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REVIEWS	STERLING ALLEN: TWEEN AT NEUE WELT, NASHVILLE
REVIEWS	GOOD LUCK JULES BY JULES JACKSON AT COOP GALLERY, NASHVILLE
REVIEWS	DANCE IN THE WATERFALL AT RED ARROW, NASHVILLE
REVIEWS	INSIDER BY HALLE BALLARD AT ELEPHANT GALLERY, NASHVILLE
REVIEWS	BETH EDWARDS: WONDERSTRUCK AT DAVID LUSK GALLERY, MEMPHIS
FEATURES	THE TRUTH ABOUT DOLLS
POETRY	NIGHTS OF MEASURE: MARGARET JANE JOFFRION
REVIEWS	FAMOUS ECHOES: ALSO TUBES AT UNREQUITED LEISURE
FEATURES	CLEAN HANDS: TANYA AMYX BERRY’S FOR THE HOG KILLING, 1979
REVIEWS	ROOMS WITH A VIEW: HEATHER HARTMAN AND MEGAN WHITE

Article descriptions courtesy of Burnaway Magazine.

Reviews

Sterling Allen: TWEEN at Neue Welt, Nashville

Burnaway Magazine, July 16, 2025

Margaret Jane Joffrion reviews the visual games of telephone found in Sterling Allen: TWEEN at Neue Welt, Nashville.

Installation view of Sterling Allen: *TWEEN* at Neue Welt, Nashville. Image by and courtesy of Neue Welt, Nashville.

Reviews

Good Luck Jules by Jules Jackson at COOP Gallery, Nashville

Burnaway Magazine, June 17, 2024

Margaret Jane Joffrion reviews the autobiographical nature and recurring motif of the sac found throughout the work of Jules Jackson in Good Luck Jules at COOP Gallery, Nashville.

Jules Jackson, *What Jeanne Saw*, 2023, oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches. Image by Seth Carpenter and courtesy of the artist and COOP Gallery, Nashville.

Reviews

Dance in the waterfall at Red Arrow, Nashville

Burnaway Magazine, March 25, 2024

Margaret Jane Joffrion reviews the feeling montages and logic of colors found in Dance in the waterfall at Red Arrow, Nashville.

Brianna Bass, *As Way of Formation Between Phonetic Dust and Language*, 2023, Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in. Image courtesy of Red Arrow, Nashville, Tennessee

Reviews

Insider by Halle Ballard at Elephant Gallery, Nashville

Burnaway Magazine, November 07, 2023

Margaret Jane Joffrion reviews the non-stop energy found in Insider, a solo exhibition by Halle Ballard at Elephant Gallery, Nashville.

Detail of Halle Ballard, Skatepark, 2021, paper-mache and sculpey sculpture, 50 x 21 x 18 inches. Photograph by Sam Angel and courtesy of the artist and Elephant Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews

Beth Edwards: Wonderstruck at David Lusk Gallery, Memphis

Burnaway Magazine, April 20, 2021

Margaret Jane Joffrion wanders from garden to table, smelling the flowers along the way in Beth Edwards’ Wonderstruck at David Lusk Gallery.

Beth Edwards, *Clover XX*, 2021; oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and David Lusk Gallery.

Features

The Truth About Dolls

Burnaway Magazine, September 18, 2020

Margaret Jane Joffrion finds a way back to childhood and a path to heaven at the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts in Louisville.

Guy Mendes, *Martha Nelson Thomas with Her Doll Babies, Louisville, Kentucky*, 1989.
Courtesy Institute 193, Lexington. © Guy Mendes, 2019.

Poetry

nights of measure: Jess

Burnaway Magazine, April 27, 2020

A poem by Margaret Jane Joffrion from Nights of Measure, a Burnaway book of poetry.

Reviews

Famous Echoes: also tubes at Unrequited Leisure

Burnaway Magazine, March 06, 2020

Margaret Jane Joffrion visits a bygone internet era through an exhibition of code-based artworks at Unrequited Leisure, Nashville.

Features

Clean Hands: Tanya Amyx Berry’s For the Hog Killing, 1979

Burnaway Magazine, December 26, 2019

Margaret Jane Joffrion sees a balance between violence and tenderness in images of a hog killing in Kentucky in 1979.

Tanya Amyx Berry, *For the Hog Killing*, 1979.

Reviews

Rooms with a View: Heather Hartman and Megan White

Burnaway Magazine, September 25, 2019

Margaret Jane Joffrion considers two exhibitions of paintings in Nashville, revisits a poem by Emily Dickinson, and wonders if bugs can be saints.