Inhibition Lost: New Works by Kyle Buckland and Jennifer Counts
Artist Reception, June 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.
June 15 – July 18, 2010
Gairdt Edwards
August 10 through September 5, 2010
Artist Reception, August 10 from 6 – 8 pm
Miner Strike, pencil on linen paper
Gairdt Edwards is a multi-media artist who graduated from Emory & Henry College in 2008. The work featured in this exhibition will include recent oil paintings as well as caricatures Edwards creates based on people he sees in his everyday life and during his travels. His work examines politics, current events, dreams, artistic boundaries, and media influence. Edwards aims to inspire a discussion of these topics through his imagery and the individual narratives the viewer brings with them.
Theresa Markiw
September 7 through October 3, 2010
Artist Reception, September 7 from 6 – 8 pm
Apples and Nectarines, watercolor
Art has always been at the center of my life. The arts and culture of my Ukrainian upbringing strongly influenced me- the rich colors and intricate designs of Ukrainian embroideries, woodcarvings, pysanky (decorated Easter eggs), and Byzantine icons. My formative years of art study heightened an appreciation of nature and a capacity for close observation. My current work synthesizes these varied interests and influences with a love of simple objects, which serve as a vehicle for the articulation of multiple meanings and more complex truths, ideas and emotions.
Theresa Markiw was born in Montreal, Canada of Ukrainian émigrés and grew up in southern New Jersey. In 1979 she received a BFA in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. In New Jersey she worked as a graphic designer before moving to Washington, DC, where she worked for institutions such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of State. From 2000 to 2005 she worked abroad in Mongolia and Azerbaijan with arts and culture in her portfolio. In 2006 Markiw left the diplomatic service to join her university professor husband in northeast Tennessee and devoted herself to full-time painting – primarily in water media. Throughout her career her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, Ukraine, and Montreal.
Carole Farris Blevins
October 5 through October 31, 2010
Artist Reception, October 5 from 6 – 8 pm
Hassan II, watercolor
A native of Washington County, Virginia, now living in Holston Valley, Tennessee, Carole paints the hills and valleys she grew up among. She has also traveled extensively in Europe where she and her late husband Tedd Blevins taught students during their studies abroad. She recently returned from a two-month stay in Morocco where she observed the culture and made sketches of the cities, mountains and desert. Carole taught watercolor at William King Museum for more than ten years. She has a studio in Holston Valley where she paints full time. Her primary medium is watercolor with the occasional addition of pastel. She has paintings in collections throughout the United States.
Fragment by Fragment: Recent Work by Marlana Williams
November 2 through December 5, 2010
Artist Reception, November 2 from 6 – 8 pm
Untitled Window, found object and paint
The cloth materials in these new works remind me of female members of my family. Members who grew up in the mountains, wearing flour sacks sewn into little dresses. The pain endured by these women is shown by their scars, both mental and physical. The cycles continue to circle me, but they comfort me. It’s not scary. I know the cycle has shown them the way to overcome. They have always taken care of me, these females, circling and protecting. Meditations on the circular shapes and sharp lines prove to be a deep part of my works. These thoughts come forward while painting and creating, or searching for old cabinet doors, windows, or pieces of cloth: the markers of time, place and culture.
Marlana Williams received her BA with a Concentration in Painting from University of Virginia’s College at Wise in 2002. She has shown her work extensively throughout the region and is a regular contributor to Appalachian art and culture.
Duane Cregger
December 7, 2010 through January 2, 2011
Artist Reception, December 7 from 6 – 8 pm
Circus Pig, oil on canvas
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.—Carl Jung
It is this play instinct that Jung speaks of that leads me to the use of a variety of oil paints and thinners, working on canvas or wood. Occasionally, I will add a rough layer of plaster and dig into it before it dries then paint over the rugged surface. I’ll use a seemingly finished work as the under-painting for another piece, contributing to a deep layering of color, texture and emotion. In the words of artist and writer Ray Kass, “thick oil paints applied in loose rectangular patterns are incised with Cregger’s personal scribbling…anchoring these works in language…”
A native of Appalachia, Duane Cregger lives and works in the mountains of Virginia. His work hangs in public spaces, galleries, and corporate and private collections in Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Washington DC, and California.
