Meet the school year's first in-residence artist August 27
USN kicks off its professional art gallery season with an opening reception for Yanira Vissepó’s "Fantastical Views" exhibition from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, August 27 in the Tibbott Art Gallery.
By Andy King, MS/HS Art Teacher
On Thursday, August 27, USN kicks off its professional art gallery season with an opening reception for Yanira Vissepó’s "Fantastical Views" exhibition in Tibbott Art Gallery.
Vissepó creates vibrant compositions that bridge the landscapes and flora of her birthplace in Puerto Rico and her adopted home in the American South. Her work addresses themes of identity, transition, and environmental histories. Her techniques, such as stain painting, linocut printmaking, cyanotype, dye resists, and hand embroidery, emphasize the resilience and fragility of the natural world. The plants she portrays — native to Puerto Rico and Tennessee — serve as symbols of healing and connection, weaving ecological and cultural ties between her two homes.
Vissepó creates vibrant compositions that bridge the landscapes and flora of her birthplace in Puerto Rico and her adopted home in the American South. Her work addresses themes of identity, transition, and environmental histories. Her techniques, such as stain painting, linocut printmaking, cyanotype, dye resists, and hand embroidery, emphasize the resilience and fragility of the natural world. The plants she portrays — native to Puerto Rico and Tennessee — serve as symbols of healing and connection, weaving ecological and cultural ties between her two homes.
Vissepó has been featured in many top galleries in Tennessee. Recently, her work was part of the "In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century" exhibition at the Frist Art Museum. Vissepó’s dreamlike paintings will be on view in Tibbot Art Gallery Thursday, August 27 through Friday, September 25.
All are invited to attend the reception and meet the artist on from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, August 27.
All are invited to attend the reception and meet the artist on from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, August 27.
Check out her work here.
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