Exhibitions
QUAKE
The Packing Plant / 507 Hagan St. March 7, 2020 - March 31, 2020
David Anderson, Lisa Bachman Jones, Moses Williams
WAG (Watkins Art Gallery) is pleased to present QUAKE, an exhibition featuring works by David Anderson, Lisa Bachman Jones, and Moses Williams. All of these artists are students, alumni, or faculty at Watkins College of Art, and their work represents a response to the current crisis at the college during its proposed merger with Belmont University. They portray this upheaval as a kind of “quaking.” Rather than unsettling the bonds of community, however, this quake solidifies them, and it reinforces the artists’ commitment to the power of art and collaborative resistance. Their work serves as a reminder to the larger community of the essential role that Watkins plays, and has played for many years, in expanding and enriching the arts in Nashville.
As the artists themselves describe this exhibition: “Committed to maintaining the institution as an intact and autonomous body even as outside forces attempt to undo our efforts, we humbly present one way a loving community responds to those who underestimate its worth. We make art.”
Students and Alumni will be on hand to share their stories about Watkins and their experiences regarding the “merger” with Belmont University.
The exhibition will appear at WAG in the Packing Plant at 507 Hagan Street in Nashville. Please join us Saturday, March 7, 6-9pm.
Lisa Bachman Jones was born in St. Louis, MO and lives in Nashville, TN. She is currently enrolled in Watkins’ MFA program, and received a BFA and teaching license from Belmont University in 2006. Jones is an interdisciplinary artist represented by Rymer Gallery. Her work investigates vulnerability and the physical tension between materials and the psychological tension of forms that hover, confront, and retreat.
Moses Williams was born in Birmingham, AL and grew up in Nashville, TN. He received a BFA from Watkins College of Art in Nashville, TN and an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Williams works at the intersection of performance, sculpture, video, and sound to question dominant cultural expectations, institutions, and ideology. Williams is an Assistant Professor of sculpture and integrated media at Watkins College of Art.
David Onri Anderson was born of French-Algerian ancestry in 1993 in Nashville, TN. He graduated from Watkins College of Art in 2016. Anderson makes paintings that involve a personal mythology of figures and forms from nature that he portrays using a ritualistic and experimental approach to materials.
