Critic's Pick: 'In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century'

Several of Nashville’s most influential artists are women. Their practices extend from the internationally recognized — like work by María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Shannon Cartier Lucy — to those that are deeply rooted in our city’s communities. A new exhibition at the Frist Art Museum, In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, brings together nearly 100 works — spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and installation — to trace these artists’ impact and to suggest how their work resonates across Nashville. The expansive exhibit was co-curated by artist Sai Clayton, the Frist’s senior curator Katie Delmez and the Frist’s community engagement director Shaun Giles — a combination that signals a point of view concerned not only with the strength of the art on view, but with how that work circulates beyond the gallery, shaping educational experiences and community life as well as aesthetic standards. Disclosure: I co-edited the exhibition catalogue with Delmez, and also contributed one of its essays. 

Through April 26 at the Frist

919 Broadway