Plowhaus Artists' Cooperative - East Nashville, TN

visual artists: "Colonel" J.D. Wilkes, James Mundie, and Brett Whitacre.
Opening Reception: Friday Night, July 20th, 7 to 11pm

J.D. Wilkes, one of the original founders of Plowhaus Artists' Coop, and his artist friends are gearing up, cranking out, and putting the final touches on art that will arouse your curiosity of the unusual, intrigue your fascination with the indefinable, and definitely WOW you!

"Shack-Shakers" by J.D. Wilkes	"Colonel" J.D. Wilkes whiles away most his time sipping mint julep and languishing in the shady, tall-columned veranda of his quaint farm house in rural Paducah, Kentucky. But from time to time, J.D. hops on the sawdust trail & sees the world in his carny-themed, hillbilly band "th' Legendary Shack*Shakers". Painting gawdy sideshow banners and cartooning his weekly strip "Head Cheese" also make for one exhausted fella. ALARM Magazine called Wilkes "..the closest thing there is to the Ambassador of Genuine Traditional Southern Culture." His art will be the focus of an article in the September '07 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.
Brett Whitacre paints on discarded objects. Storm windows, suitcases, tv's...you name it! He views his "found objects" as free canvases that line Chicago's alleyways. Using masking tape and spray cans he applies the paint. Overall, it is a medium that lends itself well to playing with and distorting colors with some room for happy accidents.	Brett Whitacre
James Mundie	James Mundie spends his days monkishly toiling away in his ivory tower in South Philadelphia, commiting his fevered visions to paper. The fruit of Mundie's labors -- the provacative series "Prodigies" -- features conjoined twins and bearded women cavorting in compositions borrowed from Holbein and Goya. Mundie's work has been exhibited internationally, where it has solicited responses ranging from "Yikes!" to the more measured response of ShowHistory.com, which said “Prodigies merges the classical with the curious, and succeeds by capturing what is most human in the anomalous form.”

Directions:
From I-24 at Shelby Avenue, near the LP Coliseum in downtown Nashville, take Shelby Avenue away from downtown to 17th Street. Turn left onto South 17th.The Plowhaus is located on your right at 211 South 17th Street.