"Nashville Int'l Airport Launches Summer Art Exhibitions"

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LAUNCHES SUMMER ART EXHIBITIONS  
Press Release


NASHVILLE, TN - The works of Clarksville artist, Mike Fink; Crawford
resident Jack Stoddart; Arlington, Virginia native, Kristina Arnold; and
Middle Tennessee State University professor (MTSU), Christie Nuell are
featured in the Arts at the Airport Flying Solo exhibition series at the
Nashville International Airport Tuesday, June 8 through Sunday, August
29. 

Passengers enjoying a meal in the Fine Dining area of Nashville
International Airport will notice the work of Mike Fink. Fink, a noted
graphic designer, is exhibiting a collection of posters from 1997 - 2003
for the Roxy Regional Theatre in Clarksville,TN. Fink volunteers his
time for the Roxy, which is housed in a 1947 modern-art theatre.  It is
Clarksville's oldest professional theatre.  

He is a graduate of the Art Center of Design in Los Angeles, CA. and
once held a staff position at the prestigious Hollywood design firm Rod
Dyer, Inc. In 1979 he opened his own studio, x height, specializing in
entertainment graphics for the music and movie industries, book and
magazine design, and corporate identities.  He has won numerous awards
for his work and now works out of his Clarksville studio ilevel.

Passengers and visitors on Concourse C can enjoy a photography exhibit
created by Jack Stoddart.  In the early 1970's, he began chronicling the
last traces of an agrarian lifestyle that still existed near his home in
north central Tennessee.  His photos document the local Mennonite
community and the disappearing culture of rural Tennesseans working with
mules, raising their own food and living in rustic cabins. 

Stoddart uses an elegant printing style by combining traditional silver
gelatin black and white photography with sepia toning.  These timeless
visuals have found their way into numerous private collections
nationally and internationally.  His work can also be found at The
Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA, the Knoxville Museum of Art in
Knoxville, TN, and the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville.

Kristina Arnold finds the intriguing questions about health and human
biology as the inspiration for her artwork.  Her works are created
primarily from Plexiglas and fabric and often involve sound.  The pieces
are eerily biological and oddly child-like and can be seen in the
airline ticketing area of the Airport.

 Arnold received a degree in community health from Brown University in
Providence RI; she also took courses at Brown's sister school, the Rhode
Island School of Design. She pursued a career in public health in
Nashville, working as a research associate in the department of
Preventative Medicine, division of Pharmacoepidemiology at Vanderbilt. 

"Instead of continuing to look at the world through the lens of science,
I realized I express myself better through the visual language of art,"
states Arnold.  She returned to art school, earning her Master of Fine
Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  Arnold's
recent shows include Psychosomatic at Artlab in Memphis, Infectious at
Ruby Green in Nashville, and Antibodies & Aliens at the Oak Ridge
Children's Museum in Oak Ridge, TN.

 Christie Nuell also displays her work of three large icon-like images
of fruit in the ticketing area.  Nuell uses the computer as a tool to
produce images for her prints and more recently for unique artworks that
combine copper and digital prints in constructed pieces. "I want my work
to reflect a sense of joy, peace, beauty and stability to the onlooker,"
states Nuell.

Nuell teaches printmaking and multimedia at Middle Tennessee State
University (MTSU).  A native of the United Kingdom, she grew up in
Italy, and was introduced to art at the pre-school level.  She received
a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia.  She is an
accomplished painter and printmaker and her works may be seen in public
and private collections.  She has exhibited in more than one hundred
juried and invitational exhibitions in more than 20 states and several
countries.      

Nashville International Airport's Arts at the Airport receives funding
from the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission,
the Memorial Foundation and other grant-giving organizations to provide
a comprehensive arts program in the terminal. Flying Solo, which
features artists from across the state, is funded in part under an
agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment
for the Arts.


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