Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 will kick off its fall season with another kick-off of sorts. Coop Curatorial Collective’s inaugural group exhibition, My mind is telling me know but my body is telling me yes, will be on display Thursday, Aug. 25, though Friday, Oct. 7, and will feature the work of local artists and educators Jes Owings, Cliff Tierney, Terry Thacker, Kristi Hargrove and Ruth Zelanski. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Sept. 1, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Space 204 is located in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center at 25th Avenue South and Garland on the Vanderbilt University campus.
Coop Curatorial Collective is composed of area artists and educators working together to bring challenging exhibitions by emerging artists from across the country to Nashville’s downtown Arcade.
Taking a cue from Nashville’s historic status as the “Athens of the South” and the university affiliation of many Coop members, My mind is telling me… situates Raphael’s School of Athens with its rational architecture, Euclidean geometry and centrality of vision as a point of departure, according to exhibition curator Willard Tucker.
“These works explore the limits of the rational by disrupting a Cartesian delineation of the senses with materials such as bourbon, sassafras, graphite and wasp nests,” Tucker said. “Rather than eye candy or food for thought, these artists vibrate the whole nervous system with multisensory alignments that open up into new forms of embodied knowledge. They speak in experimental fragments and indeterminate processes that seldom resolve into the kind of conceptual reductions rewarded by academia.”
Space 204 is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All Space 204 events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Vanderbilt University Department of Art at (615) 343-7241 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/arts.
Contact: Diane Acree, (615) 343-7241
diane.acree@vanderbilt.edu