CA South is proud to promote several local artists who we have worked with across the region.
Lorenzo Swinton
Nashville, TN
Lorenzo Swinton is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has spent more than a decade living on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. An Interest and passion for artistry could be interpreted by the artist to have become established at the early age of only six when his very first artwork was displayed at the State County Fair in his hometown after teachers were inspired by a drawing developed in school during a creativity session.
Creativity can perhaps be a strange entity; choosing an ultimate path for its creator and helping them acknowledge it to realize their true calling. Throughout his journey, talents and passion for the many extensions of artistry have never left his side – beginning in his youth sketching portraited drawings, to his teenage adolescence writing poetry, to even early adult years developing music compositions by ear; his hunger for art continues to grow as his palate increases, reaching beyond imagination.
As a self-taught artist, Lorenzo produced art privately in his interim as a therapeutic technique and way to precede in perturbation to express his own feelings and ideas; in an attempt to clarify and achieve a release of tension. Swinton’s first rise to integrating his perception of emotional art from the walls in which he built around his introverted realm to mainstream and social standing came to fruition when a private buyer inquired about his 2018 work entitled “Confusion”; the purchase of this piece not only helped the artist unlock and understand his true potential as an established artist but also helped him evolve in developing his niche in abstract and contemporary art. The artist would say that the expressionism and influence from his series’ and private collections derive from personal everyday life –
“Sometimes I have days where I feel I am in tune with myself and surroundings, then there are those moments in time where everything feels off, uncontrollable, dark, distant. I feed off of my emotions of happiness, tranquility, beauty, anger, frustration, sadness, exhaustion to name a few. I find it to be extremely therapeutic to be able to release different energies on canvas and I believe people have the opportunity to explore their own perception(s) both visually and mentally through these aesthetics.” As a result, Lorenzo continues to become more involved with the creations of gallery-styled abstract and contemporary paintings, successfully building his portfolio and gaining enthusiasts and collectors of his works and popularity in the art world. Participating, collaborating and the previous co-partnership with establishments such as DBO Gallery, The Vanguard Nashville, 100 Taylor Arts, and United Way, he has engaged in several featured showings and events to introduce his unorthodox approach to his collections of artworks.
Exhibitions have included Paducah, Kentucky’s Yeiser Art Gallery’s “Visible”, in which his titled work “Marbles” 2020 from profound Americana Series received the Bricolage Art Collective Award. The corresponding work has also received recognition in Art of Nashville’s Art of the Week.
Andrés Bustamante
Nashville, TN
Andrés Bustamanteis an interdisciplinary artist born in Cali,Colombia based in Nashville.
Informed by his immigrant experience at a young age led him toexistential questions about reality, exploring concepts of humandivinity, and researching the abstract mystery of life reflected inpsychonaut journeys. Unquenched awe and wonder inspire hiscreative process.
Bustamante is passionate about community empowerment, mentalhealth, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the visual arts.To provide opportunities for underserved communities to engage increative play, nurturing awe, and wonder. Empowering communitieswith art fund-raisers, workshops, and murals via his organization,Persona Contemporary.
Duncan McDaniel
Nashville, TN
Duncan is an interdisciplinary artist with a goal of promoting an awareness of place using light, color, sculptural design elements, and playful interaction. After Graduating from SCAD in 2006he embarked on a creative journey through the exploration of his own personal aesthetic and how it spontaneously influences his interpretation of the world around him. Ranging from oil paintings, drawings, public art, and site specific installations his process covers a wide range of techniques.
“Through these multiple avenues I am always searching for the better artist within myself. This open ended journey always leads me somewhere new and uncharted with a plethora of images to show for along the way.”
Kimberly Clo
Nashville, TN
Kimberly is a visual artist who is ruthlessly devoted to communicating LOVE through ordinary means and the irresistible language of color, geometric expression, precious metals and a jillion dots.
Elise Kendrick
Nashville, TN
Like many Nashvillians, Elise R. Kendrick is a transplant to Music City. Originally from the suburbs of Gahanna, Ohio, she developed her love of creativity while spending her summers in theater and art camps as a youth and sharing time with her mother doing arts and crafts at the kitchen table. Early on, her parents encouraged her quirky attitude, as well as her unconventional approach to life, which made it easier to pursue art on the collegiate level. While attending Tennessee State University, one of Nashville’s historically Black colleges and universities, she received her bachelor of science degree in art with a concentration in jewelry and metals. After college, she began painting seriously.
