Kai Lin Art/ The New South

Kai Lin Art/ Atlanta GA

The New South

I've got work going to Kai Lin Art in Atlanta for the exhibit The New South, on exhibit from 

April 8, 2016 – May 14, 2016. 

It is a group show of works on paper.

Appalachian Queen of Rubber Inner Tube Couture

graphite on paper, cut paper, jewelry, pearls, hand built wooden altar frame   22” x 15” x 1.5”

Upcoming Exhibits and Publications

Quantum Continuum

 Rebecca Randal Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University

Conway, SC

Artist Denise Stewart-Sanabria creates life-sized charcoal drawings on plywood, depicting people in various conceptual situations. They are placed within an environment in observational and interactive groupings.
Born in Massachusetts, Stewart-Sanabria received her BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. A resident of Knoxville, Tenn., Stewart-Sanabria produces both hyperrealist portraits of everything from produce to subversive jelly doughnuts. Learn more about the artist here.
Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery presents Denise Stewart-Sanabria: Quantum Continuum, a solo exhibition, which opens Monday, February 29 and runs through Friday, April 1, 2016. The exhibit is free and open to the public. A lecture with the artist takes place at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, 2016 with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Both the lecture and reception are free and open to the public.  http://grandstrandarts.com/tag/rebecca-randall-bryan-art-gallery/

Southworks 2016 

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA

Opening Reception: Friday, April 1, 2016 

Exhibit: April 2 through May 6, 2016

Southeastern regional group exhibit

People # 55,56,57 charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood

People # 55,56,57 charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood/detail

People # 30,31,32 charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood

 Dogwood Regional Fine Arts Exhibit, 

Emporium Center, Knoxville TN

April 1-22

Opening reception April 1 5:30- 9 PM
Southeastern regional group exhibit

People #49,50, 51 charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood

People #49,50, 51 charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood/detail

New American Paintings

I will be having my food paintings included in the next Southeastern issue, #124 of New American Paintings. I believe they will be on the news stands June/July!

Quantum Reconstruction at William King Museum

Quantum Reconstructed/ William King Museum

Abingdon, Virginia, Jan 4- Feb 1

You never know who will show up for an exhibit reception! Photo credit Callie Hietala, Director of Exhibitions

The concept behind “Quantum Confusion” involves the many theories given to the existence of many, or parallel worlds, both in the disciplines of Quantum Physics and Metaphysics.  They range from solid research that can deliver actual theory-proving data, to the more esoteric work of Lewis and Kripke, which has a tendency to sound like the conversation of a couple of 1960’s era grad students on acid.  Popular media occasionally tries to produce their own version of these theories, from an episode of “Lost in Space” that scared the pants off me when I was a kid by showing characters on the program walking into another world through a special mirror portal, to the recent tv series “Fringe”.  Whether any parts of these theories eventually prove to be true remains to be seen, but with further developments in the world of Quantum Physics, we are constantly reminded that the more we discover, the less we know.

My installation originally played with the portal idea, using 4' x 8' sheets of hanging Plexiglas. I've recently been reconstructing the original layout, using the random architecture of gallery spaces and buildings at the portals with which my characters confront.  The Physicist, with her pencil and clipboard, is the only alert presence, as the other participants complacently participate in something they haven’t figured out yet.

All my work is direct drawing with charcoal and pastel pencil on birch or maple plywood. They are then varnished, cut out, back supported, and mounted on the floor stands I make.

Commissions for McGhee Tyson Airport Corporate Offices

McGhee Tyson Airport Commissions

My four pieces for the McGhee Tyson Airport Corporate offices have just been installed...in a location most people don't get to go to, so here they are! They are multi layer mixed-media with watercolor on paper, cut paper, wood, plexiglass, archival ink jet prints, and hand built frames with model airplane nose cones and wood propellers. They describe the four main types of travelers. I used as inspiration book and advertisement illustration with a slight suggestion of vintage 1950's/'60's.

Business Traveler

Adventure Traveler

Family Travelers

 

First Time Travelers

There will also be, at some point, T-shirts available at the airport gift shops with my graphic design versions on them. The airport's graphic designer will be adding the text and logos. T-shirt sales will help to support the superb Arts in the Airport program, run cooperatively by the Knoxville Arts and Culture Alliance with the McGhee Tyson Airport, which has been supporting two exhibits a year in the airport for years now.

Commission for a Stage Design

Double Portrait on Plywood

I recently did a double portrait commission on plywood for a stage setting that would be used for the Jack C Massey Leadership Awards event in Nashville this December. The recipients didn't want to go up on the stage, so the people planning the event found a way to have their presence on the stage in the form of a double plywood portrait.

Jim and Janet Ayres   charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood/detail in process

Jim and Janet Ayres   charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood 70"H x38"W x 24"D

Solo Exhibit at Elizabeth Holden Gallery/ Warren Wilson College

Quantum Confusion at Elizabeth Holden Gallery/ Warren Wilson College

Nov. 2- Dec. 12, 2015

When a gallery has access to a scissor lift, installation will be easy

 My Quantum Physics conceptual installation Quantum Confusion has been re-invented at Elizabeth Holden Gallery at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. I've deconstructed, changed, and added to this piece over a couple of years, and it is always different. The full scale charcoal on plywood drawings I produce are intended to be very flexible modular units, ready at a moment to be staged in any setting that demonstrates an idea or behavioral situation. 

Warren Wilson is a small college with an unimaginably gorgeous campus in rural east Asheville, NC, and has an excellent vegan dining commons and primo coffee shop. My time there was indulgent.

The exhibit also included class room involvement. (I always hope that the students get good marks on what they've written when this happens). I got to spend time talking to students and discussing my process. I brought in sketchbooks, and the battered remains of the marquette I made for the guide for how to construct this work, which involves hanging two sheets of 4' x 8' plexiglass from the ceiling to act as a portal for the multi-verse setting.

My battered marquette for Quantum Confusion.

Front view

side view

detail of plexiglass portal section

Upcoming Exhibit Inclusion/Drawing Discourse 2016, UNCA

7th Annual Drawing Discourse

University of North Carolina at Asheville,  S. Tucker Cooke Gallery

People # 49, 50, 51 charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood

People # 49, 50, 51 detail/ charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood

I'm excited to announce my three person plywood grouping People 49, 50, 51, will be in the 2016 international drawing exhibit Drawing Discourse, held at the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The exhibit will run from Jan. 15th - Feb. 12th.

Esteemed juror, Edgar Jerins, will be present and open the exhibition with a lecture about his practice from 5-6 PM in Humanities Lecture Hall on January 15, 2016; Drawing Discourse opening reception will be immediately following.