Art of the South

Art of the South 2022: Back Again

 

October 1-29, 2022

Location: Zeitgeist Gallery | Nashville, TN

Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 1, 12-6 pm

OPEN CALL: Submissions have closed! Thank you everyone who applied and support our mission.

 

Juror: Katie Delmez, Senior Curator at Frist Art Museum

 

 

Katie Delmez has been a curator at the Frist Art Museum since 2001. She has organized numerous exhibitions including LeXander Bryant: Forget Me Nots; Bethany Collins: Evensong; Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar (with Jamaal Sheats, Director and Curator, Fisk University Galleries); Murals of North Nashville Now; We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957–1968; Nick Cave: Feat.; The Prison Industrial System: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick; Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows; and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys. She was also the curator of a major retrospective on photographer Carrie Mae Weems that traveled to four venues, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Ms. Delmez has been the editor of several accompanying books published by Yale University Press, Vanderbilt University Press, and others, with such noted contributors as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah Willis, and Congressman John Lewis. Her exhibitions have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Warhol Foundation, the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art Forum, Hyperallergic, and many other national and local news outlets.
Ms. Delmez has overseen the presentation of more than 35 touring exhibitions at the Frist, and is currently an advisor to the Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice, an initiative founded by Vanderbilt University art professor Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Ms. Delmez is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Boston University.

 

Event Committee:

Sai Clayton – Artist

Stefanie Gerber – Museum Manager, 21C

Shaun Giles – Community Engagement Director, Frist Art Museum

Lina Silvers – Registrar and Curatorial Assistant, Cheekwood Art Museum

 

 

 

Past Events:

 

Art of the South 2021: cancelled due to ongoing global pandemic

Art of the South 2020: cancelled due to global pandemic

 

 

Art of the South 2019:

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May 28 – July 14

Memphis College of Art

 

Art of the South, an annual exhibition presented by Number: Inc, is a juried event open to all artists living and working in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia.

 

In our sixth exhibition to date, Art of the South 2019, we were pleased to have featured 49 works from 50 artists in 16 states and 1 district at the Memphis College of Art. The exhibition was on view May 28 through July 14, 2019.

 

We want to thank Memphis College of Art, our juror Bethany Springer, all of our supporters, and every artist who submitted work to the exhibition. Thank you for making Art of the South 2019 such a tremendous success.

 

Stay tuned for information about Art of the South 2020! We will notify everyone through our website, social media and newsletter as soon as we begin taking submissions. 

 

Juror: Bethany Springer

 

Bethany Springer

 

Bethany Springer was born in Washington, D.C. in 1975. Her installations have been exhibited at venues including 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR, Maryland Art Place (MAP) in Baltimore, Boston Center for the Arts, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT, the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, City Gallery East in Atlanta, the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Full Tilt Creative Centre in Newfoundland, Canada, and The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE (forthcoming).

 

Springer received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia in 2001. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, an Artist Mini Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a Community Research Award from the University of Arkansas Community and Family Institute, and a Research Grant from the Center for Digital Technology and Learning at Drake University in Des Moines. Springer has also been in residence at Full Tilt Creative Centre and Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences in Georgia, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and The Arctic Circle in the International Territory of Svalbard, Norway (forthcoming). Springer currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of Arkansas.

Featured artists:

(Click on the name to view Artwork)

 

