Allen Cox
Allen Cox is a well-known Pacific Northwest abstract painter, a native Oregonian, currently residing in Knoxville, TN. Cox has been showing his work nationally since 1982 and held his first international exhibition in Christchurch, New Zealand in May 2003. He holds an MFA in painting from the University of Oregon, where he studied with the highly regarded Pacific Northwest abstract painter Frank Okada. Allen Cox is represented by galleries in Portland, OR; Laguna Beach, CA; Christchurch, New Zealand and Knoxville, TN.
Thomas Riesing
Thomas Riesing began teaching painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee in 1973. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas in San Antonio in 1992 and at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislvav, Slovakia in 1993. Since 1995 he has been a visiting artist/lecturer at eighteen different Universities and Academies in China. including the Central Academy of Art in Beijing, Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing, Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, and Fujian Normal University in Fuzhou. He was awarded the position of guest Professor 2000-05 at Sichuan University where he has been given active in establishing an exchange program and official linkage with the University of Tennessee. He was awarded a permanent Guest Professional Development Awards and an NEH Endowment grant from the University of Tennessee to facilitate his work in China. He was also the recipient of the Ellen McClung Berry Professionship for Art at the University of Tennessee from 1999-02 and again in 2002-05. He received a Lily Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in 1978.
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March 6 - 21, 2009
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