Eun-Sook Kim's Christmas Studio Open
House 2002 will be held Dec. 6, 7 and 8 at 109 Windham Road.
This is the 11th year for the event, which will be open from 5 to 8
p.m. Friday, Dec. 6; from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7; and from
noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. There is no charge for admission.
Artists who will be presenting their work at the open house are Hugh
Bailey, pottery and watercolor; Eun-Sook Kim, pottery and brushwork;
Daniela Knapp, fiber; Teri Byrd, polymer clay; Jewel Clark, jewelry; Irene
Kim, bead jewelry; Khamla Rattanavong, wood; Kathy Seely, beadwork; and
Peggy Whitted, weaving.
The newest addition to the event is the participation of the groups
Tuesday Painters and Tuesday Printers. These two groups have been meeting
every Tuesday over the past year at Kim's Studio to paint or make prints.
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Woodworking like the piece above by Khamla Rattanavong can
be seen at Eun-Suk Kim's Christmas Open House
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The painters are Betsy
Smith, Gilbert Cremese, Suzanne Tumblin, Shigeko Uppuluri, Caro Donnath
and Kim. Their work will be on display at the open house.
Guitarist Tim Bailey, son of artist Hugh Bailey, will entertain
throughout the show with his music. Jewelry by Irene Kim, daughter of Hee
J. and Eun-Sook Kim, will debut at the show.
All participating artists will be present at the show except for Jewel
Clark and Irene Kim.
Eun-Sook Kim is the founder of the Corner Gallery at the Veranda. Her
primary medium is ceramics but she is also a painter.
She is also the founder and has served as director of The Upstairs
Gallery and The Gallery in Oak Ridge. She is a member of the Tennessee
Artists and Craftsmen Association, The Art Market and the Foothills Craft
Guild.
Kim makes pots, fountains, hand-painted table runners and napkins,
hand-painted glazed tiles, woodblock prints and brushwork paintings. She
said she considers herself a painter first, although her primary medium is
ceramics.
She said her pottery is sometimes whimsical and intriguing in its
shapes and forms, but always functional and uniquely her own in style.
Kim's honors included being selected as one of 112 International
Personalities of the Year in 2000 by IBC. Articles about her work with
photos have been published in Ceramics Monthly and Korean Ceramics Monthly
magazines. The Aida gallery in Mito, Japan, has five of her watercolors in
its collection. Kim has won numerous awards at the Oak Ridge Art Center's
annual Open Show.
Bailey makes whimsical clay animals, pots and watercolors and metal
jewelry. He said when he first began participating in shows, there were so
many people making nice, functional pottery that he wanted to do something
different and unusual.
Bailey said he has always like drawing and sculpting animals. He
started in the early 1950s demonstrating his art 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 41 years
for the University of Tennessee publications department.
He is a member of the Foothills Craft Guild, the Southern Highland
Craft Guild, the Knoxville Watercolor Society and the Art Market.
Clark said she chooses to work in metals within a jewelry format,
partly because she likes the intimate scale and the idea of the piece
having a physical function.
She works alternately with abstract and pictorial imagery, and
narrative and non-representational design.
"I usually prefer clean, simple lines, bold colors, humor and
lyricism," Clark said. "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 said her narrative imagery usually encompasses a surrealistic
image with a humorous title. She teaches at the Appalachian Center for
Crafts in Smithville.
Byrd has been sculpting in polymer clay since 1991. She is a member of
the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the Tennessee Association of Craft
Artists and the Foothills Craft Guild.
Her earliest work featured unique jewelry designs but through research
and experimentation, she has since become a figure artist. Byrd often
prefers to express the character in motion, capturing the spirit of the
moment, according to information from a release.
Rattanavong is the assistant to Russ Jacobson and also turns and carves
his own work at home. His love for carving began in Laos, where he often
spent hours creating wooden toys in the jungle. Rattanavong is a member of
TACA and the Foothills Craft Guild.
Knapp has knitted for years, beginning as a child in her native
Austria, but it wasn't until the last few years that she tried her hand at
knitting and felting hats. Knapp says she loves to create her personal
style by combining yarns of varying fibers, textures and colors.
Every hat is hand-knit with wool or a wool/mohair blend. Accent yarns
are added to make each hat unique and give it a sense of fun and style.
Whitted became interested in weaving after visiting her in-laws, who
had started weaving for retirement income.
She returned to her then home of Montana, and her husband built her a
loom and other weaving equipment. With the help of two weaving books,
Whitted began her career as a weaver.
She now is a production weaver, making woven kitchen items for many
shops in the Southeast. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft
Guild, TACA and the Foothills Craft Guild.
For directions to Kim's studio or more information, call 483-4514.
