The Last Roll: Kodachrome 64
4 photographers pay their respects in light of the death of film
Twist Art Gallery #58
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Time:
6:00pm - 9:00pm
In conjunction with the FIRST SATURDAY Art Crawl, Anthony Doling, Jonathan Rodgers, Scott Simontacchi, and Elizabeth Streight present photographs using a dying medium, Kodachrome Film.
Kodak announced only several months ago its discontinuation of the highly revered and well-loved slide film. Currently, only one lab (located in rural Kansas) will officially process this film.
Twist Art Gallery presents this funeral service of sorts...
"Peace, love, and Kodachrome!"
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Twist art show in 1979 september 12th 2009
Life on mars? maybe , come back in time with the Twist Art Gallery to 1979 for one night only.....
Twist Art Gallery and Welcome to 1979 studios present a showing of visual art in an audio environment September 12th 2009 starting around 7 pm till whenever we feel like it. expect wax tracks and snacks as usual for the studio and a dance party!!
visual artists include:
Liz Streight
Mandy Stoller
Nick Stolle
Kelly Bonadies
Beth Gilmore
and others....
about the venue:
http://www.myspace.com/welcometo1979
Twist Art Gallery and Welcome to 1979 studios present a showing of visual art in an audio environment September 12th 2009 starting around 7 pm till whenever we feel like it. expect wax tracks and snacks as usual for the studio and a dance party!!
visual artists include:
Liz Streight
Mandy Stoller
Nick Stolle
Kelly Bonadies
Beth Gilmore
and others....
about the venue:
http://www.myspace.com/welcometo1979
Thursday, August 13, 2009
A shift in perspective yields hidden meaning in Angela Burks' arresting work
A shift in perspective yields hidden meaning in Angela Burks' arresting work
Nashville Scene
By David Maddox
Published on August 12, 2009 at 8:10am
Details:
Paintings By Angela Burks
Through Aug. 29 at Twist Art Gallery
Artworks can have an uncanny ability to change character in front of your eyes. An initial impression, perhaps triggered by the most vivid element in the piece, may suggest one set of qualities—hot or cold, violent or peaceful—or subject matter that reflects either world events or private dramas. As you spend time staring at the thing, sometimes it turns 180 degrees, and what seemed dark now seems light. The paintings by Angela Burks at Twist Gallery play these games. Initial impressions of violence give way to something much more measured, and overtones of historical cataclysms blend into portraits of everyday life.
This show at Twist marks the first solo show in Nashville by Burks, a faculty member in the art department at MTSU, and it also marks Twist gallery's third year of operations. Twist has become a reliable source for just this sort of opportunity—a thorough look at local artists who have developed a mature body of work.
By virtue of size and composition, two paintings of a person seated in a simple interior may draw a viewer's attention first. In both, the person's face explodes into bloody slashes of red. It seems like a premonitory forensic picture, catching the person in a calm moment, but imagining violence to come.
This is a case where getting closer changes the painting. The red colors are an undercoat, covering much of the canvas and seeping out in seams of windows or the outlines of a baby doll. Seen this way, the red elements read like a sketch of the body's interior musculature, as if Burks started with illustrations from Gray's Anatomy and then layered on skin. From this perspective, the painting is not a premonition of violence, but a piece of careful, almost scientific construction. The quiet interiors are not about to erupt in noise and destruction, and the vivid colors reveal life underlying the surface, not death to come.
Those two paintings are older. The more recent pieces in the show continue to work with processes of rupture, but move into different images and materials. They are painted on quilted or floral print fabric, and several combine images of the female body with discordant elements like train wheels, planes or ants. The most striking take the fabric out of a frame and present it hanging loosely.
One set of paintings uses a whole sheet of fabric, hung unframed but stiffened with glue. They show a woman's body, but in each case her head is not visible—either obliterated by a thicket of trains where her head would be, or cut off by the framing of the image. The flesh is intimate, but the person is anonymous; the trains and planes intrude into the quietness of a human body at rest.
