Audrey Gair
Rind
Phyllis Baldino, Max Guy & Ellie Rae Hunter
Outliners
October 4 - November 10, 2024
Elly Reitman
energy
August 16 - September 20, 2024
Michelle Grabner, Kathleen Morris & Bronson Smillie
The Weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica Pinteric
Tiziana La Melia
Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster
June 7 - July 6, 2024
Jacob Jackmauh, Caitlin McCann & Benjamin Stallings
As for me, I’m just passing through this planet
March 8 - April 14, 2024
Irina Jasnowski Pascual
Wipers
September 15 - October 29, 2023
Coco Klockner
honesty
July 8 - August 6, 2023
Morgan Canavan, Ben Estes, Marisa Takal
More Coming Back & More Returning
May 5 - June 11, 2023
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Center of the Universe
August 5 - September 18, 2022
Amanda Horowitz
Bad Water, True West or Between Myself the Crickets and the Coyote
performed by Sophia Cleary and Ada Friedman
July 14 & July 15, 2022
Suzanna Zak
Coming Home to the Ice Age
opening May 13 - June 24, 2022
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Milano Chow, Jenni Crain,
Kristin Dickson- Okuda, Rubens Ghenov, Ann Gillen, KB Jones,
Michael Kennedy Costa, Sean Macalister, Sarah McMenimen,
J. Parker Valentine, Anna Rosen
XX Perfect Souls, curated by Natalie Smith
April 1 - May 6, 2022
Justin Chance, Cameron Cameron, Tristan Higginbotham
Serendipity Trail
February 12 - March 25, 2022
Noah Furman
Beginners
December 3, 2021 - January 25, 2022
Angélique Heidler
Piselli
October 8 - November 19, 2021
Natalie Smith
Nothing Within or Without
August 13 - September 14, 2021
Celia Lesh & Esther Sibiude
A Hole Filled With Noise, curated by Colleen Billing
July 2 - August 2, 2021
E. Saffronia Downing
Field Dug Over
May 21- June 27, 2021
Thew Smoak
Body Without Organs
April 2 - May 2, 2021
Eleanor Conover
Learning From the Steep Slope
March 5 - March 30, 2021
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open by appointment
located beside
320 E. Churchwell Ave
Knoxville, Tennessee
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Audrey Gair
Rind
Phyllis Baldino, Max Guy & Ellie Rae Hunter
Outliners
October 4 - November 10, 2024
Elly Reitman
energy
August 16 - September 20, 2024
Michelle Grabner, Kathleen Morris & Bronson Smillie
The Weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica Pinteric
July 12 - July 29, 2024
Tiziana La Melia
Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster
June 7 - July 6, 2024
Jacob Jackmauh, Caitlin McCann & Benjamin Stallings
As for me, I’m just passing through this planet
March 8 - April 14, 2024
Irina Jasnowski Pascual
Wipers
September 15 - October 29, 2023
Coco Klockner
honesty
July 8 - August 6, 2023
Morgan Canavan, Ben Estes, Marisa Takal
More Coming Back & More Returning
May 5 - June 11, 2023
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Center of the Universe
August 5 - September 18, 2022
Amanda Horowitz
Bad Water, True West or Between Myself the Crickets and the Coyote
performed by Sophia Cleary and Ada Friedman
July 14 & July 15, 2022
Suzanna Zak
Coming Home to the Ice Age
May 13 - June 24, 2022
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Milano Chow, Jenni Crain,
Kristin Dickson- Okuda, Rubens Ghenov, Ann Gillen,
KB Jones, Michael Kennedy Costa, Sean Macalister,
Sarah McMenimen, J. Parker Valentine, Anna Rosen
XX Perfect Souls, curated by Natalie Smith
April 1 - May 6, 2022
Justin Chance, Cameron Cameron, Tristan Higginbotham
Serendipity Trail
February 12 - March 25, 2022
Noah Furman
Beginners
December 3, 2021 - January 25, 2022
Angélique
Heidler
Piselli
October 8 - November 19, 2021
Natalie Smith
Nothing Within or Without
August 13 - September 14, 2021
Celia Lesh & Esther Sibiude
A Hole Filled With Noise, curated by Colleen Billing
July 2 - August 2, 2021
E. Saffronia Downing
Field Dug Over
May 21- June 27, 2021
Thew Smoak
Body Without Organs
April 2 - May 2, 2021
Eleanor Conover
Learning From the Steep Slope
March 5 - March 30, 2021
★
About
open by appointment
located beside
320 E. Churchwell Ave
Knoxville, Tennessee
★
Past Exhibitions
Outliners, installation view
