New Solo Exhibit at Customs House Museum

Denise Stewart Sanabria:  Food as Muse

The Cult of Spring   oil on panel   4' x 8'

 Food as Muse will open at the Customs House Museum

in Clarksville, TN, Friday March 13th. There will be a reception 
from 5-7 PM.

                 Food As Muse will be in the Bruner Gallery until

May 10th.

Also opening that night, Chicago artist Sergio Gomez : The Land in Between

The Arts Company, Nashville- BICYCLES: Vintage & Contemporary

BICYCLES: Vintage & Contemporary will be at The Arts Company, 215 N. 5th Avenue of the Arts in Nashville, TN for the month of March, 2015, featuring several of the gallery's artists' interpretations of the popular icon. Opening reception during First Saturday Gallery Crawl.

In Bicycles:  Vintage and Contemporary, bicycles are presented as familiar objects that are international icons with universal appeal. Whether hanging on the wall or from the ceiling, made from cardboard, or drawings, paintings on tar paper, or mixed media photography, collectively they create a lively and welcoming gallery environment. Featured artists include Daryl Thetford (photography), Leonard Piha (cardboard sculpture), Denise Stewart-Sanabria (sculpture/mixed media), Tres Taylor (paintings), Jason Stoddart….plus, real bicycles. 

My work in the exhibit includes the following:

Bipedal  graphite on rag paper, cut paper, hand-built wooden altar frame  20"W x 21"H x 4"D

Helen of Bike   charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood   34"W x 71"H x 2"D

Urban Wilderness   graphite on rag paper, cut paper, hand-built wooden altar frame  10"W x 20"H x 3"D

September 2 Person Exhibit at Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University

Drawing Closer: Ink and Wood will be at Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, will be in September 2015. It is a two person exhibit with Ellen Wiener of NY, information below. (Her piece is actually a collaborative installation with poet LB Thompson, so it is really a 3-person exhibit). My figurative drawings on plywood will inhabit the floor space of the gallery, while Wiener will have a 6' x 17' wall-size piece interactive with LB's poetry text. We should be giving a drawing workshop during the last weekend. Exact dates and more details to be announced. 

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Ellen Wiener  

 http://ellenwiener.com/

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellen Claire Wiener (born October 18, 1954) is an American artist specializing in painting and printmaking. She holds degrees from Bennington College and Queens College, CUNY, and has taught at the university level since 1985.^[1] Her most recent work is Longhand Forest, a 17-foot pen-and-ink drawing produced as part of a collaborative exhibition with poet LB Thompson.^[2]

Recognition

Wiener has received several honors including The Andrew Carnegie Prize for Painting from The National Academy of Design, The William Randolph Hearst Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers from The American Antiquarian Society, residency grants from The MacDowell Colony, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, Holy Cross Monastery and stipends from The New York Foundation for the Arts.[1]

Article on my work from Tube Magazine

Alejandro Montaño from Tube Magazine in California just did a nice article on my work:  http://tubemag.com/2015/02/28/what-are-we-really-looking-at-the-work-of-denise-stewart-sanabria/

Studio Video by Nolpix

I had local filmmakers come watch me work.
KNOXzine: Plywood People from Buck Kahler on Vimeo.

Upcoming 2015 Exhibits

These are the exhibits I have just lined up for 2015 in the last few weeks: 

Solo Exhibits

The Tomato Head

I will be having a solo exhibit of epicurean paintings at Knoxville's iconic alternative art space, The Tomato Head restaurant. My work will be at their Market Square location downtown for the month of May, and at their location at The Gallery for the month of June. It is the first time my paintings have been there. My plywood drawings were exhibited in 2006. I love this venue. (and their food!)

The Cult of Spring   oil on canvas   4' x 8'

Mazie Jones Gallery at The Jones House

Boone, NC

An exhibit of my plywood people drawings will be on exhibit at Mazie Jones Gallery in Boone, NC this August. More details later.

Group Exhibits

The Emporium Center

I will have two pieces in the 2015 National Juried Show in The Emporium Center at 100 Gay Street in Knoxville, TN this Feb. First Friday opening reception is Feb. 6th starting at 5:30.

Riding the Big Gun   charcoal on plywood, ceramic, pigment print on paper  4' x 6'

Pan Over Pittsburgh   photography, pigment print on rag paper   31" x 8"

 

 

ArtFields   Lake City, SC

This is my second year in ArtFields, and I can't say enough about it. It is kick-ass. I've got a blog about last year under May 2014. I love this event. It is like Grand Rapids' ArtPrize ,but for artists in the Southeastern US only. "Riding the Big Gun" is heading there, also.

From their website:

"The South’s Most Engaging Art Festival and Competition

ArtFields® is a community-focused celebration of art awarding $100,000 in prizes to artists from across the Southeast. Initially founded in 2013 ArtFields annually transforms the historic district of Lake City, South Carolina into a Southern art mecca for nine days allowing visitors, residents, and artists to experience a massive arts festival in the heart of one of South Carolina’s most charming small towns.
ArtFields® is a charitable program of Lake City Partnership Council, a federally-recognized tax-exempt public charity, which mission is to improve the quality of life and promote the well-being of the citizens residing within the community of Lake City, South Carolina. ArtFields® is designed to provide opportunities for the cultivation of artists and to offer educational and arts programs for the benefit of the public."

Tipton Gallery, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

This is a June 2015 exchange exhibit between the Knoxville Art and Culture Alliance and Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University

 and curated by Slocumb and Tipton director Karlota Contreras-Koterbay. Details will be coming soon.

 

People 2,3,4   charcoal on plywood   32"W x 42"H

 

 

Upcoming 2016 exhibit (date correction)

I'm posting this a year early because I had reading comprehension issues at one point and had January 2015 as the exhibit date in one publication. No! 2016. I spend so much time obsessing over not overlapping exhibit dates and pieces during this month or that that the actual year just totally eluded me. No more speed reading for me.