THE FOCUS

The Central Collective opened in 2015 as a mixed-use creative space for entrepreneurship, events and engagement with Knoxville’s creative community. As part of its mission to support art and artists, The Central Collective established a gallery for established and emerging artists in and beyond Knoxville. Halitide (12/2-7/16) was an immersive, time-based multimedia installation that interrogated perceptions of time, material, and the human intellect. Using sound, kinetic sculpture, and projection, the installation sought to expose flaws in th...

Amelia Briggs: Can you talk about your use of synthetic hair and how you got started using this material?  Althea Murphy-Price: When I first begin exploring hair in my artwork, I used only my own hair. When I did this I always felt the work was bound to my biography and I wasn’t satisfied with the way the narrative became directed at me instead of a larger discussion about identity and society. In my adolescence I...

My paintings and works on paper pursue abstraction as an intimately coded language of mark-making and editing, producing artworks that invite the consideration of process and materiality in painting as a site for new modes of visual discovery. I consider this work to be an ongoing consideration of process in abstraction, and a central theme is the perception of time via the experience of material handling and mark-making. Richard Feaster, Studio Visit, November 2016 Richard Feaster, Studio Visit, November 2016 Presented in...