Tennessee - Art

Amanda describes her work as a reaction to the “complex pattern, rhythm and color” in the world. In Mossy Trail the eye is immediately drawn to a bright red line of light highlightin...

TAKE ME TO THE WATER is inspired by a Lorna Simpson photograph. There is literal water in the photograph, and piece also speaks to the cultural nourishment that the father is provid...

"Window IV" captures the sun peering in behind sheer curtains. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in T...

A companion painting to this piece, TECHNOLOGY OF DIRT is owned by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The painting "TECHNOLOGY OF DIRT & AIR" was inspired by an image glanced as I passed by a florist shop window. Inside the florist show was a vibrant floral arrangement overflowing with roses and foliage. On the surface of the window were reflections of architecture behind me and abstracted slivers of light and distorted shapes of things reflected though hardly recognizable. I snapped a few photographs at the time. Several months later, I returned to those images and was intrigued at how the flowers in the image seemed to be made out of crystal and how the reflections on the window "interrupted" the ability to easily make out the forms in the photograph. I was intrigued by the complexity of the image and how recognizable elements emerged and then faded into abstraction. As I worked on this painting, I wanted it to be as if it was coming into crisp focus, while also becoming a complicated tapestry of shapes and colors. I have made six paintings in this series thus far. Jered Sprecher is a visual artist who was born in Lincoln, Nebraska (1976). He received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and his B.A. from Concordia University in Nebraska. He has taught at Princeton University and Cornell University. Mr. Sprecher currently lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee. Jered Sprecher’s studio practice explores the “handwriting” of humankind. The vocabulary that he draws from is focused on the vast array of marks and images in one’s surroundings. From this vocabulary he samples visual motifs and imports them into his paintings and drawings. These works continually focus on remnants and fragments that are captured in the midst of change, then edited and fused together in the space of painting. These images are pregnant with a longing to communicate. The success and failure of these “messages in a bottle” are the basis of his work. Mr. Sprecher has had solo exhibitions at Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; the Art Gallery of Knoxville; The Cress Gallery-UTC, Chattanooga; and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music (Next Next Art), New York; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; Des Moines Art Center; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Arthouse, Austin; Mark Moore Gallery...

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Is there anything cuter than a panda? Why yes. A painting of one! :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Read...

James Perrin’s abstract oil paintings create a visual language which, though appearing chaotic at first, reveal their meticulous craftsmanship and intuitive-driven intentions. In Pe...

HOLSTER is a sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2021 from painted and carved maple wood. The piece belongs to a series of work centering around clothing ite...

DAD HAT is a sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2019 from painted and carved soft maple wood. The piece belongs to a series of work centering around clothing i...

In this piece, seven octagonal terra-cotta bricks of cylindrical shape are on the floor in a V shape. Two concrete bricks are placed amongst these cylinders. All of these objects are bound together by a string that is tied around the objects. Brian Russell...

In ARCHITECTURAL HYPERBOLE 02, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, arch...

This digitally rendered latex print on canvas depicts drips of paint in a flowing pattern, creating an abstract landscape that, from a distance, appears to be a colorful sheet blowin...

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“My father is the subject in Thou Art Loved….Thou Art Loved.” If you were to speak to my father at this point, you may not recognize the repeating patterns of...

CHROMASEEDS is a multilayered composition created with paper and tyvek cut-outs painted with oil, acrylic, and gouache, sealed with polyester mesh layers. The plants represented in the piece are Gaillardia flowers, commonly known as blanket flowers, native to North America and often bred for their decorative, ornamental shape. In her creative process, Hartman anthropomorphizes the flowers, paying attention to their dance-like growth movement. Here, their shadows dance in the prismatic light of the rainbow, while the wind catches their seeds, cultivating the garden. The vibrant, rainbow light was achieved by painting a prismatic shape on tyvec and black paper, creating a reverse silhouette...

"Rising Burst" is created by Heather Hartman to capture the light bursting through an obstruction. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscap...

DWELL is a multi-layered oil on linen painting by Jered Sprecher. The piece presents a floral composition, modeled on a bouquet arrangement created by the artist’s wife. Starting fro...

TO BE KNOWN is an oil and graphite on paper piece depicting a honeysuckle bush tree growing outside the artist’s home studio. The sketch came to life en plein air, to be later finish...

I tend to come across sites that are uncannily put together in the woods. In the case of this work, I found a deer skull placed within a bramble of deadwood branches and could feel a...

"Window VI" is one piece in Heather Hartman's Spare Room series. Hartman’s work combines paper softly appearing behind polyester mesh to create the illusion of light glowing through ...

This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. A velvet couch flanked by two tables with lamps dominates the backgroun...

