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ON EXHIBIT Hot Mess: AVA's Juried Member Show Jan. 8 - Feb. 24, 2010 AVA will kick off the 2010 exhibition season with a juried AVA member show. Annette Cone-Skelton, president and co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), served as the juror for this exhibit, which features thirteen artists working in the fields of painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture: Chad Adair, Gay Arthur, Clay Binkley, Harriet Chipley, Peter Ewing, David Fox, Michael Holsomback, Melissa Krosnick, Mary Britten Lynch, Glenn Merchant, William Payne, Gabriel Regagnon, and Brent Weston.	Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer AVA GALLERY Tue-Fri / 11:00am-5:00pm Sat-Mon / Closed 30 Frazier Avenue Chattanooga, TN EXHIBITION INFORMATION Phone / 423.265.4282 - 105 email / nhyde@avarts.org View AVA Gallery map.
PAST EXHIBITIONS Surface Tension: An AVA Invitational November 6 - December 16, 2009 The first AVA Invitational features six professional artists working in oil, acrylic, metal sculpture and installation. Each member of AVA’s Selection Panel was given the opportunity to invite two professional artists whom he respects to participate in this show, and the panel’s efforts have culminated in an interesting exhibition of contemporary works. Isaac Duncan, one of the three selection panel members, said he chose artists for the show who don’t just create but push the process on how they create. “What I respect about these artists is that they work day in and day out, creating as many painting or sculptures as they can. They keep pushing their time and limits to create great works of art,” Duncan said. “Chattanooga will have another opportunity to really see big city works in our home town. We do not need to go to the big cities when the big cities are visiting us.” This exhibit will feature the art work of Rob Colvin (originally from Chattanooga, lives in New York, NY), Patrick DeGuira (Nashville, TN), Gerald Ferstman (Lexington, KY), Bryan Jones (originally from Chattanooga, lives in New Haven, CT), Brett Price (Orange, CA), and Terry Thacker (Nashville, TN).	Untitled 3 / Jones
Fresh 2009 Emerging Artists Exhibit September 8 - October 23, 2009 AVA’s commitment to supporting young and emerging artists remains a touchstone of the organization. Every year, AVA hosts an exhibition of emerging visual artists from the region. This competitive, juried exhibit is designed to showcase artists who display artistic promise, commitment to their work, and fresh ideas. This opportunity is only open to artists who have not had a major solo show and have no gallery representation. This year, AVA is pleased to present ten emerging artists, representing 4 states and 7 colleges and universities: Matt Christy, Lindsay Lewis Ethridge, Sharon Farrelly, Kara Gunter, Michael Iauch, Amanda Ladymon, Alison Oakes, Marie Porterfield, Charlie Shepard, and Matt Sigmon.	Black Eye Shadow / Alison Oakes
Accessing the Artist’s Brain: Drawing as Metaphor July 8 - August 22, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, August 7, 5:30-8pm In this exhibition of works on paper, the AVA gallery will serve as a metaphor for the artist’s brain, according to Jeffrey Morton, professor of art at Covenant College. Morton, who served as curator for the show, was inspired by a 1984 installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in which the artist Jonathan Borofsky exhibited a series of large-scale self-portrait sculptures that served as symbolic representations of the artist. “There is something special about the drawings of an artist, and it seems to me that when I view such drawings, I have an immediate access to the thoughts and mind of the artist,” Morton said. The artists who will have works on display in the show include: Bill Thelen, John Tallman, John W. Ford, Jean Hess, Joseph Peragine, Jake Kelley, Jered Sprecher, David Young, Ron Buffington, Marilyn Murphy, Mark Hosford, Jodi Hays, and Chris Scarborough.	Untitled (Lumps) / Chris Scarborough
The Salty Side of Sweet: Works by Kirsten Stingle May 29 - June 26, 2009 “The Salty Side of Sweet” features Kirsten Stingle's mixed media works in which she creates human form ceramics and employs found objects to highlight the dichotomy of human emotions and life experiences. “I work with human form because while it is instantly approachable, the presentation of its inner psyche can be infinitely complex,” explains Stingle. There is often more to Stingle’s pieces than what instantly meets the eye. The beauty of her work is found in reading the forms’ expressions and looking for the unexpected elements that help each story unfold. Stingle has a fine arts degree in theatre, which she says “strengthened my desire to express common threads of the human experience and honed my understanding of imagery and gesture as powerful narrative tools.” Stingle was a new exhibitor at the 2009 Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington D.C.	Feeling Life's Pull / Stingle
A Portrait of Public Housing: Works by Jason Reblando March 6, 2009 – April 17, 2009 Opening Reception: March 6, 2009, 5:30-8pm For close to a decade, the Chicago Housing Authority has been involved in the controversial process of replacing current public housing complexes with mixed-income townhouses. Reblando creates portraits that challenge commonly held assumptions that public housing developments are simply places of poverty and misery. His portraits of public housing residents under the transformation plan attempt to convey the complex relationship residents have with the place in which they live, amidst the uncertain future of their community.
Bin January 9, 2009 – February 21, 2009 Reception and Artist/Curator Talk: January 28, 2009, 5:30-8pm Chattanooga’s own art collective, SEED, has joined forces with a few of the country’s best collectives to create an installation that will transform the AVA gallery into a distance-collapsing intersection of social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations. Participants include Basekamp (Philadelphia), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago, Paintallica, and TEAM LUMP (Raleigh).	Bin Exhibition