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NAAD presents Art After Hours

Presented by Nashville Association of Art Dealers (NAAD)

October 1, 2009

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Celebrating the end of summer and the beginning of fall,After After Hours, Nashville's first monthly city-wide art event, seeks to elevate awareness and support for the visual arts in Nashville. On the first Thursday of each month participating galleries and museums will be opening and previewing new shows and presenting art talks with insightful discussions. Click here for a NAAD gallery map.

This month’s Art After Hours will feature the following:
LeQuire Gallery (near Sylvan Park) celebrates its annual New Figurative Artists show and the Grey Gardens series of paintings by Marti Jones-Dixon. LeQuire will host an October Grey Gardens Trick or Treat featuring 7 different Big and Little Edie's handing out treats throughout the gallery spaces. Feel free to dress up in your favorite Edie costume, from a head scarf and white shoes to your best 40's bathing suit! Local Color (on Broadway) offers "Nashville, Artistically Speaking" featuring the painterly perspectives of Nashville through the eyes of local artists Jennifer Padgett, Lee Hamblen, Streater Spencer, Sandee Sander, among others; Midtown Gallery (downtown) continues Susan Graves’ “Naked Chefs,” a series of pottery sculptures of male and female chefs with bare backsides peeping out from their aprons; Rymer Gallery (downtown) presents Posterna: a new series of paintings by local artist and Nashville darling Julia Martin and Drawings by The Rabbit’s David Hellams; Parthenon, East Gallery (Centennial Park) exhibits work by local photographer Tamara Reynolds based on her journey through religious and spiritual places in Nashville. (Admission fee for non-members);  Tinney Contemporary (downtown) previews the new exhibition "Of Sight and Sentiment," featuring the works by Todd Gordon and Julian Davis; TN State University’s Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery (downtown) exhibits two visiting artists for a joint exhibition of new works by Carl Pope and Aisha Cousins, with an art talk at 6pm; Zeitgeist (Hillsboro Village) continues its discussion series Oblique Strategies with nuclear physicist Victoria Greene, Ph.D.; The Arts Company (downtown Nashville) previews "Nashville's Architectural Treasures," large-scale photographs by Bob Schatz, selected from a new book soon-to-be-released; Auld Alliance Gallery (Westgate Center, Hwy 100) will feature contemporary artist Edie Maney, who will do a demonstration of her painting technique and explain her approach to creating a new piece of art. We will also have a blank canvas and paints for people to pick up a brush and "get a feel" of applying paint to canvas. Refreshments will be served; Cumberland Gallery (Green Hills) presents paintings by Michael Greenspan and James Lavadour. Special speaker will be Jochen Wierich, PhD, Curator of Art, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art. He will be discussing Northwest art, American Indian Art and landscape painting, as well as the work of James Lavadour at 7pm; Finer Things Gallery (near Fairgrounds) continues its exhibit of Bell Buckle artist Sherri Warner Hunter. The artist will be discussing her recently completed large-scale work for the Governor's Mansion; Frist Center for the Visual Arts (downtown) will offer free music in the main lobby (admission fee to the galleries for non-members); Gallery One (Belle Meade Galleria) presents “Intersections: Between Dreams and Memories,” a collaborative exhibition featuring the mixed-media works of Laura Schiff and imaginative photo-encaustic images by Maggie Hasbrouck; Gallery Simin (Germantown) showcases the international photography of Simin Soroush.

NAAD is a membership organization of respected and established art dealers from throughout Nashville. Its 36 members and associate members are dedicated to promoting and maintaining the highest degree of professionalism in business conduct, and collectively aim to increase support for the visual arts in Nashville.