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future twists
Twist Art Gallery space #73 so far ......

2010
September: Kristina Arnold
October: Joseph Lupo
November: Shane Doling
December/January: Alexia Abegg

2011
February: Jaime Raybin and Ryan Hogan
April: Amelia Winger-Bearskin
May: Lauren Kussro


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October at Twist etc. spaces #75 and #77 2010

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First Saturday Art Crawl Nashville Tennessee
First Saturday Art Crawl
Sat, Aug 7. Various locations. 6 - 9 pm. Free. Art galleries throughout downtown host receptions and art openings every month. Most galleries serve free wine and other refreshments. Three free shuttles provide transportation among the galleries from 6 pm to 10 pm. See the shuttle map and gallery listing here. Listings below include additional information about some of the openings.



Art Crawl Dates in 2010:
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Saturday, January 8,


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Kristina Arnold at Twist Art Gallery
#73
September 2010



Kristina Arnold has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and has held artist residencies in both the US and abroad. Currently on the art faculty at Western Kentucky University, she received her M.F.A. in 2003 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and her BA in Public Health from Brown University. Before returning to art school at UT, Arnold worked for five years at Brown and Vanderbilt Universities conducting epidemiological research. She is interested in the relationships between illness, biomedicine and health, and the ways in which we manufacture, manipulate and control both our bodies and our environments.


Artist Statement

My story is familiar, my worries are shared. I look across the landscape of our south-eastern-mid-western border region and I see the shift that has been occurring. My husband is the first in five generations to leave the family farm. The farm remains but can no longer sustain a family, their income swallowed by the giant agribusiness industry. Next door, the high-dollar developments encroach upon his family’s land, so you, too, can buy a million dollar weekend cabin in the country.

I worry about the insustainability of the strange middle lands known as suburban America where we now live, where the strip mall and the lawn – that American invention and obsession – are king. We continue to corral, manipulate, pave over and remove our landscape. We fence it in or out.

We have an obsession with the perfect and the plastic. Our food, our environment and our bodies are chemically and genetically modified. The re-useable has been replaced by the throw-away. The handmade has been replaced by the mass-produced, and now that mass production is moving to China. We worry not as we don our pharmaceutical smiles.

How long might it be before the natural, the individual, the hand-made, the small, the imperfect, become a memory, a museum artifact? The new nature is attractive – but slick, difficult to digest and ultimately unsatisfying.

But I still hold out hope. I have always been a Pollyanna. There can be beauty in the ugly, and the sublime in the inconsequential.
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Matthew Carver at Twist etc. September 2010
#75 and #77


Vikings

This series of works was born out of illuminations on 13th c. profane works from Iceland, and the style is a more-or-less intuitive one only accidentally resembling a mix of techniques from french “tôle” and Mexican “maraca” traditions. The figuration is flat, the colors bold, and the handling quick. I wanted to experiment with the strength of the symbol and its power to talk about ultimate things. By turns the bright, almost absurd (are you team red or team blue?) depictions of violence and reprobation amuse and repulse, and remind us of the most widely felt ultimate, how “in the midst of earthly life, snares of death surround us.” In the binary duel to which every facet of the world is so readily reduced, no one is spared either guilt or gutting. The detached / placid faces of the actors serve a twofold purpose, both implicating our own removal from the horror of this present mortality and directing us to the contemplation of escape from it. In the last moment, consoled and disconsolate alike look away.