Calendar Event Title:
MMC: ‘Healing Images in Art’
Event Date:
03/02/2010
Event Details:
An award-winning Nashville artist will discuss her work at the Barton Art Gallery at Martin Methodist College on Tuesday, March 2.
The exhibit, “Healing Images in Art,” by Julianna Ericson, will open at 7:30 p.m.
The Barton Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Gault Fine Arts Center.
This will mark the fourth exhibit since the Gault Center opened in September. The exhibit is free to the public.
Juliana Ericson is a native of New York, was raised in Florida and has been a Nashville resident for the past 29 years. Although she played the viola in symphonies in Florida, painting was always her first love. Fauvism, expressionism and her Scandinavian heritage still heavily influence Ericson’s painting style. Her easy use of bold, visual artist for 2006 by Nashville Scene readers, she also uses her talents teaching inner city children and helping fund art programs in public schools.
In 2005-06 she participated in Gibson Guitar’s Guitartown Project, in which 30 or so sponsored artists painted 10-foot fiberglass guitars with their unique, personalized paintings. The guitars were auctioned off and the proceeds went to help several Nashville charities. Her painted guitar of Centennial Park, a beloved Nashville landmark, was downtown on Broadway during the year prior to the charity auction. She has since been published in the book “Guitar Art: The Art of a Music City Legend.”
Ericson has had several one-person shows in Nashville including Cheekwood, the Tennessee Art Center and the Hendersonville Arts Council. She has also participated in showings in Nashville Municipal airport, Tennessee Art Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and St. Thomas Hospital’s Institute for the Healing Arts.
—MMC
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