Light Space Surface
Episode 16 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
"Light, Space, Surface” highlights the use of those three elements as art forms.
“Light, Space, Surface” at the Frist Art Museum through Sept. 4, 2022, includes sculptures, paintings and immersive installations by artists working in Southern California from the 1960s to now. This exhibition explores how the properties of light, space and highly polished surfaces can be art forms themselves. Original music by Nashville Ambient Ensemble on the audio tour enhances the experience.
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Light Space Surface
Episode 16 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
“Light, Space, Surface” at the Frist Art Museum through Sept. 4, 2022, includes sculptures, paintings and immersive installations by artists working in Southern California from the 1960s to now. This exhibition explores how the properties of light, space and highly polished surfaces can be art forms themselves. Original music by Nashville Ambient Ensemble on the audio tour enhances the experience.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) - Everyone who comes to the exhibition, I think is gonna have that, what am I looking at moment.
This exhibition is Light, Space, Surface.
There are 50 works of art ranging from small sculptures, to really immersive full gallery installations.
The work is really exploring how the physical properties of light, of space, how we experience space and surfaces.
In this case, really pristine, smooth, polished surfaces.
How those physical properties really can be mediums for art themselves.
It's about the experience of looking at the work of art of your eye kind of processing what you were seeing.
Many of the works are so smooth that you can actually see the environment around you and yourself when you're looking into it.
This is an exhibition that can be enjoyed whether you have a Masters in Art History or you have never been to a museum before.
And it doesn't need a lot of written interpretation or even our traditional audio tours where, you know, a nice voice is telling you more about what you're looking at.
We really wanted people just to look and to have individual responses to the works of art.
- When the Frist was planning the exhibition, they were looking for some atmospheric ambient music and so they reached out to us.
Nashville Ambient Ensemble provided eight tracks that accompany eight pieces within this exhibition.
I ended up using very digital, crisp sounds.
Whereas, I tend to use more warm analog, kind of synthesizer sounds.
What I took from this was, more, not cold but just very crisp sounds that have a sheen to them.
If you want to take part in the audio portion of the tour, you'll be scanning QR codes next to select pieces in the exhibit and just be sure to bring your headphones.
- [Katie] Help us redefine what can be art.
What do we make art out of?
It's not just always paint or bronze.
It can be many, many different materials.
- [Announcer] This Npt Arts Break is made possible by the generous support of the Martha Rivers Ingram Advised Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
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