Tennessee - Sculptures

Brian Russell Jobe (American, b. 1981) is an artist and non-profit director based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Jobe's studio practice is focused on sculptur...

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...

In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 5, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, architecture and fiber, structure and knots. Drawing special influence from a repurposed metal headboard...

"I am drawn to the aesthetic qualities of jewelry. This interest stems from the color, texture, variety and the association with the female body that jewelry contains. I experiment...

Beth Reitmeyer is a visual artist based in Nashville, TN. Her current installations are based upon landscape topography and geology, specifically sinkholes, caves, geodes, and rocks....

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

In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 03, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece out of a found headboard piece that she has painted and utilized as the found...

In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 01, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleabi...

In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 4, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleabil...

This piece consists of pieces of spalled brick, which had crumbled from the artist's chimney. The artist has used natural string to tie these brick pieces in a neat package. The brick package is delicately placed on a pile of bright orange chalk powder. Brian Russell...

Andy Harding is a sculptor living and working in Nashville, TN. A range of interests from Eastern philosophy to contemporary science inspire and influence his work, but the practical...

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In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 02, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, archite...

In ARCHITECTURAL HYPERBOLE 04, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, arch...

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...

BANDANNA is a sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2021 from painted and carved poplar 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...

This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells was created for an exhibition titled "Gradience." A large oblong shape takes on biomorphic qualities, as its iridescent "skin" exhibits several ...

This piece is from a new body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which will premiere at Ivy Brown Gallery in NYC and springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations o...

This piece is from a new body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which will premiere at Ivy Brown Gallery in NYC and springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations of hand-woven and tufted textiles and minimalist box-like objects that hang on walls or embed in the textiles themselves. The textiles refer to items of worn clothing, flattened identity, and superstition that come with illness and extended hospital stays. Their dominant color is blue, a hue known to calm the nervous system, but also the color of a failing body (cyanosis). The black and white objects...

Judy Rushin-Knopf (1959) was born in Dallas Texas and lives in Tallahasee, FL. Her work addresses bodies, access, and connection. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures, and tex...

This piece is from a new body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which will premiere at Ivy Brown Gallery in NYC and springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations of hand-woven and tufted textiles and minimalist box-like objects that hang on walls or embed in the textiles themselves. The textiles refer to items of worn clothing, flattened identity, and superstition that come with illness and extended hospital stays. Their dominant color is blue, a hue known to calm the nervous system, but also the color of a failing body (cyanosis). The black and white objects...

This piece is from a new body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which will premiere at Ivy Brown Gallery in NYC springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations of hand-woven and tufted textiles and minimalist box-like objects that hang on walls or embed in the textiles themselves. The textiles refer to items of worn clothing, flattened identity, and superstition that come with illness and extended hospital stays. Their dominant color is blue, a hue known to calm the nervous system, but also the color of a failing body (cyanosis). The black and white objects...

This piece is from a new body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which will premiere at Ivy Brown Gallery in NYC and springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations o...

Judy Rushin-Knopf (1959) was born in Dallas Texas and lives in Tallahasee, FL. Her work addresses bodies, access, and connection. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures, and tex...

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

Mother and Child 10.0 x 11.75 x 10.0, 36.0 lbs Bronze Engraved signature Artist's Commentary: "With this bronze, I set out to capture the quiet, intimate bond between a mother bla...

The Juvenile 3.25 x 7.0 x 3.75, 5.0 lbs Bronze Engraved signature Artist's Commentary: "The Juvenile is a bronze sculpture inspired by a real encounter near the Gatlinburg Bypass,...

Sir Bear - Bronze 6.0 x 4.0 x 2.75, 15.0 lbs Bronze Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "This bronze sculpture is the first in a series celebrating the black bears of my a...

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...

Mother and Child – Aurum Edition 10.0 x 11.75 x 10.0, 36.0 lbs Bronze Engraved signature Artist's Commentary: "With this Aurum Edition of Mother and Child, I wanted to present the...

Formless is a project that attempts to replicate the logic of color, which is that color only exists because of and upon a background. Each cube is TIG welded from stainless steel an...

La Vie de Sirène features deep blue-greens and violets rising up into brilliant blue light. I painted it in acrylic on tightly-woven, portrait-quality linen, adhered using my archiva...

This painting by Linda King Ferguson is part of her equivalence series, which began as a feminist project; works that subvert the historically male gaze and a material language speaking of gendered concerns. While typically, King Ferguson paints both sides of the canvas and cuts a flap on the the frontside to reveal the color of the back of the canvas, she unexpectedly does the opposite here. The painting is hung from the "frontside" of the canvas, revealing to us the raw edges of her linen canvas, stapled to the stretchers. Two oblong shapes of pink and red dominate the center of the painting. A thin semioval cut has been made inside of both of these shapes. Her color choices first came from Helen Molesworth’s essay, Painting With Ambivalence, published in WACK! Art of the Feminist Revolution. The Essay includes a large reproduction of Mary Heilmann’s 1979 painting...

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...

In this piece, two breeze blocks stacked on top of one another make the base of the sculpture. On top of these breeze blocks is a flat, rectangular steel...

