Exhibitions

NO-MAN’S-LAND

Knoxville Museum of Art / 1050 World’s Fair Park Dr. August 13 - 31st

Seba Calfuqueo, Ada Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Eddie Owens Martin (St. EOM), Harrison Mayes, Erin Jane Nelson, Sarah M. Rodriguez, Suzanne Treister, Saya Woolfalk, Joseph Elmer Yoakum

Inspired by the visionary work of Kentucky coal-miner-turned-evangelist Harrison Mayes after he experienced a life-changing epiphany, No-Man’s-Land explores genres, beings, and geographies that exceed singular definition. Born in Tennessee in 1898, Mayes’ placed concrete beacons across the country, with plans for them to reach outer space, and beyond. He installed these markers in so-called “no-man’s-land”—narrow, ambiguous strips of land between state and private property where no one authority could claim jurisdiction.

This exhibition looks to artists who work in similarly uncharted territory. Bringing together contemporary practices that move through the borderlands between bodies, spiritual traditions, cultures, countries, and planets, No-Man’s-Land considers how art inhabits and transforms these thresholds, envisioning new ways of being in the spaces between.