Frist Center exhibitions feature Goldsworthy
“Andy Goldsworthy: Mountain and Coast Autumn into Winter” will remain on exhibition through Oct. 27. “Animating Stone: Inuit Art from the Davenport Collection” will be on view through Nov. 3.
“These two exhibitions are unified by their reliance on and respect for nature and natural materials,” said Chase W. Rynd, Frist Center executive director.
During Goldsworthy’s long forays into various uninhabited sites around the world, he creates sculptures and ephemeral arrangements using natural materials like wood, twigs, leaves, dirt, ice, snow and stones. He documents these temporary constructions in stunningly attractive, large-scale photographs, then leaves them to naturally deteriorate from the effects of the elements, so that the photograph is all that remains of the work of art. He also produces sculptures that may be exhibited in galleries.
The 34 photographs and four large sculptural works represented in “Andy Goldsworthy: Mountain and Coast Autumn into Winter” were created in Japan during the artist’s residency in 1987. Prior to this exhibition, this series has never been seen in the United States.
“Animating Stone: Inuit Art from the Davenport Collection” features 22 carvings created in eight Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s through the 1990s. Half of the 18 artists in this exhibition are from Cape Dorset, an Inuit community on the south coast of Baffin Island, generally considered the foremost art center in the Arctic.
In addition to these two exhibitions, “Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960” remains on display in the Ingram Gallery on the Main Level of Frist Center, and a multi-media installation by Japanese artist Rie Oishi occupies the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery. Both exhibitions remain through Sept. 15.
Beginning Oct. 11, the Frist Center will host “Whistler, Sargent and Steer; Impressionists in London from Tate Collections.” The show, organized exclusively for the Frist Center by the internationally renowned Tate in London, will remain on exhibition through Jan. 5, 2003. A companion exhibition, “James McNeill Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision,” featuring works on paper from the collections of the University of Michigan Art Museum, will run concurrently.
“Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck and their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will open Nov. 26 and remain on exhibition in the Upper level gallery through Jan. 26, 2003.
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, national and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions.
Gallery admission is free for visitors 18 and under and to Frist Center members. Admission for adults is $6.50, and for seniors and college students with identification, admission is $4.50. It is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; extended hours Thursdays until 8 p.m.; and Sundays 1 to 5 p.m. Visit online www.fristcenter.org or call 615-244-3340.