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Tracey Snelling’s Woman on the Run offers psychological tension in multimedia installatio

NASHVILLE, TENN.- The work of California-based artist Tracey Snelling, whose sculptures of highly detailed vernacular buildings, streets and rundown neighborhoods show a keen sensitivity to the psychological tensions and hidden narratives of modern life in small-town America, is being presented in the Upper-Level Galleries in an exhibition entitled Tracey Snelling’s Woman on the Run, on view through February 5, 2012 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Woman on the Run—a large tableau of architecture, sculpture, film, video, neon signs, audio and materials drawn from everyday life—provides a film-noir-like setting for a crime story in which a mysterious woman in Arizona is sought for questioning in the murder of her husband. Throughout the installation, views seen through windows and overheard conversations offer clues as to whether the woman is victim or femme fatale, enabling the viewer to become both