"I welcome the continual emergence of change, evolution, and the inevitable challenges that form a large part of a working artist’s life." With CHEF'S HAT, a recent and evolving work, I am moving into more dimensionality and space. My intention is to push patterned and embellished surfaces on paper from its naturally flat surface into a more structural and spatial plane. This involves making sculptural pieces from paper and experimenting with new construction methods using strips and lengths of paper over-lapped and fastened together, shaped into objects with physical presence. I feel I am migrating from the flat surface into the third dimension. I envision the paper constructions as a landscape to be wandered in and out of, through and around, a space that invites all and sundry to enter on their own terms. I hold firmly to the belief that my work exhibits a playfulness that belies a more serious assessment of our social world. I am interested in how something that is initially perceived as frivolous and celebratory can constitute a reaction against and resistance to the shadowy world of misfortune, hard luck, and weariness. Born in 1959, Lanie Gannon was predominantly inspired by the 1970s. Conceptualism is often perceived as a reaction to Minimalism, and the leading art movement of the 1970s, challenging the boundaries of art with its revolutionary features. The movements that succeeded were all representative of a strong desire to evolve and strengthen the art world, in response to the tensions of the previous 1960s. Process art branched...

INTERGALACTIC BOTTLE SERVICE is a playful title, it draws the viewer into the work by activating the imagination—that playful part of ourselves that makes artistic creativity possible. I titled this work based on my wife’s reaction, who upon seeing the work exclaimed "It's like drinking champagne on a spaceship!" When viewers look at this piece, I would delight in them having the same reaction, and running away with their imaginations. Now, when I look at this work, I imagine my partner and I propelled five hundred years into the future, where this work is displayed in a very exclusive VIP lounge on a luxury spaceship. Here, in the red velveteen booth beneath this painting the bourgeoisie are wearing white 1920’s...

Imagine the swelling sea in an electric storm—fútbol/soccer fans in a packed stadium at night, their thunderous roars in the moments leading up to kickoff, their focus on one player on the field, the tension in the crowd increasing exponentially in contrast to the calm confidence of an expert, the distortion of space and time as she moves her foot ever closer to the ball—The Creation of Adam—a growing...

In AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Samuel Dunson creates an epic work that encompasses generations, drawing upon his own personal creative history and inspirations t...

This work is the result of a deep dive I did into researching stingrays, specifically the blue-spotted stingray.

In MULTICOLOR CIRCLE QUILT, 2, Natalie Harrison draws on the historically domestic crafts of molding and quilting to create a new work of collage. Sha...

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a half-diamond shape, with an ellipsis cut-out close to the scalloped right edge. A red cotton thread completes the second half of the diamond shape, then hangs from the bottom corner, evoking the image of a kite. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

In ARCHITECTURAL HYPERBOLE 03, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, arch...

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 piece by Brian Jobe consists of two separate stacks of concrete and steel. The stack to the left is a bit taller than the other stack, as the top-most block of corrugated concrete has been turned on its side. Beneath the corrugated concrete blocks on each sculpture is a steel plate that balances the concrete blocks on top of two breeze blocks...

This is the largest work I’ve ever created, and so I went big with the content too. This work was inspired by great cathedrals and the works by master artists found in them. I thought of the idea of “ascension” be it the ascension of Christ...

This is the first of my dimensional works which operates across multiple panels. The larger of the two is the first dimensional panel on which I put a curved edge, blurring the line ...

In BLUE CIRCLE QUILT, 1, Natalie Harrison deconstructs both the historically domestic crafts of molding and quilting and her own personal creative history to create a new work of collage. Shaping multicolored, leftover paint from her past work through a candy mold...

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...

The composition in this work is a fractal pattern based on the golden ratio: golden triangles in which each larger triangle is divided into smaller triangles. The high-gloss black wh...

This yarn-embroidered bull by Savithri Velaga is a symbol of her cultural heritage. The sacred bull in Hindu mythology, Nandi, represents hard work and perseverance.

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a somewhat trapezoidal shape, with a scalloped top edge. A red cotton thread completes the remainder of the diamond shape. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

Linda King Ferguson describes her "Equivalence Series" as social bodies; a re-thinking of Modernist figurative abstraction. They are a discursive formal and reductive language. As fi...

Morning After 5.0 x 12.0 x 9.0, 25.0 lbs Bronze Engraved signature Artist's Commentary: "With Morning After, I wanted to explore a lighter, more human moment within the powerful p...

Judy Rushin-Knopf (1959) was born in Dallas Texas and lives in Tallahasee, FL. Her work addresses bodies, access, and connection. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures, and tex...

This piece is from a new body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which will premiere at Ivy Brown Gallery in NYC and springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations of hand-woven and tufted textiles and minimalist box-like objects that hang on walls or embed in the textiles themselves. The textiles refer to items of worn clothing, flattened identity, and superstition that come with illness and extended hospital stays. Their dominant color is blue, a hue known to calm the nervous system, but also the color of a failing body (cyanosis). The black and white objects...

Judy Rushin-Knopf (1959) was born in Dallas Texas and lives in Tallahasee, FL. Her work addresses bodies, access, and connection. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures, and tex...

This piece is from a body of work called 'Vital Signs’ which springs from the domain of hospitals and illness through combinations of hand-woven and tufted textiles and minimalist box-like objects that hang on walls or embed in the textiles themselves. The textiles refer to items of worn clothing, flattened identity, and superstition that come with illness and extended hospital stays. Their dominant color is blue, a hue known to calm the nervous system, but also the color of a failing body (cyanosis). The black and white objects...

Judy Rushin-Knopf (1959) was born in Dallas Texas and lives in Tallahasee, FL. Her work addresses bodies, access, and connection. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures, and tex...