Exhibitions
GREETINGS FROM VESTAL IV
October 29, 2024 - January 29, 2025 (Reception: November 1 5:00pm - 8:00pm)
Rachel Sevier Dallery, Casey Field, Risa Hricovsky, Ashley Pace
Tri-Star Arts is pleased to present the next exhibition in their Main Gallery at the historic Candoro Marble Building. A group show, Greetings From Vestal IV, featuring recent works by resident studio artists Rachel Sevier Dallery, Casey Field, Risa Hricovsky, and Ashley Pace opens Tuesday, October 29, 2024 and will run through Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Curator: Brian R. Jobe.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 1, 2024 from 5:00 until 8:00 pm (artists in attendance). The address is 4450 Candora Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920 and admission is always free of charge.
Rachel Sevier Dallery is a Knoxville based artist, primarily working with clay, fibers, and wax. She received her MFA in Ceramics from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2019. Sevier Dallery’s current work is an exploration of the human predicament of embodiment. She states of her work, “My work explores the human predicament of embodiment. The tension between what is happening inside the body and the desire to keep the ‘surface’ free from any evidence of what's happening beneath it. The mending and curating that's done to keep the exterior free of evidence creates new evidence of its own. Evidence of touch. An evidence mending. Evidence of what happens when the act of preservation and mending is shown to only be an interim, having no lasting effect.” - Rachel is based in Studio B.
Casey Field is an artist living and working in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since 2018, she has pursued Classical learning in art while also exploring her own voice in art making. Prior to that, she spent several years as a lawyer and a few years as a mom to her children when they were young. Of her work, she states, “I am a contemporary figurative artist with training in Classical methods of art. I create personal and symbolic images that explore meaning in the 21st century human experience and seek to evoke the beauty of relational moments between viewer, subject, and artist. My imagery draws from autobiographical experiences as a woman and mother in the American South. My work acknowledges the divine feminine as both a creative force and explores embodiment in subject matter, material, and process.” - Casey is based in Studio A.
Risa Hricovsky is a post-discipline installation artist. Her work pushes the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and between art, design, and craft. Risa received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a post-bacc from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BFA from Bowling Green State University. Recently, Risa received a Bailey Opportunity Grant, Current Art Fund Grant, and won 1st place in mixed media at the Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics. Risa has exhibited nationally and internationally and she has attended many prestigious residencies. Most notable residencies include The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, Guldagergaard - International Ceramic Research Center in Skælskør, Denmark, and SIM in Reykjavík. Iceland. Risa’s most recent solo exhibition, Then is Now, was on view at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, AR) from December 18, 2023 through April 28, 2024. She creates artworks that punctuate space through pattern, color and her use of the multiple. Working though dichotomies such as order & chaos, attraction & repulsion, and similarity & difference, she makes visual poems about perception. The work juxtaposes similarly colored materials with opposing properties, such as fired porcelain with soft sculpture or paper. In doing so, each material takes on characteristics of the other, giving rise to misperception and subtly introducing tension within the calm of repetition. Through this mimicry and indexical object making begins a critique of our ideological perceptions of different materials. - Risa is based in Studio D.
Ashley Pace is an architect, industrial designer, and artist working in East Tennessee. Her work ranges in scale from small architectural drawings to built work. Growing up in Appalachia, her interests lie in the vernacular of the region including traditional crafts and the textures of the natural environment. Her recent work focuses on the intersection of craft and art. Through inherited objects, she explores the humble materials and methods of handcrafted textiles along with the curious textures she finds on the trails of the Smoky Mountains. Tying together her interest of ancestry, motherhood, and home, she explores the theme of beauty in the mundane and mystery in the overlooked. - Ashley is based in Studio C.
image: Ashley Pace, Hints of Gladness, 2024
