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Jeane Umbreit
born Minneapolis, MN
Selected Exhibitions |
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| 2018 |
Vestige, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN Southern Obscura (Solo), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2016 | Say Hello to America, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN |
| 2013 | Animalia (solo), Gasoline Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2012 |
Artwork for MIFA (Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association) fundraising event Cover of MEMPHIS MOVIE, Corey Mesler Mystical Highway (solo), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2011 |
Cover of MOLLY FLANAGAN AND THE HOLY GHOST, Margaret Skinner Cover of NOTES TOWARD THE STORY AND OTHER STORIES, Corey Mesler Commission to create artwork honoring legends for the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis |
| 2010 | A Private Gaze, Material Art Space, Memphis, TN |
| 2009 |
Gondwanaland (solo), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN Work selected for participation in the US Art in the Embassies progam, on loan to the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria |
| 2005 | Blackbird (solo), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2004 |
Artwork selected for participation in the US Art in the Embassies program, on loan to the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria 50 Years and Counting: Artists Respond to Brown vs. Topeka, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN |
| 2002 |
Blue (solo), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN Memphis Arts Council Annual Exhibition, 2nd Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN |
| 2001 |
Public Art Project, permanent installation of photomontage mural series for Memphis/Shelby County Public Library, Memphis, TN Best of Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; curator: John Buchanan, director, Portland Museum of Art |
| 2000 |
Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999, Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN; traveling through 2003 to Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA 18th Annual Juried Show, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY; juror: Philip B. Brookmen, curator, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC Southern Exposure, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virgnia Beach, VA; traveling to Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA; McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; curator: Carla Hanzal Spectrum ’00, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN |
| 1999 |
Light and Life, Buckman Arts Center, Memphis, TN Memphis Arts Council exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN |
| 1998 |
YWCA Centennial Women’s Art Exhibition, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; curator: Beth Wilson, National Museum of Women in the Arts Millsaps College, Jackson, MS |
| 1997/98 | New Realities: Hand-Colored Photographs 1839 to the Present, Univ. of Wyoming art Museum, Laramie, WY; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; James A. Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pa; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; and Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; curators: Lee Marks and Gerald Lang, Pennsylvania State Univ. |
| 1997 |
Works on Paper (Ledbetter Lusk), The Armory, New York, NY Memphis Advertising Federation & St. Jude Hospital, donation of images for greeting cards Memphis College of Art Biennial, Memphis, TN Passage (solo), Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 1996 |
The Art of Photography (1st place, non-traditional), Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL; curator: Alison Nordstrom Gardens: Primeval and Eternal, Delta Axis Contemporary Art Center, Memphis, TN ArtFair (Ledbetter Lusk) Seattle, Seattle, WA Tree as Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 1995 |
Opening, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN The Fall (solo), Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN The Painted Photograph (solo), Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN Askew Nixon Gallery, Memphis Arts Council Exhibition, Memphis, TN; curators: E.A. Carmean, Leslie Luebbers, Jim Wallace |
| 1994 |
The Painted Photograph (solo), Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN The Other Show, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN Juried Exhibition, Aura Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1993 | Tennessee Women Artists: From the Mountains to the Mississippi, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; curated by National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC |
| 1992 |
Photography in the South: From Barnard to Eggleston, Photogroup Center, Coral Gables, FL; curator: Carole Thompson Midtown-Y Photography Gallery, Sponsored by NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY; curator: Michael Spano Emerging Southern Photographers, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN |
| 1991 |
La Desercion Divina (solo), Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY (solo) 21st Annual Prints, Drawings & Photographs Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; curator: Sue Taylor, Univ. of Chicago The Magic Silver Show, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA; curator: Robert Fichter, Florida State University |
| 1990 |
1990 National Works on Paper, Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS The French Lessons (solo), Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN Hot Springs Art Center, Hot Springs, AR Memphis in May arts festival poster honoring France |
| 1989 |
8th Annual Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; juror: Neal Benezra, curator, 20th Century Art, Art Institute of Chicago The City of Memphis and Coalition for Visual Arts, Memphis North Light Gallery, Memphis, TN Arkansas State University (solo), Jonesboro, AR Home (solo), Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN |
(prior to 1989 as Jeane Umbreit Dawson or Jeane Dawson)
| 1988 |
Red Clay Southeastern Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Women Artists 88, Lincoln Cultural Arts Foundation, Lincoln, CA; curator: Barbara Rogers, San Francisco Art Institute Fall Exhibition (solo) McCoy Theatre, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Secret Places (solo) Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN Anniversary, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 1987 |
19th Annual Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; curator: Charlotta Kotik, curator of contemporary art, Brooklyn Museum Introductions, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN 2nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Downtown Assoc. of Memphis, TN |
| 1986 | Uncommon Women, Circuit Playhouse Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 1985 | Snapshots (solo), Theatre Memphis Gallery, Memphis, TN |
Selected Books and Catalogs |
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Oxford American, periodical, The Education Issue, 2011 50 YEARS AND COUNTING: ARTISTS RESPOND BROWN V TOPEKA VISUALIZING THE BLUES, IMAGES OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH 1862-1999 PASSAGE MEMPHIS: NEW VISIONS, NEW HORIZONS Southern Accents, periodical, Sept/Oct 1997 Mid-South Artist, periodical, Oct 1995 TENNESSEE: FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE MISSISSIPPI The Photo Review, summer 1990, quarterly published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts MEMPHIS VISIONS |
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Selected Collections |
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| Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Assisi Foundation, Memphis, TN Baker, Donelson, Memphis, TN BellSouth Mobility, Memphis, TN Boca Museum, Boca Raton, FL Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Campbell Clinic, Memphis, TN The Crump Firm, Inc., Memphis, TN Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Delta Airlines, Memphis, TN Deloitte & Touche USA, Nashville, TN Dobbs House Inc., Dallas, TX Enterprise National Bank, Memphis, TN Ernst & Young, Memphis, TN First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN Harrah’s Casinos Headquarters, Tunica, MS Holiday Corporation, Atlanta, GA Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Memphis International Airport Corporate Offices, Memphis, TN Morgan Keegan and Company, Memphis, TN New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Nissan, Chicago, IL Plough Inc., New York, NY Promus Hotel Corporation Headquarters, Memphis, TN Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL SouthTrust Bank, Memphis, TN Victory Bank, Memphis, TN |
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