In November, Nashville's Gallery One will kick off "Elements," a new show featuring new works by Williamson County sculptor Sydney Reichman and Atlanta painter Tracey Lane.

A public reception with the artists will be held on Saturday, November 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will run November 7 through December 9.

On December 1, Reichman will also be a featured speaker at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, as part of the center's Artists Forum program.

A Nashville native, Reichman has worked for 35 years as a visual artist in the mediums of painting, sculptural clay, and metal. In her latest series of mixed-media constructions she merges the processes of fired metal, painting, printmaking, and sculpture to create rich, visual and poetic narratives. These narratives are inspired by, and rooted in, Reichman's affinity for the land and her connection to the natural springs, rocky ravines and deep woods of her rural Williamson County home.

Reichman attended the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio and Boston University in Boston, Mass. She served an artist residency at Peters Valley Artist Colony in Delaware Water Gap, N.J.; and later studied clay at George Peabody College (Vanderbilt University), the Penland School in Penland, N.C., and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg.

Reichman has earned many awards for her work, including first prize honors at the Central South Art Exhibition and as a finalist at the MIHOW Sculpture Competition at Vanderbilt; the National Sculpture Competition at Goodell Park in Columbus, Ohio; and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Water Sculpture) Competition, among others. Among those commissioning her works are the YWCA and the Andrew Carnegie Library in Philadelphia, Pa.

Lane, an Atlanta native, also works with symbols to express her connection to the land, though the symbols Lane employs are more literal and widely apparent in nature.

"I'm mostly inspired by the quiet drama of nature - trees bending toward the light, silent reflections, sunlight breaking through clouds," Lane said. "More recently, I've begun to explore the 'flesh and blood' wildness of nature through birds because they are ubiquitous reminders that we must be better stewards" of the earth.

Lane earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in art history from Emory University in Atlanta.

Gallery One is located at 5133 Harding Pike in the Belle Meade Galleria, and is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. as well as by appointment. For more information about the gallery or the upcoming show, call 352-3006 or visit www.galleryone.biz.