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JONATHAN ADAMS
MICHEALA ANGELENA
DUSTYN BORK
LESLEY BRAGDON
JOSHUA BRINLEE
AMANDA BROWN
MELISSA COWPER-SMITH
YVETTE ARENDT
MICHAEL DAROUGH
SETH DAULTON
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS
NICHOLAS DELLA MORTE
BROOKS DIERDORFF
MCLEAN FAHNESTOCK (Video)
PATRICIA GOSLEE
SHARON HAVELKA
CHARLES HAVELKA
ELIZABETH HERRMANN
TODD HERZBERG
KELLY HIDER
ERIN JENNINGS
JOSPEH KAMEEN
CAT KIMBALL
PAULA KOVARIK (Video)
DASHAWN LEWIS
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TIMOTHY MARTIN
MARC MITCHELL
CARL E. MOORE
MALIK MUHAMMAD
SELENA NAWROCKI
JOE NOLAN
ANDREW OBRIEN
MEREDITH OLINGER
YVONNE PETKUS
AE RICHARDSON
JESSEE RING
JUAN ROJO
MIA ROLLINS (Video)
HEATH SCHULTZ (Video)
CLINT SLEEPER (Video)
GREGORY SMITH
JASON STOUT
RAIN HARRIS & KYLE TRIPLETT
JEANE UMBREIT
PATRICK VINCENT
JOHN WARREN (Video)
JORDAN WHITTEN
MELISSA WILKINSON
ALEX WILLIAMS
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Art of the South 2018:

Number: Presents Art of the South 2018

07/27/18 – 09/02/18
Crosstown Arts Galleries
1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280
Memphis,TN38104 United States

 

The fifth annual Art of the South exhibition, presented by Number:, is open to all artists 18 and older working in any media residing in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC.

The exhibition will be juried by Brian Jobe, artist, educator, independent curator, and non-profit co-director of Locate Arts based in Nashville, TN.

 


Featured artists:

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RichardArmendariz
AprilBachtel
BridgetBailey
LeticiaBajuyo
OmariBooker
MarkBrosseau
Jason S.Brown
RichieBudd
NancyCheairs
PaulCollins
S
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DawnDickins
KimberlyDummons
SamuelDunson
NatalieEddings
BrianEdmonds
BethEdwards
VirginiaFleck
LynneGhenov
MichaelGiles
BusterGraybillFlyswatter
GeorgannaGreene
VirginiaGriswold
AndyHarding
KatieHargrave
NatalieHarrison
AnneHerbert
ChintiaKirana
PaulaKovarik

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SilvanLaan

TadLauritzen Wright
KatieMaish
ElysiaMann
T. MichaelMartin
AlexMcClurg
EricaMendoza
AverellMondie & Terri Phillips
JeffreyMorton
JoeNolan
MeredithOlinger
ClayPalmer
ChristenParker
NickPeña
GiangPham
NateRenner
NikiiRichey
ZachSearcy
RyanSteed
JasonStout
HillsSnyder
Chris BoydTaylor
AugustaToppins
NatalieTyree
MaryVanGieson
JonathanWhitfill
A.C.Wilson
TomWixo
JessicaWohl

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Juror: Brian Jobe

Brian Russell Jobe (b. 1981) is an artist, educator, independent curator, and non-profit co-director based in Nashville, TN.

In 2015, Brian and Carolyn Jobe founded Locate Arts, an organization that connects and promotes contemporary visual art in Tennessee. Presently, he is the Co-Executive Director of Locate Arts + Seed Space.

 

Jobe’s studio practice is focused on sculpture, installation, and public art. His solo exhibitions/ projects have been on view at venues such as Mixed Greens Gallery (New York, NY), Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum (San Antonio, TX), the University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY), the University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design (Knoxville, TN), and the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX).

Born in Houston, Texas and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Jobe received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in 2004 and Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2006. After living in Brooklyn, NY for a time, he relocated with his wife, painter Carolyn Jobe, to Tennessee.

 

 

Art of the South 2017:

Art of the South 2017

June 2 – 30, 2017

 

Opening Reception: L Ross Gallery

Friday, June 2, 6 – 8 pm

This year’s annual Art of the South exhibition hosted by Number: Inc. spans Tennessee, with one show in Memphis at L Ross Gallery and another at Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville. Curator: Mark Scala, chief curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville.

 

Opening reception: Ground Floor Gallery

Saturday, June 3rd, 6-9pm

We are pleased to be hosting our region’s annual Art of the South, presented by NUMBER: Inc., a quarterly visual arts journal hailing from Memphis with coverage throughout AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, OK, TN, TX, SC, VA, or WV. Join us Saturday, June 3rd, 6-9pm for a show that appears to be a cross-section of the contemporary rippling of art scenes across the southern region.