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WINDOW V captures the soft patterned shadow of the trees veiled by a sheer curtain. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee....

In STRUCTURAL POROSITY 02, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, architec...

Rock N Roll Photograph - Black & White Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith About the Artist: Lynn Goldsmith's imagery is in numerous collections: The Smithsonian, The Polaroid Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the permanent collection of Museum Folkwang. She is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work has appeared on and between the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Elle, The New Yorker, etc. Her subjects have varied from entertainment personalities to sports stars, from film directors to authors, from the extra-ordinary to the ordinary man on the street. Her forty years of photography have not only been an investigation into the nature of the human spirit, but also into the natural wonders of our planet. Twelve books of her photography have been published. She has been on The New York Times Best Seller list...

In ARCHITECTURAL HYPERBOLE 04, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, architecture and fiber, structure and knots. Contrasting her stately, rococo metal...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Continuing a series of formal investigations that blur the lines between representational, flat, and abstract painting approaches, I created Untitled Construct 3. As with previous wo...

Many of the works in this series have a similar viewing distance from the subject. In Untitled Construct 6 I wanted to close that distance by painting a picture with the view being c...

This museum-quality photographic print on handmade paper by Carleigh Thomas measures 6 x 9”, and is on a mat that measures 11 x 14”. The photograph was taken in Tainan, Taiwan and is...

The interconnectivity between one's waking life and one’s dreams offers a point of convergence between the real and the surreal, the ordinary and the absurd. Daily observations are recycled into nightly visions, and consciousness becomes an in-between state. Experiences turn into memories which turn into dreams which turn into experiences. This piece appears as part of two-person exhibition with Jason Stout at Channel To Channel...

DIRTY OR CLEAN? depicts a grouping of laundry consisting of solid colors as well as striped patterned shirts in a photo representational rendering. Sauer meticulously creates a composition of organized chaos that is shown to exemplify the beauty in the mundane. This piece appears as part of a two-person exhibition with Jason Stout in April 2021 at Channel To Channel...

In this painting, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a work which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representational. Painting rich pastel pinks ...

"I’ve been searching to find the balance between hyper-independence as a trauma response and falling victim to, well… a victim complex. In today’s society where co-dependency is ofte...

This painting was part of a series of foxglove studies that I created while hiking in the Olympic peninsula in Washington in July of 2021. The Foxglove were growing wild...

DEGLOVING is a sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2018 from red milled cedar wood. The piece belongs to a series of work centering around clothing items and...

This piece was from a series that began in Olympic National park during my residency there. Foxglove 4 was the fourth iteration of the study that...

A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...

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This piece was from a series that began in Olympic National park during my residency there. FOXGLOVE #2 was the second iteration of the study tha...

This work is a secondary continuation to my "Vanilla Extract" series (2002 - ongoing) which examines the practice of racial positioning in contemporary print media.

This work is a secondary continuation to my "Vanilla Extract" series (2002 - ongoing) which examines the practice of racial positioning in contemporary print media. This piece depic...

Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service...

CREEPING AND CLIMBING by Heather Hartman was created for her exhibit, "Kudzu Season." This painting is a rendering of Kudzu vines on a blue atmospheric back...

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This painting is the artist's rendering of Hell. We see hundreds of small faces descending into a fiery swirl of reds, yellows and blues. The faces seem to...

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Blueprint is a sculpture made from polystyrene, wood, and spray foam fused with an outer layer of iridescent fabric, cement, spray paint, and a steel grab bar...

A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

This piece by Heather Hartman was created for her show titled "Kudzu Season," at Channel to Channel Gallery. In this piece, layers of paper, painted tyvek and silkscreen create a dreamy lavender and pale yellow atmosphere that recedes into space. Several fibrous kudzu vines...

This piece by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. "Waning," is the autumnal piece of the series. Peach and magenta undertones outline a hazy vision of leaves bustling in the sunshine. The dark silhouette of a kudzu vine...

This painting is a portrait of the rapper, Conway The Machine. Rendered on Gold found fabric, Conway is centered in the composition, meeting the vie...

ST.ROPER is a 3D-printed sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2016. The piece belongs to a series of work centering around clothing items and their relation t...

This painting by Jason Stout was completed during the Covid-19 quarantine in 2020. While his previous work dealt mostly with surrealist spacescapes and nebulas, he focused on still l...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

This painting on cut linen canvas by Linda King Ferguson depicts a diamond shaped canvas that is color-blocked into three main sections. The topmost triangular portion of the canvas ...

This sculpture by Kenzie Wells was created for an exhibit titled Gradience. A plush roadway bends in an impossible manner, creating a loop. Yellow lines designate parking spaces on t...