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AVA Members Juried Exhibition
January 6 – February 11, 2012
This annual show for AVA members only features, by juror selection, some of the best professional and emerging artists in Chattanooga.The exhibition can be viewed at AVA now through February 11, 2012. Rocky Horton, the juror and Associate Professor of Art at Lipscomb University, rewarded Gretchen Wagner with a Honorable Mention and Maggie Vandewalle as Best in Show. Maggie Veandewalle has also recieved awards from the Tennessee Watercolor Soceity and 4 Bridges Arts Festival™. She uses her art as "a way to tell stories without words, to blend reality with the fanciful." As winner of Best in Show, she will recieve a solo show at AVA in November 2012.
The artists selected for this exhibition are:
Alan Shuptrine
Gabriel Regagnon
Gretchen Wagner- Honorable Mention
Jake Kelley
Katie Claiborne
Linda Johnson
Maggie Vandewalle- Best in Show
Michael Holsomback
Nathan Foxton
Neely Hyde
Sandy Boone
Sara Rouse
UPCOMING
Amanda Brazier & Rylan Steele
March2- April 13, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-8pm
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AVA GALLERY
Tu-Sat / 11:00am-5:00pm
Sun-Tu / Closed
30 Frazier Avenue
Chattanooga, TN
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Phone / 423.265.4282
email / contact@avarts.org
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
Fresh 2011 Emerging Artists Exhibit
September 10 - October 14, 2011
AVA is pleased to announce 13 artists from across the Southeast were selected for the 2011 FRESH exhibition, an annual exhibition to help young and emerging artists gain valuable professional experience and exposure for their work. This competitive, juried exhibition is designed to feature artists that display artistic promise, commitment to their work and fresh ideas. FRESH is only open to artists who have not had a major solo show, who do not have gallery representation and who reside in the Southeast.
The artists exhibiting FRESH were selected by a jury comprised of three members: Ron Buffington (UC Foundation Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Roger Halligan (sculptor and arts advocate, co-owner of Front Gallery and Halligan . Chenoweth Studios in Chattanooga) and Nandini Makrandi (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hunter Museum of American Art and Clinical Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga). Please visit http://www.avarts/exhibits for complete bios of each juror.
The exhibit will include a wide-range of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, video installation and jewelry.
AVA is pleased to present the 13 emerging artists from across the Southeast who have been selected for FRESH 2011:
Martin Arnold – Oxford, MS
Kate Faulkner – Knoxville, TN
Lauren Hill – Gainesville, FL
Lara Jacques – Smyrna, GA
Amy Johnson – Chattanooga, TN
Jessica Jordan – Corington, GA
Jessye McDowell – Durham, NC
Nicole McLaughlin – Palm Harbor, FL
Kyungmin Park – Athens, GA
Elizabeth Pontvik – Ooltewah, TN
Greg Sand – Clarksville, TN
Claire Sonnier – Athens, GA
Norah Wofford – Georgetown, SC
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FACES UnMasked
August 12-25, 2011
FACES’ newest fundraising event featuring masks created by local artists and community members. This special event, an imaginative blend of art, entertainment and philanthropy, will benefit the compassionate programs at FACES, a not-for-profit organization serving children and adults throughout the US with severe craniofacial anomalies. Artists are welcome to approach the face and mask as a point of departure in their work; original ideas and creative responses are encouraged. Finished masks will hang in the Association for Visual Arts Main Gallery August 12-24, and then be transferred to the event venue on the 25th. Masks created for the event will be auctioned with all proceeds going to FACES. For more information about the FACES exhibit at AVA, please contact Lauren Goforth at 423-265-4282 ext.105 or lgoforth@avarts.org. For more information about FACES and the FACES UnMasked fund-raising event on August 25, please visit http://faces-cranio.org.
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Point Time / Curated by Jean Hess
May 20 - June 24, 2011
AVA presents this special exhibit that has been billed as “an innovative showcase of visual artists representing a specific micro-locus in East Tennessee.” Knoxville arts writer and painter Jean Hess, whose own work and interests focus on geographic linkages and historical memory, is the invited curator. Participating artists are Chad Airhart, Emily Bivens, Sara Blair, Shirley Brown, Robmat Butler, Bill Capshaw, Nick de Ford, Don Dudenbostel, Alan Finch, Stacey Fletcher-Reynolds, Diane Fox, Thaddeus George, Marcia Goldenstein, Carl Gombert, Joyce Gralak, Barron Hall, Amira Haqq, Briena Harmening, Brian Jobe, Lauren Karnitz, Cindy Latham, Beauvais Lyons, Fritz Massaquoi, Evan Meany, Jessica Meyer, Althea Murphy-Price, Alison Oakes, Denise Sanabria, Zachary Searcy, Jason Shoemaker, Jered Sprecher, Emily Taylor, Patricia Tinajero, Jessie Vanderlaan, Hawa Ware and David Wolff.
