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Mary Lee Bendolph’s extraordinary talent first garnered national attention when her work was featured among that of other quiltmakers from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, in the 2002 blockbuster exhibition and book The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. Hailed by the New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced,” the abstract quilts from this tiny, isolated African American community prompted a rethinking of commonly accepted artistic categories.| more...
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The Knoxville Museum of Art will open Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee, a new permanent installation of works from its collection celebrating the art and artists of Knoxville and the surrounding region. The fascinating and complex story of our area’s rich artistic heritage and its connections to the larger currents of American art are largely unknown, and certainly underappreciated.| more...
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This permanent installation in the museum’s lobby area spotlights the significant achievement of local and regional artists over the past century, punctuated by significant works by artists of national and international reputation.| more...
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The Knoxville Museum of Art's Thorne Rooms are among America's most well-known miniature diorama groups. The Thorne Rooms were developed in the 1930s and 40s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne, Chicago, who loved dollhouses as a child. | more...
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The Morristown Art Association (MAA) was organized in 1968 by a group of artists interested in the furtherance of art in the community. The aim of the organization is the promotion and encouragement of the appreciation, understanding and practice of art in the community. | more... |
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Tradition/Innovation focuses national attention on the creative contributions of master craftspeople and traditional artists in the South. Featured are 120 works in a variety of media- clay, glass, fiber, metal, wood, paper and mixed media- by 60 artists from the SAF’s nine partner states: Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana.| more...
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This exhibition investigates issues of scale in contemporary painting and features works by many of today's most exceptional established and emerging artists. While vast wall murals and large-scale canvases often draw attention due to their sheer size, the near-miniature proportions of these 42 works represent a new interest among contemporary artists in exploring the expressive possibilities of small-scale painting. | more...
During the last year the museum has enjoyed a steady stream of new acquisitions to the permanent collection. Recent Acquisitions presents a selection of more than 20 works donated to KMA by foundations, collectors and artists from around the country. | more...
Terrifying and beautiful at the same time, the 100 color and black and white photographs of blasts featured in Michael Light: 100 SUNS document the destructive force unleashed during nuclear tests conducted by the United States following World War II. Light, a San Francisco-based photographer, has achieved international attention for his large-scale photographic projects examining humanity’s relationship with its environment. | more...
Video Art/3 Visions presents three independent video works that demonstrate the range of expressive and technical possibilities within this thriving art medium. Jenny Perlin, Peter Sarkisian, and Hiraki Sawa are acknowledged masters of electronic media who approach their materials in distinctly different ways with dramatically different results. | more...
This selection of recent photographs from the collection of the Knoxville Museum of Art represents the quality and scope of the Museum’s contemporary photography holdings. Many of the featured works were acquired in the last five years and together illustrate some of the exciting developments in photography during the last few decades. | more...
New Directions in American Drawing examines the renewed importance of drawing as a contemporary art form and the dynamic ways in which artists are pushing the medium into new, creative territory. | more...
The education staff of the museum, working in concert with a committee of area art educators, designed this annual competition to offer middle and high school students the opportunity to display their talents and be honored for their accomplishments in a professional art museum environment. | more...
This exhibition explores the groundbreaking work of Jun Kaneko (born 1942), one of America's leading ceramic sculptors. The Omaha, Nebraska-based artist is internationally known for his monumental forms that combine the ceramic traditions of his native Japan with dazzling glaze patterns influenced by American abstract painting. | more...
C. A. Debelius is on the leading edge of applying digital technology as a tool for cutting-edge architectural design. His computer-generated models represent elegant and intricate configurations of space, form and color. | more...
Rembrandt is also renowned as one of the best and most sensitive of printmakers. He created at least 300 prints in his lifetime. That he repeatedly chose beggars as the subject of his etchings is not surprising... | more...
New York photographer Tim Davis is concerned with light and his desire to “picture” light in its various manifestations... | more...
Thyzel’s whimsical constructions blur the distinctions between art and life, using everyday objects to make us more aware of the aesthetic value of our surroundings. | more...
In this exhibit, photographer Candida Höfer creates meticulously composed, oversized images depicting interiors of public and institutional spaces marked by the richness of human activity, yet devoid of human presence. | more...
