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Category: 2009 Archives - Gibbes Museum of Art
Stephen Marc
Stephen Marc is a photographer who creates digitally-manipulated montages that explore his Southern roots and interpret American history focused on the black experience. His work combines contemporary images with those of historic documents and artifacts to create narratives that reconfigure time and space. Marc resides in Tempe, Arizona, where he is a Professor of Art […]
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Lonnie Holley
Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1950, Lonnie Holley is a self-taught artist who first began making art by carving sandstone with kitchen utensils. In addition to sandstone sculpture, he creates found object assemblages and acrylic paintings with intensely personal meanings. Holley’s work is included in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the High […]
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Ross McElwee
A filmmaker from Charlotte, North Carolina, Ross McElwee has made seven feature-length documentaries and several shorter films. His work includes Bright Leaves, Six O’Clock News, and Sherman’s March, which won best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987. McElwee teaches filmmaking at Harvard University where he is a professor in the department of Visual […]
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Kathryn Refi
Kathryn Refi is a conceptual artist who collects data from daily life as a means to study the world in an objective manner. She then translates this collected data into visual art. Refi was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1975 and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from […]
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Edward Rice
A native of North Augusta, South Carolina, Edward Rice is a painter best known for his stark depictions of architectural details. He has exhibited throughout the southeast and is included in the collections of the Georgia Museum of Art, the Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, among others. Rice is […]
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Mike Smith
For nearly thirty years, Mike Smith has photographed the rural landscape of East Tennessee. He earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, an MFA from Yale University, and currently teaches photography at East Tennessee State University. Smith’s work is included in numerous collections throughout the United States including the Art Institute of Chicago, […]
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