Exhibitions

Art As Life 2026

Thursday, July 23: Opening Reception. Cocktails & Apps. RSVP's encouraged. To RSVP click here. 6 pm - 8:30 pm

Friday, July 24: Open to the public. 10 am - 5 pm Artist Conversation 11:30 am -12:30 pm

Saturday, July 25: Open to the public. Coffee & Mimosas. Hours 10 am - 2 pm

Location: 2930 Sidco Dr. Nashville, TN 37204

Hosted by Caitlin Shirock Gallery & Ro+Co

RSVP to Opening Night July 23rd here

Morgan Brock Gray

Morgan Brock is a mixed media artist exploring the relationship between surface, pattern, and object through painting and collage. Drawing on her BFA in Textile Design, she creates layered works that blur the boundary between fine art and functional object through tactile materials and mark-making. Rather than following a singular visual formula, she approaches each work as an exploration, grounded in her distinctive hand and intuitive process. A storyteller, her work is informed by the intersection of small-town Americana and British heritage, drawing inspiration from overlooked places, everyday objects, and material history. Recently, she has expanded her practice into hand-treated mirrors as objects and interior installations.

Blythe Colvin

Painting and drawing from a young age, at any given opportunity - even in church pews and school rooms - Blythe Colvin has learned tricks of immediacy and expression from her always-present art practice. Her work inhabits a sacred threshold between lived experience and inward/outward generational exploration, lending the viewer intimate moments of reflection and resonance. As a devout student of art, design, and curiosity, she aims to evoke vibrant color palettes, engaging textures, and rhythmic visual symmetries that help inspire a sense of momentous play and harmony.

Kristin Cronic

Kristin Cronic is a Jacksonville, FL-based painter whose large-scale gestural works draw on plants and earth forms as fixed points against which she measures expressions of the self and color is a narrative. She began her practice while serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and holds an MFA from Jacksonville University. Recent exhibitions include the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Pocket Utopia (NY), the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, and Number Inc.'s "Art of the South" at Stoveworks Gallery; she also illustrated the 2025 Google Doodle for Veterans Day.

Beth Rose Goin

Beth Rose is a photographer living in Lebanon, TN with her husband, 5 kids and several pets. She studied photography on film and in the darkroom at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Beth Rose uses bright colorful images to process her experiences regarding the cost of beauty. Her work often includes embellishments and hand painted frames.

Deeann Rieves

Created with layered acrylic inks, acrylic paint, and free-motion machine embroidery, these mixed media paintings explore the balance between strength and delicacy. Bold washes of color, gestural chalk contours, and intricate stitched lines allow movement and graceful details to exist in quiet balance. Each figure expresses both confidence and vulnerability, embracing the quiet coexistence of strength and delicacy.

Nicholas Sanders

Not-Really-Based-Anywhere photographer Nicholas Sanders brings a fresh, unconventional edge to creative advertising photography. With years of experience in portrait photography, Nicholas specializes in creating punchy campaigns that defy convention. He infuses vibrant and dynamic imagery into every project.

Caitlin Shirock

Caitlin Shirock creates abstract paintings inspired by the moments that often go unnoticed. Her layered compositions balance freedom with intention, inviting viewers to pause and discover something personal in each piece. As both an exhibiting artist and founder of Caitlin Shirock Gallery, she hopes Art as Life reminds us that art isn't separate from our lives, it helps us see them more clearly.

Jennifer Staples

Jennifer Staples is a Nashville-based painter whose work explores the quiet beauty of God's creation through expressive landscapes and florals. Inspired by time spent in nature, she is drawn to the way light, atmosphere, and the land shape our sense of place. Using layered color and texture, her paintings evoke the emotional weight of a landscape—not as a literal scene, but as a memory and a feeling—inviting viewers to pause and experience the peace found in the natural world.

Meredith Tillery

Meredith Tillery is a Nashville-based artist whose sculptural acrylic florals are inspired by nature and the changing qualities of light. By hand-shaping each acrylic petal and building rich texture, she creates work that celebrates the beauty found in everyday moments.

ashley trabue

ashley trabue (she/they) is a queer, multi-disciplinary artist, Montessori-trained educator, and creative mentor currently living in Portland, Maine. Their art and writing have been exhibited and published nationally in Museum 21c, The Nashville Review, MECA&D, 82Parris, and elsewhere and is held in private collections throughout North America and Europe. Her poetry chapbook, Vertebrae, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2019. When ashley’s not making art or coaching other artists, they can be found line dancing, hiking near bodies of water, or watching Love Island with their spouse and two cats.

Jeff Revlett

"I am a self-taught artist who creates nonobjective abstract paintings. My ArtTracks series is inspired by the songs that have marked turning points in my life. Each piece explores the questions I continually return to—identity, memory, grief, resilience, and what it means to reclaim my own worth.

I build each painting through layered textures and fields of color, allowing emotion, music, and personal narrative to guide the composition. My process is intuitive, shaped as much by what is felt as what is seen.

My hope is that viewers recognize pieces of their own journey within these works and leave with the sense that healing—through art, music, and storytelling—can meet us exactly where we are."