Press Release- DADU:conversations
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Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit (DADU), the city code name for tiny homes on one’s property, will host quarterly exhibitions in conjunction with the East Side Art Stumble.
The first pop-up is a brick-and-mortar realization of a series of online exhibitions curated by galleryELL’s founder/artist/curator John Ros (NYC/London) in collaboration with director/artist Jodi Hays (East Nashville). Notions of home, place and space are contemplated and examined in each artists’ practice in this inaugural exhibition.
My husband and I bought our first home, a loft in an 1888 hardware store outside of Boston, we called it “the space” while it was being renovated. Once we’d moved in, “the space” became instead “place” and then “home.” Our inhabiting and sharing of “the space” called for a more intimate name.
DADU: Conversations is an investigation into specific ideas within artists’ practices, specifically those of space, place, landscape and architecture and how these things affect our own sense of space, place, home, memory, intimacy, ritual, landscape and memory.
I have collected some of the artists in DADU: Conversations, and I see and live with their work each day in my home. Kirstin Nash’s subtle painting was a house-warming gift to my husband, and greets us as we walk in the door. Kariann Fuqua’s color and line in a drawing sits with me in my living room. As John Ros stated in his text on the Conversation series, “Art is about persistence and continuation.” I have great respect for all of these artists, whose practices are consistent and long-term, and am honored for them to participate in DADU’s inaugural exhibition.
More DADU exhibitions to follow, including partnerships with COOP and other Nashville-based artists. For more information visit http://dadueastnash.tumblr.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/dadueastnash
This exhibition is a culmination of the recent conversations series on galleryELL.com curated by John Ros:
Digital catalogue will be available in June.
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