August 14, 1997 - Kenneth Baker
Will abstract painting prove to have been just a 20th century folly?
No one knows yet, and that has made abstraction magnetic again as the century ends.
The work of Southern California painter Carlos Estrada-Vega at Brian Gross Fine Art reminds us that embodying color is one thing abstract painting can do uniquely well.
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December 31, 1969 - Michelle Jones
It all started with a movie, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Country Strong, to be precise. New York-based artist Jaq Belcher read about the Nashville apartment Paltrow and her family lived in during filming and liked some of the art from Tinney Contemporary featured in the spread. Belcher emailed the gallery and got a call from Susan Tinney a few minutes later. That was more than eighteen months ago; now Belcher is presenting her first Nashville show at the gallery. The nineteen-piece exhibition features large-scale cut-paper drawings, including Untitled: seeding, an installation in which the drawing’s 33,000 cutouts are arranged on the floor in front of it…
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