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Jessica Clay is an interdisciplinary artist working in Nashville, TN. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska and and also grew up in North Carolina before moving to Tennessee. There she received her BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film. She is a co-curator of the artist run space mild climate. Jessica Clay, Dig Site 2: 12th Avenue, gouache on paper, 5”x7”, 2016 (from studio visit) Jessica Clay, Studio Visit, February 2017 Currently I am working on a project where I am collecting docu...

Lush Interiors is a new collection of mixed media works aimed at exploring sensual machines, a term the artist uses to describe the mechanized trappings of modern life, as we all become increasingly enmeshed with our gadgetry. St Francis Elevator Ride, Tending, MDF Die-cut print & 3D assemblage, 40" x 28.5" x 5.5" (2016) St Francis Elevator Ride, Parts & Luxury (detail), MDF Die-cut print & 3D assemblage, 48" x 30"x 6.5" (2016) Common household appliances burst apart to reveal human anatomy and vegetation, both in various states of...

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors is a hypnotic and immersive multichannel video installation of musicians performing in a historic mansion in New York’s Hudson River Valley. Combining the Icelandic artist’s interests in music, endurance, and beauty, the hour-long, nine-screen video was called “a generational masterpiece” by The Boston Globe and on is view in Nashville from November 18, 2016, through February 12, 2017. Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors exhibition, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts (November 2016-February 2017). Photo credit: John Schweikert Ragnar Kjartans...