Renaissance Regional Art Exhibit Attracts Hundreds Throughout Southeast

Release Date: 9/17/2000. Expired: 10/13/2000

The opening reception of The 2nd Annual Renaissance Regional Art Exhibit will be Friday, Oct 13 from 5-7 p.m. at the Visual Arts Gallery of The Renaissance Center. This exhibit includes artists participating from Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

“Last year’s exhibit was a great success,” stated Curtis Southerland curator of the gallery. “Lisa Jennings, who just had a solo exhibit here in August, did very well in last year’s Regional Exhibit. She shared with me that was the turning point in her career.

“Sharon Rusch Shaver, our featured gallery artist for September, was the winner of the Award of Excellence at the ’99 Regional Exhibit,” Southerland continues. “This exhibit is important because it represents a large variety of work from artists in the southeastern states. It sets a standard for all future exhibits.”

Entries for the RRAE juried show contain many different mediums and styles of artwork. Each artist could submit up to five pieces for consideration by a judge. This year’s judge is Victoria Boone, an artist and consultant who holds a Masters Degree in Museum Administration from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama.

Boone has been actively involved with the arts in Tennessee and the Southeast for many years. She has served as a consultant, juror and/or panelist for the National Assembly of State Art Agencies, the National Endowment for the Arts Urban Design Program, the American Craft Council Conference and the International Ceramic Symposium.

In addition, she has served as a juror for the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Alabama’s Festival in the Park, the National Pen Women’s Art Competition at the Walton Center for the Arts in Arkansas, the Anderson Art Center’s Regional Art Competition in South Carolina, and the Capital Arts Alliance in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

In May, 1997, Boone started her own consulting firm in Nashville, Tennessee, called Boone Visual Arts. Since that time, she has developed or extended careers for more than a dozen artists and traveled across the southeast teaching courses in contractual agreements for artists, serving as a juror and designing galleries and programs for museums and art councils.

While she stays busy with all of these projects and her own business, Boone still finds time to create her own works in a variety of media. Through sculpture, painting and photography, she is always seeking new ways to express the importance of symbolism in our lives.

As the judge for this year’s exhibit, Boone has selected 40 pieces from the 296 entries to be displayed in the Visual Arts Gallery from Oct. 13 through Nov. 30. Of these, selected pieces will receive the Award of Excellence, 2 Judge’s Choice Awards, 4 Merit Awards and the City of Dickson Mayor and City Council Purchase Award.

“The art works chosen for this exhibition reflect the paradigm of 296 pieces of art,” stated Boone. “There is a mixture of realism and abstraction that directly reflects those entries. Some of the works are very complex and conceptual in nature, while others are simple in their aura of genius. All in all, the art selected for this exhibit are notable for their effective technical execution and original vision. The cohesive element that holds the realism and abstraction together is that they effectively inspire new vision of common objects or themes.”

The Renaissance Regional Art Exhibit is an annual exhibit and awards show open to artists from all over the southeast. This exhibit will be open for viewing beginning Oct. 13. For more information regarding this and other exhibits, please call (615) 740-5600.

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

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