JOINERY by Amanda Mohney

May 1 – 29
Time and Place in the Atrium
Opening reception: Friday, May 1, 5:00-9:00 PM
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM with additional hours on Fridays, 5:00-7:00 PM for Gallery 1010 openings.
The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902

JOINERY is a series of brightly colored fabric wall hangings illustrating the joys and frustrations of needing people. These pieces have percolated through a filter of ancient handicraft and other folk art, the embarrassment of riches that is Persian textile design, and the delightful and quirky tradition of children’s Valentine’s Day flat cards. The fuzzy fabric and chunky embroidery deliver warm and unrefined texture, while the animal pairings in various stances draw out the variety within our relationships—to each other, to our own many facets that may or may not always get along, and to the ways that even the closest bonds refuse to stay put.

Amanda Mohney is a visual artist based in Knoxville, Tennessee. She studied art and semiotic theory through the interdisciplinary College Scholars program at the University of Tennessee and founded A Fine Lion (formerly Paloma Karwinski Illustration) in 2018. Her commercial clients include Nourish Knoxville, The Maker City, A Dopo, Tinca Tinca and The University of Tennessee Foundation. She has donated work to organizations such as PeckaKucha Night Knoxville, WUOT-FM and the UT Gardens, in addition to organizing local collaborative group and solo hangings. Her arts writing appeared in Metro Pulse, and she founded and operated The Pigeon Parade Quarterly from 2020-2022. She continues to illustrate for others, publicly practice animation in her newsletter, and pursue her own studio art.

See more of Amanda’s work at afinelion.com and afinelion.substack.com, and keep up with her on Instagram @a.fine.lion.