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SUMMARY:Gabriel Lester
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Lester | June 12 – August 30\, 2026 \nThe KMA actively seeks to present responsive art installations across the city of Knoxville as a means of broadening the visibility of the work\, as well as the potential audience. Locating work outside of the museum helps expand the impact and reach of our program and contribute to a more holistic cultural ecology in the city and region. \nFor this project\, we are partnering with the newly restored Eugenia Williams House\, which is located on a 24-acre campus overlooking the Tennessee River. In the first of a series of installations at the House\, the KMA has invited Dutch artist Gabriel Lester to present a reimagined version of his 2011 installation Melancholia in Arcadia. This haunting work was first displayed in Istanbul as a dedication to Lester’s dear friend\, Huseyin Bahri Alptekin\, who passed away in 2007. The title of the work is identical to a series of photographs Huseyin shot in Odessa\, showing curtains blowing softly within domestic spaces. These images inspired an installation of stiffened lace curtains\, frozen in time and space\, which refers to the gesture of opening the windows to set free the soul of the deceased\, as well as the idea of a spirit occupying a room\, mysteriously lifting the curtain to reveal its presence.
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SUMMARY:No-Man’s Land
DESCRIPTION:No-Man’s Land | August 13 – November 8\, 2026 \nInspired by the visionary work of Kentucky coal-miner-turned-evangelist Harrison Mayes after he experienced a life-changing epiphany\, No-Man’s-Land explores genres\, beings\, and geographies that exceed singular definition. Born in Tennessee in 1898\, Mayes’ placed concrete beacons across the country\, with plans for them to reach outer space\, and beyond. He installed these markers in so-called “no-man’s-land”—narrow\, ambiguous strips of land between state and private property where no one authority could claim jurisdiction. \nThis exhibition looks to artists who work in similarly uncharted territory. Bringing together contemporary practices that move through the borderlands between bodies\, spiritual traditions\, cultures\, countries\, and planets\, No-Man’s-Land considers how art inhabits and transforms these thresholds\, envisioning new ways of being in the spaces between.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/no-mans-land/
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SUMMARY:Hai-Wen Lin
DESCRIPTION:Hai-Wen Lin | October 2026 through February 2027 \nIn this forthcoming exhibition\, Taiwanese-American artist Hai-Wen Lin fashions garments as kites: creating sculptures that move between the body and the environment. Made with the intimacy of clothing and the logic of flight\, the works draw on visual traditions from Buddhist jiasha robes to Appalachian quilts\, becoming a practice of “tending”—a way\, as the artist says “to clothe the wind.” With delicacy and desire\, these works also care for bodies and landscapes that shift as constantly as the seasons. Moving between field and sky\, Lin’s work asks how we carry one another forward and what it means to belong—to the living\, the land\, and the cycles that tie them together.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/hai-wen-lin/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming
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SUMMARY:Kevin Beasley
DESCRIPTION:The Appalachian Mountains\, which govern the winding highway traveled by artist Kevin Beasley during the development of his recent work\, can be described as “fold mountains” – created from two or more of the Earth’s tectonic plates pushing together. At these intersecting shores\, rock and debris are compressed into and within each other\, shedding individuality to forge a shared landscape. \nAkin to the convergent layers of geography and people that have formed this region\, Beasley’s work binds together disparate elements to re-fashion our understanding of place\, material\, and memory. This is a tapestry-like arena where history lives more concurrently than sequentially\, with traces and traumas floating within the fog of time. \nDrawing on his roots in the Southeast\, Kevin Beasley’s exhibition will navigate the multi-layered terrain of this region. Using textiles such as raw cotton and weathered clothing\, Beasley transforms familiar materials into landscapes both intimate and expansive\, connecting the region’s complex sociopolitical identity within his own childhood experiences.
URL:https://knoxart.org/event/kevin-beasley/
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