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Angela Burks at Twist in August

Five+5 art at Twist opening tonight

Nashville Galleries Examiner

Nashville Galleries Examiner
Chuck Beard

http://www.examiner.com/x-8663-Nashville-Galleries-Examiner

My, oh my, it’s already that time again for another downtown Nashville First Saturday Art Crawl. This Saturday, June 11th, the sun will set and the lights will turn on to shine on some of the finest artwork around. It’s by no means ‘two for Tuesday’ being that it is already Thursday and all, but I would like to take a moment to let you in on two locations-aside from your regular art spots all over town-that are sure to inspire you.
For sheer numbers and timing, you certainly don’t want to miss out on seeing two simultaneous exhibitions at the same place, both at the Twist Art Gallery. First on the list at Twist, Five + 5, is a group exhibition that is making a special stop in Nashville from July 11th – 25th having already spent a month in Tampa, Florida and Atlanta Georgia and heading towards Fresno, California after departing Music City. Including work from artists such as Cameron Brian, Robbie Land, Diran Lyons, Jasmine Schurrer, and Atsushi Tameda among five others is an effort featuring unframed works on paper from (5) art-affiliated artists and five additional guest artists.
Second on the list at Twist might be a favorite pastime of many people but with a change of the name. I’m not sure what you used to call it, I know my names were changed some what, but also starting this Saturday and running through the 25th of July is WE ARE GOING TO SPEND THE NIGHT AT MEEMAW AND POP-POP’S. This exhibition will focus on the work by artist Nick Stolle. A recent Watkins grad, Nick’s current show will center on themes of shame, longing, and hope.
Speaking of hope and major themes, my advice is to go out and see hope firsthand in person as seen in the picture above. All you have to do is make the quick hop on over to Tinney Contemporary any time between 6-9 pm to witness Donny Smutz’s Out of My Mind. An up and coming, self-taught, and often controversial, artist, one of Donny’s paintings in an exhibition last year was actually slashed with a box-cutter by a visitor who thought his depiction of Catholic nuns in random positions were irreverent. This time around, Donny’s latest controversial piece as seen above is a large acrylic representation of President Barack Obama hanging on a cross as a perceived savior beside Oprah Winfrey interviewing him in front of her flock all the while Ronald McDonald offering him a quick fix cheeseburger. There is a point that you’ll see in these surreal visions and you may even possibly find that point by attending the show that closes this Saturday and asking the artist himself.
My point is that you won’t see anything special unless you get out there and crawl … or walk … or just get up, get out and do something.

SUMMERS Short Stories Collection @Twist Art Gallery

Geoff Little Booksigning
SUMMERS Short Stories Collection @Twist Art Gallery

Date:
Friday, July 17, 2009

Time:
7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:
Twist Art Gallery

Street:
73 Arcade (between 4th & 5th Avenue, dowtown Nashville

Email:
geoffreybraxtonlittle@gmail.com

Description

The pleasure of your company is requested at Geoff’s booksigning.

Friday, July 17th at 7.30 p.m. Location is TWIST Art Gallery, nestled in the historic ARCADE in downtown Nashville. Best entrance is off of 5th Avenue. Actual address: 73 Arcade (near intersection of 5th & Church). Park free on the street (if you can). Gallery is upstairs.

Following the booksigning event - guests are invited to a private summertime celebration at The Fiction Faction Hangar & Dancery, located just down the block in a lost corner of an 1851 revivalist Egyptian temple.

For those of you who are unable to attend, you may like to know the amazon.com link - http://www.amazon.com/Summers-Geoffrey-Little/dp/1442146680/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246962383&sr=8-1

Copies will be for sale at the booksigning. Hope you can come.

Experimental Music Jam at Twist

Experimental Music Jam

Date/Time:Mon., July 13

Price: Free

Experimental Music Jam at Twist

Twist and Jam
Joe Nolan

Nashville Scene

Forrest Bride veteran Ben Marcantel is playing the role of impresario this week, booking a pair of experimental composer/musicians at the Twist Gallery space at 73 Arcade. Eli Keszler's percussive compositions pepper vast, ringing, gamelan-like soundscapes with atonal punctuations, creating a sound like a haunted music box. Ashley Paul's muse is also drawn toward shadowy spaces, but it is the eloquent vocalizations Paul pulls from her keening woodwind phrases that make songs like “Dumpster of Love” uniquely her own. Expect both solo sets and some Wonder Twins-style collaborations from these two. Here's to hoping for more of the same from Marcantel and Twist

Adore snail mail? Arcade art gallery wants your love letters

Adore snail mail? Arcade art gallery wants your love letters

Will Ayers • July 8, 2009 The Tennessean

While downtown dwellers and workers are crossing their fingers, hoping the 106-year-old Arcade Post Office won't be closed in a controversial cost-cutting measure, an art gallery just upstairs in the Arcade is adding its own voice to the fray.

Twist Art Gallery is asking fans of the Arcade Post Office, as well as devotees of the dying medium of old-fashioned mail itself, to create love notes to its beleaguered neighbor on postcards no larger than 5" by 7".

You need not be a professional artist to participate; the gallery owners just ask that you be creative. Postcards will be hung at the downtown gallery crawl on Aug. 1 and will be sold for $5 each to support future Twist art shows.

Twist Art Gallery in the Nashville Scene

We Are Going to Spend the Night at Meemaw and Pop-Pop's at Twist
Sleepover With Stolle
Joe Nolan

Inspired by a friend's online post, local artist Nick Stolle decided that We Are Going to Spend the Night at Meemaw and Pop-Pop's was a fine name for his new show of work at Twist Gallery's space at Arcade 58. The idea of Stolle spending the night anywhere that may afford him a sound night's sleep is probably a good idea for a young artist who has spent the last several months throwing his hat into the ring for the Nashville's Hardest Working Artist Award. Hot on the heels of a Watkins senior show that featured an exclamation point of a short play that he wrote, directed and acted in, Stolle has regularly cranked out new work that is sarcastic enough to sucker the hipsters, but sincere enough to move those with eyes to see.

Call for your Mail Art: Love Letter to the Post Office

Recently, our dear Arcade Post Office has been threatened with closing
by the U.S. Postal Service. While we all assume the end of paper mail
is at some point inevitable, we certainly have a nostalgia for actual
handwritten letters and postcards. The Arcade Post Office has been in
the Arcade since the very beginning, opening in 1903. 106 years later
- is it the end of an era? We hope not, but in the meantime, send your
heartfelt Love Letter to the Post Office via Twist Art Gallery, 73 Arcade,
Nashville, TN 37219. Please make it a postcard no larger than 5" x 7"
and postmark by July 24th.

We will hang your postcards in Twist 58 for the August Gallery Crawl.
Postcards will not be returned, but will be sold at the Gallery Crawl for
$5 a piece to support future Twist exhibitions in the Arcade. (It is our
third birthday after all!! And we hope to have many more.) You need
not be an artist to send us a postcard, but we hope it will get your
creative juices flowing.