Current Exhibit

Primary Source

Primary Source is a term used to describe material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied.  These two artists create work dealing with the history or memory of experience.  They do this through the use of process or reflection.  Exploring these, the artists’ reflection of time passed is evident in the paintings.

Rachel Murphy, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, focuses on the loss of memory and fabrication of new.  She pulls from personal imagery collected over time and examines its place in an era of shifting realities. She is interested in the struggle between abstraction vs. representation and the fabrication of memory in a society immersed in the overindulgence of technology and information.

Jonathan Lisenby, a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and operator of the Open Lot creative space in Nashville, creates paintings closer to the term.  His works are a primary source for each painting.  Each piece is revisited many times creating layer after layer.  Alterations are major to very discrete.  In a very direct way the paints are the history and all entangled in that.