Artist: Denise Stewart-Sanabria | Location: Knoxville, TN
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Artist: Denise Stewart-Sanabria | Location: Knoxville, TN
Knoxville, TN
Denise Stewart-Sanabria was born in Massachusetts and received her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She has lived in Knoxville, TN since 1986.
Stewart-Sanabria paints both hyper-realist anthropomorphic dramas of everything from produce to subversive jelly donuts. She is also known for her life size charcoal portrait drawings on plywood, which are cut out, mounted on wood bases, and staged in conceptual installations, and intricate mythology altars. She is a recipient of the 2019 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant for her work on wood.
Recent group and solo exhibits include: “Quantum Continuum” Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, “Encounters”, at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville Alabama, Off Menu: Contemporary Art About Food: Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for Contemporary Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, and “Coined in the South” at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
Artist Website
www.stewart-sanabria.com