Seonna Hong is both an artist and an animator. In addition to her paintings, she paints backgrounds for feature and television animation. Hong paints on wood panels and canvas, often in bright acid colors in a retro style that suggests animé, cartooning and children's books.... | more...
Burks works in various media in his New York design studio, Readymade Projects, and often translates his observation into objects, understanding how culture, do-it-yourself ideologies, fashion and art impact design and how people use things. | more...
This exhibition traces the development of one of America's most innovative 20th century jewelry firms. From 1930 to the late 1950s Schepps' clientele included Coco Chanel, the Duchess of Windsor, Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell, to name a few. The Washington Post named him "America's Court Jeweler" for the commissioned pieces for the White House families. | more...
Tomory Dodge explores what he calls the "collisions between nature and culture, or fantastic sites that seem located on the very edge of society's reach." The paintings emerge from the space between narration and abstraction, creating an ambiguous place that is neither completely abstract nor representational. | more...
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Yee-Haw Industries is Knoxville's nationally acclaimed letterpress print shop and design studio, creating hand carved imagery, setting type and printing materials on manually powered equipment. The work is reminiscent of American folk art... | more...
With his oversized sculptures of jewelry, Timothy Horn has taken the interiorized miniature and transformed it into the exaggerated exterior. Tiny objects of adornment have become oversized territories of confusion, desire and satire.| more...
The design studio TWO, co-run by Deborah Littlejohn and Santiago Piedrafita, displays graphic design's multiple applications, methods and strategies, with focus on the artists' work with font and typeface design.| more...
The viewing of these Tibetan and Himalayan ceremonial pieces is designed to engage initiates in the Vajrahana Buddhist pantheon of masters, protectors, and their followers. The creation of these pieces is in itself an act of devotion. | more...
Swedish video artist Johanna Billing's films address questions of social engagement and invites the viewer to be a part of a situation that would not be part of their ordinary life, engaging them in often prosaic and even mundane activities in which they might not normally engage. | more...
Jim Campbell uses custom-made electronics to explore the relationship between information and knowledge, examining how we translate and understand the data that we receive. | more...
Collins' work represents an evolution in textile and garment innovations using machine-knitting technology. She calls her process "knit-grafting." | more...
Clare Rojas is painter, filmmaker, performance artist, and musician. Her fairy tale-like, gouache-on-panel paintings initially look uncomplicated with their flat colors and child-like drawing style, yet they evolve from complex and multiple sources. | more...
Collector and art dealer Julien Levy collected Surrealist work including books, paintings, sculptures, toys, photographs, posters, and may other objects.| more...
American Archetypes Meet Contemporary Design Design Lab will host an exhibition of the work of Mississippi designer Critz Campbell, principal of b9 Design llc. Campbell will create new projects for his exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art and show some of his older work...| more...
Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos comprise one of the most influential graphic series in the history of Western art.| more...
Tam Van Tran’s work crosses borders between change and stasis, organic and human made, painting and sculpture; it is in fact, hybrid. Van Tran couples organic substances such as chlorophyll, spirulina, and beet juice with acrylic paint, and metal staples. | more...
Detroit’s co-lab*, a cooperative creative team with a common belief that through art, architecture, and design it can excite social awareness and respect for humanity and the planet. | more...
Beauford Delaney: From New York To Paris
will demonstrate this Knoxville native's relationship to some of the icons of American Modernism... | more...
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration examines Chuck Close’s long association with printmaking and innovative printing processes, focusing exclusively on the artist's prints... | more...
Sarah Hobbs’s photographs embrace myriad concepts that coalesce to shape photography’s slippery nature, including installation-based art, domesticity, gender, desire and repulsion, and personal narrative. | more...
Multimedia design firm Tronic Studio had its first solo museum exhibition at Knoxville Museum of Art’s Design Lab Gallery. | more...
Photographer David S. Allee explores the peculiar effects of artificial light on human-made environments. He works with a large-format Linhof Technikardan camera, photographing apartment buildings, houses, stadiums, and gardens, to name a few places... | more...
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