{"id":7749,"date":"2011-08-23T13:29:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2011-08-23T13:29:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:29:37","slug":"new-apsu-exhibit-re-presents-historic-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/23\/new-apsu-exhibit-re-presents-historic-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"New APSU Exhibit “Re-presents” Historic Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – For the artist Wes Sherman, an old painting by Vincent van Gogh or George Inness isn\u2019t simply a static work of art. Each piece is alive in the present, with modern day viewers interpreting its images to fit into the world he or she knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that we have always borrowed from the past to redefine or rediscover our existence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Re-presentation<\/a>

Re-presentation - New Paintings by Wes Sherman<\/p><\/div>\n

Sherman\u2019s fascination with this rediscovery has led to a fascinating new exhibit of his work, \u201cRe-presentation: New Paintings by Wes Sherman,\u201d which opens at 7:00pm on September 6th in the Austin Peay State University Trahern Gallery. The show begins with a lecture by Sherman in Trahern room 401 and is followed by a reception. The exhibit runs until September 25th and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The works in the show represent more than simply the \u201cinfluences\u201d of past masters on Sherman\u2019s work. They literally are his rediscovery of the art form through those older pieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cI start with a painting from history and then begin to abstract from it until I find something new about color, space or paint,\u201d he said. \u201cWith my paintings, I try to master the medium, but more importantly, I try to pick paintings from history that will help me to discover how history speaks to the present. Art is not a decoration, but a declaration of one\u2019s self-understanding of place in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sherman began painting in 1992 and went on to study under the noted abstract artist Thomas Nozkowski at Rutgers University\u2019s Mason Gross School of the Arts. He has exhibited his work in 24 solo shows and numerous group shows at such prominent venues as the Galerie Lelong and the Bill Maynes Gallery in New York City and the Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville. In 2011, he was the recipient of a Fellowship for Painting from The New Jersey State University Council for the Arts, and over the next year he will have shows at East Tennessee State University, Lipscomb University, Alfa Art Gallery and The Center for Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n

For more information on the \u201cRe-presentation\u201d exhibit, contact Paul Collins, Trahern Gallery director and APSU assistant professor of art, at 931.221.7790.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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