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Non-profit, Nashville-based organization that provides visual arts coverage of the Southern US of A

08/24/2024

You have 5 more days to check out this exhibition at ! wrote a wonderful review, give it a read and we’ll see you at the show!

08/17/2024

Art of the South 2024. Were so thankful to everyone who came out, to .cnye for curating, and to for hosting this beautiful exhibition 💫

08/08/2024

Install day one of Art of the South! Excited to have all this wonderful work 💫 The show opens August 16th at

08/06/2024

Our website has a new look thanks to and we have some fresh new articles to go with it! Gregory Bruno recently sat down with Louisiana born artist Cullen Washington Jr to learn about his practice, and discovered some beautiful connections between the work and the philosophical trends we’re seeing in the art world. The link to take a look is in our bio 💫

08/02/2024

In the spirit of not giving too much away we’re posting some detail shots of our favorite Art of the South selections, like this Melissa Newman piece. Join us at on August 16th for the opening of this southern showcase! In the meantime make sure you catch up on our latest articles at the link in bio 💫

07/31/2024

Art of the South is coming soon 👀 Installation begins on August 8th for the Biannual install of some of the premier artwork being created in the southern US.

Join us on August 16th for the opening, and watch this space while we share sneak peeks of the artworks that will be on display. Pictured here: Detail of Alena Mehic’s Something Different (2024)

05/27/2024

Joe Nolan and Justin Wood
Southern Digital

It’s all spontaneous. I’d do a recon drive during the day and when I’m there, I’m just kind of improvising, moving things around, trying different visuals and just kind of seeing what happened, especially early on. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. I was crawling around in the dirt and being on cliff sides and all this stuff and creating these monumental installations for myself to capture photographs. That in-person experience, for me, that’s the piece. I saw it as kind of connection to the earthwork artists: using the land to create something that is much bigger than anything you could do in a museum or gallery, and experience that for myself.
-Justin Wood

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/southern-digital-justin-wood/

Joe Nolan
Justin Wood

05/24/2024

Mikewindy and Yanira Vissepó

I don’t paint. It’s not something that I’ve been taught. How can I make sure that what my square is, is full of color and then I can add on and make a textile painting or a collage painting. Because it’s a new body of work. I wanted to keep it really fresh in a way that I’m definitely still influenced by everything I’ve learned, but I didn’t want to stick to work that I’ve done before.
-Yanira Vissepó

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/in-conversation-mikewindy-and-yanira-vissepo/

Mikewindy
Yanira Vissepó

05/01/2024

‼️ Art of the South returns this August ‼️

Submit up to 3 artworks to be considered for this regional group exhibition. Juried by Lauren Nye, Associate Curator at the Hunter Museum.

$35 submission fee. Selected artworks can be listed for sale, and artists will retain 100% profit of sold works. Deadline to apply is Friday, May 31 at 11:59PM ct.

Link in bio!!!

04/30/2024

Interview with Hannah Einhorn:
Homemaking and the Creation of Nest

I like the symbolism of what a nest can evoke. I view my home as having many purposes, for example I view it as my safe space, much like everybody else. I view it as a place I can bring friends to and develop a community. In contrast, I also view it as a fort, a place of fortitude, solitude, and safety. That really embodies what a nest can be. A nest is a place that life can grow within, where you are protected from the outside.
-Hannah Einhorn

Hannah Einhhorn’s exhibition, Nest, opened March 30th at the State Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee.

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/a-conversation-with-hannah-einhorn-homemaking-and-the-creation-of-nest/

Bridget Curtis
Hannah Einhhorn .elizabeth.einhorn
Portrait by Grave G. Swing .swing

04/19/2024

Louisiana Perceptions
– Art/ Culture/ Environment

From abstract renderings to realistic interpretations, Louisiana Perceptions offers a compelling narrative that reflects the various influences that have shaped the state’s cuisine, arts, culture, and heritage, presenting a visual feast and creative sampling of regional artists. Louisiana’s broad spectrum of heritage and history and the interpretation of that subject using art is a vast arena of styles and viewpoints that can also be a podium for awareness and change.

full review up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/exhibition-review-louisiana-perceptions-art-culture-environment/

G. Mclaughlin
Louisiana Perceptions

04/15/2024

Interview with Wayne Brezinka

So, as an artist I not only have the power to create my art, but I can use that power to help other people, open mental doors for them, turn the light on in their eyes, and make sure that they’re still here. It’s so rewarding to be able to help another person and tell them, “Look, there’s a reason to stick around! And there’s a way through. Let’s go over here and discover something hopeful through making art.”
-Wayne Brezinka