Point-Time: A Graphic Confluence of Artists
curated by Jean Hess and in conjunction with East Tennessee State University
January 4 through January 30, 2011
Artist Reception, January 4 from 6 – 8 pm
Marcia Goldenstein, Untitled, photography
This exhibition will showcase the visual art currently being produced in metro-Knoxville, Tennessee, with no other agenda than to represent what is created in this particular locale. This exhibition presents an opportunity to look at this geographic context in freeze-frame, and will run concurrent to the East Tennessee State University exhibition providing audiences with a more comprehensive experience of the work. The artists that will be featured in Point-Time include Chad Airhart, Paige Barbee, Robmat Butler, Rachel Clark, Alan Finch, Nick de Ford, Diane Fox, Marcia Goldenstein, Joyce Gralak, Briena Harmening, Jean Hess, Thomas Riesing, Denise Sanabria, Zachary Searcy, Jason Shoemaker, Jessie Van der Laan, and David Wolff.
Derek Smith
February 1 through February 27, 2011
Artist Reception, February 1 from 6 – 8 pm
Sledgehammer Perdiem, mixed media on panel
We, as humans, are instinctually programmed to emotionally respond to outside stimuli, whether it be sight, sound, touch, taste, or feel. It is my task as the artist to create striking and engaging works that draw the viewer in and promote thought.
Derek Smith is a native of Kingsport, Tennessee. He is an alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design graduating magna cum laude with a BFA in Painting in 2003. Since then, he has been Barter Theatre’s Scenic Artist and has worked on approximately 100 shows. Popular designs have been featured in Betrayal, Beyond Gravity, Greater Tuna, Thousand Cranes, Lear, Blackbird, Four Places, Othello, Frosty and most recently Dead Man’s Cellphone. Derek maintains a working studio in Bristol, Tennessee, where he and his wife currently reside with their newborn son, Aiden.
Inspired by Nature: Ceramics by Cecelia Pippin and Adelaide Moss
March 1 through April 3, 2011
Artist Reception, March 1 from 6 – 8 pm
Moss – Kohiki Vase, 2009, stoneware
Pippin – Set of Dishes, 2009, stoneware
Cecelia Pippin has been a clay artist and teacher since 1991. She has taught in the Wise County Public Schools and Norton City Schools as an art teacher in grades K-12 and currently teaches ceramics at William King Museum. Making functional, decorative pots brings balance to her and she hopes to pass on the pleasure of pottery to others.
Adelaide Moss is an Abingdon resident and was trained formally in oil painting at Hollins University. She has shown work throughout New England, in Australia, and more recently at the Arts Depot in their Spotlight Gallery. Moss teaches pastel painting at William King Museum where she also has worked in ceramics with Cecelia Pippin.
Gretchen Batcheller
April 5 through May 1, 2011
Artist Reception, April 5 from 6 – 8 pm
My work is very much about responding to location. Southwest Virginia is shifting my painting… and I look forward to how this can and will manifest on canvas in the coming year.
Batcheller’s abstract paintings stem from an interest the rich visual textures of her surroundings, both urban and rural. She graduated with her MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, in 2009 and recently returned from an artist residency in Austria’s wine country. Batcheller is currently visiting chair of the Art Department at Emory & Henry College.
Ray Stratton
May 3 through June 5, 2011
Artist Reception, May 3 from 6 – 8 pm
In Norse mythology Odin, the chief of gods, has two ravens, which brought news to him from across the lands. The names of these ravens translate as “Thought” and “Memory”. This series of works is based on the ideas of “Thought and Memory”, and uses the ravens as symbols of these concepts.
Stratton is currently an Associate Professor at UVA Wise. He is primarily a printmaker and recently included papermaking and book arts into his practice. Stratton received his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and a BFA from Arizona State University.
David Underwood
June 7 through July 10, 2011
Artist Reception, June 7 from 6 – 8 pm
I tend to think that several pictures are better than just one. Working with grids and multiple images allows me to expand the language of still photography beyond the limitations of single-frame imagery. Although my work is primarily formalist in approach, I am interested in how combinations of images work together both visually and thematically.
Underwood is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee, where he has been teaching art and photography since 1990. His work can be found in numerous permanent collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
