Artist Registry
Lain York
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Artist statement
The current work continues to deal with masks and ritualistic figures. I think of the images as portraits that exist somewhere between an interior landscape and assumed identity.
The surfaces carry the record of the many stages the paintings go through. They are many elements buried under the strata. This follows an African tradition of burying elements in order to activate their potential. This is an attempt to deal with the intangible through physical and ordered means.
Resume / bio
Education
- BA University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, 1990
Selected one-person exhibitions
- Directions to My House, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville AL, 2006
- Salient Point, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 2004
- For the Record, Maryville College, Maryville TN, 2004
- Conversations with Ouattara, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 2002
- Transference, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 2001
- Missing Pieces from the Ethnographic Museum, Tennessee Performing Arts, curated by The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville TN, 1998
- Unconscious Visions, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 1997
Selected group exhibitions
- Interim, Tulca Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland, 2005
- The Fragile Species, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville TN, 2005
- Touchless Apparatus, Chestnut Hosiery Mill, Nashville TN, 2005
- Fugitive, Belmont University, Nashville TN, 2005
- Gambit, Studio Sobro, Nashville TN, 2005
- Esteemed Colleagues, The Kennedy Center Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, 2005
- Scouts, Austin Peay University, Clarksville TN, 2004
- 52, Steel Pond Gallery, Portland OR, 2004
- Five Year Itch, The Fugitive Art Center, Nashville TN, 2004
- Ahead of Ourselves, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 2003
- Fugitive in Memphis, Delta Axis/Marshall Arts Center, Memphis TN, 2003
- Out of Our Minds, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 2003
- The Best of Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville TN, 2001 – jurried competition
- The Word in Art, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA, 2001
- The St. Andrews School, Sewanee TN, 2000
- The Only Difference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, 1999-2000 – collaborative outdoor installation
- The Surviving Trace, The Fugitive Art Center, Nashville TN, 1999 – collaborative installation
- New Art, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, 1999 – group show
- Arts On The River, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA, 1999 – jurried competition
- Artists for Oasis, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville TN, 1999
- New Work, Tennessee State University, Nashville TN, 1998
- Hypnogogia, The Parthenon, Nashville TN, 1997
- Artists for Oasis, The Arts Company, Nashville TN, 1997
- The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL, 1996 – jurried competition
Collections and commissions
- EMI Music, Los Angeles CA
- The Saint Andrews School, Sewanee TN
- The Savannah College of Art and Design
- Tennessee State Museum
- The Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
- Trans-Financial Bank, Nashville TN
- Private collections including Manuel and Janice Zeitlin
Awards and achievements
- Arts On The River, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA, 1998
- The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL, 1996
Bibliography
- Art Papers Nov/Dec 2005
- Number 54
- Number 53
- Nashville Scene 1/13/2005, 5/26/2005, 9/29/2005
- Nashville Scene 7/29/2004
- The Tennessean 11/28/2005
- NY Arts Magazine vol. 8 No. 9/10 September/October 2003
- New American Paintings vol. 46
- The Tennesean 2/03/2003
- The Tennesean 6/23/2000
- In Review 12/14/1999
- Art Papers Nov/Dec 1999
- Art Papers Sept/Oct 1998
- Nashville Scene 8/21/1997
- In Review 7/15/1997
- The Nashville Banner 7/12/1997
- The Tennessean 7/11/1997
- Art Papers July/Aug 1997
(Information last updated: 11 August 2006)
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