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THE ARTS COMPANY PRESENTS
THE HOLIDAY ARTS MARKET
Sculptor Meagan Keiffer Debuts Horse of a Different Color Series
Nashville, TN – The Holiday Arts Market at The Arts Company, beginning December 2 and continuing through December 31, in the downstairs gallery at 215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, presents the holiday season shopper with a one-of-a-kind sale and exhibition featuring a diverse collection of fresh, contemporary, and original art. Highlighting the sale will be Meagan Keiffer debuting her Horse of a Different Color sculpture series, the 2005 Grannis Archives Calendar, signed Sabuda pop-up books and cards, Brother Mel sculptures, and original Fortune magazine cover art. Other artists whose works will be available include Luther Tatum, Lamar Sorrento, Elisa Cossonnet, Greg Decker, and Bill Starke. In addition, Nashville-based event designer Terry White will showcase The Arts Company stocking stuffers on his decorated aluminum Christmas trees from The Aluminum Tree & Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum. Ongoing exhibits include The Blues by crayon sculptor Herb Williams, ICONS by Jack Isenhour, and The Great LIFE Photographers featuring signed master prints highlighted in new landmark book of the same name. These exhibits continue through the end of the year.
Meagan Keiffer’s work revolves around the imagery of horses. Raised on a ranch in South Dakota, horses were a part of her everyday life. Grooming them became an intense study of their structure, and riding horses provided a study of motion adding to her appreciation of their agility and grace. The time spent observing horses gave Meagan a great sensitivity to them and adds a naturalistic element to her sculptures. She sculpts with clay because the medium can be held, touched, and formed with bare hands
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THE ARTS COMPANY PRESENTS
TAG GALLERY ARTISTS AT THE ARTS COMPANY
Nashville, TN – The Arts Company owner Anne Brown announces the addition of Jerry Dale and Julie McFadden’s TAG Gallery Artists. The Arts Company is well known for its roster of prestigious and significant artists from legendary to emerging, southern to international, self-taught and formally trained in a diversity of genres, including photography, painting, sculpture, and contemporary outsider art. A further exploration of folk and outsider art with the addition of the McFadden’s TAG Gallery Artists will enhance the exhibits presented each month during The Arts Company Salon Saturday series, which previews original artwork in various styles on a rotating basis.
TAG Gallery Artists at The Arts Company will be featured in a special studio showcase Upstairs at The Arts Company. Jerry Dale McFadden will also serve as Special Projects Associate for The Arts Company and he will curate four major exhibits as part of The Arts Company 2005 Salon Saturday series. TAG will debut its first exhibit November 20, featuring TAG favorites: painter Roger Clayton, mixed-media artist Lesley Patterson, self-taught painter R. Ellis Orrall, and Kentucky painter James Pearson.
Jerry Dale McFadden began his career as an art dealer with his wife Julie by establishing a small Nashville art gallery in June 2000. Featuring a personal collection of folk and outsider art, McFadden showed artwork by local, national and international artists. Over the past four years, TAG gallery has found its niche in offering affordable art to a diverse group of emerging collectors. With a focus on contemporary folk and self-taught artists, TAG specializes in contemporary art with a primitive aesthetic.
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THE ARTS COMPANY CHOSEN BY LIFE MAGAZINE TO EXHIBIT WORKS FROM NEW BOOK
"THE GREAT LIFE PHOTOGRAPHERS"
Salon Saturday, November 20 – 2pm to 6pm
The Arts Company to Present a One-of-a-Kind Exhibit Debuting
LIFE Magazine Signed Master Prints featured in New Landmark Book
Special Exhibition of The Arts Company Ed Clark Collection
Celebrated Nashville-based Painter Jack Isenhour to Debut New Series, ICONS
Nashville, TN – The Arts Company Salon Saturday, November 20, from 2:00pm until 6:00pm, in the main downstairs gallery, 215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, in association with the LIFE Gallery of Photography, and with guest curator Nashville-resident David Conrad, will present The Great LIFE Photographers, a photographic exhibit featuring images from a new landmark book of the same title. From Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White to John Dominis to Yale Joel, more than 100 of the photographers who made LIFE the great American magazine of the 20th century – including former Nashville resident Edward Clark - come together in the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever assembled. Chosen by LIFE to exhibit works from the book, The Arts Company will offer for sale rare and signed photographs, as well as copies of the recently released LIFE book, The Great LIFE Photographers. This month’s featured artist in the Studios Upstairs will be Nashville-based painter Jack Isenhour who will debut his new series, ICONS. The Great LIFE Photographers exhibit will continue through January 7.
