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Number 97 Color Resized 11X15.Indd Number: NinetySeven an independent arts journal/spring 2019/relics numberinc.org @numberinc numberinc @numberincmagazine Editorial 97: Relics Screen Shot of James 03 Christine Bespalec-Davis Tyson’s Coverage of Support those who Bree Newsome, Charlotte, support the Arts: Regional Updates: Cover: NC, June 27, 2015 Listings for Artists, Galleries, Organizations, Editorial 97: Relics Memphis / Tennessee 04 Northwest Arkansas / Atlanta and Businesses that Make Art Happen Objects and images, preserved in archives, or im- all over again. I still have those things and a few other the vanishing point of a rainy street in Paris and the Pulse material and memorialized in the annals of memory: cherished items she had set aside for me. They are velvet blackness of a man’s umbrella in contrast to a 06 Gloria Ballard Memphis, TN Nashville, TN these are Relics. They are evocative, even provocative, heirlooms that will go to my children when I am gone. woman’s red lips. I would sneak away from my parents Art Center Building No.9 1636 Union Avenue 57 Arcade and, through miraculous belief, these cultural traces After my grandmother died, though, what I re- to stand too close to Picasso, positioning myself so One Can Indeed Not Account Memphis, TN 38104 Nashville, TN 901.276.6321 615.983.0400 and markers of personal identity persevere. They member actually wanting was something completely there was just enough glare to see the eye and jawline Bailey Romaine artcentermemphis.com Contact: Peter Fleming 07 [email protected] channel people, places, events, and ideas from the re- different: a piece of wallpaper in her only bathroom. of the woman and nursing child at her breast in the Art Museum of the bldno9.com University of Memphis cent and distant past. They can be incredibly specific, When I visited her, I tried on her perfume, fumbling underpainting of the blue guitarist. Little Happy Teeth Around the World 3750 Norriswood Avenue LOCATE Arts Rylan Thompson Memphis, TN 38152 Brian R Jobe & Carri Jobe, Co-Founders affecting individuals, or transcending culture and class, through a drawer of treasures: safety pins, miniature The Renaissance and school of Caravaggio were 08 901. 678.2224 locatearts.org memphis.edu/amum impacting communities both local and global. Charged Tennessee Arts Commission metal scissors with a bird on the handle, clippers, a my favorites. I never tired of staring at them, seek- 401 Charlotte Avenue Passing ArtistsLink Inc. by collective belief systems or personal significance, cloth measuring tape, a red, plastic, beaded rosary ing out every last detail, marveling at the stories they Phyllis Boger, President 615.741.1701 Adrienne Brown-David artistslink.org arts.state.tn.us these items are honored through display and safe- and the ever-present Carmex no one used but me. Her told of gods and goddesses, thick-fleshed heroes and 10 deity Beauty Shop Restaurant Johnson City, TN keeping. In reliquaries, places of worship, and museum wallpaper was cream, woven linen featuring a gold, beauties with deep shadows and rich color. Just past Mary K. VanGieson 966 South Cooper Street Witch Bottles & Satellites Memphis, TN 38104 Slocumb Galleries vitrines, or locked away in vaults and sock drawers, embossed trompe l’oeil pattern of children playing them, I was struck by the contrast of the medieval Jesse Ring 901.272.7111 232 Sherrod Drive 11 patrons thebeautyshoprestaurant.com Johnson City, TN 37614 their presence is embodied in ritual and custom. amidst islands of bush trees with slender branches period, so stylistically different but full of serpents, 423 483 3179 Your Name Here! Beverly + Sam Ross Gallery [email protected] Christian Brothers University etsu/cas/art/galleries and pools of reflective water surrounded by cattails gold-leafed halos and disproportioned, wiry-limbed Interview: Mike Stasny 2455 Avery Avenue Maria McDowell numerati Memphis, TN 38112 Cleveland, MS Relic #1 and long-necked swans. The section I wanted most saints and apostles. Off in a vitrine in the corner of 12 Peter Fleming Cat Pena, Director 901.321.3243 Delta State University I don’t remember my grandmother’s funeral, but was a scene of a small girl, tenderly holding the swan’s the room was an elaborately detailed Gothic church Janice & Pinkney Herbert [email protected] Wright Art Center Gallery cbu.edu Casus for Marshall Arts 1003 W. Sunflower Road after she died there was an estate sale. Amidst my face while a young boy placed a crown on its head. on a tiny pedestal with an object embedded in crystal Stephanie DeMer Susan Hugel Crosstown Arts 662.846.4720 confusion and attempt to comprehend the magnitude What did it mean? I would stare at these scenes dur- in its center. I was drawn to it, straining to see inside. 