FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Suzanne Čada
PO Box 2506
Knoxville, TN 37901
(865) 523-7543
sc@knoxalliance.com
www.knoxalliance.com
Arts & Culture Alliance Presents “Anomaly” Art Event Showcasing Southern LGBTIQ Artists
(05/14/2010/Knoxville) – The Arts & Culture Alliance presents “Anomaly”, an art event showcasing Southern LGBTIQ artists and celebrating the human community at the Emporium Center. “Anomaly” features four established artists working in the South: Ethan Bach, S. Beth Bishop, Jessica Gregory, and coordinator Zophia Kneiss, as well as a diverse selection of local talent and emerging artists curated by Denise Stewart-Sanabria. “Anomaly” will display sculptures, paintings, and poetry from June 4-25 as well as video-media art at the opening reception on First Friday, June 4, 5:00-9:00 PM.
“Anomaly” coincides with the nation’s Pride celebration and invites local LGBTIQ organizations to network and be artistically involved within the community. “This diverse event serves to foster a dialogue informed by the awareness that all people have common and individual struggles, no matter how they outwardly identify,” says show coordinator Zophia Kneiss. “It also seeks to depict art as a triumph of human expression as well as the power of speaking openly about one’s identity.”
Ethan Bach's work is about taking journeys and opening one's own mind. He strives to push the boundaries of visual art practices by integrating his documentary background with time-based, interactive installations, single-channel video, and new technologies. www.ethanbach.com
S. Beth Bishop’s poems use hybrid forms to explore the concepts of home, gender, class, divinity, science/mathematics, and the (false) division of the self into body, mind, heart, and soul. They strive to work against all manifestations of institutionalized injustice by deconstructing common generalizations and marginalizations of individual and small-group expressions, geographic and political regions, and philosophical concepts.
Jessica Gregory’s work acknowledges we each have our own experiences and what really matters is how viewers interpret the work for themselves or how it makes them feel. She creates both realistic and abstract works of art, sometimes a combination of the two, reaching toward experiencing the many things in our lives we can’t see, like sound, energy, dreams, and feelings. www.jessicagregory.net
Zophia Kneiss strives to stay positively connected to her community, both locally and globally, and this endeavor mirrors what she sees in the world and also allows her to define “community” in her own ways. Her passion for organic shapes and inspiration from the natural world lend themselves to engineering and building structurally sound sculptures that exhibit natural motion. Steel is, of course, both a natural and an industrially made material. So, while her work borrows from the organic, it also remains in dialogue with the industrial. www.zophiaburningart.com
“Anomaly” will be on display in the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902 from June 4-25, 2010. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, with additional hours on Saturday, June 5, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit our Web site at www.knoxalliance.com.
About the Arts & Culture Alliance
The Arts & Culture Alliance serves and supports a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions. The Alliance receives financial support from the Tennessee Arts Commission and First Tennessee Foundation.
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