Show One | 03.27.2026
Jane Chamberlain
PAINTING & DRAWING
Chester Frost Park Lake sits on what was once a fast-moving stretch of the Tennessee River. The river flooded seasonally, reshaping the land and sustaining Indigenous communities who lived in relationship with its rhythms. Later, European settlers built homes and farms along the banks. With the construction of the Tennessee Valley Authority dam in the 1930s, more than nine hundred families were displaced and the valley was flooded. Homes, fields, and burial grounds now lie beneath the lake and its surface. Today the water appears calm. Yet that stillness rests on layered histories of movement and loss.
This work considers how land remembers what came before -- especially when that memory has been submerged or made difficult to see.