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If drawing traditionally provides an intimate medium through which to  sketch, 

record, and  transmit  both the loosest and most  precise of  figurative detail, 

Denise Stewart-Sanabria's practice turns that tradition on its penciled head. 

Life-size and  larger- than-life-size, her charcoal on birch plywood  drawings  

dwarf the viewer, existing as uncanny representations of average folks in real space.

 Lori Waxman

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INSTALLATION IMAGES / various exhibits

2010: "CONTINUĀRE": The Figurative Tradition in Contemporary Art", group exhibit at Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee Knoxville

"Quantum Confusion"

11 charcoal on plywood people + 2 sheets of 4' x 8' suspended plexiglas

2009: Face It ~ University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN

           A national juried portrait exhibit at UTK's satellite downtown gallery space.

         T. Michael Martin replicates himself, minus the nametag.

2007  STALKED IN THE QUARRY   The Emporium Center for the Arts, Knoxville, TN, &

                                                               Johnson City Area Arts Council Gallery, Johnson City, TN

This was a conceptual 2 person exhibit with Alan Finch's stone and wood sculpture. The entire

idea was to have my plywood people "attend" his exhibit. A large body of my life size plywood

people, which are drawings executed with charcoal on 1/4" birch plywood, were developed from

photo references I had taken over a series of years showing people attending gallery receptions.

They stand around talking, blankly staring, drinking wine and beer. Since I cut the figures out after

varnishing and back brace them with 1" x 2"s, they can be either wall mounted of braced into

floor stands.

The layout in the Emporium Center-an odd venue to exhibit in due to the large amount of

doorways leading into offices and studio spaces. 

Dangenart Gallery, Arcade Building, Nashville, TN

National juried exhibit

My female-redesigned Greek Mythology piece, The Judgement of Parisa was part of a national realism exhibit .