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Sponsor Alert:  Magnolia Records

8/10/2022

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KCM wants to thank Magnolia Records for sponsoring our #urbanexplorerknoxville event on October 7, 2022!

Located at 1515 N Central St. Knoxville, TN 37917, this place is packed full of goodies! Records, tapes, &CDs a-plenty!
Our director, Amos Oaks - who happens to be typing this up right now, shops for his collection here often!

These are an amazing bunch of folks who can meet your needs, be it The Cramps, The Carpenters or anything in-between!

We are honored to know them and have their support!
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Artist Profile 020:  Jim Houser

8/9/2022

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Jim Houser is a self-taught artist, musician, designer, and original member of the renowned artist collective Space1026 in Philadelphia. He is celebrated for his iconic patchwork paintings, color theory, stylized figures, and for challenging the definition of object versus painting.

Jim was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. Houser’s collages, paintings, and installations have been exhibited extensively in institutions such as the Laguna Art Museum and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art as well as galleries in Milan, Paris, Sydney, and São Paulo. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Artist Shepard Fairey has stated, “I’ve known Jim Houser since the mid-90’s when he worked with me in Providence primarily cutting stickers by hand. At the time, his unique drawings began to evolve into complex compositions of characters and typography within a mosaic of color blocks. This approach to his work has only evolved to become more sophisticated and beautiful over the years. Jim’s pieces straddle several aesthetic zones harmoniously, allowing them to be playful, mesmerizing, and profound all at once. Because Jim’s pieces work as entire compositions, with so many compelling elements at different scales, they must be seen in person.”

jimhouser.com
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Artist Profile 019:  Lynne M. Ghenov

8/8/2022

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Lynne Marinelli Ghenov is a visual artist who primarily makes drawings and works on paper. She showed this past summer at UT’s Downtown Gallery in Knoxville, TN, in a two-person show called A Rose Goes with Ada(formerly Amanda)Friedman. Lynne has also shown at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN, Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY, LA, and GCCA in Greenville, SC, as well as Proto Gallery in Hoboken, NJ, Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, CA, and University City Arts League in Philadelphia, PA. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1975 and raised in Southern New Jersey. She currently lives and works in Knoxville, TN, where she co-founded and co-directed C for Courtside Gallery, an artist-run curatorial space in north downtown Knoxville, from 2017-2020. She graduated from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, receiving her BFA in sculpture in 1998. She also studied abroad at Temple University Rome in Italy in 1996. Lynne is the Associate at Loghaven Artist Residency in Knoxville, TN. 


Artist Statement
My work mirrors the act of bricolage, though most of the elements mixed in are absorbed and translated through and in the process of drawing. An array of ephemera and objects that spur memory, generate a story, or conjure sentimentality, is vital to my drawing practice. Family business ledgers, old lined paper, children’s toys, found architectural drawings, and antique letters encompass the material choices that create the work’s substrate. The translation of objects takes shape via the act of rubbing, tracing, and observational drawing. The primary materials utilized in my drawings consist predominantly of graphite and colored pencils, pens, and watercolor. Conceptually the themes that embody my work draw heavily from memory, loss, and how to assemble the present through summoning the past. As mentioned earlier, this past, which often resides in the ephemera, forms space to allow for an intuit call and response between found articles and the triggered within the imaginary. The grid in a ledger paper, a tracing of a childhood toy, or a house key are factors that frequently ignite the operational characteristic of the work. Objects are an integral part of my internal logic, though, at times, they reside invisibly on the piece’s surface. A blend of tightly drawn geometric shapes and sometimes recognizable forms related to home, decor, decoration, pattern, and more emerges, interacts, and overlaps.

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Artist Profile 018: Kellen Hatanaka

8/5/2022

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Kellen Hatanaka (b. 1987, Toronto, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist who makes vibrant, figurative paintings and drawings that celebrate sport, design, history, and culture. His work considers race, tradition, and heritage as he explores the constructs of the sporting body and the nuances of Japanese Canadian experience. 

Hatanaka’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been featured in publications including Victory Journal, ArtMaze Magazine, and Graphite Journal.
Hatanaka and collaborator Jon-Erik Lappano received the Governor General's Award for their book Tokyo Digs a Garden (2016). He is currently based in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

kellenhatanaka.com
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Artist Profile 017:  George Wilson

8/2/2022

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Born and raised on the beaches of Jacksonville, Florida,  my entire existence evolved around surfing and skateboarding.  Hungry for bigger and better terrain, I found my way to Los Angeles, California in 1978 where I linked up with the Dogtown and Z crew. As my skateboarding career was winding down, on a fluke idea I wound up in the glamorous fashion industry (pun intended). Working with hundreds of brands - from helping small companies all the way up to the "big boys". Sticking to my beliefs I never produced a single piece outside of Los Angeles. After 30 years a stress related illness forced me to close my business.