The Great LIFE Photographers, a comprehensive anthology of 600 black-and-white and color photographs, released on October 19, recalls peace and war, love and hate, along with the triumphs and failures of life in the twentieth century. The book includes biographies and portraits of each photographer accompanying a portfolio of his or her work – making The Great LIFE Photographers an accessible and complete reference to the incomparable photography of these brilliant men and women behind the lens. Classic iconic images from the book and in the exhibit include Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J Day, Swan Lake Rehearsal and Premiere at La Scala, Margaret Bourke-White’s Chrysler Building, Ralph Morse’s Patterns of Light, and selected images from The Arts Company Ed Clark collection.
David Conrad, the guest curator of The Great LIFE Photographers at The Arts Company, is a longtime collector of vintage black and white photographs and a student of the art of photography. He possesses a love of music and a depth of perspective that brings a distinct element to this show’s Nashville debut. He has spent thirty-five years in the music publishing business – always a creative position. During his years as a music publisher, he worked with a diverse roster of songwriters; including Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Paul Kennerley, Mark Knopfler, Will Jennings, and Gillian Welch. A classical guitarist himself, he has been a leader in cultivating songwriting of all genres, having placed songs on the country music charts; as well as, pop, adult contemporary, and R&B. Conrad has also served two terms as president of the Nashville Entertainment Association. He is a past president of the Country Music Association’s board of directors and is currently a trustee of the Country Music Foundation board.
In painter Jack Isenhour’s new series of ICONS, the artist admits that after years of trying to strike a balance between realism and abstraction, he has finally made a choice - at least temporarily. In his collection of ICONS, Isenhour opts for the ultimate in realism with a series of portraits that range from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Martin Luther King Jr. to Ernest Hemingway. Painting commercially for over fifteen years, Jack Isenhour’s work is shown exclusively through The Arts Company and can be found in many collections, including the Tennessee State Museum. A West Point graduate and decorated Vietnam veteran, he earned his masters degree in communications and pursued a career as a television journalist in which he has received numerous national honors. He has been a participant at the prestigious Sewanee Writers Conference, recently publishing his first book entitled Same Knight, Different Channel, Basketball Legend Bob Knight at West Point and Today.
November 20 – January 7
Salon Saturday: The Great LIFE Photographers
LIFE Gallery of Photography
Jack Isenhour, painter
David Conrad, guest curatorMichele Mosko, art representative, IPhotoArt and LIFE Gallery of Photography
Bill Steber, photographer
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THE ARTS COMPANY SALON SATURDAY SERIES
TO FEATURE EMERGING ARTISTS APRIL STREET
AND HERB WILLIAMS
Mixed-Media Artist April Street to Premiere Love…Post 9/11,
An Exhibition of Sixty Ambitious Colorful Circular Paintings Characterizing the Psychological and Moral Thought Patterns Post 9-11
Crayon Sculptor Herb Williams debuts The Blues,
A Large-as-Life Installation of 50,000 Blue Crayons
Nashville, TN — The Arts Company Salon Saturday, October 16, from 2:00pm until 6:00pm, in the main downstairs gallery, 215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, will present two separate exhibits: one featuring mixed-media artist April Street’s Love…Post 9/11 and the other featuring sculptor Herb Williams’ The Blues. Premiering her exhibition of sixty colorful circular paintings, Street will show her signature characters recovering and evolving from the tragedy of this country’s most devastating terrorist strikes. Exhibiting The Blues, Williams will showcase a musically inspired installation of life-sized blues sculptures made from more than 50,000 blue crayons, along with a photographic series that includes Salon patrons participating in the process. The exhibit will continue through November 13.
April Street’s Love...Post 9/11 is a room-encompassing installation of sixty paintings that pair the familiar and the strange with a post-9-11 sensibility. Collectively, the paintings are intended to produce an interaction of feelings many people have experienced since the national tragedy of 9/11 and the resulting profound loss of innocence. She uses science fiction and fairy tale icons to create a mysterious atmosphere incorporating people, animals, and abstract flowers into the circular paintings. Though each painting stands alone, the cumulative effect adds a dramatic dimension, and the familiar scenarios taking place represent intense feelings that have been mutually shared since 9/11.
Herb Williams, recalling the childhood fascination of crayons and the magical worlds they create, has constructed a life-sized sculptural environment using approximately 50,000 blue crayons, entitled The Blues, where the walls and floors are his coloring book. In a world visually saturated in pure color, the art comes across as playful with mature intentions. Throughout his sculpted crayon creation, he merges varying shades of blue color with big band musical instruments; including a saxophone, guitar, upright bass, as well as, an old-fashioned microphone. In addition to the sculpture, Herb brings to life The Blues in a photographic portrait series integrating his sculpted musical instruments with noted local celebrities and performers posing in the Blues ensemble, as well as, the artist photographing visitors attending Salon Saturday in the Blues installation. Completing this diverse exhibit, Herb will also debut the first issue of his Herb Williams coloring book-series.
