The 2001 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Winner Exhibition
[January 9-January 30, 2003]

This exhibition features works by John Powers, the 2001 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet award Winner. The Hamblet award winner is selected by a panel of outside jurors from an open invitational for graduating seniors held each spring. The award, a $17,000 grant to be used for travel and study during the year following graduation, culminates in this exhibition.

[Organized by Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery]

Lewis deSoto: Paranirvana (self-portrait)
[February 6– March 20, 2003]

Lewis deSoto’s Paranirvana (self-portrait) is a 26-foot-long, air-filled, fan-inflated sculpture inspired by a well-known statue of Buddha at Gal Vihara in Sri Lanka. In deSoto’s sculpture, he has replaced Buddha’s face with his own. By doing so, the artist portrays both himself and the reclining Buddha at the moment of death and supreme consciousness. Although the scale of deSoto’s work initially seems, like the issue of death, large and overpowering, the fragile materiality of the work, held up only by the pressure of an air fan, denies this. Picturing his face on the Buddha, deSoto asks himself and the viewer the universal question: How will we face the moment of our death?

[Organized by the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University]

A Word Made Flesh: Works by Lesley Dill
[March 29-June 5, 2003]

Organized and presented at Vanderbilt as the second in a series of exhibitions focusing on significant contemporary women artists, A Word Made Flesh will utilize the Gallery’s own collection of work by Dill, while including other important pieces she has created in recent years. These works, many of them massive, large-scale, photo-based tapestries, merge images of the human body with poetry by Emily Dickinson and others literally drawn on the figures themselves. Dill uses language and the materials of cloth, thread, and paper–often stained with tea–as a means to explore the female psyche both literally and metaphorically, producing works of art that are at once profound and moving.

[Organized by Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery]

SUMMER READING: ARTISTS' BOOKS IN NASHVILLE COLLECTIONS
[June 17–August 16, 2003]

Reading is a particularly apt summer activity. This exhibition will present a number of artist-made books, some simply illustrating important works of literature, others that are distinct, independent works of art. Also included will be a select group of press books–those books that are produced in limited editions. Using the Fine Arts Gallery’s Collection as well as other local collections, the artists in this presentation include, among others: Oskar Kokoschka, Dieter Roth, Richard Wilson, Henry Moore, Stanley William Hayter, John Christie, Elliot Ross, Ian Tyson, Nelson Howe, Axi Leskschek, Patrick Procktor, Emmitt Williams, Ann Brunskill and Berrigan Marx.

[Organized by Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery]

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