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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center continues with its annual \u201cWomen Painting Women\u201d exhibitions. The show opens September 6th, 2018 in the museum\u2019s Kimbrough Gallery.<\/p>\nThe seven artists from across the U.S. represented in the exhibition include Linda Brandon, Elena Burykina, Alia El-Bermani, Gaela Erwin, Ann Piper, Tonja Sell, and Pamela Wilson.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n This is the sixth exhibition of the \u201cWomen Painting Women\u201d theme for the Customs House Museum.<\/p>\n Exhibits Curator Terri Jordan states, \u201cIt is important to us that in celebrating women artists we celebrate a variety of artistic expressions. The interpretations within the theme of figurative painting are as diverse as the many types of women in our society.”<\/p>\n “The exhibiting artists are consistently creating, teaching, and experimenting with their medium, always with high respect for the subject matter, continuously exploring the female form through painting with grace and sensitivity. The works included in the show weave stories of women in all stages of life within the borders of canvas and frames,\u201d said Jordan.<\/p>\n The slate of participants this year is easily recognized in their techniques. Tonja Sell, who resides in Wisconsin, studied at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design – MIAD and received the Regent Scholarship at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. Her repertoire includes drawing, painting, ceramic and metal sculpture, glass-blowing and fusing textiles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [320center]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Often depicted in a narrative setting, her figures are created through rich layers of collages materials. Pennsylvania artist Ann Piper\u2019s paintings are often self portraits that border on surrealism.<\/p>\n She has said of her work, \u201cAlways formal, and often theatrical, each portrait serves as an assertion of a state of being. They are artificial moments, certainly, but are invented in support of very real sentiments. I am constantly examining human relationships through these devised images; assigning roles, removing context, arranging objects, and offering it all up for reinterpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [320center]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kentucky artist Gaela Erwin\u2019s latest work explores her family dynamics. The artist says of the work included in the show, \u201cMy choice to paint family members exposes the scaffolding of decades of interpersonal history that literally colors the compositions with a tension that is at best compelling and sometimes disturbing.<\/p>\n The mother\/daughter and sibling relationship fuels the structural dynamics and emotional timbre of the paintings, in a way no other relationship can.\u201d Gaela was a finalist this year in the prestigious BP Portrait Award.<\/p>\n Women Painting Women<\/em> will be on view September 6th through November 20th.<\/p>\n For more information contact Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator, at 931.648.5780 or terri@customshousemuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [320center]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Pamela](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pamela-Wilson-Hologram-Girl.jpg\" "\\"Pamela")
<\/a> Pamela Wilson – Hologram Girl<\/p>\n<\/a> Elena Burykina – Inspired<\/p>\n<\/a> Tonja Sell – Blue Wallflower<\/p>\n<\/a> Gaela Erwin – Mother and Child reunion<\/p>\nAbout the Customs House Museum<\/h3>\n