Eric Kniss opening at Staunton Augusta Art Center rescheduled

The Eric Kniss exhibit opening scheduled for Friday, January 22, has been rescheduled due to snow. The new opening date is Friday, January 29, 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/Installations in the Staunton Augusta Art Center galleries located at 20 S. New Street in the Smith Center for History and Art in historic downtown Staunton.  Routine gallery hours are10am-5pm Monday–Saturday.  There is no charge to attend the reception or to visit the galleries.

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 visit saartcenter.org  or facebook.com/stauntonaugustaartcenter.