The Arts Company
Presents
“Snap Shots:
in poetry, painting, drawing, and photography”
featuring Robert Michie, Anne Goetze, Denise Stewart-Sanabria, and Pam Moxley
Opening during First Saturday
March 6, 6-9 pm
215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, North
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Nashville, TN—The Arts Company presents “Snap Shots,” featuring artists in poetry, Robert Michie; painting, Anne Goetze; drawing, Denise Stewart-Sanabria; and photography, Pam Moxley, with an opening reception scheduled during First Saturday, March 6, 6-9 pm, at 215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, North. The exhibition continues through March 26, during regular gallery hours, 10-5 pm, Tuesday-Saturday.
About the Exhibit
This exhibit fell into place in an interesting way, all beginning with the poetry of Robert Michie (1944-1990) and continuing with discovery of Denise Stewart-Sanabria’s series of large figurative drawings based on snap shots from vintage photography scrapbooks. We have added to that other new work just received at The Arts Company from continuing gallery artists Pam Moxley, photographer, and Anne Goetze, plein air painter. The work of all of these artists has the snap-shot feeling of specific moments in specific places. The presentation of these works together promises to make the gallery experience feel like walking through a photo album made of more than photographs.
About the Artists
Robert Michie, Poet
Robert Michie (1944-1990) was known as Tennessee’s Performing Poet in the 1980s, when he was assigned by the Tennessee Arts Commission as poet-in-the-schools throughout the state, receiving standing ovations from schoolchildren and adults alike. He was the Official Poet for the Summer Lights Festival for three years. His poems and the accompanying photographs of family, friends, and places he wrote about were presented by his estate as an exhibit in the Art in the Airport series in 1990. The Arts Company Press is working on a publication of a selection of his poetry later this year. The poems will take their place on gallery walls as literary snap shots from the work of a Tennessee poet.
Denise Stewart-Sanabria, figurative drawings
This is the first showing The Arts Company has presented of some of the work of this prolific Knoxville-based artist, whose body of work is vast and varied. The Company will be presenting different parts of her work over the next few months as a prelude to a body of work to be presented here in November. The “snap shot” drawings in this exhibit are derived from specific vintage photo albums. Some of them are framed within old window panes with people who lived there visible in the windows. Some of her stand-up life-size drawings will be included as well.
Pam Moxley, photography
Pam Moxley, an Atlanta-based artist, focuses on children, objects, and flowers, translating them through her own inventive techniques and then enlarging them into dramatic, glamorous images of specific moments and objects in time.
Anne Goetze/plein air paintings
Anne Goetze’s plein air paintings of Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, show her love of the place itself, but also show her increasing looseness of style in the kind of quick draw painting that plein air painters specialize in. Lots of color and lots of looseness of technique characterize the paintings of this popular artist. It’s all fresh and of the moment.
About The Arts Company / 2010
Established in December 1996, The Arts Company continues to be an arts cornerstone on Fifth Avenue in downtown Nashville and a prime destination for fresh, original, contemporary artwork in photography, painting, and sculpture, by artists from emerging to legendary. The gallery website, www.theartscompany.com <http://www.theartscompany.com/> , is available 24/7 for reviewing and previewing artist portfolios and gallery and outside exhibitions sponsored throughout the year by the gallery. In addition, the Company has recently launched a new enterprise, The Arts Company Press, dedicated to developing and publishing art-related book projects. Information on First Saturdays and Art After Hours is also available on the website, as well as regular entries on Facebook, Twitter, our Blog, and Flickr. Regular gallery hours are: 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday.
The Arts Company
Anne Brown, Owner & Director
215 Fifth Avenue of the Arts, North
Nashville, TN 37219 615-254-2040 / www.theartscompany.com <http://www.theartscompany.com/>