Rubens Ghenov Exhibition and Reception at Tri-Star Arts
Tri-Star Arts is presenting Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR in their main gallery at the historic Candoro Marble Building. A two-person show, Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR – part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, is composed of mixed media works by Rubens Ghenov (Knoxville, TN, USA) and Kenturah Davis (Los Angeles, CA, USA / Accra, Ghana). It opened on Friday, January 27, and runs through Sunday, May 7.
A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023 from 5:00- 8:00 pm (both artists in attendance). Additionally, there will be an artist talk on Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 2:00- 3:00pm. Address: 4450 Candora Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920
Also, the evening reception on Friday, May 5 will feature a screening of Ingrid y el mar, 
a film by 2021 Current Art Fund grantee Johana Moscoso (Memphis, TN, USA), in the carriage house of the Candoro Marble Building.
Rubens Ghenov, professor of painting and drawing at the UT School of Art, was born in São Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to the US in 1989. He holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art (1999) and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (2010). Ghenov has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery (NY), Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami (FL), Marginal Utility Gallery (PA), 
Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY), Geoffrey Young Gallery (MA), Whitespace Gallery, (GA), Hoffman LaChance (MO), Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (TN), TSA Brooklyn (NYC), Crosstown Arts (TN), Woodmere Art Museum (PA), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA) amongst others. He has been featured in Art in America, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Village Voice, ARTSATL, The Tennessean, Title Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Ghenov was the recipient of the Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.