Eun-Sook Kim's
Studio Open House at 106 Windham Road opened today and continues through
Sunday.
Artists participating in the open house and their respective media are
Hugh Bailey, pottery and watercolor; Jewel Clark, jewelry; Marcelo de
Puerto, photography; Karen Dotson, glass jewelry; Eun-Sook
Kim, pottery and watercolor; Tim Roberts, porcelain pottery; Clay
Thurston, photography; and Candace Tucker, fiber.
Music by the Bailey Band, a wearable art show, a buffet lunch served
from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday and a silent auction that ends Sunday are
also features of the event.
Hours of the open house are 5 to 8 this evening; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Eun-Sook
Kim shows some of her painted tiles.
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Modeling in the fashion
show, to be held from 2:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday, will be Kathy Sealy, Teresa
Brittain, Wendy Seaward, Karen Dotson, Carol Pritchard, Katherine
Pritchard, Patty Ashworth, Pat Blankenship and Tone Haugen-Cogburn and
daughters.
They will model some of the items from the silent auction.
Providing music will be Bailey Band members Tim Bailey, guitar; Jeya
Kepler, vocalist; Marshall Maxie, congas; and Jim McKinze, bass.
About the artists
Eun-Sook Kim, who works in ceramics and painting,
is the founder of the Corner Gallery. She is also the founder and has
served as the director of The Upstairs Gallery and The Gallery in Oak
Ridge.
She is a member of the Corner Gallery, the Tennessee Artists and
Craftsmen Association, The Art Market and the Foothills Craft Guild. She
has had one-person shows at the Rose Center, The Upstairs Gallery, The Art
Market and Treehouse Gallery.
Kim was selected by IBC in 2000 as one of 112 International
Personalities of the Year. Articles about her with photos of her work have
appeared in Ceramics Monthly and Korean Ceramics Monthly magazines.
The Aida gallery in Mito, Japan, has purchased five of her watercolors.
Kim's works have also won awards at several of the open shows the
Oak Ridge Art Center holds each year.
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Karen Dotson wears one of
her glass-bead necklaces.
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Kim makes pots,
fountains, hand-painted table runners and napkins, hand-painted glazed
tiles, woodblock prints and brushwork paintings. She says she considers
herself a painter first, although her primary medium is ceramics.
She describes her ceramic pieces as sometimes whimsical and intriguing
in their shape and form, but always functional, and uniquely her own in
style.
Kim has also created tiles that Moore's Home Improvements in
Clinton have set in concrete around her home. Her son, Brian Kim,
who works for Walt Disney Studios in Glendale, Calif., created her Web
site, www.eunsookkim.net.
Marcelo de Puerto's photos of birds, butterflies, nature scenes and
postcards will be available at the open house.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, de Puerto began photographing the
natural world as a teen-ager. His subjects range from soaring eagles to
minute forest mushrooms. He has also experimented with light
photomicroscopy and photocrystallography.
De Puerto says he prefers to photograph wildlife and plants in their
natural environments.
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Hugh Bailey shows examples
of his clay animals.
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Hugh Bailey makes a
variety of ceramic items, including whimsical clay animals, and also
paints in watercolor. He says when he first started showing his pieces, he
noticed that many others were making nice, functional pottery, and he
wanted to do something different and unusual.
Bailey started in the early 1950s demonstrating his craft at grade
schools. He received his undergraduate from Berea College in Berea, Ky.,
and his master's degree from the University of Indiana. Bailey has worked
for 41 years for the University of Tennessee Publications Department.
He is a member of the Foothills Craft Guild, the Southern Highland
Handicraft Guild, the Knoxville Watercolor Society and The Art Market.
"I do a lot of animal sculptures and watercolors on animal themes,"
Bailey says, adding that he has always liked drawing and sculpting
animals.
He says he has a lot of interest in Oriental art and tries to reflect
that in his animals.
Clay Thurston has been a photographer for 25 years. His favorite themes
are wildlife and nature shots. He says he loves taking close-ups and
sequence shots such as owls from birth to adulthood. He photographs a
variety of subjects, ranging from birds and squirrels to a lunar eclipse,
including the different phases of the eclipse.
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This wall hanging, 'The
Blue Chair,' is by Candace Tucker.
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"I do it for therapy as
much as anything else," Thurston says of his photography. "Doing
photography is so relaxing."
He also does his own matting and framing.
Thurston competes regularly in photo contests and has won top honors in
many local and state competitions. His work has also appeared in several
nationally distributed magazines.
Thurston received his bachelor's degree from Sam Houston State in Texas
and his master's degree from UT. He teaches physical education at Linden
Elementary School and Robertsville Middle School. He is a member of the
Southern Appalachian Nature Photography group and The Upstairs Gallery.
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This porcelain teapot is
by Tim Roberts.
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Tim Roberts makes
functional, wheel-thrown porcelain pottery. He works in small series or
makes one-of-a-kind pieces, experimenting on some forms for years, he
says. Roberts considers form primary and uses simple lines. Function is a
secondary consideration but vital for a complete connection between artist
and patron, he says.
Roberts received his bachelor's degree from the University of Puget
Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and his master's degree from East Tennessee State
University.
Karen Dotson has been working with glass since 1978 when she began
designing and building stained-glass panels. In 1993, she started creating
glass beads by using a torch and working with molten glass. Dotson is also
a puppet maker and puppeteer.
She is coordinator of the educational outreach programs for Jubilee
Community Arts. She is a member of the Foothills Craft Guild, the
Tennessee Association of Craft Artists and A1 Lab Arts.
Candace Tucker, who has 30 years' experience in retail sales, has a
background is in making quilts and paper. She stitches both paper and
fabric on her sewing machine.
One of Tucker's quilts is part of a United Nations exhibit that has
traveled around the world for the past three years.
A group quilt, "Sunday Quilt," won first place at the American Textile
History Museum in Lowell, Mass., in September 2000.
Jewel Clark chooses to work in metals within a jewelry format, partly,
she says, because she likes the "intimate scale and the idea of the piece
having a physical function."
She works alternately with abstract and pictorial imagery, narrative
and non-representational design.
"I usually prefer clean, simple lines, bold colors, humor and
lyricism," Clark says. "I work in series because I don't believe that any
one thing can be capable of being the definitive explanation or
exploration of an idea."
Clark says her narrative imagery usually encompasses a surrealistic
image with a humorous title.
Clark teaches at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Smithville.
Windham Road is off West Outer Drive just past Morningside Drive.
Kim's studio is the fifth house on the left.
For more information call 483-4514.
