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Neutral Territory: Kit Reuther at David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Hamlett Dobbins’ recent work at David Lusk Gallery tells everything yet nothing
Carroll Cloar gallery at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art testifies to enduring popularity
Kit Reuther: Weights and Modules
Evolution: Twin/Jerry & Terry Lynn
Exhibits by Tim Crowder, Haynes Riley confound memory, perception
Backers of William Eggleston museum to seek alternative location
Forty years ago, William Eggleston exploded onto the art world. In spring 1976, as a relatively unknown photographer from Memphis, Eggleston was given a show at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit's catalog described Eggleston's revolutionary color images — sumptuous snapshots of commonplace life and objects — as "perfect." "Perfectly banal ... perfectly boring, certainly," came the riposte from sneering critics of the day.
Lifelong learning gaining importance
Hope is in the Details: Rob Matthews’ Painting Renaissance
Rob Matthews is painting again. An artist who once convinced himself that if work is fun, then it’s not work appears to have found himself in a work-related situation that is, in fact, fun. Unveiled back in April at David Lusk Gallery with the show Dawn-Watchers Watch for the Dawn, his new style I would argue is not altogether unrelated in process and aesthetics, but a fraternal twin, so to speak, to his once-signature painstakingly intricate graphite-on-paper drawings. Born from the same imagination yet inherently divergent, they cannot exist independently.