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 Outlaw Printmakers
April 8 - May 15, 2011
The Outlaw Printmakers exhibition highlights an array of talented rogue printmakers who provide playful and witty imagery primarily in the form of woodcut and silkscreen prints. This loose collection of artists include legendary printmakers known for bending the rules with their slightly irreverent approach to the medium of printmaking. Featured artists include: Bill Fick, Sean Starwars, Tom Huck and Dennis McNett.
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Take Art / Leave Art
March 4 - April 2, 2011
Take Art / Leave Art is a community-based collaborative art exhibition where you can trade artwork with others. Submissions from all areas of expertise are encouraged—nothing is too good, too bad or too weird. The gallery walls get plastered with works from all media and all scales: paintings, sculptures, sketches, crafts, drawings, videos, songs, ceramics, floral arrangements, doodles, prints, photographs, walking sticks, poems, found objects, shoes, Christmas ornaments, macramé, dolls, thought experiments, ideas, or anything else you can think of. Gallery visitors can bring in as many works as they want to and trade them out for anything that’s on the walls.
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 Therely Bare
Curated by John Tallman and Ron Buffington
January 14 - February 25, 2011
"Therely Bare”, an exhibition of non-objective art curated by John Tallman and Ron Buffington, will feature the work of 16 artists from around the world, including the United States, Paris, Belgium, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
Working in a style sometimes called reductive, these artists share a subversive approach to the traditions of painting. The exhibition title is wordplay, an inversion of “barely there.” It also hints at the curatorial premises of the exhibition. Although the physical presence of the work in the exhibition is not in question, the conceptual motives behind the work are more difficult to determine. In this sense, the work is hiding in plain sight. “Therely Bare” challenges typical modes of viewing and raises questions about perception itself.
The curators, both professors at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, curated this exhibition specifically for AVA , but it will also be traveling to Kent State later in the year. |
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 Fresh 2010 Emerging Artists Exhibit
Sept. 11 – Oct. 23, 2010
AVA’s commitment to supporting young and emerging artists remains a touchstone of the organization. Every year, AVA hosts an exhibition of emerging visual artists from across the region. This competitive, juried exhibit is designed to showcase artists who display artistic promise, commitment to their work and fresh ideas. This opportunity is only open to artists who have not had a major solo show and who are not represented by a gallery.
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 Team Lump: Skins & Skeletons
Jul. 2 - Aug. 27, 2010
Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Lump combines the rigor and professionalism of a commercial gallery with the experimental attitude of an alternative space. Dedicated to the promotion of emerging, mid-career and under-recognized artists, Lump is committed to the exhibition of challenging and thought-provoking contemporary art that falls outside the confines of the commodity-driven art market and conducts itself without commercial compromise. Team Lump, an ever-evolving collective of artists, works organically to adapt to each new exhibition space, combining paintings, drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and video to create installations laden with biting commentary.
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 Chris Scarborough: Drawings and Photographs
May 7 - Jun. 22, 2010
Produced with help from a Tennessee Arts Commission / Allied Arts ABC grant, AVA welcomes drawings and photographs by Chris Scarborough into the AVA Gallery.
Utilizing diverse elements ranging from Japanese pop culture and art history references to science fiction, Chinese propaganda posters, and real life experiences, Scarborough creates a pluralistic body of work that examines the effects of what happens when the boundaries of culture and context cross paths anderode. Working fluently in both photography and drawing, Scarborough is known for his meticulously constructed and detailed images of people and objects that have been fastidiously manipulated to reveal and deconstruct preconceived cultural concepts of beauty and perfection.
Chris Scarborough currently resides in Nashville. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans and Nashville. He received his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and has been featured in Art Papers, Alarm Magazine, Hi-Fructose Magazine, NY Magazine and New American Paintings.
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 Sister City: Works by Elizabeth Tubergen
Mar. 5 - Apr. 16, 2010
Back in the U.S. for just a week to set up this exhibition, video and mixed media installation artist, Elizabeth Tubergen, a Covenant College alumnus, will bring her thought-provoking work to the AVA Gallery, then return to Iceland to continue her work funded by both the Fulbright and America-Sandinavian Foundations.
Artist Statement: "My artistic methodology incorporates fearless belief powered by doubt, muscle, and careful, patient labor. My work is project-based and experimental, employing various mediums and drawing on broad knowledge bases inside and outside of the art world. My projects involve an ever-increasing library of skills, from sewing to woodworking and canning. I find inspiration in voids, pauses, memory, ephemera, place, narrative, habit, paradox, and the everyday. I work to create art that fights dislocation, incites curiosity, and commands a reconsideration of space and locational identity. My current body of work consists of photographs, drawings and altered everyday objects with carefully thought-out material narratives. Whimsical and often pathetic, the work in Sister City contemplates time, spirituality, death, disappearance, failure, and day-to-day life with patience, persistence, playfulness, sincerity, and comfortable uncertainty." |
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 Hot Mess: AVA's Juried Member Show
January 8 - February 24, 2010
AVA will kick off the 2010 exhibition season with a juried AVA member show. Annette Cone-Skelton, president and co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), served as the juror for this exhibit, which features thirteen artists working in the fields of painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture: Chad Adair, Gay Arthur, Clay Binkley, Harriet Chipley, Peter Ewing, David Fox, Michael Holsomback, Melissa Krosnick, Mary Britten Lynch, Glenn Merchant, William Payne, Gabriel Regagnon, and Brent Weston.
