On Friday, May 21, the Knoxville Museum of Art will open two new exhibitions, both featuring diverse works from the museum’s own collection.
Viewing Knoxville and its environs over the last century through the artistic lens is A View of the City: Knoxville & Vicinity. Featured are paintings by Marcia Goldenstein, Joanna Higgs Ross, Tom McGrath, and Karla Wozniak, works that cover a range of visual points of view. Color photographs come from David Hilliard and David Underwood, while black and white silver prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Danny Lyon are works by notable photographers offering the insights of first time visitors to Knoxville. Knoxville 7 artists Robert Birdwell and C. Kermit Ewing tangle with abstractions of prominent local sites. Canvases by Joseph Delaney and Charles Farr offer views of Knoxville’s inner city through a metaphorical rear-view mirror. Architectural impressionism is represented by George Galloway and Joe Parrott.
Springing from the KMA’s own contemporary collection is Undercurrents: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, a show featuring more than 20 paintings and works on paper. This diverse show runs the gamut from figurative works (Katherine Bernhardt, Richard Jolley, John Kelley, Marin Majic, Daniel Pitin, and Charles E. Williams) to abstractions ( Hamlett Dobbins, Michelle Grabner, Howard Hull, Josh Smith, and Jered Sprecher) to sculpture (John Himmelfarb and Creighton Michael) to photography (David Allee and Robert von Sternberg), and even to works that blur the line between representation and abstraction (Nathan Hylden and Antonio Santin).
Both exhibitions remain on view through August 1, 2021.
Admission to the museum is FREE, although a Timed-Entry Visitor Registration system is still in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic precautions. Register here.
Knoxville Museum of Art
1050 World’S Fair Park Drive
(865) 525-6101
Regular museum hours: WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY — 1 PM-5 PM
Summer closures: Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day