Another set of paintings goes a step further by working with shredded pieces of fabric. After dipping them in glue and letting them take a shape, Burks paints on a bit of a female body, like arms crossed against the chest. Over this layer she applies prints of ants—producing a woman's image atop shreds of household detritus, her space literally invaded. The juxtaposition suggests someone holding on to her sense of self in the face of decay.
Burks got her MFA from Tulane, and it is tempting to see these paintings in reference to New Orleans and the destruction left by Katrina, whose floodwaters scattered the ruined contents of people's private lives. But this is another case where first impressions give way to something quieter. The combination of materials and images suggests the way the physical and social lives of women intertwine with life's inevitable imperfections. No one needs a cataclysm like Katrina to have an experience of fragmentation, decay and unwanted intrusion.
What's more, the sense of these paintings as fragments gives way to a more integrated vision. The loose fabric, like a sheet, begins to take on the shape of the bodies it covers. Any time a painting betrays its three-dimensionality with visible variations in surface depth, it moves toward sculpture. Burks' bits of stiffened fabric are objects as much as images. In the case of the full sheets, they resemble nothing so much as the Shroud of Turin, the sheet of cloth said to retain the impression of Christ's dead body.
The shredded paintings come across as relics in a more secular context—scraps of material culture awaiting excavation. The shredded fabric takes on complex shapes that look more like the shape of a body, not just something to cover it. Here, a woman's body converges with cast-off bits of domestic life and even invading pests. In the end, what seems to telegraph disintegration unveils a process that deeply integrates shapes and images. Angela Burks' paintings may touch upon decomposition, but in truth they compose themselves as you look.
Email arts@nashvillescene.com.
Nashville Scene
By David Maddox
Published on August 12, 2009 at 8:10am
Details:
Paintings By Angela Burks
Through Aug. 29 at Twist Art Gallery
Artworks can have an uncanny ability to change character in front of your eyes. An initial impression, perhaps triggered by the most vivid element in the piece, may suggest one set of qualities—hot or cold, violent or peaceful—or subject matter that reflects either world events or private dramas. As you spend time staring at the thing, sometimes it turns 180 degrees, and what seemed dark now seems light. The paintings by Angela Burks at Twist Gallery play these games. Initial impressions of violence give way to something much more measured, and overtones of historical cataclysms blend into portraits of everyday life.
This show at Twist marks the first solo show in Nashville by Burks, a faculty member in the art department at MTSU, and it also marks Twist gallery's third year of operations. Twist has become a reliable source for just this sort of opportunity—a thorough look at local artists who have developed a mature body of work.
By virtue of size and composition, two paintings of a person seated in a simple interior may draw a viewer's attention first. In both, the person's face explodes into bloody slashes of red. It seems like a premonitory forensic picture, catching the person in a calm moment, but imagining violence to come.
This is a case where getting closer changes the painting. The red colors are an undercoat, covering much of the canvas and seeping out in seams of windows or the outlines of a baby doll. Seen this way, the red elements read like a sketch of the body's interior musculature, as if Burks started with illustrations from Gray's Anatomy and then layered on skin. From this perspective, the painting is not a premonition of violence, but a piece of careful, almost scientific construction. The quiet interiors are not about to erupt in noise and destruction, and the vivid colors reveal life underlying the surface, not death to come.
Those two paintings are older. The more recent pieces in the show continue to work with processes of rupture, but move into different images and materials. They are painted on quilted or floral print fabric, and several combine images of the female body with discordant elements like train wheels, planes or ants. The most striking take the fabric out of a frame and present it hanging loosely.
One set of paintings uses a whole sheet of fabric, hung unframed but stiffened with glue. They show a woman's body, but in each case her head is not visible—either obliterated by a thicket of trains where her head would be, or cut off by the framing of the image. The flesh is intimate, but the person is anonymous; the trains and planes intrude into the quietness of a human body at rest.
