MIDDLE
Nashville
Highlight Events
March 1-4, 2023
The highlight events will include receptions and celebrations at select participating venues.
Additionally, note community venues listings on this page for exhibitions or special projects that respond to the theme of RE-PAIR.
NASHVILLE
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Curated by Eric Birkle
Elizabeth Turk
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Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Golden-winged Warbler, and King Rail, 2023, aluminum
Cheekwood has acquired a grouping of three aluminum sculptures by Elizabeth Turk for the Ann & Monroe Carell, Jr. Family Sculpture Trail. Drawing inspiration from the songs of three engendered Tennessee birds: the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, the Golden-winged Warble and the King Rail, the sculpture represents their songs through elegant totemic sound columns.
Turk’s Sound Columns strike at the very heart of the inaugural Tennessee Triannual theme RE–PAIR. The show serves both as a warning and an affirmation in that it commemorates and heals as well as renews the spirit and invigorates the body. Turk’s work, in the Cheekwood tradition, will fuse art and nature as her pieces become interwoven along the Ann & Monroe Carell Jr. Family Sculpture Trail.
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Curatorial Advisory Committee
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
Jerry Atnip
Alex Blau
Javier Castro
Sandra Ceballos
Wesley Clark
Farrar Cusomato
doughjoe
Michelle Eistrup
Jeannette Ehlers
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Dell Hamilton
Andy Harding
Jana Harper
Mark Barrett Hosford
Helina Metaferia
Ernesto Milian
Tahila Mintz
Elisheba Israel Mrozik
Danielle Myers
Nell
Claudia Padrón
Vesna Pavlović
Matthew Ritchie
Cristal Chanelle Truscott
Vadis Turner
John Warren
Cosmo Whyte
Antonia Wright -
More details coming soon
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Curated by Mark Scala
Jeffrey Gibson
Otobong Nkanga—
Note: "Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric" was organized by SITE Santa Fe and curated by Brandee Caoba. The presentation at the Frist Art Museum is overseen by Katie Delmez. -
Nigerian Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga creates tapestries, drawings, videos, sculptures, and performances that feature narratives of wounding and healing, making metaphorical links between the landscape and the traumatized human body.
Jeffrey Gibson is of Cherokee heritage and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. His vibrant work, which is represented in more than twenty permanent collections across the United States, is a call for Indigenous empowerment as well as queer visibility and environmental sustainability.
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Curated by Jennifer Richardson
Houston Cofield
Desmond Lewis
Lakesha Moore -
Artwork has been created specifically for this exhibit by painter Lakesha Moore, sculptor Desmond Lewis, and photographer Houston Cofield. Each of these artists embody the Tennessee Triennial’s theme of Re-Pair in uniquely significant ways. While varied in their media, these three artists are united in their deep examination of our ability to heal, suture, and recompose fractured forms. As Nashville’s oldest museum, the Parthenon continues to embody the city’s ideal as a center of art and culture by participating in this important exhibition.
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Curated by Jamaal Sheats
Alicia Henry
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Solo exhibition featuring work by Alicia Henry
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Curated by Raheleh Filsoofi
Beizar Aradini
Jasmine Baetz
Nuveen Barwari
Habiba El Sayed
Kimia Ferdowsi Kline
Laleh Mehran
Kris Rumman -
This curatorial project brings women scholars, curators, and visual artists together for a novel interpretation of the past and explores how descriptive text evolves into tangible expression. Through historical ceramic objects, the project focuses on colonial histories and narratives which have compromised the stories of women, especially women of color, and negated their various roles in art. Participants will discuss reinterpretation and reimagination of historical objects in institutional spaces and new strategic plans in curatorial practices in contemporary art.
