KNOXVILLE – The Art Market Gallery is presenting two exhibits throughout the month of April: a show of recent works by painter/printmaker Gay Davis Bryant and wood-turner Janis Proffitt, both of Knoxville, and the annual Members Silent Auction, which is a Dogwood Arts Festival Featured Event.

"I'll Fly Away" by Gay Davis Bryant, painter, printmaker.

Art by Janis Proffitt, woodturner.

Gay Bryant has worked as a studio artist for the last 20 years and teaches regionally. A retired community college professor, her works depict nature, architecture, and events of everyday life. While celebrating traditional skills and craftsmanship, Gay brings the viewer into familiar scenes of East Tennessee’s rich landscape through use of relief-printmaking techniques such as woodcuts, linoleum block and composite materials, and in her watercolor and acrylic paintings. The featured body of work for this show is called “Gatherings".

Woodworking has been in Janis Proffitt’s family for several generations, dating to Sevier County’s first settlers. Janis grew up helping and honing newly learned skills in her father’s woodshop, and later teaching herself pyrography (wood burning) which she incorporated into her wood-turnings. Featured on WBIR’s “The Heartland Series,” her work blends traditional Appalachia turning with contemporary design. She has worked as a fulltime craft artist with her sister for more than 20 years in their Dad’s old woodshop in the mountains of Pittman-Center.

Member owned and operated by more than 60 professional regional artists, the Art Market Gallery is located at 422 South Gay St., next to the Downtown Grill & Brewery, and a few doors away from Mast General Store. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. The gallery is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 865-525-5265, or visit artmarketgallery.net, or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.