This fall in the Fine Dining Area of the airport is an exhibition featuring tin can art by David Wasserman. Wasserman was born in New York City in 1917. A graduate of Cooper Union, he operated a successful graphic design studio in Manhattan for over forty years. In the late 1960s he began using his evenings and weekends to produce art in the basement of his Long Island home, entirely for his own pleasure and without any commercial motive. Over the next thirty years, he fastened pieces from tin cans, aluminum cans, roll copper, roll brass and sign painter’s metal to plywood, creating a body of “Tin Can Art” that includes a great variety of subjects and styles such as abstractions, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, and even cartoons. None of these works were publicly displayed or sold during the artist’s lifetime, and they were only seen by family, friends and neighbors.

After the artist’s death in 1999, his son Steven began introducing his father’s art to the public. David Wasserman’s works have since been shown at the Tennessee State Museum, the Gordon Jewish Community Center, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, the Appalachian Center for Craft, and the Lane Motor Museum. A major exhibition of his works hosted by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee will run from October 21 through November 20, 2005. Please visit members.aol.com/tincanman99 to see more of David Wasserman’s art.

Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). Music performances are sponsored by MNAA, Delaware North Companies, Inc. and The Paradies Shops. The Flying Solo Exhibition Series is funded in part under an agreement with the TAC and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615)275-1614 or visit www.artsattheairport.com.