RESUMÉ
ANNABELLE MEACHAM
1763 Eastmoreland Avenue
Memphis TN 38104
Cell phone: 662-609-7437
Email: ameacham2@hotmail.com
Education: BS Degree, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Art and Photoshop classes
At Northwest Mississippi Community College, 3 years at Memphis College of Art,
Memphis TN
MAJOR INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
One-person shows (Invitational)
2008, 2010. 2013 L Ross Gallery, Memphis TN
2007 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis TN
2005 Askew, Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis, TN
2004, 2003 2001, and 1999 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis TN
2002 Bridgewater (VA) College
2001 Christian Brothers University, Memphis TN
2000 Wilson (NC) Arts Center
1999 Duke University, L.J Brown Gallery, Durham, NC
1999 Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
1999 William Carey College, Parker Gallery, Hattiesburg, MS
1997 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
1996 Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
1996 Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC (also gave lecture and studio talk)
1995 Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
1994 Bell gallery, Memphis, TN
1992 University Museum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
1991 Bell-Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
1990 Duke University, Durham, NC
1989 Bell-Ross gallery, Memphis, TN
1986 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1985 Clough Hanson Gallery (Rhodes College), Memphis, TN
1984 Ft. Smith Art Center, Ft. Smith, AR
1983 Lok Exhibition Center, University of Southern Miss., Hattiesburg, MS
1982 Bryan Center Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
1982 Sycamore Gallery, Memphis, TN
1982 F. Wright Art Center, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS
1981 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
1981 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
1980 University Museum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Group shows (Invitational):
2013 Artists' Link at Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis TN
2009 'Mississippi Invitational', Miss. Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2009 through 2013 'Gallery Artists' , L Ross Gallery, Memphis TN
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2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2006
2005
DeSoto Arts Council Invitational, Hernando MS
"Memphis Artists", Jay Etkin Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"New Work", Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis TN
"Art Around Mississippi", Meridian (MS) Museum of Art
"Artistic Expressions", invitational, Sycamore Arts Council, Senatobia MS
Brick Gallery, Clarksdale MS (6 paintings and postcard image)
Delta Axis Power House Art Auction, Memphis, TN
“. . . and the levee broke” (about Hurricane Katrina flooding), School of
Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2004 “Saved By Art”, Artists On Central Gallery, Memphis, TN
2004 The Book Arts Show, The Comtemporary Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis MO
2004 Tunica (MS) Museum, group exhibit, North Mississippi Artists Network
2004
Bend Artworks, Bend, Oregon: Group invitational exhibition
2004 P. H. Miller Gallery, Woodbury, CT: Group invitational exhibition
2004 Bryant Gallery, Jackson, MS: Group invitational exhibition
2003 Boyken Center, Arts Council of Wilson (NC)
2003 “Artists’ Link”, Northwest MS Community College, Senatobia, MS
2003 “Gallery Artists”, Sara Howell Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
2003 First Street Gallery (with Artists’ Network of Northwest Miss.), Grenada MS
2002 “Visions”, group exhibition, Fogelman Center, University of Memphis (TN)
2002 “Response, 9-11”, group exhibition, Christian Brothers Univ., Memphis, TN
“Venus Envy”, privately curated in relation to National Women’s Month, Memphis.
2002 “What’s So Funny”, traveling group exhibition curated by the Museum System of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, Bridgewater (VA) College
2002 Dixon Gallery & Gardens, group exhibition, Memphis TN
2001 Bonnie Busbee Gallery, Meridian MS
2001 Sara Howell Gallery, Jonesboro AR
2000 Shelby County Mayor’s Office, Memphis, TN (Urban Arts Committee)
2000 “Gallery Artists”, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
1999 “Recent Artists”, Meridian (Miss.) Museum of Art
1998 “Women’s Views, Women’s Voices”, funded by the Women’s Foundation for a
Greater Memphis, at Arts in the Park, Memphis, TN
1998 Three-person exhibition, George Ohr Arts Center, Biloxi, MS
1997 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Oak Ridge, TN
1996 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1995 “Mini-Minumental Exhibition”, Memphis College of Art
1995 “Gallery Artists”, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994 “Gallery Artists”, Palmer’s Gallery, Hot Springs, AR
1993 “Artist Link”, Taproot School of Arts, St. Louis, MO
1992 “Gallery Artists”, The Bell Gallery, Memphis, TN
1992 “Gallery Artists”, Village Square Art Gallery, Miami, FL
1990 Coalition of the Visual Arts (won 1st-place award), City Hall, Memphis
1987 “Featured Artists”, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1985 “Diverse Realms”, Marie Pellicone Gallery, New York, NY
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1984 “Gallery Artists”, Marie Pellicone Gallery, Southampton, L.I., N.Y.
