Up in Arms, Merritt Mansion, Nashville, August 5, 2023
Group Show No. 2, The CE Gallery, Nashville, July 6, 2023
“Edie Ottestad” solo show, The CE Gallery, Nashville, Oct. 1, 2022
“Quartet” group show with Vadis Turner, Caroline Allison and Jodi Hays at ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville, Sept 24, 2022
“Edie Ottestad’s Bystanders form a group of five austere, mostly featureless plaster human forms, standing mute and immovable, stunned and still. Their nearby offspring, small heads on wooden supports are not fully formed, but lend an optimism with their budding eyes, mouths and ears. Perhaps they’ve learned to use their senses better than their forbears.”
“White Privilege” film selected by Dr. Maura Reilly to be in the Chicago WCA exhibit Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact at the Bridgeport Art Center, January 21, 2022.
My short film is a version of performance art where I push the stereotype of a white, middle-aged, middle-upper class woman by dressing up and wearing heels while wheat-pasting graffiti posters around Nashville. These seemingly provocative public acts of vandalism performed in broad daylight are met with indifference by civilians and authorities.
“Relative” two-person show with Edith Kuhnle at Gallerie Tangerine, Nashville, April 21, 2022
Two-person show, Stanford Contemporary,
Nov. 12, 2020
These sculptures are part of my tourist series in response to the 2020 pandemic. The war against this unknown virus has humanized our shared experience regardless of race, religion, or politics. The colorless plaster strips away these identifying factors, and what remains is a person navigating this strange new world, no longer free to travel far or near. These oversized heads consist of newspaper, covering the daily news of the pandemic, bound by tape and covered in plaster like time capsules. Their size reflects the enormity of isolation and by comparison, the shrinking world around them.
Boy Not Finished featured in CBS interview with the Osborne Brothers, Feb 26, 2021
Astronaut I featured in Architectural Digest Pro’s T
he Iconic Home
Nov. 23, 2020
Interior designer Amhad Freeman selected Astronaut I to be included in his virtual design for Architectural Digest Pro’s The Iconic Home, Architectural Digest’s first digital show house partnering with the Black Interior Designers Network.
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Solo show, Stanford Contemporary, Nov. 15, 2019
Aftenbladet newspaper, article promoting group art show at The Space, Stavanger, Norway, April 2018