Born in Oak Ridge, TN Alan Finch has been active in the East Tennessee Art Community for 25 years. He is founder of two art groups. Group W and Kaleidoscope, both have shown artwork since 1988 at various venues across the state. Finch has had sculpture, paintings, mixed media, found object, video, and photography mediums juried into numerous local, regional , and national exhibitions. He was guest curator for "Transparent Things(through which the past shines)" at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center in Clarksville, TN in 2000, which was favorably reviewed in the internationally circulated publication ART PAPERS. He has shown his sculpture in Art in Public Places with the Dogwood Arts Festival, and his sculpture "Ruder Forms Survive" is on display at the U. T. Trial Gardens in Knoxville. His photograpy will be on display at the Rose Center in Morristown TN November 8-30.

My most recent focus has been a series of photographs taken on a small island on Norris lake. The rock formations there are only above water in the fall and winter. The piece in this exhibition is an abstact image taken of frozen water in one of the rocks in late winter. Other photographs were recently exhibited at the KMA Artscapes exhibition, A1LabArts exhibit at the Unitarian Universalist Church, and at the Open Show at the Oak Ridge Art Center .

To learn more about this artist or to purchase a piece of their work, contact the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville at (865) 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.