The Gladness of Nature: Paintings by Honor Marks

Honor Marks grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and remembers slogging through the marshes of the lowcountry as a child searching for rare wildflowers with her family. Today, she continues the journey through her artwork. Drawing her inspiration from writers Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, and Madeleine L'Engle and a host of botanical and natural history painters, Honor "transforms meticulous field…

Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush: The Art of Glass

This exhibition featured sculpture by two of the leading contemporary glass artists in the country, husband and wife Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush. Jolley studied under Michael Taylor, first at Tusculum College and later at George Peabody College, where he earned his BFA degree in 1974. He pursued further study at the Penland School of Crafts. Tommie Rush earned her…

Formal Candids: Photographs by Greg Kinney

Atlanta native Greg Kinney established himself as one of Nashville, Tennessee's leading commercial photographers. During the time he maintained his own studio, he produced the photographs that appeared in this exhibition, most of them shot in smaller communities in Middle Tennessee.

Starters: Selections from the Wells Fargo Collection

Through much of the fall, the Morris is displayed a large sampling from the Wells Fargo Collection, one of the most renowned corporate collections in the United States. The exhibition included representative examples from the company's main areas of collecting interest—nineteenth-century American paintings, contemporary prints, photography, and art nouveau posters—and features fifty works of art in a variety of media.…

Dark Corners: The Appalachian Murder Ballads: Paintings by Julyan Davis

Dark Corners interpreted traditional American, English, and Celtic ballads through images of the contemporary South. Davis noted that the folk songs that are native to the South provided him with a familiar narrative and a human history that connects to his own background. In his view, the stories may be old, but, "one only has to pick up a newspaper…