290 Quintard Rd
Sewanee, TN 37375
USA
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School’s SAS Gallery is pleased to welcome the work of artist Austin Reavis. Reavis’s exhibition, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict, features his sculpture, paintings and photography. His work will be in the gallery through September 24, 2017.
A reception celebrating the exhibition will be held in the SAS Gallery on Thursday, September 14 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Austin Reavis grew up in Sewanee, Tennessee in a house in the woods built by his hippy parents. After graduating from St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School in 2005, Reavis built his own tiny house in those same woods, where he lived (miserably) without electricity or water for a year before leaving for Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana. Since completing a BFA in Sculpture at Herron in 2010, Reavis has worked as an assistant food stylist in New York, and as an art handler in at the Frist Museum and Cheekwood Center for the Arts in Nashville, TN. Reavis currently lives in Nashville, and has no intention of living in his tiny home again.
Austin Reavis’s work has been shown in Indiana, New York and most recently at Bijan Ferdowsi Gallery and Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville. The Tennessean described his vivid, abstract watercolor series “Abecedarium,” as “meditating on arbitrary symbols, such as the alphabet, and their ability to represent complex realities — how a letter can signify a place, or a word can summarize a deep feeling.” His recent body of sculpture juxtaposes found and repurposed materials to conjure mysterious and singular objects that are by turns comical, frightening, endearing and disorienting.
Reavis will offer a 1-day workshop: Drawing with Peripheral Senses on September 16th, 9 AM – 3:30 PM, The workshop fee is $25 and includes all materials and lunch. Contact Gallery Directory Julie Jones at jjones@sasweb.org for more information.