1984 “New Talent”, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 “Gallery Artists”, Gallery K, Washington, DC
1982 “Call to Women”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1982 Rare Discoveries Gallery, Dallas, TX
1981 “Fantastic Images”, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
JURIED
2010
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2006
"Frenzy III- Strange Animals", First St. Center Gallery of the Arts, Trinidad, Colorado
"Southern Open", Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette LA
"35th Annual Bi-Sate", Meridian (MS) Museum of Art
"Fragments", Fredericksburg (VA) Center for the Arts
49th Annual Delta Exhibtion, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
''America's 2000 Paper Works Competition'', Minot State Univ., N. Dakota
"Alterscapes", The Basement Gallery, Knoxville TN
20’x20’, Louisiana State U., Juror: Tara McDowell, Curator, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
2006 “Drive Through, #3”, Delta Axis at Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
2005 “MAX 2005, The Inner Voice of Art”, Univ. Museum, U. of Memphis (TN),
Juror: Dr. David Moos, Curator of Contemp. Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
2004 “Venus Envy” (a 3-city exhibition), Gallery 1688, Memphis, TN
2004 “Annual National Juried Exhibition, Memphis/Germantown Art League, Germantown
Performing Arts Center, Germantown, TN
2003 “Women in the new Millenium – The Artist’s Perspective”, Seton Hall Univ.,
South Orange, New Jersey
2003 “Digitalis 2”, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC, Canada
2003 “Positive/Negative”, Slocumb Galleries, East TN State University
2002 “Paper in Particular, National Exhibitions”, Columbia (Missouri) College
2001 Show jurored by Stephen Phillips, curator of The Phillips Collection, Wash. DC,
for Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
2001 Show jurored by Ed Paschke, Chicago artist, for Nicolet College Gallery,
Rhinelander WI
2001 Icarus International Art Exhibition, Nags Head, NC
1999 Cinque Gallery, New York City. Jurored by E. Tsai, senior curator of
contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art
1999 Bi-State Exhibition, Meridian (Miss.) Museum of Ar
1999 Valdosta National Exhibition, Valdosta State Univ., Valdosta, GA
1998 Arts in the Park, Memphis, TN. Juror: L.S. Sims, Curator of the Dept. of 20th
Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C.
1998 Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock AR
1998 Profusion of Art Exhibition, Center for Visual Art, Oakland, CA
1998 National Works on Paper Biennial, Marsh Gallery, Univ. of Richmond, VA
Show to travel through State for two years.
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1997 “Art With a Southern Drawl”, University of Mobile, AL
1997 Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition, D’Art Center (Supported by the Virginia
Commission for the Arts), Norfolk, VA
1997 Contemporary Visions ’97, University Gallery, U. of Bridgeport, CT
1996 Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile (AL) Museum of Art
1995 Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian (MS) Museum of Art
1995 l6th Annual Art Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MI
1994 “Wise Women” Exhibition, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 People’s Choice Show, Meridian (MS) Museum of Art
1993 Berkeley Art Center Show, Berkeley, CA
1993 The Florida Nat’l. Competition , Florida State U., Tallahassee, FL
1993 20th Annual Bi-State, Meridian (MS) Museum of Art
1992 Delta Artist Rising Exhibition, North Light Gallery, Memphis, TN
1992 Louisiana State U. Nat’l. Print and Drawing Show. Juror: L. Kramer,
Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum
1983 Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of Amer. Art, Youngstown, OH
1981 Annual Art Competition, Parkersburg (W VA) Art Center
1981 Miss. Artist’s Juried Exhib., U. of Southern Miss., Hattiesburg, MS
1980, l981, and l983 Delta Arts Exhib., Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1979 Exhibition South ’79, Tenn. Valley Art Center, Tuscumbia, AL
1978 New Orleans International Art Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
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1999
1998
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1997
1997
1996
The Commercial Appeal newspaper, Memphis TN, March 3, review by F. Koeppel
Art In America, December, by Peter Plagens, 2 photographs of my work, article titled:
'Mississippi Yearning' (a 9 page review of the Miss. Museum of Art Invitational'
Feature story about artist, The DeSoto Magazine, Hernando, MS, April, 2005
Renewal of inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in American Women
Memphis Commercial Appeal interview by Frederic Koepple, November
Front and back cover design, Rock Band Simonoid’s album: “Like Salvador Dali”
Reviews in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), The Memphis Business Journal,
The Democrat (Senatobia, MS)
Art in Mississippi, 1720 to 1980, book by Patti Carr Black. Co-published by the
Miss. Historical Society, the Miss. Dept of Archives and History, and the
University Press of Miss. For the series titled “Heritage of Mississippi”
Featured artist in ARTFIRST, Winter edition of the quarterly Statewide
publication for Miss. visual artists (Univ. of Miss.)