Phyllis Baldino,TraitFee, 2012single-channel video installation (4:3 ratio), color/sound, 13:29:16 minutes, edition of 3
Phyllis Baldino,TraitFee, 2012
single-channel video installation (4:3 ratio), color/sound, 13:29:16 minutes, edition of 3
Phyllis Baldino,TraitFee, 2012
single-channel video installation (4:3 ratio), color/sound, 13:29:16 minutes, edition of 3
Outliners, installation view
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers iii, 2023, Aquaresin, cast aluminum
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers iii, 2023, Aquaresin, cast aluminum
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers ii, 2023, Aquaresin, cast aluminum
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers ii, 2023 (detail)
Max Guy, Solo Improvisation, for Shir Ende, 2024, Inkjet Print on Paper
Max Guy, Solo Improvisation, for Shir Ende, 2024 (detail)
Max Guy, Appareil Photo #4 (Bill Jenkins Theater), 2024Enamel Paint on Book Board, gum Tape, Duct Tape, acrylic paint on foam board, Epson Perfection V600
Max Guy, Appareil Photo #4 (Bill Jenkins Theater), 2024
Enamel Paint on Book Board, gum Tape, Duct Tape, acrylic paint on foam board, Epson Perfection V600
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers i, 2023, Aquaresin, cast aluminum
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers i, 2023 (detail)
Ellie Rae Hunter, The Fixers i, 2023 (detail)
Outliners
Phyllis Baldino, Max Guy & Ellie Rae Hunter
October 4- November 10, 2024
Recently, I was part of a debate about grammar—the so-called “slippery slope” of turning nouns or adjectives into verbs. The concern was that this misuse of structure might confuse readers, making the language unclear. I’ve never been one to uphold the sanctity of grammar. “It’s a shift in the language of academia!”, someone read aloud from a Google AI explanation, noting how this trend is taking hold in academic circles. “Nouns can now become verbs!” was exclaimed. “Can you write this so we can understand it? With a little more clarity?” was demanded. I love to write, but frankly, I have a complete misunderstanding of the rules.
The works in Outliners all hold a simultaneous respect for and irreverence toward rules and systems. As a verb, “to outline” refers to drawing the main shape or edge of something, describing only its most important aspects. As a noun, an “outliner”– often referred to as an outline processor– is a type of software that creates a structure for a text document. For this exhibition, I imagine the word constantly oscillating between the two parts of speech, generating its own sense of structure and understanding.
1 ***Outliners
2 —-------------------
3 1. Phyllis Baldino
4 2. Max Guy
5 3. Ellie Rae Hunter
6 —--------------------
Though I am not a user, I find this system fascinating. An outline within an outliner can contain as many topics as desired. When loaded into an outliner, it can be collapsed or expanded to show as many or few thoughts as needed– creating an architecture that is both vacuous and compact.
Max Guy’s sculptures, made from Epson scanners and bookbinding boards, create interior spaces where documentation is intrinsic to their structure. Through his improvisational scanning process, which results in the inkjet prints, space is both expanded and flattened by his physical interventions as a means to capture time, movement, and kinetic energy. Ellie Rae Hunter’s low sculptural reliefs explore how social and physical entities are compressed into our corporeal structures. Her work outlines an emotional posture with minimal information, probing what it means to bind bodies to a particular framework and the potential correlations between lived and theoretical representations of the body. Phyllis Baldino’s TraitFee examines the boundaries between privacy and exposure, identity, and anonymity. In her single-channel video installation, personal data, once private, becomes increasingly visible unless a fee is paid. Baldino’s work meditates on how systems, whether technological or bureaucratic, can outline and define us—and how these outlines expand or contract based on the control we exert, or fail to exert, over them.