Opening Reception Friday 1/9 6-9pm
Elephant Gallery is excited to announce our upcoming group show, Again & Again, with new work by artists Haniyfa Muhammad Branka, Chris Hundo, Lulu Marin and Tessa Pardo. This is our second annual showcase of work by the teaching fellows at gallery neighbor Buchanan Arts Center (BAC). BAC is a non-profit art school with a mission to provide free after school art education to children in North Nashville.
Ceramicist Lulu Marin’s work presents stories passed down about her late father, “someone that I know nothing about and yet yearn to learn everything about.” Haniyfa Muhammad Branka works with clay and fiber to “echo the natural cycles of my Black religious upbringing, where ritual, prayer and communal practice shaped daily life.” Chris Hundo’s works with any media at hand to articulate a visual philosophy he called CHUM: “a posture-driven architecture of selfhood.” Tess Pardo use clay, glazes, acrylic paint and encaustics to create melancholy female figures drawn from fairy tales. “As I evolved in ceramics I found that many of my visual inspirations from childhood resurfaced. Perhaps playing in the mud triggered these memories.”
Please join us to celebrate these four dynamic artists and work they created over the past year at Buchanan Arts Center.
For more information please contact hello@elephantgallery.com
Bios:
Lulu Marin received both a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting and Bachelors of Art in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Lulu has previously taught young PreK through Middle School art and is now an art instructor and studio technician for Nashville Pottery.
Haniyfa Muhammad Branka is a mixed-media artist and writer. She is the founder of Created2Gether, a luxury mobile arts studio, and Trust Yourself, a nonprofit dedicated to violence prevention, trauma-informed education, and community empowerment. Her solo show What We Carry: Stories After Silence is up at COOP Gallery until January 24th.
Chris Hundo is a Nashville artist whose practice includes street photography, painting and ceramics.
Tessa Pardo is a self-taught artist working in painting, drawing, costume design, window displays and clay.