Yesterday, we mentioned the Emporium’s National Juried Exhibition of 2021, but there are other notable shows opening there on Friday, February 5, as well.
• Dana Moody‘s intriguing architectural-cultural photographic studies: Havana: Behind the Façade (image from the show above)
• Conny Zhao offers A Place to Land, a photographic series from 2018-2019 that focuses on relationships between indigenous peoples of China, Palestine, and Mongolia and their historic and cultural ties to the land.
• Steve Rehn’s A Day in the Life is an eclectic collection of images rendered in
watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, charcoal, cut-paper.
• Robert Simon: Meanderings of the MIND, a collection of drawings
All of the Emporium shows have an opening reception on Friday, February 5, 5:00-8:00 PM. Regular Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 AM – 5 PM. Please follow pandemic safety guidelines.
The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street
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Now showing at the Knoxville Museum of Art is A Lasting Imprint: Rendering
Rhythm and Motion in the Art of Black Mountain College
This exhibition features more than 50 prints, textiles, drawings, paintings and sculptures drawn from the extensive holdings of the Asheville Art Museum of work by some of the most adventurous and influential artists associated with Black Mountain College—names that virtually define 20th Century American art—Josef and Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Ilya Bolotowsky, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Lorna Blaine Halper, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Marianne Preger-Simon, and Kenneth Snelson.
This exhibition continues through May 2 at the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Please see the museum’s website https://knoxart.org for visitor information during the pandemic.
