KNOXVILLE, TENN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art announces two new exhibitions: LIFT: Contemporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension and Contemporary Focus 2015. Both exhibitions run January 30-April 19, 2015.

LIFT: Contemporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension examines the work of international contemporary artists who use a variety of strategies to bring a sculptural dimension to printmaking. Featured artists include Enrique Chagoya, Lesley Dill, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Red Grooms, Jane Hammond, Hideki Kimura, Nicola Lopez, Leslie Mutchler, Oscar Munoz, Marilene Oliver, Dieter Roth, Graciela Sacco, and Jonathan Stanish.

LIFT is organized by the KMA and presented in conjunction with the Printmaking Program, School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the 2015 Southern Graphics Council International Conference. Presenting sponsors include Emerson Process Management and the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Contemporary Focus 2015 is part of a series of exhibitions organized by the KMA that feature significant but under-recognized artists living and working in East Tennessee. This year’s artists are Caroline Covington, Chattanooga; Mira Gerard, Johnson City; and Karla Wozniak, Knoxville. All three examine the uncertain terrain between personal experience and external reality, and between civilization and nature, using both abstraction and representation.

Presenting sponsors for Contemporary Focus 2015 include Emerson Process Management and Texas Instruments.