The Staunton Augusta Art Center announces a new exhibit which opens Friday, January 22, with a reception from 5-7pm and an artist’s gallery talk at 6pm.
The featured artist, Eric Kniss, describes his installations/sculptures of sifted kaolin (clay dust) on the floor and his drawings displayed on the wall as autonomous practices that might inform, influence, or reform each other. Through his work with the kaolin, Kniss explores the value of physical labor and the accumulations of material. Through the sifting, he literally demonstrates his interest in the capacity of physical labor and the chosen medium to generate a visceral sense of connectedness to place. Likewise, through his drawings, he evokes a sense of dimensional space and sense of place but confounds that perception by underscoring the flatness of a drawing’s surface.
A full-time instructor of art at Bridgewater College, Kniss holds a BFA in Ceramics and an MFA in Sculpture. This past summer, he was granted a fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Georgia where he concentrated on this new body of work which culminated in his solo exhibition titled Accumulations/Interruptions/
The exhibit is sponsored by Dr. Earlynn J. Miller and Donald Albright and is also partly funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about this exhibit and other Staunton Augusta Art Center offerings, please call 540-885-2028 or visitsaartcenter.org or facebook.com/
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