Another set of paintings goes a step further by working with shredded pieces of fabric. After dipping them in glue and letting them take a shape, Burks paints on a bit of a female body, like arms crossed against the chest. Over this layer she applies prints of ants—producing a woman's image atop shreds of household detritus, her space literally invaded. The juxtaposition suggests someone holding on to her sense of self in the face of decay.
Burks got her MFA from Tulane, and it is tempting to see these paintings in reference to New Orleans and the destruction left by Katrina, whose floodwaters scattered the ruined contents of people's private lives. But this is another case where first impressions give way to something quieter. The combination of materials and images suggests the way the physical and social lives of women intertwine with life's inevitable imperfections. No one needs a cataclysm like Katrina to have an experience of fragmentation, decay and unwanted intrusion.
What's more, the sense of these paintings as fragments gives way to a more integrated vision. The loose fabric, like a sheet, begins to take on the shape of the bodies it covers. Any time a painting betrays its three-dimensionality with visible variations in surface depth, it moves toward sculpture. Burks' bits of stiffened fabric are objects as much as images. In the case of the full sheets, they resemble nothing so much as the Shroud of Turin, the sheet of cloth said to retain the impression of Christ's dead body.
The shredded paintings come across as relics in a more secular context—scraps of material culture awaiting excavation. The shredded fabric takes on complex shapes that look more like the shape of a body, not just something to cover it. Here, a woman's body converges with cast-off bits of domestic life and even invading pests. In the end, what seems to telegraph disintegration unveils a process that deeply integrates shapes and images. Angela Burks' paintings may touch upon decomposition, but in truth they compose themselves as you look.
Email arts@nashvillescene.com.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Nashville Galleries Examiner ...No terrible twos about it!
No terrible twos about it!
July 30, 3:22 Pm
Chuck Beard
Nashville Galleries Examiner
There won’t be any clowns in outrageous get-ups or fake candles that never seem to go out no matter what technique you try to make your dreams a reality, but during this week’s First Saturday Gallery Crawl, August 1st, from 6-9pm, Twist Art Gallery will informally be celebrating its 3rd birthday with art and entertainment galore! You don’t have to bring a gift, just yourself and possibly all of your friends, but there is a good chance that you won’t leave empty-handed.
It has already been three years since Twist began on August 6th, 2006. To celebrate the huge event, Twist is not opening one BUT two new shows: a Mail Art show in Twist #58 and paintings by Angela Burks! It certainly has been a rollercoaster ride to get where Twist is today from humble beginnings, but Twist doesn’t seem to see any end in sight just yet. In fact, Joe Nolan recently reported for Nashville Public Radio on the diverse ways of how Twist Art Gallery is proving particularly innovative in ways it is branching out through technology and attracting potential fans and buyers during a time where art business sales are down.
Alongside Angela’s show opening, Twist is also opening their Love Letters to the Post Office; a Mail Art show. Lately, the Arcade Post Office has had close-calls with possibly having to close from orders by the U.S. Postal Service. Heartfelt for the art of handwritten letters and postcards, Twist is trying to help the cause against a possible lost art form by having loving postcards that were sent in and postmarked before July 24th to be displayed and sold at the Gallery Crawl for $5 a piece to support future Twist exhibitions in the Arcade.
Also on tap for the festive event will be the availability of the pictured, limited-edition Twist commemorative posters created by local artist Laura Braisden in both full-color or black and white options. You’ll need to arrive early because there are only 100 of those posters made specifically for this birthday party. There will be other fun surprises and souvenirs in store and more!
Again, I was told there would be no clowns in outrageous get-ups. On the bright side, there will be stellar music by Nashville’s own sensation, Eastern Block, to accompany all of the visual art inside the Arcade starting at 7pm. Trust me; this will be one birthday party you won’t want to miss! Did I mention no clowns?!
