Dangenart News

Dangenart's Daniel Lai Appears on Local Television Station

Saturday May 26, 2007 - by Ashley Reynolds

Thursday May 24 at around 7:30 Dangenart’s Daniel Lai was featured on Nashville’s Public Television Station. The segment “Arts Break” stays on top of local news in the Art World around Nashville and interviewed Lai about the First Saturday Gallery Crawl which takes place each month. Lai also spoke about when he discovered the Arcade as an exciting new space for his gallery. Tag owners Jerry Dale McFadden and Susan Tinney were also interviewed about their gallery, TAG, which is located right across the street from the Arcade on 5th Avenue.

If you missed Arts Break on Thursday you can catch it again Sunday May 27 at around 9:55 am. If you want to watch it online you can check out Nashville Public Television’s website to watch the clip.

Dangenart Gallery featured in NY Arts Magazine
The article is here:
NY Arts Magazine

Nashville Named One of the Top Cities for Artists

Business Week has named Nashville one of the best places in America for artists. There is also a separate link that will take you right to a photo gallery of all of the top cities included in the write-up.

Dangenart's Daniel Lai Interviewed on Nashville Public Radio

Wednesday March 14, 2007 - by Ashley Reynolds

News of The Arcade’s art movement is rapidly spreading throughout Nashville. Adrienne Outlaw from WPLN spoke with Dangenart Gallery’s Daniel Lai on February 26, 2007 about his gallery and The Arcade as a unique destination for locals and tourists alike.

Jan Thompson, Arcade Owner, was also interviewed about the exciting changes being made in her space.

Visit Nashville Public Radio to listen to the interview first-hand.

In the Best of Nashville issue (Oct 12, 2006,) the Nashville Scene top art critics and writers name Dangenart Gallery Best New Gallery in Nashville. They also attribute the genesis of downtown art district to the effort of Art at the Arcade's creative forces.

Daniel Lai moved here last year from New Jersey expressly to open a gallery, selecting Nashville as a place with an environment more conducive for his start-up enterprise than the cutthroat New York region. Drawing on connections from his experience back east and casting open his doors on the Internet, he has brought to his gallery in the downtown Arcade many artists new to Nashville viewers. The shows come closer than anything else in town to feeling like an extension of current aesthetics in Chelsea or Brooklyn. —DAVID MADDOX

Nashville’s visual arts scene has been on a steady upward trajectory for the past 10 years or so, but recent developments have solidified the city’s first bona fide arts district. For years, Anne Brown’s Arts Company was the lone art oasis on an otherwise mundane downtown block—Fifth Avenue North between Commerce and Union—until Jerry Dale McFadden’s eclectic TAG Art Gallery started renting space from Brown in 2004. The following year, artist/art historian Daniel Lai moved from New York to Nashville to open Dangenart in The Arcade. The gallery focuses on edgy art from emerging artists around the country. Just this past summer, TAG moved into its own space across the street from The Arts Company while two new venues blossomed in The Arcade: Beth Gilmore and Caroline Carlisle’s Twist gallery and Matt Mikulla’s Art Rogue studio and gallery. Now, one city block is home to five galleries covering a gamut of styles: traditional, folk, self-taught, approachable, confrontational, you name it. And with many of the galleries scheduling receptions to coincide with each other, it’s possible to see several openings in one night, from one parking space without even busting a sweat. —JACK SILVERMAN

October 7, 2006

Art at the Arcade Group Reception – October 7, Saturday,
6-9pm.

Nashville – On October 7, Saturday, from 6 to 9pm , Art at the Arcade launches its first group reception.

It’s finally happening! Thanks to pioneer like Dangenart Gallery and visionary like Daniel Lai, (Dangenart's curator) who have been promoting the Aracde to artists and gallerists, a creative oasis has just spurred out of Downtown Nashville. Nashville 's first enclosed shopping mall, The Arcade, is now filled with art spaces. For the longest time, this historic shopping mall has been a popular lunch destination. But now eateries are not the only reason to go to the Arcade. one year after Dangenart opened, there are now eight art galleries and studios filling the previously vacant units, upstairs and downstairs.

These art spaces, collectively known as Art at the Arcade, will have their inaugural group reception on October 7, Saturday, from 6 to 9pm , in conjunction with TAG’s opening reception. (TAG is located at the Kress Building on Fifth Ave., across the street from the Arcade .)

The Art at the Arcade effort is especially exciting to Nashville because it revitalizes not only the historic mall itself but the long awaited art variety in the entire neighborhood. For more information visit www.artatthearcade.com. Or, call 456-4522, 251-1616, or 255-6530.
Email: mail@dangenart.com or twist@twistartgallery.com

We are delighted to announce that the winners of this juried exhibitions have been selected. Two exhibitions are dedicated to honor these winners. The first show is from July 18 to Aug 11. Artist reception is on Jul 22, Saturday, from 1 to 3pm. The second show is from September 25 to October13. Artist reception is October 7, Saturday, 6 - 9pm. (Please note this date has just been changed from 9/30 to 10/7.)

David Orr
Young Kim
Doug Landreth
Erinn M. Cox
Barbara Mehlman
Judith Braun
Ha Rhin Kim
Jon Goebel
Zane Pappas
Russ Revock
Chris Dennis

Hyewon Yoon
Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff
Carter J. Thomas
Cynthia Reynolds
Erin Gebhart
Jori Brewer
Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Lorien Jordan
Deborah Glovier
Tommy McLaurin
Ezra Kristian

We are delighted to announce that the winners of these two juried exhibitions have been selected. Three exhibitions are dedicated to honor these winners. The first show is from Feb 13 to Mar 11. (click here for press release.) Artist reception is on Feb 18, Saturday, from 1 to 3pm.

The grand prize winner of the Nancie Mattice International Juried Exhibition is Kishan Munroe (Georgia.)

The grand prize winner of Peek Through! Juried Exhibition is B.A. Bosaiya (Washington.)

Kishan Munroe (Georgia)
Denise Mcmorrow (Pennsylvania)
Marleen de Waele-de Bock (Belgium)
Blake Hurt (Virgina)
Abby Schmidt (Pennsylvania)
Matthew Newton (Georgia)
Kyle Huntress (Arizona)
Greg Fuqua (Iowa)
Robert Gross (Tennessee)
Matt DeFord (Louisiana)

B.A. bosaiya (Washington)
Jeane Vogel (Missouri)
Ann F. Wong (New York)
S.J. Carter (Virginia)
Peter Bajzek (Wisconsin)
Katja Chernova (England)

Sumner Crenshaw (Vermont)
Akiko Hoshino (Japan)
Fran Forman (Massachusetts)
Elizabeth Mayhle (New York)
Marc Leone (Arizona)
Wendy Kawabata (Hawaii)
Lorraine Glessner(Pennsylvania)
Caroline Mak (New York)
Alison Offill-Klein (New York)
B.A. bosaiya (Washington)
Glenn Friedel (Maryland)
Alexander Fekete (Illinois)

Keith Goldstein (New York)
Stephen Komp (New York)
Kara Orendorf (Tennessee)
Tomoko Mukai (California)
Carol Watson (Texas)
Christpoher Lin (Washington)

Christina Dallorso Bush (New Mexico)
Arno Tijnagel (Amsterdam)
Geoff Calabrese (Georgia)
Henry Mitchell (South Carolina)
Jennifer Anderseon (California)

George Kennedy (Georgia)
Colin Blakley (Arizona)
Lucie Boswell (California)
Richard Gilles (California)
Jeff Krolick (Oregon)
Keith Goldstein (New York)