Exhibitions

TENEE’ HART: SKIN DEEP

COOP Gallery / 507 Hagan St June 6 - 20th (Reception: June 6 8:16pm - 8:16pm)

Tenee' Hart

COOP is pleased to present skin deep by Tenee’ Hart. In skin deep, Hart navigates the thin membrane between vulnerability and performance. Turning to materials closest to these closed-door rituals, the quiet witnesses of perfection and erasure - acts that shape how we are seen and how we learn to see ourselves. These materials come from domestic spaces - where expectations of femininity settle like a film of dust. Hart chooses to distort and unravel them, and in that undoing, they are pushed to a point where they strain against their own histories. The exhibition invites viewers to look beneath the decorative and the desirable, to feel how the pursuit of the “ideal” can leave scars, and to recognize that what we dismiss as the surface is often the site of our deepest wounds.

Working with materials that are soft, familiar, discarded - often carrying the weight of memory - Hart recalls the women that came before her: their labor, their struggle, and their resilience. Every thread is a connection: every gesture is an act of release. Hart wraps, knots, and binds not to contain, but to reveal. These sculptures carry contradictions - beauty and ache, devotion and loss, elegance and rupture. To drop fear is to trust that what’s tender can also be strong. Where softness becomes resistance. Where quiet is not silence - but presence. Where our stories are stitched together - truth by truth, thread by thread.

This will be Hart’s first exhibition in Nashville, and the artist will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, June 6th from 1-9PM, and at an artist talk on June 20th at 12PM.