Lonnie Holley
Participating in
Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, TN
RE-PAIR
Consulting Curator: Dr. María Magdalena Campos-Pons
As part of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial, the Knoxville Museum of Art presents a thought-provoking selection of objects created by a diverse, intergenerational slate of thirteen international artists from across the U.S. Among the featured artists is Lonnie Holley, whose critically admired art practice spans painting, drawing, assemblage sculpture, sandstone carvings, and performance that combines experimental music and poetry.
The works exhibited at KMA address a broad range of conceptual concerns ranging from the intersection of the personal and the political, to environmental, cultural, and spiritual. They express artists’ deep interest in material as a means of interpreting and amplifying these concerns. They are touched and pressed, deconstructed, constructed, and made anew.
About the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art
The inaugural Tennessee Triennial is a unified multi-site, multi-city exhibition that promotes contemporary visual art as a tool to foster constructive dialogue across communities, the state, the country, and internationally. The 2023 theme and core concept of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial is “RE-PAIR,” set forth by Consulting Curator María Magdalena Campos-Pons as the guiding curatorial concept for all exhibiting venues participating in the Tennessee Triennial.