Face to Face with Andrew Saftel
Andrew Saftel’s words are still hanging in the air as the drum roll begins. Standing in front of How Did We Get Here, a 2005 watercolor collage inspired by the evolution vs. intelligent-design debate, Saftel me...
Charles Cox | From Venice with Love
It is somewhat ironic that Nashville painter Charles Cox creates sweeping vistas of Venice’s Grand Canal, among other things, in a tiny upstairs room in the Bellevue condo he shares with Joyce, his wife of ...
Greg Decker | The Lyric Window
I will admit two prejudices at the outset of this piece: Romantic era poetry is one of my guilty pleasures, and I love the paintings of Greg Decker (I saw them first a year ago and soon began begging to introdu...
Eduardo Terranova | One More Cup of Coffee
Eduardo Terranova decided to learn English for one reason. “I wanted to be able to read Edgar Allan Poe in English. I had read it in Spanish, but I knew it didn’t translate the same.” A native of Colombia, ...
Spotlight | Surrealist Painter Jeff Faust
Jeff Faust, a California-based painter whose distinct painting style has become popular with Nashville art collectors, will return to Nashville for a solo show of new works this month at Gallery One. An Opening...
My Favorite Painting | The Reverend Howard Finster’s
Peeping Heads
by Teresa Blackburn, Food Prop Stylist
The first time I saw the artwork of the Reverend Howard Finster in the early 1980s I was totally enchanted. I had never seen anything like it...
Whitney Ferré | Creatively Fit
Whitney Ferré is an artist, teacher and author, but when you start to peel back the layers, you begin to unveil both the complicated woman and the woman with the amazingly uncomplicated theory. My journey w...
Cheekwood | American Impressionists
For centuries in Europe patronage of the arts and appreciation for the artfully arranged garden were inextricably intertwined. Wealthy dilettantes enjoyed a stroll in a perfectly trimmed maze of geometric h...