Tour Cumberland Gallery, Nashville
If you love to visit art galleries when you visit your favorite cities, make the Cumberland Gallery a destination on your next visit to Nashville.
This is a newer gallery having just been established in 1980, but it had a large selection of fantastic and thought provoking exhibits. The gallery mostly concentrates on regional artists from the Tennessee area and the Southeast, but nationally known artists are also represented at the gallery from time to time.
The exhibits include not only the traditional artist offerings in the form of paintings, but also works on paper, photography and sculpture. The gallery changes the exhibits every 6-weeks. So you are assured of a fresh look at art even if you visit several times a year.
The gallery is closed each year from Dec 25 - Jan 2, 2006. Cumberland Gallery is open Sunday through Saturday from 10 AM until 5 PM. Admission for all visitors is Free.
Even thought exhibits change several times each year, the gallery does have a good collection of permanent works. There is the stark whiteness of "Tabletop" and the thought provoking "Living on a limb" sculpture. The absolute realness of Robert Durhams "You Can Keep Your Hat" will have you reaching out to take the hat that is floating in the water out of the painting.
One sculpture that gets a lot of comments is John Hagman's "Ajar" which is a stark little figure with a myriad of objects flying up and out and the head suspended on wires.
For a great afternoon getting your art infusion, take a stop by the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville and seek out the unusual!
