Publication Date
1-1-2017
Abstract
The Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with the Artful Aging Project of the Johnson City Public Library and Aroha Philanthropies, the ETSU Women’s Resource Center, Women’s Studies Program, Honors College, Johnson City and Jonesborough Senior Centers, and the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Arts Support Project (APS) Grant proudly present ‘donottellmewhereibelong’ Drawings and Sculptures by Joan Tanner. Curated by Julien Robson, the exhibition is from October 16, to November 3, 2017, with a public lecture and reception on October 19, Thursday, from 5 to 7 p.m., the Slocumb Galleries, lecture starts at 6 p.m., at Ball Hall Auditorium.
Prolific artist Joan Tanner who at 82 years of age, is described to “maintain a vigorous studio practice somewhat akin to a laboratory and is inspired by spatial contradictions, archetypal geometric forms, and raw materials.” The exhibition ‘donottellmewhereibelong’ features Tanner’s 30 mixed media drawings and 4 assemblage sculptures from the last two decades, all evident of the fertile creativity of a woman artist whose art practice started in the mid-1960s alongside the male dominated, expressionist art scene. Her consistent impulse to visualize the compelling “curiosity to engage contradiction” and an impulse to disrupt “assumptions about spatial relations,” Tanner’s art continuously transgress the boundaries of media and various disciplines, thus, her multimedia work that ranges from large scale sculptural assemblages and installations, photography, drawings, video, and mixed media paintings.
For more information on curator Julien Robson please follow this link:
http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/art-stories/meet-the-curator-julien-robson
Document Type
News Article
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