Exhibitions

MEAGEN CRAWFORD: MY SCENERIES

Sauvage Galerie / 1114B 3rd Ave. S. May 27, 2017 - June 17, 2017

Meagen Crawford

Et Al. Poetry Readings feature one visiting poet, and two Nashville poets reading their work in a visual environment determined by one Nashville visual artist.

May's visiting poet is Davy Knittle, curator of the City Planning Poetics series, at the University of Pennsylvania, which focuses on the intersections of personal and public identity, and built and natural spaces.

May's Nashville poets are Jacob Stovall, curator of the Nashville reading series Vow of Silence. His writing, and his performance of it, engages the social and psychological effects of our saturation by technology. The second Nashville poet is Bryan Byrdlong, Vanderbilt public relations graduate, and spoken word poet, whose written work deals with his personal experiences with racism in the south, finding new and more intimate forms of social and political activism, and humanitarian efforts as a means to physically alter his environment.

May's visual artist is poet and visual artist Meagen Crawford. Sauvage Galerie is extremely excited to announce the opening of Meagen Crawford's solo exhibit of new work My Sceneries. In My Sceneries, Crawford draws heavily from her experience as a literary artist and her work here explores the threshold between legible (the constructed) and illegible (the unconstructed), and it does this via emotive, connotative, individually rendered narratives in the space between sign and signifier, a mark and a system of marks. My Sceneries finds itself extraordinarily situated among these three poets, as 'Sceneries' is overwhelmingly occupied with how words occur as shapes, as lensings to an unique or ubiquitous experience of the world.

Meagen Crawford's show, My Sceneries, will remain up as Sauvage's participation in the June Wedgewood/Houston Art Crawl, on June 3rd.