By SARAH B.GILLIAM | Staff Writer
BELLE MEADE — Symbols in nature is an underlying theme for art currently on display at Gallery One in the Belle Meade Galleria.
Gallery One will hold a public reception with artist-sculptor Sydney Reichman and painter Tracey Lane for its kick-off show,
"Elements," Saturday from 6-8 p.m. The exhibits will be shown through Dec. 9 at the gallery.
"The roots of the exhibit are very much connected with nature's symbols," said Shelley Liles, owner of Gallery One.
A Nashville native, Reichman has worked for 35 years as a visual artist in the mediums of painting, sculptural clay, and metal, Liles said.
"Sydney has been producing wonderful art in this city for 35 years," Liles said.
"This new body of work is mixed media... she is a very innovative artist."
In her latest work, Reichman merges the processes of fired metal, painting, printmaking and sculpture to create rich, visual and poetic narratives.
"The layering of color, pattern, texture, landscape and sculptural form fuses my work with the world of nature, giving it both roots and wings," Reichman said. "As a'visual artist and land steward, I have absorbed the experience of deeply caring for this wild woodland world into a language of symbols and images that I hope will inspire our connection to the enchantment and magic that still exists on this breathtaking and fragile earth."
A group of sculptures by Sydney Reichman are on display at Gallery One, in the Belle Meade Galleria. The gallery will hold a public reception Saturday from 6-8 p.m. for Reichman of Williamson County and painter Tracey Lane of Atlanta.
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Lane, of Atlanta, also works with symbols to express her connection to the land, though the symbols she employs are more literal and widely apparent in nature, Liles said.
"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.