First Saturday Art Crawl set for 2/5

Fifth Avenue of the Arts, in downtown Nashville, presents its monthly First Saturday Art Crawl on February 5, from 6 to 9 p.m., with more than 20 art venues participating, including The Arts Company, The Rymer Gallery, Tinney Contemporary, Tennessee Art League, Estel Gallery, Twist Gallery and Art at the Arcade and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

February highlights include:

• The Rymer Gallery (233 Fifth Avenue, North) welcomes Georgia sculptor GorDon Chandler. For more than thirty years, he has employed materials from everyday things that he finds in his studio or neighborhood junkyards, including computer parts, horns, fenders, and machine parts, among other similar materials. His current sculptural work includes kimonos fashioned from steel drums and some larger than life figurative works. Inspired by traditional southern collectibles, his diverse pieces are constructed from welded steel, demonstrating Chandler's expansive knowledge of his materials and the possibilities they represent.

• Tinney Contemporary (237 Fifth Avenue, North) opens a new exhibition by Nashville-born, New York-based painter Brett De Palma. For over thirty years, he has been challenging and reinventing the idea of artistic freedom.  With each composition, he aims to discover and express the depth of character and thought through a synthesis of contradictory elements-hard edges and soft forms, sensuality and roughness, humor and darkness-De Palma's art represents real life in all its quirkiness.

• The Arts Company (215 Fifth Avenue, North) presents the Photography of Norman Lerner. His black and white photos depict historic moments in time of compelling ordinary people living in New York City. A self-taught photographer, the 83-year-old Lerner has followed a creative path his entire life pursuing his art, as well as being an editorial fashion and advertising photographer throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. His acclaimed work has been published in numerous national media outlets and represented in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, among other high profile art museums throughout the country.

"This month's First Saturday Art Craw is more diverse than ever with new and rare exhibits featuring vintage photography, humorous and character-driven paintings, and outsider sculpture," said Jeff Rymer, owner of The Rymer Gallery. "As we move forward into the New Year, 5^thAvenue of the Arts is excited about continuing to offer Middle Tennessee the most innovative, inventive and insightful artwork available."

Other highlights of the First Saturday Art Crawl include Art at the Arcade, located in the historic downtown Nashville Arcade accessible from 5^thAvenue. Participating galleries include Twist Gallery (Arcade #73), BelArt Gallery (Arcade #56), Mir Gallery (Arcade #44), and other boutique galleries. Beyond 5^thAvenue, a free shuttle transports visitors from the Arcade to 8^th Avenue and Broadway to visit Tennessee Art League (808 Broadway), and Estel Gallery (115 Rosa L. Parks Blvd). The free shuttle, provided by Nashville Downtown Partnership, makes frequent stops from 6 to 10 p.m.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts (919 Broadway) offers free architecture tours at 4:30 p.m. to kick off the Art Crawl (The Frist Center is open until 5:30 p.m.). Frist Center exhibits are free to members with a fee for non-members.

 

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