Exhibitions
KNOXVILLE LOCAL (CURATED BY ASHLEY LAYENDECKER)
East Tennessee Foundation / 520 W. Summit Hill Drive, Suite 1101, Knoxville, TN October 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Tri-Star Arts is pleased to present Knoxville Local at the East Tennessee Foundation (520 W. Summit Hill Drive, Suite 1101, Knoxville, Tennessee), the first in our new Local exhibition series highlighting TN Artists. The show’s curator is East-Tennessee native Ashley Layendecker.
Knoxville Local features the work of 23 Knoxville-area artists including Ashley Addair, Eleanor Aldrich, Nuveen Barwari, Brianna Bass, Joshua Bienko, Eric Cagley, Nick DeFord, Lynne Ghenov, Michael Giles, Spencer Grady, Daniel Hughes, Quynh Lam, Mary Laube, Marta Lee, Paul Lee, Nyasha Madamombe, Erica Mendoza, Althea Murphy-Price, Jing Qin, Kayla Rumpp, Jered Sprecher, Megan White, and David Wolff.
The exhibition will be on view virtually at its outset, with expected in-person viewing opportunities coming in late 2021 (more details and interactive media to come). Knoxville Local will run from October 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021. The show coincides with the 35th anniversary of the ETF in 2021.
*poster image: Nyasha Madamombe/ poster design: Sarah Shebaro, Striped Light
About the Curator
Ashley Layendecker is a painter, writer, and independent curator working in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her BFA in Studio Art, 2D concentration in 2016, and her MS in Teacher Education in 2017 at the University of Tennessee. Ashley formerly worked at Fluorescent Gallery in Knoxville, where she held the position of Assistant to the Director. She moved to Nashville in March 2018 where she is actively involved with the growing art scene in the city. She is currently the Gallery Manager at The Red Arrow Gallery in East Nashville and writes for LocateArts.org as a contributor to The Focus blog.
About the East Tennessee Foundation
ETF is a public charity and community foundation created by and for the people of East Tennessee. Serving 25 counties within East Tennessee, ETF consists of many donors who joined together to make the region they love a better place. ETF seeks to build endowments, creating a permanent source of philanthropic funding for the East Tennessee region. For more information, visit easttennesseefoundation.org.
About the Local Series
Knoxville Local is part of a Tennessee-centric, Tri-Star Arts exhibition series. It highlights the work of hometown artists selected by guest curators from the same city. The series offers the chance to celebrate the depth of the Tennessee art scene through the eyes of the curators. It is an extension of the vision of Tri-Star Arts to spotlight and grow the contemporary visual arts in the state.
