35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
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Selected by Virginia Overton & Jocko Weyland
Laura Lawson, Memphis, President's Award, 34th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
On view February 4th through March 10th
Opening reception, Sunday, February 4th, 3-6pm
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/751112765075712/
Congratulations to accepted entrants to the 35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Selected by Virginia Overton and Jocko Weyland
Aaron Binkowitz
Alexandra Barnett
Amber McCollum
Annalee M Elmore
Bailee Ross
Brittney Brockway
Davey Mann
Dedrick Ford
Denise Wakeman
Eleanor Engles Fisher
Elizabeth Rast
Ellen Dempsey
Emilio Norman
Emily Hogan
Emma Kuykendall
Ian McCaskill
Ivy-Jade Edwards
James W. Powell
Jeff Briscoe Carter
Jennalyn Krulish
Jesse DeLira
Jessica Williams
John Vincent Burrell
Jordan Gentry
Juan Rojo
Judith Dierkes
Julie Darling
Kaitlyn Dunn
Karsyn Laufenberg
Kathleen Stevens
Kayla Eddy
Kayla Owens
Ke'atric Reed
Keishawna Childs
Kelly Cook
Lacy Mitcham
Lea Holland
Lesley Diamond Bragdon
Lisa Lofton
Malik Muhammad
Mary Hendrix
Mason Nolen
Megan Dukes
Nicholas Svoboda
Paige Ellens
Richard L. Harper
Robert Samuel Fairchild IV
Samantha Hughes
Stephanie Curry
Tracy Treadwell
Whitney Gresham
Yvonne D. Gibbs
About the Jurors
Virginia Overton was born in Tennessee and currently lives and works in New York. She earned a BFA in 2002 and an MFA in 2005, both from the University of Memphis. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Tucson, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), White Cube (London), All Rise (Seattle), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Storm King Art Center (Mountainville, NY), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster, Germany), Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland), Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York), The Kitchen (New York), The Power Station (Dallas), Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd. (Zürich, Switzerland), and Dispatch (New York). Recent group exhibitions and projects include MAY68 (New York), Maisterravalbuena (Lisbon, Portugal), Lever House (New York), The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street (San Francisco), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Parcours (Basel, Switzerland), Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis), High Line Art (New York), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris), White Columns (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), White Flag Projects (St. Louis), and Sculpture Center (New York). In the spring of 2018 her work will be presented in solo exhibitions at The Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis and Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), and through a record release with Future Audio Graphics.
Jocko Weyland was born in Helsinki, Finland and currently lives and works in New York. He received a BA from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Answer is Never - A Skateboarder's History of the World (Grove Press, New York, 2002), The Powder, Danny's Lot, and Geomancy (Dashwood Books, New York, 2011, 2015, 2017), and the short story collection Eating Glass (1980 Editions, Paris, 2015). He started the serial publication Elk in 2003, which spawned Elk books and the eponymous Elk Gallery, where he organized sixteen shows between 2006 and 2011. From 2013 to 2017 he was the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson. He has had exhibitions at Ever Gold (San Francisco), Fake Space (Beijing, China), PG4S (Los Angeles), Martos Gallery (Los Angeles), Franklin Parrasch Gallery (New York) and Kerry Schuss Gallery (New York). Weyland is represented by Kerry Schuss Gallery.
AWARDS (Winners to be announced at opening reception.)
$1000 University of Memphis President's Purchase Award
$1000 University of Memphis Graduate School Graduate Purchase Award
$500 ArtLab Installation Award, provided by Friends of the Art Museum
$300 Art Department Graduate Prize
$300 Art Department Undergraduate Prize
Four $100 Merchandise Certificates, provided by Art Center Supply Stores Inc.
Membership Prize, courtesy of Dixon Gallery & Gardens
Membership Prize, courtesy of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Membership Prize, courtesy of The Metal Museum
CALENDAR
Sunday, December 17 11:59pm (deadline)
Last day to submit online entries
Friday, January 5
Notification of acceptance in the 35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Thursday, January 18, 7pm
Jurors' Lecture, open to the public, ACB Lecture Hall
Monday, January 8 through Friday, January 19
Accepted artworks delivered to AMUM 142 CFA Building, 9am-4:30pm each day
Sunday, February 4, 3:00pm-6:00pm
Opening Reception for 35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, presentation of awards @4:30pm
Monday, March 12-March 16
Artists pick up work in AMUM 142 CFA Building, 9am-4:30pm each day