July 30, 3:22 Pm
Chuck Beard
Nashville Galleries Examiner
There won’t be any clowns in outrageous get-ups or fake candles that never seem to go out no matter what technique you try to make your dreams a reality, but during this week’s First Saturday Gallery Crawl, August 1st, from 6-9pm, Twist Art Gallery will informally be celebrating its 3rd birthday with art and entertainment galore! You don’t have to bring a gift, just yourself and possibly all of your friends, but there is a good chance that you won’t leave empty-handed.
It has already been three years since Twist began on August 6th, 2006. To celebrate the huge event, Twist is not opening one BUT two new shows: a Mail Art show in Twist #58 and paintings by Angela Burks! It certainly has been a rollercoaster ride to get where Twist is today from humble beginnings, but Twist doesn’t seem to see any end in sight just yet. In fact, Joe Nolan recently reported for Nashville Public Radio on the diverse ways of how Twist Art Gallery is proving particularly innovative in ways it is branching out through technology and attracting potential fans and buyers during a time where art business sales are down.
Alongside Angela’s show opening, Twist is also opening their Love Letters to the Post Office; a Mail Art show. Lately, the Arcade Post Office has had close-calls with possibly having to close from orders by the U.S. Postal Service. Heartfelt for the art of handwritten letters and postcards, Twist is trying to help the cause against a possible lost art form by having loving postcards that were sent in and postmarked before July 24th to be displayed and sold at the Gallery Crawl for $5 a piece to support future Twist exhibitions in the Arcade.
Also on tap for the festive event will be the availability of the pictured, limited-edition Twist commemorative posters created by local artist Laura Braisden in both full-color or black and white options. You’ll need to arrive early because there are only 100 of those posters made specifically for this birthday party. There will be other fun surprises and souvenirs in store and more!
Again, I was told there would be no clowns in outrageous get-ups. On the bright side, there will be stellar music by Nashville’s own sensation, Eastern Block, to accompany all of the visual art inside the Arcade starting at 7pm. Trust me; this will be one birthday party you won’t want to miss! Did I mention no clowns?!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
today is your birthday....
You're Not Helping and Twist's Birthday Bash
It's Your Birthday
Joe Nolan
Nashville Scene
Time flies when you are having fun, and Twist Gallery founders Caroline Carlisle and Beth Gilmore have been having a blast growing their presence in the Downtown Arcade and becoming one of the must-see spaces on the First Saturday Gallery Crawl. To celebrate their third birthday, Twist will feature two new shows in each of its Arcade spaces. 73 Arcade will feature paintings by Angela Burks whose latest paintings have introduced graphic elements into her realistic portraits. Twist's space at 58 Arcade will feature a mail art show called Love Letters to the Post Office that is dedicated to the Arcade's 106 year old post office which has recently been threatened with closing. Try to snag a copy of Laura Baisden's great birthday poster and get there early for cake!
Reception, also celebrating Twist's anniversary, 6-9 p.m., Aug. 1.
It's Your Birthday
Joe Nolan
Nashville Scene
Time flies when you are having fun, and Twist Gallery founders Caroline Carlisle and Beth Gilmore have been having a blast growing their presence in the Downtown Arcade and becoming one of the must-see spaces on the First Saturday Gallery Crawl. To celebrate their third birthday, Twist will feature two new shows in each of its Arcade spaces. 73 Arcade will feature paintings by Angela Burks whose latest paintings have introduced graphic elements into her realistic portraits. Twist's space at 58 Arcade will feature a mail art show called Love Letters to the Post Office that is dedicated to the Arcade's 106 year old post office which has recently been threatened with closing. Try to snag a copy of Laura Baisden's great birthday poster and get there early for cake!
Reception, also celebrating Twist's anniversary, 6-9 p.m., Aug. 1.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
IN THE tennessean...Twist, it's three years and counting
The Tennessean
July 26, 2009
For Twist, it's three years and counting
Twist Art Gallery is opening shows in both its Arcade spaces during next Saturday's Art Crawl: paintings by Angela Burks in 73 and Love Letters to the Post Office, a collection of postcards created and sent to the gallery in an effort to save the Arcade post office, in 58. Twist is also celebrating its third anniversary from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday.
