Neue Welt is the best gallery in Nashville when you’re craving the concrete assurance of formalist sculpture, and curator Mauro Antonio Barreto is ending the year on a strong note with a display by Richmond, Va.-based artist Kayla Jones Pulido. Rote walks the line between learning and ignorance, tracing a liminal space where logic might be baffled by the fantastic even as dreams are unwound with fundamental mathematics. How do we formulate the meaning of knowing in an endlessly complex world when our systems of learning are mechanical and overly specialized? Pulido explores questions about truth and meaning by deploying an array of materials and found objects in combinations that are by turns elegant and ironic, familiar and strange.
Through Dec. 26 at Neue Welt
507 Hagan St.
