August 26th -September 26th

Reception Thursday August 26th at 12:00pm

“A Thousand Words” explores the many definitions of a person’s face and/or expressions. These 8” X 5” collage/drawings on panel depicts various meanings based on the viewers standpoint.

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Gallery Hours
contact Bryan Wilkerson at 865.882.4649 or by email at wilkersonbs@roanestate.edu for gallery hours

Please send four photographs or 35mm slides of your work with a return envelope with postage, an artist statement and brief gallery proposal to:

Roane State Community College
O'Brien Art Gallery
Attention: Bryan Wilkerson
276 Patton Lane
Harriman, TN 37748

or click here to email your proposal electronically (please send examples of work in .jpeg format)

All submissions will be considered

Previous Shows

April 13th-April 29th

Reception and awards ceremony at 12:00pm in the O'Brien ART GALLERYon April 13th

Gallery Hours
contact Bryan Wilkerson at 865.882.4649 or by email at wilkersonbs@roanestate.edu for gallery hours

Special Thanks to the following
Our Juror: Brian Wagner
Myra Peavyhouse
Malinda Yager
Denise Cloyd
RSCC Foundation: Melinda Hillman, Jeana Bradley, Linda Brown, Ruth Lee Melton
Bryan Wilkerson
STARS Art Club
Art dept RSCC
Agnes Knight
Owen Driskill
Nanita Samuels
FFG Photo Club and
Jim Mansfield
Cal and Carol Davis
Roberta Dennis

January 15th-February 18th

Artist Statement:
"My work is a humble investigation of truth. I believe that the truth of songbirds, heartache, neutron bullets, parched earth, ecstasy, love, and abandoned buildings are all the same. There are as many paths to truth as there are animals, vegetables, and minerals. My work is the physical record of my own exploration of truth. I think of myself as an anthropologist of my own experiences and a distiller of my own reality, discovering and processing my emotions and observations through my own viscera. My art flows from there into the physical objects I make.

The current work is comprised of sculpture, installation, and vessels. Pieces are based on abstractions of the human form, machine parts, landscapes, emotions, algebra and bones. Right now my own explorations focus on the abilities of simple spacial relationships and nuanced surfaces to resonate within the human spirit and reveal themselves over time. All of my work is meant to be experienced both visually and tactually. Much of my work can be manipulated to varying degrees by the final custodian resulting in a collaboration between us. The most manipulatable are somewhere between a puzzle, a Rorschach test and a party game.

The forms are constructed primarily from clay using a variety of hand building methods. I usually do not work from sketches or maquettes, preferring to collaborate with the materials and guide the forms until they feel right. In a similar way, the wood fired surfaces which patina my work are the result of a dynamic interaction between the materials, forms, placement in the kiln, and firing technique.

It is my hope that the gratitude and wonder I have for life, energy, mystery, and art is revealed through my work."     -Eric Knoche


Artists lecture at 2:00pm in the O'Brien building room 211 on February 18th
sponsored by International Education

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Overlays of Panama
Artwork by Artist Geraldine Kierfer
November 1st-December 10th

Artist Statement:
My drawings are nature based and culturally centered. Strongly influenced by the paintings of the Hudson River School, along with spiritual and travel writings from the nineteenth century to the present, I work within and among interstices between wilderness and pastoral landscape. Furthermore, I believe that the sublime and the pastoral are not antithetical; rather, I aver their complementary and mutually energizing forces. Attracted to mountainous and hilly terrain—specifically but not exclusively, the Ridge and Valley counties of western Virginia--I draw landscapes that appear wild and even scoured, with little or no suggestions of habitation. I use multiple striations and lines to suggest cut or crystalline forms. During the drawing process, however, I “domesticate” them. I flood the paper with washes. I lay curvilinear lines among the angular ones, then color in the entire network with colored pencils in variegated shades of green (for mountain landscapes), or sepia, gray and umber (for bark and rocks). Green and growing things intimate for me that, albeit rocky, this metaphorical landscape is watered and thus fertile. Likewise, bark--a skin—and rock—a body---intimate the resilience, toughness and surface beauty of age."

Art d' Italia
Art exhibit will showcase work inspired by students’ trip to Italy; Reception is Sept. 10

Students who traveled to Italy in May will display artwork inspired by the trip Sept. 9-30 in the theatre art gallery on the Roane County campus.

