The Todd Art Gallery presents: The 2nd Nashville Art Gallery Expo
February 20–March 13, 2014
Opening Reception–Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 5-7 p.m.
Todd Hall, room 224A

Nashville’s influence on the Middle Tennessee region is untold, culturally, its artistic influence equally strong. The second gallery expo acknowledges that influence. More importantly, it recognizes a fine arts community ablaze in transition and accomplishment.

With that in mind, this expo incorporates non-traditional art spaces that have emerged over the last few years to become important contributors to the Nashville and Middle Tennessee art world. Those art spaces participating include Ground Floor Gallery and Seed Space. Far from being pushed aside Nashville’s traditional art gallery venues remain strong with Cumberland Gallery, the Arts Company, LeQuire Gallery, and Zeitgiest Art Gallery represented during the expo.

An opening reception is scheduled Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 5-7 p.m.

The Todd Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m-4:30 p.m. All exhibits, receptions, and lectures are free and open to the public. For questions, directions, or parking contact Eric V. Snyder at 615-898-5653 or email: eric.snyder@mtsu.edu.

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Above images: Ground Floor Gallery artists Mandy Brown and Heidi Martin Kuster

Nashville gallery contact information:

The Arts Company
215 5th Ave N
Nashville, TN 37219

Cumberland Gallery
4107 Hillsboro Cir
Nashville, TN 37215

Ground Floor Gallery
427 Chestnut Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

LeQuire Art Gallery
4304 Charlotte Ave,
Nashville, TN 37209

Seed Space
427 Chestnut Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

Zeitgeist Art Gallery
516 Hagan Street #100
Nashville, TN 37203

Join us this Saturday, December 7th somewhere between the hours of 12-8pm and walk down memory lane with Ground Floor Gallery’s artists, Mandy, Heidi and Janet as they open their studios and line the gallery walls with mini-retrospectives of their work plus participate in Tony and Erica’s live photo booth (from 5-8p).

Also, check out Porter Flea, Fort Houston, Zeitgeist and Cleft

 Don’t miss Seed Space’s CSArt Pick-Up party at Track 1, 8-11pm

Fix a Flat by Cathleen Windham

Descent by Richard Brouillet

Baby Cakes by Kelly Hider

Stamp-Ancestral Home by Miriam Norris Omura

Here’s your chance if you missed the opening last week. Join us tonight for a second opening along with our friends Threesquared and Seed Space. Hope to see you all there!

Great show and awesome attendance, thanks to everyone who came! Congratulations to Jake Weigel for “Best of Show.” Look for his upcoming solo exhibition in Spring/Summer 2014.

Conditionally Human

Warning by Mary Robinson

Join us for the artists’ reception of Conditionally Human from 6-9p tonight during the Arts & Music @ Wedgewood Houston crawl.

Elapsed by Ryan Hoevenaar

Object Lust by Liz Heller

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da! by Ross Turner

Help me congratulate the following artists for being selected by

Libby Rowe, Assistant Professor and Area Head of Photography at University of Texas @ San Antonio, for Ground Floor Galleries upcoming juried exhibition

Conditionally Human 

Artist Reception October 5th, 6-9pm

During Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston

October 1st-25th, MWF 4-6pm

Ground Floor Gallery + Studios

427 Chestnut Street

Ground Floor Gallery is delighted to have a solo exhibition by one of its original studio mates, Amanda Joy Brown. When I recently found Amanda pounding nails into the frames she had made to stretch her finished canvases to, there was a rhythm to the sound I wish I had recorded. It sounded much like her paintings: skilled, purposefully repetitive lines breaking free of their “constructed boundaries.”

In this series of paintings, a foundation of flat shapes and colors provides structure for dense, free-flowing lines. Values and colors create context for the line work, hiding and revealing figures as well as creating groupings, hierarchy and homogeny.

Originally from Fort Worth, TX, via Essexville, MI, Amanda Joy Brown is a contemporary painter/installation artist who works out of her studio in Nashville, TN. Studying for a BFA in Graphic Design at Harding University, Brown became interested in painting her sophomore year. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in 2006, and went on to earn her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Brown’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally with various shows in Michigan, North Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Switzerland and France. She has been published by Carnegie Hall. Amanda Joy Brown currently shows at Parker Art Gallery on Saint Simons Island, GA, and Galerie Ortus in Bonnieux, France.