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/in-conversation-interview-with-wayne-brezinka/

Justin Stokes
Wayne Brezinka

04/12/2024

Storytelling and Multiverse
-Interview with Roger Allen Cleaves for A World Apart at Sheet Cake Gallery

The protective veil that shields children from the realities of life was shattered when I read novels like Animal Farm, Invisible Man, and Fahrenheit 451. The battles fought between opposing forces hold a magnetic allure and the intensity is the strongest when beauty meets the grotesque. This period of my life was also the golden age of comics, cartoons, and video games, which equally had an effect on my artistic development. In my eyes as a child I thought the highest form of art were the Sunday newspaper comics. They had the ability to tell a story and they used, at times, deceptively innocent characters that were proxies for real life counterparts. When it comes to fiction I gravitate towards stories that are imperfect, awkward, and gritty because that represents to me what it means to be alive in contemporary times.
-Roger Allen Cleaves

A World Apart will have its opening at Sheet Cake on Saturday, March 9. The work will be on display from March 9 through April 27, 2024, 405 Monroe Ave. Memphis, TN.

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/storytelling-and-multiverse-interview-with-roger-allen-cleaves-for-a-world-apart/

Sophia Mason
Roger Allen Cleaves

04/09/2024

On the MSA Select 2024 Exhibition
– Styx Farris for the Young Art Writers Project

This collection is full of beautiful and well-made works of art that are unique, whimsical, and pleasing to the eye, but it is awkward in its layout. Some of the pieces featured are more well-suited to exhibition than others, but this collection is altogether relatively well-curated and will delight and intrigue viewers, inspiring them to learn more about the various social and emotional challenges that the art conveys.
-Styx Farriss

full review up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/on-the-msa-select-2024-exhibition-styx-farris-for-the-young-art-writers-project/

Styx Farriss
Todd Art Gallery

04/05/2024

A Landscape Longed For: The Garden As Disturbance
Now showing at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum

“A garden is a metaphor for everything.”
- Jamaica Kincaid

A landscape longed for: The garden as disturbance was curated by Laura Novoa and Adler Guerrier, and features work from 15 artists. Each work showcases various mediums and perspectives, and explores the motif of the garden in its relation to the cultivation and expression of beauty and knowledge. Open till April 20th

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/a-landscape-longed-for-the-garden-as-disturbance-now-showing-at-crisp-ellert-art-museum/

Maggie Trela
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum

04/01/2024

Never Odd or Even at Red Arrow Gallery
– Review and Interview with Nashville Artist Emily Weiner

The paintings are glorious, minimalist landscapes, painted often in rich hues of ultramarine and cobalt blue. The curtains are being pulled away, and we are begged to look beyond. Faces in profile become boundless mountain ranges. A spiral oscillates between micro and macro worlds. Landscapes reflect and mirror themselves. A sun becomes a moon, becomes a void, becomes a portal. The work is thoughtful and expansive. As an installation, the paintings made me acutely aware of my role as a viewer, but also of how I perceive the world.
-Cara Lynch

Red Arrow Gallery is at
919 Gallatin Avenue, Suite 4, Nashville TN, 37206 | 615-236-6575

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/never-odd-or-even-at-red-arrow-gallery-exhibition-review-and-interview-with-nashville-artist-emily-weiner/

Cara Lynch
Emily Weiner

03/28/2024

Mnemonic Murals of Blackness
Purvis Young Redux at the Tampa Museum of Art

In Young's works, faceless, nameless, legion figures stand to contest the racial violence perpetrated by corrupt law enforcement in 1980s Miami-almost in group silhouettes of isolation, save the images of riders on horseback with them. Each lean and/or curved body extends in Mannerist exaggeration, but the pregnant female body protrudes an abnormal bubble of irrational exuberance.

Purvis Young Redux is currently on view at the Tampa Museum of Art through 2025

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/mnemonic-murals-of-blackness-purvis-young-redux-at-the-tampa-museum-of-art/

Danelle Bernten
Purvis Young

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03/27/2024

The Business of Art
Professional Marketer Edwin Acevedo Offers a Basic Primer on Marketing

And it’s worth pointing out that storytelling doesn’t just come from what’s on your artist bio. It’s about the things associated with your art. In terms of art marketing, people are buying more than a piece of art. They’re buying something that’s associated with values that they like. It’s no different than, say, someone who likes a punk rock band because they like the social values of that genre.
-Edwin Acevedo

full interview up on the website!
http://www.numberinc.org/the-business-of-art-professional-marketer-edwin-acevedo-offers-a-basic-primer-on-marketing/

Justin Stokes
Edwin Acevedo

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