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Surface Tension: An AVA Invitational
November 6 - December 16, 2009
The first AVA Invitational features six professional artists working in oil, acrylic, metal sculpture and installation. Each member of AVA’s Selection Panel was given the opportunity to invite two professional artists whom he respects to participate in this show, and the panel’s efforts have culminated in an interesting exhibition of contemporary works. Isaac Duncan, one of the three selection panel members, said he chose artists for the show who don’t just create but push the process on how they create. “What I respect about these artists is that they work day in and day out, creating as many painting or sculptures as they can. They keep pushing their time and limits to create great works of art,” Duncan said. “Chattanooga will have another opportunity to really see big city works in our home town. We do not need to go to the big cities when the big cities are visiting us.” This exhibit will feature the art work ofRob Colvin (originally from Chattanooga, lives in New York, NY),Patrick DeGuira (Nashville, TN),Gerald Ferstman (Lexington, KY),Bryan Jones (originally from Chattanooga, lives in New Haven, CT),Brett Price (Orange, CA), and Terry Thacker (Nashville, TN).
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 Fresh 2009 Emerging Artists Exhibit
September 8 - October 23, 2009
AVA’s commitment to supporting young and emerging artists remains a touchstone of the organization. Every year, AVA hosts an exhibition of emerging visual artists from the region. This competitive, juried exhibit is designed to showcase artists who display artistic promise, commitment to their work, and fresh ideas. This opportunity is only open to artists who have not had a major solo show and have no gallery representation. This year, AVA is pleased to present ten emerging artists, representing 4 states and 7 colleges and universities: Matt Christy, Lindsay Lewis Ethridge, Sharon Farrelly, Kara Gunter, Michael Iauch, Amanda Ladymon, Alison Oakes, Marie Porterfield, Charlie Shepard, and Matt Sigmon.
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 Accessing the Artist’s Brain: Drawing as Metaphor
July 8 - August 22, 2009
In this exhibition of works on paper, the AVA gallery will serve as a metaphor for the artist’s brain, according to Jeffrey Morton, professor of art at Covenant College. Morton, who served as curator for the show, was inspired by a 1984 installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in which the artist Jonathan Borofsky exhibited a series of large-scale self-portrait sculptures that served as symbolic representations of the artist. “There is something special about the drawings of an artist, and it seems to me that when I view such drawings, I have an immediate access to the thoughts and mind of the artist,” Morton said. The artists who will have works on display in the show include: Bill Thelen, John Tallman, John W. Ford, Jean Hess, Joseph Peragine, Jake Kelley, Jered Sprecher, David Young, Ron Buffington, Marilyn Murphy, Mark Hosford, Jodi Hays, and Chris Scarborough. |
 The Salty Side of Sweet: Works by Kirsten Stingle
May 29 - June 26, 2009
“The Salty Side of Sweet” features Kirsten Stingle's mixed media works in which she creates human form ceramics and employs found objects to highlight the dichotomy of human emotions and life experiences. “I work with human form because while it is instantly approachable, the presentation of its inner psyche can be infinitely complex,” explains Stingle. There is often more to Stingle’s pieces than what instantly meets the eye. The beauty of her work is found in reading the forms’ expressions and looking for the unexpected elements that help each story unfold. Stingle has a fine arts degree in theatre, which she says “strengthened my desire to express common threads of the human experience and honed my understanding of imagery and gesture as powerful narrative tools.” Stingle was a new exhibitor at the 2009 Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington D.C. |
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 A Portrait of Public Housing: Works by Jason Reblando
March 6, 2009 – April 17, 2009
For close to a decade, the Chicago Housing Authority has been involved in the controversial process of replacing current public housing complexes with mixed-income townhouses. Reblando creates portraits that challenge commonly held assumptions that public housing developments are simply places of poverty and misery. His portraits of public housing residents under the transformation plan attempt to convey the complex relationship residents have with the place in which they live, amidst the uncertain future of their community.
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 Bin
January 9, 2009 – February 21, 2009
Chattanooga’s own art collective, SEED, has joined forces with a few of the country’s best collectives to create an installation that will transform the AVA gallery into a distance-collapsing intersection of social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations. Participants include Basekamp (Philadelphia), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago, Paintallica, and TEAM LUMP (Raleigh). |
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