Lisa Gleim & Michael Griffin Customs House Museum & Cultural Center
Clarksville, Tennessee
customshousemuseum.org
through early January, 2025
This season the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center is bringing the great outdoors inside with two solo exhibitions:
Up first is “Lisa Gleim: Keeper of the Animals” (through January 1), which highlights this Georgia artist who works in oils and pastels. The show stems from her having previously won the People’s Choice Award during an American Women Artists exhibition at the Customs House, and now she is presenting 18 wildlife scenes. All relate to Native American lore and involve her application of paint to the surfaces of maps and boards, which are fascinating in their own right.
Also on view is “Michael Griffin: A Wandering Palette” (through January 5), which focuses on this native and resident of Nashville best known for landscape oil paintings. At 16, Griffin spent seven weeks backpacking through the American West alone, and later he studied with such masters as Scott Christensen, Ralph Oberg, and Matt Smith. Over the years he has traveled widely, painting scenes in Tennessee, the Carolinas, Wyoming, Canada, Europe, Barbados, and Costa Rica.
