From Staff Reports
The Tinnin Center Art Gallery at Three Rivers College will continue its 2017-18 season with "Inner Space," an exhibition featuring the works of Minnesotan sculptor Kim Matthews. The exhibition will launch with a free artist lecture by Matthews at noon Friday in Room 108 of the Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center on TRC's Poplar Bluff Campus.
"Inner Space" will be displayed from noon to 3 p.m. weekdays from Friday - Dec. 8 in the Tinnin Center Art Gallery.
This exhibit explores the tension between dualities through reliefs and freestanding works in cast paper, wood, canvas, metal, and other media. Matthews, whose sculpture is rooted in a long-term meditation practice, creates sculptures that translate her experiences of expanded awareness into visual form.
"My work is a direct outgrowth of a sustained daily meditation practice, begun as an effort to translate experiences of expansiveness into visual form: to map the evolution of consciousness," Matthews describes on her website.
Though she is from Minneapolis, Minn., her childhood years spent in Alaska and Maine have influenced her work. She uses a variety of media including cast paper, felt, vinyl, wood, canvas, concrete, and found objects.
Matthews' art has been exhibited in nonprofit and commercial galleries and museums across the United States. For more about the artist and her works, visit kimmatthewsart.com.
The Tinnin Center Art Gallery's 2017-18 season began with a traveling exhibit from the Missouri Humanities Council called Missouri and the Great War. After wrapping up "Inner Space," the season will continue on Jan. 25 with "Generative Conversations" by Lisa Sisley-Blinn, followed by "It Is What It Was" by Deidre Argyle, opening March 2.
For more information on upcoming arts and culture events at Three Rivers College, visit trcc.edu/tinnin.