West Fifth Artists
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West Fifth Studios Co-directorGabrielle is a Knoxville based printmaker with a BFA from the University of Tennessee. In 2021, Gabrielle alongside Kate Buuck, opened West Fifth Studios: an artists space in historic downtown Knoxville with the mission of creating community among artists and engaging Knoxville through shows, events, and classes. Inspired by botany, Gabrielle’s work often combines abstract and botanical elements to create vibrant motifs. While not in her studio, you can find Gabrielle tending to her beehives
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Instagram | @gabriellebarnhart.prints
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Allison received her BFA from Spring Hill College and attended graduate school at New York University and Long Island University where she obtained a master’s degree in fine arts. She now creates full-time in her Knoxville studio while teaching high school. Her work has been shown in several galleries in Tennessee, New York, Boston, Texas, Florida, Oregon, Alabama, and Washington, DC. She has exhibited internationally in galleries in Seoul, Korea. Select pieces of her work are on permanent display at the Osceola Center for the Arts in Kissimmee, Florida and at the RCA Gallery in Washington, DC. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America and the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville.
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Instagram | @a.merarts
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Laurel Hooker (b. 1993, Philadelphia, PA) makes paintings, drawings, and ceramic pieces that explore the parallels between the natural world and the human journey within it. Often employing a quirky first-hand perspective, her art combines personal memory, archetypal imagery, and present-centeredness to form an intriguing narrative where more questions are asked than answered.
Laurel lives in a wooded holler in South Knoxville with her fiance, a duck pond, and a burgeoning garden. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2015. She is pretty weird in general, but not weird enough to feel comfortable referring to herself in the third person.
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Instagram | @laurelhooker
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Matthew Kent Trinkle is an oil painter from Jacksonville, Florida. A graduate of the University of North Florida’s conservation management program, Matthew is passionate about the outdoors and through his art seeks to take people to some of the more remote places of the world that they may not ever see otherwise. Matthew’s photo-realistic wildlife and landscape paintings draw inspiration from artists like Andrew Tischler, Carl Rungius, and Thomas Moran.
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Instagram | @artofmatthewkent
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Matthew Cummings is an artist/designer working primarily with glass. He lives and drinks in Knoxville, TN. Pretentious Glass Co is his answer to boring and under-designed beer glasses. In 2018, Matthew brought the dream full circle by opening up Pretentious Beer Co. An experimental brewery that focuses on developing new flavor profiles in beer.
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West Fifth Studios Co-directorKate Buuck is an artist and designer practicing + residing in East Tennessee. She graduated with a BFA from University of Tennessee in 2013. Upon graduation, she fully pursued graphic design while still holding hands with her fine art practice. Kate's work is best described as feminine, emotive, and curious. She walks the elusive line capturing nature that is at once both abstract and representational. Her work expands through curiosity and play.
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Instagram | @katemade.co
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Jasmine is a multimedia artist working in everything from large scale murals to delicate porcelain sculptures. Her expression is informed largely by "The Prophetic Imagination," a book by theologian Walter Brueggemann. Her work seeks to create an imagined world through reconstructing known symbols and inventing new systems of understanding.
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Instagram | @studioiii.art
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Esther Sitver is a Knoxville, TN-based illustrator who merges vintage aesthetics with contemporary progressive ideas and humor. Similarly, she draws with an old-fashioned dip pen and colors digitally in Photoshop. Her love for traditional pen and ink drawing pulls together her specialties: portraiture/figure drawing, editorial illustration, pattern design, plein air painting, and hand-lettering. She graduated in Ringling College of Art + Design’s Illustration BFA Class of 2020, (yes, Ringling like the circus). When she’s not scribbling, she can be found rollerskating and hiking around East Tennessee.
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Instagram | @esther.sketch
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Originally from Colombia, Carolina resides in the United States. The pieces she creates explore humanities connections to nature that are echoed throughout history within beliefs and lore.
“My work begins with pencil, creating fine, beautiful details, then with delicate layers of graphite and occasionally paint, I finalize the art. Using pencil and paint I explore tying the past and the present with gatherings of feather, fur, fins, symbolism, and feminine beauty.”
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Instagram | artist.carolinalebar
