Featuring: Caroline Allison, Patrick DeGuira and Brady Haston
“churrs, chakks, rrrrrs” is a reference to a poem by exhibiting artist Patrick DeGuira that accompanies his mixed media photograph of the lifeless body of a brown thrasher encountered on a trail near his home.
Like the other pieces in this show, his written piece and the installation serve as a meditation on nature and its articulate language that has so much to say to humans if the time is taken to listen. DeGuira received his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, his BFA at Memphis College of Art, Memphis, and received a fellowship at the New York Studio Residency Program.
Caroline Allison is a Sewanee graduate and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally and this latest body features long exposures from a large format camera of sunrises/sunsets, wheeling stars/satellites, and cyanotypes of “captured” spiderwebs exposed on archival paper treated with photo chemicals. The notion of “time” plays out on several levels here regarding the logistics necessary for distilling these images and with references to biological, atmospheric, and celestial timescales.
Brady Haston’s latest work continues to focus on encounters during long walks secluded areas of the state. He is represented here by an oil on linen study of a rattle snake (titled, “Gadsden’s Snake”) and a painted image of a stylized Hydra from a 19th century engraving symbolizing the Federal Banking system in the time of the Andrew Jackson presidency. The metaphorical reference contrasts with the more realistic study as the essence of nature is co-opted for the language of partisan, human interests. Brady studied at MTSU (BFA), Montana State University (MFA), and is a recent Pollock/Krasner fellow.
Carlos Gallery, Visual Art Building 105 Kennerly Road
Sept. 1-Oct. 22, 2022 M-F 8 AM–5 PM, Sat 1-5 PM
