Event Category: Exhibitions

Cheekwood will feature four canine sculptures made entirely out of crayons by Nashville artist Herb Williams. Williams has spent his career creating sculptures from crayons. His sculptures have been placed in children’s hospitals, corporations, airports, museums and the White House. A Standard Poodle, Weimaraner, English Pointer and Labrador Retriever made exclusively using Crayola Crayons will be on view in the Frist Learning Center throughout August.

Photo courtesy of John Brown Photography.

From acclaimed artist Sean Kenney and produced by Imagine Exhibitions, this exhibition features 38 sculptures made from more than 800,000 LEGO® Bricks. Inspired by the Pop art movement, Kenney’s work blurs the boundaries between austere and the everyday, drawing from a belief that everything is interconnected. Sean Kenney’s Nature POP! Made with LEGO® Bricks explores the beauty of nature through highly stylized, colorful displays that stand in striking contrast with their surroundings. Presenting a playful spin on traditional sculptural art, this exhibition is an accessible experience for all ages designed to inspire visitors to create something wonderful themselves.

           

© Sean Kenney www.seankenney.com

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Michael D. McMath works in Venetian plaster and encaustics, also known as the technique of painting with hot wax. These two ancient practices have repeatedly found waves of resurgences throughout the course of art history. Mike enjoys the freedom and untamable nature of creating with these mediums. These methods take some of the control out of the artist’s hands and create many unforeseen and pleasant results. “While great detail can be obtained with this medium, I find the joy of working with encaustic is in the beautiful accidents,” he states. Mike has completed countless mural, faux finish, gold leaf and trompe l’oeil projects across the United States.

Hero image courtesy of Michael D. McMath.

Michael D. McMath (American, born 1966). Serenity, 2021. Venetian plaster.

The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework was the first large-scale museum examination of the artist’s career in over twenty years. A Nashville native and the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Edmondson remains one of the most important self-taught artists of the twentieth-century. This exhibition, accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue published by Vanderbilt University Press, drew upon new scholarship on Edmondson to reevaluate the full breadth of his sculptural output on its own terms and as part of a comprehensive practice.

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William Edmondson (American 1874-1951). Birdbath, 1938. Limestone. Gift of Sophia Ezzell Dobson. (right)

Louise-Dahl Wolfe spent 22 years at Harper’s Bazaar, working alongside Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, and Alexy Brodovitch to help redefine the look and feel of American fashion as we know it today. This exhibition, featuring a selection of works from Cheekwood’s holdings gifted by the photographer, highlights the strengths of Dahl-Wolfe’s body of work during her time at the magazine.

Manhattan Memories: Soaring Towers and Park Visions of Jefferson Hayman and A.C. Webb explores how two artists, generations apart, are captivated by New York City. Hayman, an artist who lives just outside of the island, explores the themes of nostalgia, and memory in his photographs. His works incorporate vintage or handmade frames, making the works small mementos of Manhattan. His work will be presented alongside works from Cheekwood’s permanent collection of etchings, drawings and paintings of cityscapes by A.C. Webb.

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A.C. Webb (American, 1888-1975), Chrysler Building Gargoyle and Tops of Buildings, c. 1930, gouache on paper, Gift of Ms. Ellenna Webb Douglass, 1984.14.51.