Front page article about group exhibit at U. of Va., Richmond (with color
photo of my piece), Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, March 31
Review with photo, The Sun Herald, Ocean Springs, MS, March l6
Mississippi Magazine, September issue, 3-page, full-color article
Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, by
Chris Madden (painting shown in one of the rooms)
Winston-Salem Journal newspaper, March l0, front page of “Arts” section
with color photos, review by William Albright
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1995-onward Who’s Who of American Women, Marquis Publishing
1995 Oxford Town newspaper (Oxford, MS), Dec. 7, review with 2 photos by
Pamela Massey
1994 The Commercial Appeal newspaper,Memphis (TN), Feb. 5, review by
Frederic Koeppel
1992 The Clarion Ledger newspaper, Jackson, MS, Nov. l, review by R. Street
1992 Number:Sixteen, Vol. V, No.1, Spring. This is an independent quarterly
review of the arts. Review by Omnese Campbell.
199l, l989, and 1987 The Commercial Appeal newspaper, Memphis, TN, reviews by F.
Koeppel
1985 Artspeak, (NYC), Vol. VIII, No. 8, Dec. l6, review by J. Merkel
1985 The Commercial Appeal newspaper, Memphis (TN), review by D. Grant
1984 New Art Examiner, review by William Southwell (Philadelphia show)
1984 Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, review by V. Donohue
1983 Painting used by American Health Magazine to illustrate an article
1980 The Commercial Appeal newspaper, Memphis, TN, feature story by
Donald LaBadie
MAJOR COMMISSIONS
2013
2011
Memphis (TN) River Arts Festival Poster
Nineteen paintings for LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis TN
ORAL PRESENTATIONS (Started listing in 1998)
2013, 2005
Interview, WKNO-PBS radio, “Hosting the Arts”, host: Kacky Walton
2002 Panelist, WKNO-PBS radio, “Smart City”, host: Carol Coletta
1999 Visiting Artist, program for Masters of Fine Arts students, Memphis College of
Art, Memphis, TN
1999 Gallery talk, Wm. Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS
1998 Panelist, Memphis (TN) College of Art, “Getting Started” career program
1998 Gallery Talk, George Ohr Arts Center, Biloxi, MS
AWARDS AND HONORS
201`0 Served on Program Review Board for Norfthwest Mississsippi Community College
2004 Cash award: Best in Acrylics, “Annual National Juried Exhibition,
Memphis/Germantown Art League, Germantown Performing Arts Center,
Germantown, TN
2000 First Place Painting Award, Memphis (TN) Arts Festival
2000 Hon. Mention Award, “Works on Paper”, Valdosta (GA) State University
1995 Cash Achievement Award, Annual BiState Art competition, Meridian
Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
1994 First Place Cash Award, Artist Link Group Exhibition, E. Katz Gallery
1994 First Place Cash Award, for painting, “Mayfair”, Senatobia, MS. Juror:
Patty Bladon, Curator of Paintings, Memphis (TN) Brooks Mus. Of Art
1993 Purchase Award, Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, TX
1990 First Place in Oil/Acrylics, Coalition for the Visual Arts Exhibit, City
Hall, Memphis, TN
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1979 Exhibition South Award, Tenn. Valley Art Center, Tuscumbia, AL
1977 Memphis Academy of Arts Award, cash prize for highest gradepoint average
COLLECTIONS
Methodist Hospice Center, Memphis TN
LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis TN
Promus Hotel Corporation, Memphis, TN
Federal Express Headquarters, Memphis TN
Holiday Inns Hotel Group, Embassy Suites, Dallas, TX
Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
Seessel’s, Memphis, TN
Robert Fogelman, Memphis, TN
Ray Bradbury, Los Angeles, CA
Perkins Family Restaurants Headquarters, Memphis, TN
The Ingram Group, Nashville, TN
Marshall Biddle, NYC
U. of Wisconsin Gunderson Cancer Center, Wasau Hospital, Wasau, WI