Zeitgeist Gallery presents:
Justin Terry, Hush the Static
March 4 – 27, 2010
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 4, 5-8pm
ADDRESS: Zeitgeist Gallery
1819 21st Avenue S.
Nashville, TN 37212
Zeitgeist is pleased to open its exhibition season with the first of a series of solo shows. The gallery, in conjunction with the Nashville Association of Art Dealers Art After Hours, will be hosting artist receptions on first Thursdays.
Hush the Static is Justin Terry’s latest body of work and features lyrical abstract paintings which subtly reference ideas of temporality and mark the muted yet incessant flux of time. Mr. Terry has been producing these works since 2007.
According to the artist, the stillness inherent to a painting is a welcome contradiction to the incessant busyness that new media formats have brought to our culture. His works evolve out of the process, harkening the squeegeed abstracts Gerhard Richter as well as the meditative spaces of Mark Rothko. The works are made by dragging paint across a rigid support, lifting it off, and putting it back down. Two pieces in the show have been on view at the Nashville International Airport since September, 2009. Mr. Terry also cites musical sources such as Sonic Youth, The Raconteurs, and Miles Davis as being influential to his work. Mr. Terry says, “(when looking at a painting) a type of seeing more akin to listening occurs. The interplay of marks and color create a topography of resonance, a field in which the eye may roam.”
Justin Terry grew up in Nashville, TN and graduated from the University School of Nashville. He recently completed a double Masters program at Pratt Institute (MS – Theory, Criticism, and History of Art, Design, and Architecture, and MFA – Fine Arts). He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
New work from Richard Painter will be featured in a supporting showing of gallery artists. Please note Richard’s show at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Center running through March 26.
Zeitgeist Gallery is located in Hillsboro Village. For more information, please contact Janice Zeitlin or Lain York at 256-4805 and visit our website at: www.zeitgeist-art.com <http://www.zeitgeist-art.com/>
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Gallery hours are 11am to 5pm Tuesday through Saturday.