13 1350 Concourse Avenue, Suite 280 dsuart.com Ashif Jahan Memphis, TN 38104 of my first broken heart, I remember being told I could ing bath time, imagining the games they were playing A small scroll, a bit of string, and...a tooth? I jumped Interview: Mel Ziegler Katie Maish 901.507.8030 Oxford, MS Lacy Mitcham crosstownarts.org pick out a few things to remember her by. As I wandered or the grand ceremony they were pretending to enact. back — why? Reading the panel nearby: Reliquary Sara Lee Burd The University of Mississippi 14 Carl E. Moore Eclectic Eye Department of Art and Art History around a room awkwardly filled with the folding tables I was not allowed to cut a piece out. But I remember Monstrance with a Tooth of Saint John the Baptist. 242 South Cooper Street Meek Hall , Gallery 130 Toni Roberts Memphis, TN 38104 662.915.7193 Transmutations: I was baptized Carol Sams 901.276.3937 art.olemiss.edu on which we had played cards - now strewn about with it exactly. Date: 1433. I have visited it every time since. eclectic-eye.com in a bathtub with glitter Jennifer Sargent University of Mississippi piles of books and old costume jewelry — I rifled through An understanding. A revelation. An object becomes Frame Corner 16 Museum and Historic Houses Liz Clayton Scofield 5035 Park Avenue University Ave & 5th Street and picked out a few rhinestone pins and silver clip-on Relic #2 precious through its implications and its symbolism as friends Memphis, TN 38117 Oxford, MS Sharon Grinspan 901.682.9901 662.915.7073 earrings I thought I remembered seeing her wear or Wandering through the curved halls off of the well as the stories attached to it. Since the beginning, framecornermemphis.com museum.olemiss.edu Warped Dolph & Jessie Smith [email protected] that I knew she would like. I snatched up an old hand- grand staircase at the Art Institute of Chicago, I was we collect and cherish objects we assign meaning to. Talia Moscovitz Ralston Fox Smith 50 Otherlands Coffee Bar held camera my dad said my grandpa used to film home always struck by the size and sheer impact of gi- We pilgrimage. We stash away. We hold dear. 641 Cooper Street 18 Number: Sponsors Number: Cary Wilkins Memphis, TN 38104 movies when he was a kid; accidentally exposing an ant canvases on display there as I walked toward Taurus crockettensis: 901. 278. 4994 otherlandscoffeebar.com 20 A Tennessee Relic unfinished reel of film caused my heart to get crushed them, stretching up to see as far as possible into Beauvais Lyons The Sun Never Sets: 22 Mapping Digital-Colonialism Audrey Molloy Sildes & Relics board of directors Jennifer Sargent, Chair Kerr Houston 24 Toni Roberts, Vice Chair Mike Calway-Fagen, Co-editor Interview: Andrew O’Brien & Katie Maish, Co-editor 26 Brooks Dierdorff Carl Moore, Webmaster Andrew O’Brien & Brooks Dierdorff Shelley Madison, Treasurer Lacy Mitcham, Secretary Shaun Giles Hunter Invitational IV Caroline Gikas 28 Hunter Museum of American Art Ashif Jahan Casey Fletcher Jason Miller Michael Mitchell Carol Sams It Takes a While to Figure Out Donna Woodley 29 Who You Really Are Lump staff Ash Eliza-Smith David Thompson, Designer office John Martin’s Toolbox po box 11008 30 Institute 193 1B memphis, tn 38111-0008 Chase Martinn All published material is protected under this copyright; however, all Trinitron Mixtape rights and ownership remain Living Arts of Tulsa with the contributor. Published 31 by Number: Incorporated, a non- Jessica Borusky profit 501(c)(3) organization. The focus of Number: is on the Massu Lemu: The Sea Hums contemporary visual arts in the South. Opinions expressed 32 Bearing Strange Gifts herein are those of the writers Oakwood Arts and do not necessarily reflect Chase Westfall those of the publishers. Con- tents in whole or in part may not be reproduced without written Lessons on How to Be a Incorporated Number: 2019 © permission. More Interesting Woman 33 Gallery 72 Number: 97 Spring 2019 VOLUME XXX, NO. 1 Catherine Rush cutline cutline Christine Bespalec-Davis is an artist and museum professional currently living and working in Chattanooga, TN. 3 Regional Update: Memphis Regional Update: Tennessee Regional Update: Northwest Arkansas Regional Update: Atlanta The biggest news for Memphis in 2019 is the celebration of the Bicentennial of both the city and Today we live in a global village with technology at our fingertips, and it appears that our access The surge of art programming in Northwest Arkansas is not news to the region’s residents. A thousand tomorrows, the Atlanta Biennial, showing at Atlanta Contemporary January 17 to county. Rather than sticking with the tradition of honoring a different foreign country each year, the to contemporary art is only accelerating. It’s hard to deny the abundance of opportunity that this Since the opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2011, visitors and residents April 7, 2019, showcases the work of 20 artists all working in the southeastern United States.
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