Arts at the Airport
   
     
  Current Art Exhibits
September 6 - November 29, 2009
 
     
 

HOLLIS BENNETT: PANCHROMATIC DOMESTICITY

concourse c, across from gates 10 and 13

 
     
 

Hollis Bennett was born in Knoxville, Tenn., and has moved all over the country. He eventually moved to Denver and studied photography at the Art Institute of Colorado. Hollis explains that after being criticized for not following a commercial photography career, he graduated with honors and promptly moved to Alaska to become a fishing guide.

 
     
 

Artist Statement

“My photography is a direct extension of my personality and my psyche. My ways are not set in stone and flexibility is what has granted me the opportunities to be able to go far and wide and interact with my situations resulting, hopefully, in the best image possible.”

“The images in the airport exhibition are interiors of company miners’ homes in the now abandoned town of Gilman, Colorado. They are unique in the fact that someone decided that bright, bold colors would be a good idea for folks living and working most of their adult lives deep underground.”

“The psychology of architecture and our surroundings is something that I have been interested since picking up a camera years ago. I find it quite amazing that what we perceive on a day to day basis can affect and influence our lives in such a profound way. Whether it be bright colors to lift the spirits or soothing pastels to keep inmates calm or the interior of a casino designed to confuse and retain people, it all goes to show that we are controlled by the subtleties of our environment.”

 
     
 

Shown Right: Blue, Pink, Green House, photograph, 24" x 24."

 
     
 

Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). The Flying Solo Exhibition Series is supported by the MNAA, the TAC, and is funded under an agreement with the State of Tennessee. Music performances are sponsored by the MNAA. For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615) 275-1614.

 
     
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