burning Banjos II,” a public multimedia performance and installation of 2001. He recently participated in two team collaborative projects at Cheekwood Art & Gardens in Nashville, TN, in 2007 and 2008.
Evans has been prolific in several traditional media as well, counting into the hundreds his exhibitions of drawings and paintings. His films number in the dozens, of which seven, such as Data Bank and Video Dance, have earned awards. Evans’ video works also number in the hundreds, and include “Visual Prison and Light Sensitive People.”