The Department of Computer Art and Design will host the Arte d’Italia! 2009 exhibit. A reception to honor the artists and the donors who contributed to the trip will be held Sept. 10 at noon in the art gallery. The public is invited.

The trip included stops in Rome and Florence, and students visited sites such as St Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican Museums, the Museo di San Marco and many others.

Artists
Gin Garner
Alicia Hundley
Meagan Linley
Kelsey Rose
Katie Wood

Slide shows
Darlene Parks
Britny Lawhorn
Yuri Min

Gallery Hours
To Be Announced or call Bryan Wilkerson at 865.882.4649 to schedule an appointment

2009 Spring Student Show
Featured Above
"Lantana Rush" by Keith Sapp, digital photo 8"X10"
April 14th - April 29th    artist reception April 16th at noon

Kenneth Malveaux
Nature Photography
March 4th - March 26th   

Ralph Monday
Recent Paintings

January 8th- February 13th   

Rocky McNamara
A collection of Paintings and Sculptures

November 25th- December 18th    artist reception December 12th 1:00pm - 4:00pm during the RSCC Holiday Cheer

Lauren Kussro
Sculptures and Prints

November 6th- November 18th    artist reception November 14th 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Tour d' Art
Art inspired by the Europe Tour Summer 2008

October 1st - November 1st    artist reception October 3 at noon

Special Thanks to our sponsors
Agnes Knight
Joan O’Steen and Tom Hill
Harvey Sproul
Sarah and James Thomason
Frank and Sylvia Charton
Suzin Seaton
Karen Shaw
Bill Trisler
Le Voss
Carol Schroeder
Barb Rogers
Claudia Kirkpatrick
Sheryl Reeser
Fairfield Glade Art Guild
Katie Wood
Brandon Brown
Bryan Wilkerson
Michael Golebiewski
Charlie Jones
Kathy Snipes
Perma Ceramics of East TN
Harriman Pizza Hut

Above film still from "Train Loop", Digital Video Projection by Stacy Jacobs 2008

Faculty Show
 recent works by Stacy Jacobs and Bryan Wilkerson

August 25th - September 20th

Banking on Ruins
sculptures and digital images by John McGrane
for more visit johnmcgraneart.com

March 3rd- March 31st

"This body of work grows out of the phenomenon of losing a thing rather than a person. It also deals with the powerlessness associated with this experience as well as feeling guilty or selfish for mourning materialistic loss. This personal feeling of loss quickly grew into an empathy for the Ruins of Richmond and beyond that the objects and remnants of the past that have not been assigned importance and therefore not monumentalized." ~John McGrane

Reception March 31st from 4:00 to 6:00 pm

World Mystery Tour
 a collection of two-dimensional works by Bryan Wilkerson

January 18th - February 22nd

Reception February 22nd from 3:30 to 5:00 pm

"Boys and Girls in America have such a sad time together." -Jack Kerouac
  art by Christian Cox, Bryan Crabtree, and Katie Wood

November 7th - December 7th

The work of three Art & Design graduates which will include two-dimensional mixed media works and photography.

Reception November 16th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Amelia Loehe Breed
September 10th - October 4th

Amelia Loehe Breed is originally from Baltimore, MD and received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, where she studied glass and textiles. She completed a one-year residency at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Gatlinburg, TN and currently resides in Knoxville, TN. She works sculpturally with a range of material and most recently has been incorporating synthetic resins. She is also an art instructor, having taught at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and several other art centers in both Virginia and Tennessee.

"I am interested in the female experience. Parts of my work can be seen as self-portrayal, while poetic and dream-like elements reflect on the universal and cultural aspects of being a woman. I like to work with a range of material allowing the sculptures to create their own visual vocabulary. Information is usually emphasized in the surface of a piece allowing the form to become symbolic." -Amelia Loehe Breed

Gallery Hours
Monday September 17th 11:00am-1:00pm and 2:00pm-3:00pm
Wednesday September 19th 10:00am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-3:00pm
Thursday September 20th 11:00am-2:00pm and 2:00pm-4:00pm
Friday September 21st 9:00am-2:00pm
Monday September 24th 1:00pm-4:00pm
Tuesday September25th 11:00am-1:00pm
Wednesday September 26th 10:00am-12:30pm
Thursday September 27th 11:00am-12:00pm and 2:00pm-4:00pm
or by appointment

Closing Reception Thursday October 4th at 4:00pm