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Curatorial Statement: “Silent Violence is a humble attempt at curating a visual representation of astral realms. In my brief human journey, I have had the benediction of tasting and seeing the glory of Nature's splendor. Through Her plant teachers, I’ve seen the way She leads the beautiful abstraction we call human existence; a psychonauts journey of the mind. Many splendorous travels have led me to plant medicines that have altered my reality and caused a magnificent rebirth within. The cura...

Exhibition Spotlight: Sisavanh Phouthavong: Infinite Monsoon + Jing Qin: Soft Kernel - on view through February 29, 2020. Susan Tinney founded Tinney Contemporary in 2006 after having spent many years hosting pop-up shows in both her own and other’s homes. Initially hosting shows of outsider art, the focus grew quickly to mid-career contemporary art by the end of its first year. Tinney Contemporary was the first gallery space begun on 5th Avenue in Nashville that was conceptualized from the beginning as an ar...

"My work inhabits the intersection of photography and sculpture, approaching the photograph and its usages as image, object, and intermediary. I search for meaning in disparates of source, subject, and application of materials, sounds, and environments, and seek to propose new relationships between social, political, and personal mythologies to develop alternative understandings of the banal and the spiritual. My work responds to questions surrounding masculinity, digital and physical bodily experience, and the tools that produce ritual, narrative, and simulacrum within...