As a form of therapy I started drawing in the mornings. Life in general has always been my canvas. I’ve always been passionate in anything I do. These days I’ve simplified my life to hanging at our little house in the canyon with my lady, Tara, and our 3 crazy pit bulls. I've been doing a little art and I’ve found my way back to making and creating clothing, selling my wares at vintage markets, pop-ups, and a few select stores. I mix Vintage and dead stock materials that I find locally along with curated vintage pieces focusing mainly on denim and work wear. Basically a Wabi-sabi mix of mainly unisex pieces that work for everyone. I like to think of it as simple clothing for complicated times.  I try to take the guess work out it, just throw and go.  I was honored when Amos invited me to participate in the auction.

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Artist Profile 016:  Paris Woodhull

8/2/2022

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I'm a born and raised Knoxvillian and my heart will always be in my hometown. I'm a full-time artist who offers a line of products (that includes apparel/paper goods) as well as a range of freelance illustration services. I grew up around lots of art, lots of free-thinking and lots of different types of people. I always like to joke that my parents were destined to get at least one artist child. That being said, I was proclaiming from about age 6 that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up...and I did! I received my BFA in 2D art with a concentration in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I love bold color, pattern, pop culture, portraiture, fashion, all genres of music and am fueled by copious amounts of coffee.

pariswoodhull.com

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Sponsor Alert:  Riff Raff Rails

7/29/2022

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https://www.riffraffskates.com/products
The skateboard rail was an invention that helped a skateboarder grab their board when doing vert tricks like airs and inverts.  They also helped protect your boards graphic back when that mattered.  I'm sure many skateboarders wish that they hadn't installed rails at all - much less skated their board with the prices some of these vintage decks are fetching now.

Rails also assisted with sliding on your board.  Sliding on the surface of your board was a bit of a mission because the deck was pretty flat - they had little to no concave.  The rails allowed a contact point for a more efficient slide.

Rails all but disappeared from skateboard culture in the 1990's with smaller boards that had concave but have recently made a comback - both for utilization and flare.

We want to thank Riff Raff Rails for stepping in to sponsor our Urban Explorer Knoxville event on October 7, 2022!  This is their story:

Riff Raff Skate Rails spawned out of another project. After manufacturing large children's exhibits we were left with an abundance of plastic raw material of many different colors which was very expensive. Rather than sit on it and wait for a random project to come through our manufacturing doors we decided to utilize the material to make skateboard accessories and contribute to the resurgence of board rails. We could've thrown the material away but decided to follow our teenage dreams of creating a skate company within our supportive fabrication business. The creation of Riff Raff Rails has allowed us to sponsor skate events and skaters all over the country. We have contributed to many skate competitions, skate jams, and nonprofits to show support for the skaters who want colorful, creative, and edgy board rails! We design and manufacture the skateboard rails in our own fabrication and plastics shop. We love to see the comeback of the rails because skating's legendary forefathers all grew up skating on tricked out boards covered in plastics (rails, lapers, copers, nose bones, tail skids). Those were the glory days... Now we are doing our part to bring back the traditional rail with a modern design and extremely durable quality.


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Artist Profile 015:  Tony Sobota

7/27/2022

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Tony Sobota is a Nashville based painter obsessed with color, movement, and structure.  Since 2016 he has closely followed Nashville’s frantically changing real estate landscape, forming his interests into an ongoing series of observational studies and architectural abstractions.  He has since oriented his process around abstract color grids.
Mostly self-taught, his popular Art of Construction series won him first place at the Nashville Arts and Business Council’s Periscope Pitch 2017.  He has been awarded several grants for public art projects in the Nashville area such as his 2019 “Little Kurdistan Community Mural”, featured on NPR.  Since 2010 he has exhibited at multiple gallery shows in the region, including being selected to Artfields 2021 and winning Best in Show at Nashville’s prestigious American Artisan Festival.  His collections include Metro Nashville, Graduate Hotels, Chartwell Hospitality, and the Nashville Soccer Club.  



Longing for simplicity I’ve distilled my process down to its essential building blocks.  Layering custom-mixed acrylic hues in a grid pattern I’m endlessly curious about how colors get along, or don’t.  More often they don’t—at least at first.  Built up over the course of a painting these individual hues learn to live together.  Certain color relationships become gathering places for beauty, while surface textures conspicuously conceal the painting’s history underneath.  Compositions may depart from the grid or reference specific subject matter, but these color relationships remain the primary organizing element of my painting.  Most of the time any figurative references that may have inspired a painting dissolve into a simple color portrait.

tonysobota.com

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Artist Profile 014:  Cal Travis Oaks

7/20/2022

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Cal Travis Oaks is a filmmaker/storyteller living in Los Angeles, CA.

Cal is one of the filmmakers who will be featured in the screening at our #urbanexplorerknoxville event on October 7.
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Artist Profile 013:  Jered Sprecher

7/18/2022

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Jered Sprecher is an artist who makes paintings and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. He received his BA from Concordia University and his MFA from The University of Iowa. Sprecher has exhibited at The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Hunter Museum, Asheville Art Museum, and Espai d'art Contemporani de Castelló. He has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; Gallery 16, San Francisco; Stephen Zevitas Gallery, Boston; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles; and the Knoxville Museum of Art. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Bailey Opportunity Grant, and a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. Sprecher has been awarded residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, the Chinati Foundation, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He is a Professor in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee. He lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee.

jeredsprecher.com

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