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ArtsMemphis Art

March 5-August 31, 2008

All of the art displayed in the ArtsMemphis east office relates to Memphis. There are several pieces that are historic and play to the impact Memphis arts has had on the world.

Artists featured include:

Bill Eggleston – Mississippi Native Eggleston has been called the "father of color photography" - although he did not of course invent it - and since the 1990s he is widely regarded as the leading and most influential color photographer of the 20th century.

William Christenberry - Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the American South, focusing his attention on Hale County, Alabama, from which he hails. Although Christenberry is most often associated with and recognized as a pioneer in the field of American color photography, his vision is multifaceted and rendered through an unorthodox mix of media that includes sculpture, drawing, painting, and found-object assemblage

Nancy Burson - Since the inception of her career as an artist, Nancy Burson has been interested in the interaction of art and science. In the early 80s, it was Burson who introduced “ morphing”, a computer program that was able to create facial composites. Later her method came to be used by police departments to find missing children by “morphing” their faces to account for age change. The human face, its morphology, and its underlying genetic code are recurring themes in almost all of Burson’s works Baby Elvis (1989-90), Burson takes on Andy Warhol by morphing Elvis back in time to depict him as a premature iconic baby. The work plays off cultural obsessions and wonders, with some amusement, to what extent fame is embedded in physical appearance – DNA as destiny?

The contemporary art displayed represents art that is a direct result of ArtsMemphis support to the arts community. Artists featured include:

Paul Graham – The British photographer created a series of work called American Night that was influenced by his trip to Memphis. Paul Graham’s photographs touch upon the social fracture of America—the great divide—between included and excluded, blacks and whites, have and have-not. It is a simple topic, shunned these days or only dealt with in clichéd photo-journalism. American Night embraces this neglected territory in a series of shocking images that lodge firmly in our consciousness as they negotiate the boundaries of art and document.. The title, American Night, refers to a technique in film making where day footage is shot in nighttime. Graham’s work has been in museums around the world; including the Tate Gallery in London.

Matt Ducklo – Ducklo is a graduate of Yale’s famed photography masters program. Matt Ducklo is a photographer who captures a moment that is usually staged but in reality is an unusual element of an American institution: from the presentation of the news in TV studios to a new series of works that explore the “Touch Tour” - blind people touching works of art in museums. In these new works his subject is the blind experiencing sculpture by touch. Looking at somebody experiencing something with a different sensibility, the photographs contemplate people, “in the act of seeing.” He has photographs from touch tours at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. The pieces in the ArtsMemphis office were captured at the Brooks and Dixon Museums as part of a commission from The Power House.

Special thanks to James Patterson, who generously loaned and curated these significant works of art .