Nashville, Tennessee.- The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Polar Probings: Sculpture by Gabriel Warren”. A reception and gallery talk will take place in the Fine Arts Gallery on Thursday, October 13th with the reception held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., and the gallery talk given at 6:00 p.m. The exhibition will then reamin in display through December 8th. Gabriel Warren creates sculptures using natural ice formations as source material. As noted by the artist, his sculptures are “intended to reflect the beauty of the natural sources from which they emerge… They represent my attempts to triangulate an understanding of a single natural phenomenon: ice.” Warren adds, “although ice is not the only source in the natural world for my sculptural probings, it is the dominant one and has been so for decades. Ice exhibits mindnumbing variability and variety on a visual plane, and, on a scientific one, understanding its behavior is key to understanding many other components of our world.”