How does an artist follow an absence of almost 14 years from the local gallery scene?

New art shows in the Memphis area.

"Master Metalsmith: Eleanor Moty" is the current exhibition at the National Ornamental Metal Museum.

Rhodes show blends whimsy, childlike form

Redecorators know: Move a familiar object to the right spot, add the perfect lighting, and see it pop in a fresh way.

This is a show whose work becomes deeper, more layered and more provocative the longer one looks, while at first glance it seems superficially feminine.

Whatever they are, the Dixon has never seen anything like these sculptures by local artist Jim Buchman, on display through Dec. 2.

New art shows in the Memphis area.

The striking exhibition "Hot Cold Cool" at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis packs a punch.

A vortex of art, music and food converges this weekend for RiverArtsFest, the end-of-October event that last year brought some 80,000 visitors to South Main.

The current Alumni Invitational Exhibition at Memphis College of Art is a smart, diverse show in style and technique, filled with light and brightness.

Tad Lauritzen Wright, in his exhibition "Garden and Gun," at David Lusk Gallery through Oct. 27, makes forays into both message and massage. There's even a deer.

The point of "The Art of Science 2010" is in the relationship between the scientist and the artist and how the work of each establishes the other.

Opening Friday at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, "The Brilliance of Tiffany: Lamps from the Neustadt Collection" draws viewers into a luminous world where designs drawn from nature — pond lilies, dragonflies, grapes — have been captured in colored ...

There's a fine line between sincerity and commercialism that often manifests itself in a sort of fantasy folk art style whose sheen of color and sophistication can be mightily, though superficially, appealing. That thought was never far from my mind ...