What's on View
Gloss: A Measured Response to New Video Art
8.27.24-12.8.24
Gloss: A Measured Response to New Video Art is an exhibition of artists’ films from 2010 to now that demonstrate how the establishment and proliferation of social video and video-sharing platforms has produced a new quality of moving image artworks that departs from the modern and postmodern uses of the form from the 1960s onward. The most delicious recent video art is vibes: careful filmmaking renders not just striking aesthetics, but a totalizing affect. Featuring ten works from the US, UK, and South America, the exhibition brings multiple cutting-edge artworks and artists to Nashville, the region, and/or the US for the first time. Relying on big images and soundtracks to produce big feelings by tackling big ideas, these new videos are the product of culture as we experience it now: desperate and hopeful, and forever online.
Upcoming Exhibitions
...no footprints, even.
January 30, 2025 - May 11, 2025
Exhibition Archive
Molecular Muse
Molecular Muse
August 7-November 17, 2024
This exhibit showcases the work of undergraduate artists in the VI4 AiR Program, which draws from their scientific research in the School of Medicine Basic Science.
Fall Salon
A salon style exhibition of work from the permanent collection to support Vanderbilt classes.
The Art of Healing
Corvidae by Sarah Bogdal
Organized by a medical student collective, The Art of Healing was a juried exhibition to form an art lending program for patients of Vanderbilt University Medical Center based on research of the role of art in recovery and wellness.
An Installation by Amie Esslinger
Holding Impact
1.15.23-5.10.24
Imagine two neutron stars captured in each other’s gravitational force—orbiting each other, the tension building as their tentacles of energy begin to reach out and become entangled. Finally, they collide in a massive explosion of gravitational waves that spew radioactive waste and heavy metals such as gold and platinum. This moment of destruction creates spectacular beauty but is challenging to comprehend and unsettling. Likewise, Holding Impact captures an irreversible moment in which a series of eight distinctive multimedia installations by Atlanta-based artist Amie Esslinger have collided into one, creating a force that fills the space, conforms to the space, and breaks free from the confines of the space.
VU Salon
1.21.24-4.19.24
This year the Gallery is working to support faculty by curating salon style exhibitions of works used frequently by classes for lectures, exercises, assignments, or culminating projects. By making visual material available for study students' understanding of the work develops over the course of the semester.