Welcome to Nashville Photography Club
The Nashville Photography Club is a venue for the enjoyment of photography and the improvement of photographic skills. The membership is a mix of amateur and professional photographers who want to share ideas and learn from each other.
MEETINGS: THIRD TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 6:30 PM
no meeting in December
WATKINS COLLEGE OF ART THEATER
2298 ROSA L. PARKS BOULEVARD
NASHVILLE, TN 37228
no meeting in December
WATKINS COLLEGE OF ART THEATER
2298 ROSA L. PARKS BOULEVARD
NASHVILLE, TN 37228
March 19, 2019
Mark scala
Photography at the threshold
Mark Scala is the chief curator at the Frist Art Museum. His major exhibitions have focused on the subject of human vulnerability and transformation in global contemporary art.
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century (2018) was an international survey of artists who convey a sense of anxiety and sublimity arising from the contemplation of an increasingly unstable social imaginary.
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art (2015) explored the subjects of physical absence, loss and remembrance. Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination (2012) considered the theme of the hybrid body in folklore, science fiction, and genetic engineering. Paint Made Flesh (2009) featured expressionistic figure painting from the U.S., Germany, and Britain since World War II.
Scala received his MA in art history in 1988 and MFA in painting in 1979, both from Virginia Commonwealth University. From 2008-2013, he held the position of senior guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University, teaching the course Sources of Contemporary Art. He has been a critic for The New Art Examiner, has been interviewed by Huffington Post, Modern Painters, and on NPR, and regularly contributed to Nashville Arts Magazine. He has been a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators since 2001, and served on its board from 2010-2016.
Mark's presentation will consider a selection of contemporary artists working today for whom the play between fiction and reality creates a space between, in which viewers can project their own subjective notion of truth, weighed against knowledge of history and a society in constant flux. Principal points of discussion will be “staging reality,” “medium as content,” and “documenting the in-between.”
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century (2018) was an international survey of artists who convey a sense of anxiety and sublimity arising from the contemplation of an increasingly unstable social imaginary.
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art (2015) explored the subjects of physical absence, loss and remembrance. Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination (2012) considered the theme of the hybrid body in folklore, science fiction, and genetic engineering. Paint Made Flesh (2009) featured expressionistic figure painting from the U.S., Germany, and Britain since World War II.
Scala received his MA in art history in 1988 and MFA in painting in 1979, both from Virginia Commonwealth University. From 2008-2013, he held the position of senior guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University, teaching the course Sources of Contemporary Art. He has been a critic for The New Art Examiner, has been interviewed by Huffington Post, Modern Painters, and on NPR, and regularly contributed to Nashville Arts Magazine. He has been a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators since 2001, and served on its board from 2010-2016.
Mark's presentation will consider a selection of contemporary artists working today for whom the play between fiction and reality creates a space between, in which viewers can project their own subjective notion of truth, weighed against knowledge of history and a society in constant flux. Principal points of discussion will be “staging reality,” “medium as content,” and “documenting the in-between.”
PHOTO OF THE MONTH THEME
March - a pet
Upcoming Speakers
April 16 - Greg Thomason
May 21 - Tom Ventress
June 18 - Rich Seiling
July 15 - Dusty Doddridge
May 21 - Tom Ventress
June 18 - Rich Seiling
July 15 - Dusty Doddridge
Speakers and topics might change - especially those several months out
THE NASHVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB IS A 501C3 NON-PROFIT TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATION.
DONATIONS MADE TO THE NASHVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB ARE TAX EXEMPT DONATIONS.
DONATIONS MADE TO THE NASHVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB ARE TAX EXEMPT DONATIONS.
