Andrea Seals to display paintings in one-week show at Renaissance Center

Release Date: 3/16/2006. Expired: 4/8/2006

While her husband showcases his musical talents in the Performance Hall, Andrea Seals will be displaying her artistic skills in the rotunda of The Renaissance Center in Dickson.

Seals will exhibit her paintings in the center’s rotunda March 31-April 8. A reception with the artist will be at the close of the exhibit 6-7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 8, in conjunction with the opening of three new exhibits at the center.

Husband Dan Seals will be performing with brother Jim Seals in a concert to be taped for television Friday, March 31.

Andrea Seals is a graduate of the School of Art and Design in New York City and received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from Vermont College. She is currently teaching art through the Nashville-Metro Schools Community Education program.

Over the past 20 years, she has concentrated on drawing various subjects in graphite and pen and ink, as well as painting in various media. However, the last six years have been devoted to developing her artistic process by painting only in oils.

“I have managed to maintain an exciting love/hate relationship with this medium,” Seals says. “The love is generated by the exquisite richness and luminosity latent within it. The hate is generated by my evolving battle with achieving that depth in my work. This struggle and my instinctive sense about the current subject spurs me on.”

Seals says that presently her artistic vision is focused on seeing and creating compositions from simple arrangements of vessels and platters.

“Sometimes my landscapes have a concentration on a particular detail that exemplifies a simple life,” she says. “Exploring diverse textures enhances the idea that beauty is in simple things. Everyday life is intriguing to me whether it is near home or far away. I am really attracted to international themes as well as those that come closer to home.”

Seals paints in her studio by a creek at her Middle Tennessee home.

Exhibits at The Renaissance Center are open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and admission to the exhibits and receptions is free and open to the public.

For more information on the Seals exhibit or other displays at The Renaissance Center, contact curator Curtis Southerland at (615)740-5519 or .

The Renaissance Center is a fine arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

Visit the Visual Arts Gallery page for more about the gallery.

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