 

Juror: Mark Scala

Chief Curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Scala received an MA in art history and MFA in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. Having spent the better part of his life painting, Mark is himself an artist. His interests and exhibitions have focused on representations of the body in contemporary art.

 

Artists:

There are 28 artists displaying at Ground Floor Gallery + Studios and the L Ross Gallery in Memphis simultaneously.

Artists showing at GfG include:

Amelia Briggs, a painter who has recently been working on bulbous “inflatable” appearing surfaces. Amelia has definite interests in children’s imagery and expression.

Brent Dedas, works in mixed media and recalls the intensity of abstract expressionists. His work explores dichotomies such as science and art, or destruction and creation.

Donald Furst, a printmaker who depicts architectural scenes at night. Many of his compositions focus on interiors that include an opening door.

Jaime Johnson, a photographer currently teaching at Ole Miss. Using cyanotype photography, she explores female identity.

John Jackson, a figural painter drawing from the neo-expressionists. His paintings center around our current relationship with technology. The work represented in this show differs greatly from this and marks his way into abstraction.

Joseph Holsapple, an artist who makes still life paintings of domestic items. He fills his images with childhood objects and leaves bits of the image unfinished, evoking the nature of memory.

Katherine Wagner, a pattern-based painter who takes cues from the loud patterned fashion of the 80’s. Much of her work is based on personal childhood experiences with visual pattern.

Lauren Yandell, an artist who works in graphite, collage, and installation while finding a balance between nature and geometry. She marries realism with the raw quality of drawing.

Lester Merriweather, an artist and curator that works in collage. Lester focuses his attention on racial relationships, capitalism, consumerism, and the myriad of ways these things intersect.

Michael Nichols, creates unearthly portraits using buon fresco, air brush, and silverpoint. His curiosity in introducing old and ancient mediums to contemporary art is reflected in the ghostly images he creates.

Victoria Tinsley, works in both sculpture and painting, creates surreal figures that morph into and out of each other.

Virgil (Cayse) Cheatham, a graduate of Yale University who currently lives in Atlanta, GA. He divides his time between creating erie landscaped-based paintings and working at the Zuckerman Museum.

If you can’t make it to the opening night of Art of the South, stop by during our regular gallery hours to check it out! We will be open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, 5-8pm.

 

 

Art of the South 2016:

May 16 – June 17, 2016
Opening reception: May 20

University of Memphis and Belmont University

A juried exhibition, open to all artists 18 and older working in any media residing in AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MA, MO, MS, NC, OK, TN, TX, SC, VA, or WV. Accepted work will be exhibited in one of two locations: The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis and Gallery 121 at Belmont University in Nashville. The two galleries will be connected through Skype the night of the opening (May 20) and will be open to the public from May 16 – June 17, 2016. Juror: Chad Alligood, Assistant Curator of Special Projects at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.

 

Juror: Chad Alligood

HI, I’M CHAD.

I’M AN INDEPENDENT CURATOR AND ART HISTORIAN.

I’ve worked as a curator at the Huntington Library, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Cranbrook Art Museum, and I taught art history at Brooklyn College. My exhibitions have appeared at museums across the U.S., and you can read my writing in lots of places

I’m the President of the Board at Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), a nonprofit dedicated to uplifting the voices of artists.

I believe in the power of art, and in the importance of artists. I didn’t grow up with access to art, so I’m passionate about connecting people with art—in ways that are human, accessible, and pertinent to their lives. 

