CLARKSVILLE, TN – Summer is here, and the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center has a plethora of new art exhibits for everyone to enjoy (and stay cool!) all season long.
Opening July 8, the Museum will host the traveling exhibit titled The Big & the Small of It from the artist collective Women. Artists. Masters. (WAM), consisting of Debra Keirce, Maria Bennett Hock and Carrie Waller. Debra has palm-sized oil miniatures, some of which are hidden in boxes. Maria paints on large canvases that draw viewers in, and Carrie paints everyday objects, elevating them to their most beautiful, larger-than-life presentation. The Big & the Small of It highlights the ways the big and the small work together, and is on view in the Kimbrough Gallery through September 4.
Within the Crouch Gallery hangs the work of Tennessee artist Edie Maney. Labeling herself an abstract expressionist, Edie paints in a chaotic manner with layer after layer of color and strokes, finding a balance between intensity and motion. “For me, it is color that stimulates a conversation between tone and texture, between motion and shape,” she explained. “Four, five, six layers emerge – and a focal point is revealed.” Between Tone & Texture: The Art of Edie Maney is on display through August 21.
Open through August 29 in the Harvill Gallery is David Smith: Tennessee Waterfalls. Camera in hand, David captures the movement, spectacle, and allure of waterfalls throughout the state of Tennessee. As a traveler, he uses his surroundings as a muse for his artistic photography. David has photographed Bald River Falls in Tellico Plains, Ozone Falls in Rockwood, Rutledge Falls in Manchester and much more.
Also on view through the month of August is a collection of watercolors from award-winning wildlife artist Kitty Harvill, and a variety of still life artworks from celebrated artists across the country. You can view Kitty Harvill: New to the Collection through August 27 in the Jostens Gallery and At Rest: A Still Life Invitational in the Orgain and Bruner Galleries through August 30.