March 8th – April 26th, The Browsing Room is very pleased to announce an exhibition entitled Postcards from Roswell featuring work by Dave Perkins.
About the Exhibit: DPC is pleased to welcome back our friend Dave Perkins. Known to many in Nashville for his career as a musician making big contributions across genres and for his work with Vanderbilt Divinity School, in this exhibit of his art work he shows us another side of his creative and expressive life. We won’t miss out on his gifts as a musician for this show—for the April opening of the show during the Downtown Arts District Alliance Art Crawl, Dave will perform with some of his favorite collaborators in the DPC Chapel.
Artists Statement: Postcard from Roswell is a collection of contemporary folk art portraits and masks. Imagine passport photos for galactic travelers or the senior class from the bad dream yearbook. I ask myself if painting these faces is an exercise in mining deep memory. I had that thought when my mother viewed several of my early attempts and stopped suddenly saying, “I know this person—who is this?” I, too, had recognized a persona. What I painted looked little like anyone we knew, but it captured a recognizable essence. My first impulse with a blank canvas is to paint a face. Occasionally I recognize it, or some aspect of it. More often, an image arrives and claims its own personhood.
About the Gallery: The Browsing Room is a non-commercial gallery created in the space of the historic DPC’s old congregational library. The gallery serves as an extension of DPC’s long standing studio community known as the Artists-in Residence (AiR) who have studio spaces above DPC’s chapel. The Browsing Room connects an art-seeking community with their AIR, as well as with other local and regional artists, by featuring a rotation of quarterly exhibitions. The gallery is currently open by appointment only.
