Watkins College of Art at Belmont University
Address: Leu Gallery, located in the Bunch Library, 1907 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212
Dates: January 27 - February 24, 2023
Hours: Monday - Saturday 9am - 4:30pm, Sunday 1 - 5pm
MFA alumni from the Watkins College of Art at Belmont University respond to the theme of RE-PAIR by María Magdalena Campos-Pons in Re-Cover, Re-Form | MFA alumni response.
Chuck Ärlund – I am a photographer living in the Nashville TN area. Murfreesboro to be exact. I teach photography at Middle Tennessee State University. I started photographing musicians back in 1988 when I also was a member of an Aqua Net hard rock band. Since I am a musician and performer, I understand how much visuals mean to artists and how to create an image that best suits the style of music they make or preform.
Heriberto Palacio III – I am an Afro Hispanic who is also apart of the LGBTQIA+ community and identies as a pansexual man. I was born and raised in Bronx, New York until my family relocated to Atlanta, GA during my high school years, giving me an introduction to southern culture. I studied at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN earning my BFA in Art and continued my education at Watkins College of Art in Nashville, TN earning an MFA in Visual Arts in 2020. Presently, I am a Doctoral student at in the Fine Arts Doctoral Program at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, where I will earn my Fine Arts PhD in Critical Studies & Artistic practice through interdisciplinary scholarship and research.
Lisa Bachman Jones – Working across disciplines, Jones investigates the subtle movements of the solid and the fixed. She looks at how the permanence of things shifts over time. From a position of care, she addresses social, political, and economic issues through her art practice. She has partnered with museums, galleries, and educational institutions as an artist, educator, and curator. Her work has been recognized with grants and awards, and has been acquired by corporate and private collections. This year, she held a solo exhibition at The Parthenon Museum and participated in a juried exhibition at The Frist Art Museum. Jones currently teaches art for MNPS and focuses on her research and studio practice.
Maddie Ryan – Maddie Ryan is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on forgotten and abandoned locations. Maddie's work examines the experience of place via her interest in contemporary ruins and the everyday. She earned her bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from Indiana University and received her MFA in 2021 from Watkins College of Art at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has been displayed in the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Cape Cod, Maryland, and the Watkins College of Art, Curry Gallery's Annual Currey Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee. Ryan presently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she also teaches and works.
Danny Broadway – Danny Broadway’s work portrays movement, light, and emotion in colorfully expressive ways. With a love of experimentation, he uses dierent types of mediums and imagery to connect with the soul of humanity. Danny’s works have found homes in a variety of corporate and private collections and settings.
Le Dillingham – Le M. Dillingham is a goofball with morbid preoccupations. Le is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers the folded space between the melancholic, tender, and futile. They are not afraid of sentiment and self-reection. Le was born in Baltimore and currently lives in Nashville, TN. They are currently teaching at the Watkins College of Art at Belmont University.
Allie Horick – Allie Horick is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in her hometown of Nashville, TN. Her work broadly investigates relationships between people and the environments they inhabit. She is interested in how ecological principles can be applied as metaphor and guide to various aspects of life. Her most recent body of work, Ecology of Mourning, utilizes a variety of processes and materials, including video, installation, sculpture, and the photographic image, to explore how the principles of interdependence, relationality, and adaptation function as a framework for understanding personal loss and grief.
Jackie Lucas – Photographer living in Louisville, KY.
