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Howard County Center for the Arts Group Exhibition "Transformations", which ran Aug. 30 through October 11, 2019, featured five fine artists. The Howard County Arts Council chose several pieces by artists Rachel Borgman (Baltimore, MD), Maria Bouquet (Washington DC), Artemis Herber (Owings Mills, MD), Hornsby (Knoxville, TN), and Sunyoung Lee (Syracuse, NY).

The Arts Council provides a home for the arts at the Howard County Center for the Arts, a 32,000 square foot arts facility. Nearly 40,000 visitors a year browse through the galleries or attend an event at the Center.

Hornsby's "Hydra-cephalus II" was chosen to exhibit at the The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for the art show "Interpreting Brain & Spinal Fluid Disorders Through Art."

Historically and traditionally, the connection between art and medicine has been seen through medical illustration, which has been used for hundreds of years as a means for depicting medical and anatomical knowledge. And while the arts and sciences have long been viewed at the opposite ends of the spectrum, more and more U.S. medical training programs are integrating the arts and humanities into their curriculum.

How does this history influence the connection between art and medicine? A number of parallels exist between the role of being an artist and the role of a physician or clinician. Both require imagination and creativity, a certain sensitivity, a keen awareness of surroundings, a level of passion, and the ability to see beyond the obvious, to listen and respond, sometimes without words.

The Art League Rhode Island sponsored this unique national exhibition with art focused on disorders of the brain and the spine. Artists were encouraged to think beyond the obvious and create artwork that depicted their interpretation of the disorder. Selected artists’ interpretations reflect a myriad of perspectives from the psychological manifestations of the disorder, to the physical expressions or indicators of the disorder, functional changes at the cellular or systemic level, and/or the emotional toll on the patient.

The Opening Reception, held on June 15, 2019, was included as part of the 4th Annual CSF Disorders Symposium, sponsored by the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Department of Neurosurgery at Brown. The art exhibition was on display at the Alpert Medical School Gallery, 222 Richmond Street, Providence, Rhode Island, from June 14 – August 21, 2019.

Hornsby's "Flight 2" was on display in Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport art show "Arts in the Airport 21st Exhibition – Spring/­Summer 2019", which ran through Aug. 28, 2019. This was Hornsby's fourth time exhibiting in this biannual show.

The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and the Metropolitan Knoxville Air­port Au­thority (McGhee Ty­son Airport) have again partnered to present a biannual exhibition entitled "Arts in the Airport". This juried exhibition was developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work in the most visited site in the area. The selected art features contemporary 2- and 3-di­men­sional artwork.

43 brilliant works were chosen for this creative exhibition. The work was displayed in the secured area behind the security gate checkpoint at the airport, and it was available for viewing only by visitors flying in or out of the airport. However, artists and their guests were able to view the exhibition by appointment.

Hornsby's first solo exhibition in the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center's coveted Crouch Gallery featured 10 pieces of artwork from his “Fracture” series, which range in size from 43" x 43” to 90" x 90" and consists of 98 canvases. Upon entrance to the gallery, the focal point was the NYC-award-winning "Fracture 1," which sets the stage and begins the "Fracture" story with its impending size and stark imagery.

Stars in their own rights, the other 9 pieces—"F-Attack," "F-Ball," "F-Circle", "F-Defend," "F-Flight," "F-Nest," "F-Pod 2," "F-Try," and "F-X"—expand the "Fracture" story and reveal Hornsby's growth in the exploration of the ever-present tensions and contradictions existing in the human spirit.

Visitors from across Tennessee as as other states attended the "Fracture" exhibition's opening reception held Thurs., Mar. 9, 2017.

Built in 1898, the Customs House Museum is located in the heart of historic downtown Clarksville and is Tennessee’s second largest general museum with more than 35,000 square feet of exhibit space, 20,000 permanent pieces, and hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Hornsby's "Fracture" series was also featured in the April 2017 issue of Nashville Arts Magazine.

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