WPLN News Archive; News Archive 11/26/06-2/26/07; Audrey Flack Recording Angel (Adrienne Outlaw) 12 27 06

the nashville symphony commissioned audrey flux recording angel as one of four major our work for the scrum around plaza but the angel doesn't gays only a patron and statue look southward across the street to the country music hall of fame and even a blustery day she's large enough and beautiful enough to attract attention on his way to a local gallery jeff stamper starts to admire the angel stamper is the art director of the country music on the things that really stands out the lotteries its just a fad that is actually colored with gold you know it's like a person not just a classic greek face burgess more than you usually see of torture and it does seem to be gesturing toward the overall tone of the whole thing which i think is a nice connection between his two fourth season that's two seemingly different worlds of music stands atop a five foot tall smooth granite pedestal a golden halo cds tops or curly hair though she stares intently her face is welcoming she holds a quill pen in her left hand and a cd in her right so she is describing music

she's hearing the tower and i love music international artist audrey flack created the recording angel less drapery scans the angel's body before falling heavily to the ground her skin shimmers with color and her drapery changes with the light she is big beautiful golden wings is a poem about the angel in the bible that records everything you've ever done and what a double entendre and may be some musician will stand there and say want to be my next head angel have not during my next recording you know i want people to go up and walk into those patterns those who install the angels seem awed by the experience construction worker james prosser most productive if they couldn't just doesn't that would be to listen to it again and all the time that one and a sister it's a beautiful beautiful church has developed over a period of years

the angels had fifty different faces a variety of poses and several cuttings like says that this sculpture more than any other kind of made itself and three assistants brian was working on one thing david on another and charles is working on the wings and we had a minor mass the sculpture took over they were no longer listening to anybody but the sculpture and each of them i looked up and i saw each of them totally involved with what they were doing i got back into the head and then one point with this music going she started a grief she stuff and then i thought i saw her smile i actually think i see them smile sometimes it was such a beautiful moment like came to recognition in the nineteen seventies as a photo realist painter she started making sculpture in the nineteen eighties then about our professor marilyn murphy says flax recording angel isn't your

run of the no bronze statue the colors astonishing i've never seen a bronze that was so expressive and really made me want to look at it from every single angle and this one because the surface is beautiful it's been very deliberately oxidized so there's a little bit of aqua little bit of tan little brown even though it's a bronze sculpture it really has the hand of the painter art collector howard stringer served as co chair for the national advisory committee which selected flack for the commission he considered her one of the top ten for the realists in the world and he's not surprised by her ability to convey music he remembers when she came to nashville for a visit and a friend of his keeper get a banjo and i thought that should just a collector she then sat down and began playing that banjo it was the best music that are no longer so in addition to painting and to sculpture

there is at least skilled with a banjo and who knows what else she is remarkable not only this flat played the banjo but she plays the piano was well when she works she listens to a wide range of music from classical opera to bluegrass when the work really goes well i start dancing around that studio stopping doing my low but dancing perhaps it's like slow the music begins arrange a life like a pool and it engraved in the base of the sculpture it reads the recording angel inscribed the times that enveloped the heart and heal the bones that line was told and soothe the soul or national public radio or an outlaw it's b