Ellen Altfest: Forever
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Sat, May 31, 2025 - Mon, Sep 1, 2025 10am - 5:30pm
Location
Frist Art Museum
919 Broadway
Details
American representational painter Ellen Altfest paints directly from observation, often working on a single painting over months or years. Featuring approximately 20 oil paintings created over the last two decades, Forever is inspired by Emily Dickinson’s line “Forever – is composed of Nows,” an encouragement to live mindfully in the present. By connecting nature and the human figure, Altfest generates a distilled poetry in which each is suggestive of the other. In the spirit of Dickinson’s warm and lucid verse, she is a witness to the ever-overlooked.
Organized by the Frist Art Museum
Ellen Altfest. Gourds, 2006–07. Oil on canvas; 19 x 38 in. © Ellen Altfest. Photo © Bill Orcutt, New York. Courtesy White Cube
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Price: Gallery Admission