 

Art of the South 2015:

Number: Presents Art of the South  2015

Opening Reception, May 29

Trolley NightMay 20 – July 31

Memphis College of Art, Hyde Galleries, 477 South Main, M–F, Noon–5pm, Sat, Noon–7pm

 

Juror: Wayne White

“I was recently asked to look at the work of 166 talented artists and pick 40 for a show. The results? 126 disgruntled artists muttering “What does he know?” And they’re right! What do I know? Please keep that attitude, my fellow artists. You have many victories ahead. As for the rest of you, please savor. This is a wonderful show. Inspire each other, secretly know you’re the best one and keep trudging out to that studio every day. I’m very happy to see such a perfect storm of creativity roaring across the South. ”  – JUROR, Wayne White

 

Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, & puppeteer. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film, television, and the fine art world. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, Wayne traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine, and the Village Voice. In 1986, Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and his work was awarded with three Emmys. After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi Pond, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, Riders In The Sky, and Bill & Willis. He also worked in the music video industry, winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight, Tonight’ and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Big Time.’

More recently, Wayne has had great success as a fine artist and has created paintings and public works that have been shown all over the world. His most successful works have been the world paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape reproductions. The message of the paintings is often thought-provoking and almost always humorous, with Wayne pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South. Wayne has also received great praise for several public works he has created recently, including a successful show at Rice University where he built the world’s largest George Jones puppet head for a piece called ‘Big Lectric Fan To Keep Me Cool While I Sleep.’

 

 

Art of the South 2014:

Juror Alice Gray Stites selected 21 works by 18 artists out of submissions by 164 artists. The show was on display at the Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art (University of Memphis, TN) from June 27 to August 8, 2014.

 

Artists:

Joshua Brinlee (Memphis, TN)

Janis Brothers (Live Oak, FL)

Georgann DeMille (Germantown, TN)

Rachael Grant (Memphis, TN)

Kyle Holland (Bartlett, TN)

Megan Hurdle (Memphis, TN)

Philip Jackson (Oxford, MS)

Kelly Kristin Jones (Atlanta, GA)

Mary Jo Karimnia (Memphis, TN)

Anne Lindberg (Wilmington, NC)

Jason Miller (Germantown, TN)

Tatiana Potts (Maryville, TN)

Marc Rouillard (Memphis, TN)

Jeanne Seagle (Memphis, TN)

Eszter Sziksz (Memphis, TN)

Tore Terrasi (Arlington, TX)

Jake Weigel (Mississippi State, MS)

Joni Younkins-Herzog (Sarasota, FL)

 

Artists were featured in No:81 “Defining Art of the South”

 

 

Juror: Alice Stites, director of 21c Museum Hotels

 

Review: ‘Art of the South 2014’ presents satisfying survey of regional works

By Fredric Koeppel, Commercial Appeal, July 15 2014

 

When was the last time you saw a group exhibition that emphasized virtuosity, craft and clarity without making a fetish of those qualities? Without seeming outre and retro?

“Art of the South 2014,” through Aug. 8 at the Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis, does exactly that and does so while giving room to a variety of mediums and concepts in an elegantly organized and displayed manner. Juror for the exhibition was Alice Stites, director of 21c Museum Hotels, and while the result is not especially provocative and is occasionally too safe — too “hotel-y”? — the general import of the show is deeply satisfying emotionally and intellectually.

Sponsored in part by Number: Inc, publisher of the quarterly regional art journal that was launched in Memphis in 1987, the show makes no attempt to summarize what the art of the South is in 2014, as if such a parochial thing could or should be done. (Can you imagine an exhibition called “Art of the North 2014”?) Instead, the exhibition offers 21 very different works by 19 artists, with a healthy representation from Memphis and others from as far away as Arlington and Odessa, Texas; Live Oak and Sarasota, Florida; Atlanta; Maryville, Tennessee; and Oxford, Mississippi. One could argue that Texas and Florida don’t count as the South, but we’ll accept the point.

It’s particularly gratifying to see that the roster of local artists does not involve a rote inclusion of the usual suspects but concentrates on emerging figures or artists whose work we know from other contexts. One motif, I think, is the importance and the fallacy of memory, the indistinctness of our connection to the past; the other, beyond doubt, is the expansive virtuosity of the piece itself, an element that pervades much of the work in “Art of the South 2014.”