Well Where Are We Anyway: The Work of Sierra Luna

STATE Gallery + Studios at The Forge Nashville 

217 Willow St, Nashville TN 37210 

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th 2023 6pm - 10pm 

Exhibition Run: Saturday, February 11th - Monday, March 13th 2023

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm or by appointment 

This February, STATE Gallery + Studios at The Forge is proud to present Well Where Are We Anyway: The Work of Sierra Luna. The exhibition will open with a public reception on Saturday, February 11th from 6pm to 10pm, and run through March 13th, 2023. The gallery will hold regular hours Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm, and by appointment with the Artistic Director. 

A recipient of the 2022/2023 tenure of the STATE scholarship program, Sierra Luna is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in Nashville. Well Where Are We Anyway includes medium and large-scale works that employ a variety of techniques, including photography, charcoal, ink, etching and collage. 

In a demonstration of seeming opposites - life and death, flora and fauna, connectivity and separation - Sierra explores both the spiritual presence of all things and the artist’s role as medium. As she augments her photographs with finely detailed drawings and blocks of hand-scribed prose, so augmented is our understanding of the intangible liminal space that dominates her subject matter. 

Her work seems to suggest that the conscious and the subconscious exist simultaneously - as twin currents running alongside one another in perpetuity - able to cross and coalesce, creating  momentary windows into the ether.