FACULTY

We are pleased to announce that Koichi Yamamoto, formerly of the University of Delaware and Utah State University has accepted a postion on our faculty beginning in the Fall of 2007. Koichi comes with an exceptional exhibition record, a strong commitment to teaching and a broad international background that includes living in Poland for three years. He has technical expertise in all aspects of printmaking. Depicted below is one of his recent monotypes "Maze Fall", 72 x 36 inches. An exhibition of his work took place in the Fall of 2007 in the Ewing Gallery.

Koichi Yamamoto , Assistant Professor
Office: A+A 241
Telephone: 865.974.6879
Email: of kyamamo2@utk.edu
Education: University of Alberta - MFA
URL: http://www.yamamotoprintmaking.com/index.php

“Surface only provides a record from recent events. Making critical judgments requires an understanding of what lies underneath.Addressing the landscape as subject, my work attempts to describe cross sections of history. I seek to slowdown and take time for a deep level of investigation."

Koichi Yamamoto is a graduate of the University of Alberta (MFA 1999) and Pacific Northwest College of Art (BFA 1992). He has studied at the Bratislava Academy of Art (1994) and the Poznañ Academy of Art (1995). He has presented one-person exhibitions at Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas (2007); the Salt Lake Art Center (2001); Illinois State University (1999); the Szynkiewicz Museum in Poznañ, Poland (1996). Recent juried print competitions that include his work have been the Boston Printmakers (2007); the 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial Print Art, New Delhi, India (2006); and the Lujubljana International Printmaking Exhibition, Slovania (1999). His prints are in the collections of University of Hawaii at Hilo; the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Center in the Portland Art Museum; and the University of Alberta Museum and Collection, Edmonton, Canada. Yamamoto earned tenure at Utah State University (2000-2006) and taught at the University of Delaware (2006-2007). His work may be viewed at: www.yamamotoprintmaking.com

Beauvais Lyons - Professor
Office: A+A 241
Telephone: 865.974.3202
Email: blyons@utk.edu
Education: Arizona State University - MFA
URL: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/

"For the past two decades I have created academic parody in a variety of mediums. For much of this time I fabricated and documented imaginary cultures. More recently I have been interested in biography, folk art, medicine and zoology. My lithographs are influenced by plates from old encyclopedias, the novellas of Jorge Luis Borges, 18th-century science, 19th-century printing, natural history museums, the travel writings of Christopher Underdown, mirrors and lenses, anthrospheres, wunderkammers, and various forms of neglected scholarship. I prize the vernacular history of art. I prefer the facsimile to the original, and the imaginary to the real. I believe history is a work of fiction."

Beauvais Lyons is the self-appointed Director of the Hokes Archives and has taught at UT since 1985. His one-person exhibitions have been presented at over 45 galleries and museums across the United States. He has published articles on his work in Archaeology, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Contemporary Impressions, The New Art Examiner, and Leonardo. Lyons was a keynote speaker at the 1999 IMPACT Printmaking conference at the University of West England in Bristol. His work is cited by Linda Hutcheon in Irony’s Edge: A Theory and Politics of Irony (1994) and by Lawrence Weschler in Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995). He also has works in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, , among others. He was awarded the Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Creative Achievement (1994) and a Southern Art Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988). Lyons served as the President of the Southern Graphics Council (1994-96), the largest printmaking organization in North America and as editor of their newsletter (1998-2002). He has also served as President of the UT Knoxville Faculty Senate (2003-2004) and is presented the campus representative to the University (of Tennessee System) Faculty Council. Depicted above is a recent lithograph from his new series for the Association for Creative Zoology. To see his web site, CLICK HERE.