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Artist Nicole Baumann leaves Nashville with a parting gift.
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n a recent Friday night, in the middle of Nashville’s onehundred-plus heatwave, I braved the outside temperatures to trek to the Seed Space gallery in the Chestnut Square building. I left the AC off and the windows down while I drove. A friend had once advised me that after the sun goes down, it actually feels cooler if you let yourself acclimate to the heavy, thick night air. My friend is an idiot. Parking in the lot across the street from the space, the place was already bustling with patrons and loiterers—I faced lots of random “hellos” and handshakes, and even a plan to take a fishing trip, as I walked from my car to the front door and down the long hallway to the first floor galleries in Chestnut Square. Seed Space is a small installation gallery located inside the studio of artist Adrienne Outlaw (full disclosure: I’ve contributed to catalogs for a few of their exhibits and Adrienne was my editor on a now-defunct online art journal). The space is curated by Rachel Bubis. Its small confines make it a unique and sometimes challenging setting for both local and visiting artists, and Nicole Baumann, whose show “Fortune Holiday” opened that night, sort of qualifies as both.
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