Temporary Contemporary

 
Temporary Contemporary was initiated in 1996 and consists of four solo exhibitions each year. Each show features innovative, influential and thought-provoking works by artists who are either from or currently living in the southeastern United States. Previous artists have included William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Kojo Griffin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robert Ryman.

In 2005, Cheekwood joined a prestigious community on the national contemporary art front by receiving a major grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for its pioneering work.

March 24 - May 27

In Cross-Reference Hans Schmitt-Matzen and his collaborator Gieves Anderson pay tribute to the spatial experience of being in a library. The artwork in this series is based on photographs taken in libraries and attempt to convey the painterly aesthetics of panning one’s eye across the rolling spines of books lining a shelf. The artwork mimics that experience through a ribbon-like paint stroke unfolding across a canvas. The library thus becomes a source of painterly contemplation, “gestural” photographic language becomes the inspiration for much of the paint handling within the artworks. The series title Cross-Reference borrows a library term to metaphorically imply that the mediums of photography and paint are indispensably linked within these artworks. Each medium makes citations to the other. 

Hans Schmitt-Matzen lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 2001, his artwork has been featured in numerous national and juried exhibitions, museum shows, and art events independent of the gallery system. Hans is actively involved in curatorial work and is a member of the artist-run coop gallery in downtown Nashville. He often collaborates with Gieves Anderson, a photographer who lives and works in New York. The objects they create together are denoted as Hans + Gieves artworks.