SPOTLIGHT
Gallery One Patrick Adams, Rush, Oil on panel, 24" x 24"
New Horizons T
his month brings news for Gallery One that is both bittersweet and hopeful. Longtime gallery owner Shelley McBurney is moving forward from her
work at the gallery and turning her beloved business over to new hands. McBurney spoke with us this month about the hard but ultimately hopeful decision to welcome new owners to Gallery One. “It was an extremely difficult decision. I founded the gallery, and it’s been my passion for eight years now.” McBurney, who was diagnosed with metastasized melanoma earlier this year, says that her life now demands things that she cannot get while working in the gallery. “The things that I need at this time include fresh air, exercise, meditation, time with my daughters, and travel.”
Sylvia Hyman, Classics, Porcelain, 7" x 14" x 12 1/2"
A conversation with McBurney reveals at once her strong spirit and her sense of peace and determination about the path that her life is taking her on. McBurney is currently being treated by a Vanderbilt doctor who happens to be a leading expert on her particular type of cancer. She is also responding to a new treatment that works on only seventeen percent of those who take it. McBurney’s progress under her new treatment has amazed and inspired her. She says, “I feel so fortunate.” McBurney will hand over ownership of the gallery to a former client of the establishment this month. She says of the new owner, “She is so talented. I think we will continue to see the gallery’s tradition of excellence.” Busily planning her last show as Gallery One owner, McBurney has hand picked a group of artists to represent the gallery. Some of my Favorite Things: Curator’s Pick runs through November 24. It includes works by Sylvia Hyman, Lori-Gene, Maggie Hasbrouck, John and Robin Gumaelius, Thomas Monaghan and others. Nashville audiences are familiar with Hyman’s delightfully deceptive porcelain and stoneware sculptures. These trompe l’oeil tableaux provide a playful escape from the everyday. Monaghan’s thoughtful, atmospheric landscape paintings are showstoppers. These dreamy, ethereal compositions capture the transforming effects of light. McBurney feels proud to leave Gallery One on such a strong note. “It was fun to pick from the work of a few popular gallery artists.” As she looks forward to life after Gallery One, McBurney hopes to write and travel more. A former reporter, she feels like her experiences with cancer, from the humorous to the sublime, deserve to be put down in pen and ink. We agree.
Thomas Monaghan, Evening Meditations III, Oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
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