Cheekwood Estate & Gardens Summer Garden Exhibitions

CHEEKWOOD ESTATE & Gardens is a 55-acre botanical garden and art museum located on the historic Cheek estate just outside of Nashville. Cheekwood has presented world-class art exhibitions, spectacular gardens, and a historic estate unlike anything else. As one of the city’s top attractions, Cheekwood has family activities, programs, and festivals to celebrate all four seasons.

This season, Cheekwood welcomes: Carmen Herrera: Estructuras

Now through September 3

Five boldly colorful, geometric sculptures by Cuban-born, American artist Carmen Herrera are featured as an opportunity to celebrate this indomitable woman’s passion for creating art. Her skyrocketing popularity wasn’t realized until she reached the age of 89 and continued until her passing in 2022 at the age of 106. Her story is an inspiration to everyone confronting the challenges of age and gender.

Begun in the 1960s, Estructuras (Structures) were derived from paintings that, according to Herrera, were “really crying out to become sculpture.” Herrera’s work conveys movement and rhythm through a careful geometric balance of lines, forms, and color, teetering between the solidity of a three-dimensional sculpture and the weightlessness of an ethereal shape lifting off the ground.