Jaime Raybin

De-Medusa
Acrylic on Canvas
17" x 15"

Milk Shelf is the setting of many teenage memories. Everyone piles into the car of the kid with the license, and there is a pretense of "where do you want to go tonight?" but really, there is only one choice. Milk Shelf is the only place in town that doesn't chase out loud kids who buy only small sodas and dinner rolls. The ancient drip coffee machine is our unofficial mascot. The diner folks are scenery, taking little notice of us through their newspapers, fodder for our philosophy conversations and bystanders to our French Fry fights.

The narrative is told through artifacts rather than snapshots, each painting highlighting a specific object or area of the room. Stark, empty compositions emphasize the walls, with their flaking pastel paint.

 

Duck Glass
Acrylic on Canvas
17" x 15"

 

Stock Coffee
Acrylic on Canvas
35" x 20"

 

Peach Bathroom (installed view)
Acrylic and Wood Glue on Canvas
35" x 20"

 

Floor Show
Acrylic on Canvas
17" x 15"

 

 

Rosewater Porridge
Acrylic on Canvas
17" x 15"

 

Commemorative Milk Shelf Painting
8.5" x 5"
Acrylic and Xerox Transfer on Panel

 

Clip from "In the Gallery", September 2007
Promotional Interview for the Renaissance Center
with Armon Means

 

Exhibited

2010 Homeschool Yearbook, The Frist Gallery at Nashville Ballet, Nashville, TN

2008 Milk Shelf, University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN

2007 Milk Shelf, The Rennaissance Center, Nashville, TN