Blythe
Family Mythologies
Elephant Gallery
November 7 - December 20, 2025
Opening: Friday, November 7, 6-9pm
Elephant is excited to present Family Mythologies, the first solo show at the gallery by Nashville artist Blythe. Family Mythologies is an investigation into the artist’s family
history, both recent and distant. The central figure (and myth) in this work is Blythe’s great, great, great grandmother Roxania, the daughter of a Lenape Medicine Man. Blythe also examines more contemporary characters, like her painter/designer parents, her Texan grandfather Papa Pat and grandmother Tex, an accomplished caricaturist.
Through paintings, which Blythe has shown regularly, and new ceramic altars, Family Mythologies is asking universal human questions: Where do we come from? How are we similar to our ancestors? How have we changed? And importantly: Are our family stories true - and does that matter?
For inquiries please contact alex@elephantgallery.com
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Blythe (b. 1997) is a third-generation painter and second-generation graphic artist. Her playful style marries graphic figuration with expressive abstraction. Carving forms with intersecting lines, she instinctively fills the resulting spaces with swathes of flat, bright color. She paints with acrylics on textured surfaces.