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THE ARTS COMPANY SALON SATURDAY SERIES
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE LEQUIRE GALLERY PRESENTS A GRAND SALON SATURDAY
“FIGURATIVE ART”
FEATURING NASHVILLE-BASED FIGURATIVE ARTISTS,
PAINTER GREG DECKER & SCULPTOR ALAN LEQUIRE
| Grand Salon Saturday, September 18 |
| 2:00pm – 6:00pm |
The Arts Company |
| 5:30pm – 8:00pm |
The LeQuire Gallery |
| Friday Finish, October 8 |
| 10:00am – 5:30pm |
The Arts Company |
| 5:30pm – 8:00pm |
The LeQuire Gallery |
Nashville, TN — In a Grand Salon Saturday Event, The Arts Company Salon Saturday Series, in association with the LeQuire Gallery, presents Figurative Art, featuring two galleries focused on a singular dialogue. On September 18, from 2:00pm until 6:00pm, in The Arts Company Downstairs Gallery at 215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, Nashville-based artists Greg Decker and Alan LeQuire will engage art lovers by posing the question, “What’s New About Figurative Art?” One a painter and one a sculptor, former New Yorker Greg Decker and nationally recognized Nashville native Alan LeQuire, will present their views on how a resurgence of figure in art is occurring by showing their broad range of compelling works. Continuing the Salon Saturday conversation, the artists will also attend an evening reception at the LeQuire Gallery. On October 8, the joint gallery show will close in a Friday Finish with an all-day viewing at The Arts Company, followed by a reception with the artists at the LeQuire Gallery. Both events at the LeQuire Gallery will be from 5:30pm – 8:00pm.
This first Grand Salon Saturday brings together The Arts Company and the LeQuire Gallery in a professional collaboration to give their artists a more prominent presence in the Nashville market. The Arts Company owner Anne Brown remarks, “We hope this first initiative - joining forces with another gallery and launching both opening and closing receptions with the featured artists discussing their craft in both galleries - will offer opportunities for our customers to experience a greater perspective and appreciation and depth of the diversity of artwork available in their hometown.”
In Greg Decker's first major exhibition of new work produced since his moving to Nashville in 2003, his painterly narrations will reflect his perceptions about his new home. His multiple canvases encompass his recent narratives, featuring recurring figures and a distinctive color palette, with an emphasis on his continuing interest in musical motifs. His paintings showcase musical instruments set in classical pastoral landscapes, still life that reflect an intimate sense of place, and figurative worlds that add mythical proportion to the power of his narrative suggestions.
In his symbolic and sometimes larger-than-life sculptures, Alan LeQuire has enjoyed more than a two-decade critically acclaimed career capturing the essence of character and real life personalities in his monumental busts and figures. This exhibit will display the diversity of his works, including both small and large sculptures, as well as his drawings and sketches. Sculptures will include his large-scale portrait heads of Woody Guthrie and Bessie Smith; miniatures and life-sized figures of Musica, his 40-foot tall bronze figure group; as well as other small sculptures and limited edition posters and woodcuts.
ARTISTS
Greg Decker, a 2002 Emerging Artist in Arts and Antiques magazine, is a figurative painter and educator who recently relocated to Nashville after living for twelve years in New York City, where he taught at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A self-described “adventurous traditional narrative” painter, he is currently setting up a series of workshops in traditional painting/drawing. Decker works with traditional and historical themes, and experiments with form and color, in order to best express those themes. His featured figures are similar to characters in an ongoing play, drawing from both his imagination and real-life characters. Most of his works are narrative pieces telling compelling stories with recurring themes and myths.
Alan LeQuire, a figurative sculptor and Nashville resident, is probably best known today for his monumental Athena Parthenos, the largest indoor statue in the western world that stands inside the Centennial Park Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. He received national attention for his recently unveiled Musica, the largest figurative group sculpture in the United States, located at the center roundabout of Nashville’s famous Music Row entertainment district. He also created the colossal bronze doors at the new downtown Nashville Public Library. LeQuire works in a variety of sculptural materials, including wood, stone, gypsum, and cast bronze. He has completed a number of architectural, collaborative and site-specific projects since he began accepting commissions in 1981. He continues to be an extremely popular portrait artist. His portrait heads combine the energy, expressiveness and apparent mobility of a quick sketch with the permanence of bronze. In 2003, this in-demand sculptor opened the LeQuire Gallery.
September 18 – October 8 - The Arts Company and LeQuire Gallery
Putting the Figure Back into Art
Paintings by Greg Decker
Sculpture by Alan LeQuire
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