"There will definitely be cake," says Twist co-owner Beth Gilmore, along with Eastern Block performing downstairs and a limited edition third anniversary poster.
Designed by Laura Baisden, the poster features the familiar pink and green color scheme and "elephant" from Twist's logo. Embracing the elephant is just one example of how Gilmore and partner in art Caroline Carlisle have gone with the flow when it comes to their gallery.
After being introduced by mutual friend Lain York from Zeitgeist Gallery, Gilmore and Carlisle decided on their Arcade space a week or so later, becoming the second of two galleries there. Their name came from lists each compiled.
"I was just thinking it needs to be an action word and it needs to be short," Gilmore says. She also liked the symmetry of "twist." Andee Rudloff and Stacey Irwin designed the logo. "It's twist ties," Gilmore explains. "It does look like an elephant and we have come to love that."
They also love shows that completely transform their spaces. Lauren Kussro's 2007 installation of paper flowers suspended from the ceiling remains one of Carlisle's favorites. Gilmore remembers the Whole Milk show, also from 2007, featuring four Minneapolis-based artists who also created a 30-foot-by-80-foot mural on a wall between the Viridian condo high-rise and Downtown Presbyterian Church.
"This has really been a nice creative break," Carlisle says. She says low rent in the Arcade allows them to focus on more than being a commercial venture. "It's nice when we sell things and we hope to sell things, but it's not the whole reason we exist."
Love Letters to the Post Office in Twist 58 and Angela Burks' paintings at Twist 73 remain on view through Aug. 29 in the Arcade. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. There is no admission fee. For information, call 888-535-5286 or go to http://www.twistartgallery.com">www.twistartgallery.com
— MICHELLE JONES, FOR THE TENNESSEAN.
July 26, 2009
For Twist, it's three years and counting
Twist Art Gallery is opening shows in both its Arcade spaces during next Saturday's Art Crawl: paintings by Angela Burks in 73 and Love Letters to the Post Office, a collection of postcards created and sent to the gallery in an effort to save the Arcade post office, in 58. Twist is also celebrating its third anniversary from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday.
"There will definitely be cake," says Twist co-owner Beth Gilmore, along with Eastern Block performing downstairs and a limited edition third anniversary poster.
Designed by Laura Baisden, the poster features the familiar pink and green color scheme and "elephant" from Twist's logo. Embracing the elephant is just one example of how Gilmore and partner in art Caroline Carlisle have gone with the flow when it comes to their gallery.
After being introduced by mutual friend Lain York from Zeitgeist Gallery, Gilmore and Carlisle decided on their Arcade space a week or so later, becoming the second of two galleries there. Their name came from lists each compiled.
"I was just thinking it needs to be an action word and it needs to be short," Gilmore says. She also liked the symmetry of "twist." Andee Rudloff and Stacey Irwin designed the logo. "It's twist ties," Gilmore explains. "It does look like an elephant and we have come to love that."
They also love shows that completely transform their spaces. Lauren Kussro's 2007 installation of paper flowers suspended from the ceiling remains one of Carlisle's favorites. Gilmore remembers the Whole Milk show, also from 2007, featuring four Minneapolis-based artists who also created a 30-foot-by-80-foot mural on a wall between the Viridian condo high-rise and Downtown Presbyterian Church.
"This has really been a nice creative break," Carlisle says. She says low rent in the Arcade allows them to focus on more than being a commercial venture. "It's nice when we sell things and we hope to sell things, but it's not the whole reason we exist."
Love Letters to the Post Office in Twist 58 and Angela Burks' paintings at Twist 73 remain on view through Aug. 29 in the Arcade. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. There is no admission fee. For information, call 888-535-5286 or go to http://www.twistartgallery.com">www.twistartgallery.com
— MICHELLE JONES, FOR THE TENNESSEAN.
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