Beth Edwards, Jar of Cherries II, Realist Still Life Oil Painting, 2001

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Acquired from Tory Folliard Gallery 10 X 10 inches unframed. In this 2001 still life oil painting by artist Beth … Read more Acquired from Tory Folliard Gallery 10 X 10 inches unframed. In this 2001 still life oil painting by artist Beth Edwards, a jar of juicy red cherries pops against a vibrant aquamarine blue background.

Beth Edwards received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art and her Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University. She is represented by the David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Howard and Judith Tullman Collection in Chicago, the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission in Nashville. Her work was included three times in New American Paintings and featured on the cover twice. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell and Yaddo artist colonies and was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and an ArtsMemphis Arts Accelerator Grant.
In 2016, she was the recipient of the Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration given by ArtsMemphis.

EDUCATION

1987 Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1979-80 Temple University Abroad, Rome, Italy
MURAL COMMISSION

2013-14 Willow Park Mural, UrbanArt Commission for the City of Memphis
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2012 Antidote, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
In Florescence, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2010 Along the Way, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2009 Recent Work, Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee
2008 Beth Edwards: Fifteen Years of Painting, St. Louis Community College, Saint Louis, Missouri
2007 Inside Out, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2005 The Contemporary Still Life: Paintings by Beth Edwards, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
2004 Semi-Precious, Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
2003 Playthings, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1998 Recent Work, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
1995 Functioning Objects, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
1994 Mundane Encounters, Alma College, Alma, Michigan
1992 Recent Work, Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren, Ohio
1991 Life with Larry, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, Pennsylvania
1990 Life, Flight and Sacrifice, Miami Valley Arts Council Gallery, Dayton, Ohio
1989 Recent Work, Northern Kentucky Arts Council, Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, Kentucky Bird/Dog, Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, Ohio
1988 Recent Work, Shippensburg State University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2016 Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee
2013 Nature Reconstructed, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, T ennessee
2012 Nature Redux, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Character Study, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee
2010 Muddy Water: Three Memphis Painters on Paper Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Urban Sight, East Arkansas Community College, Forrest City, Arkansas
2008 RiverArtsFest Invitational Art Show, Askew, Nixon, Ferguson Architects, Memphis, Tennessee
Water Works, On The Street Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2007 E(Squared): Two Generations, Gallery 130, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
2002 New Paintings, Leonard Tachmes Gallery, Miami, Florida
New Talent, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2000 Habitation, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois
Jed Jackson and Beth Edwards, Art Museum The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
1997 Simple Objects, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
1996 Recent Work, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California
1995 Still Life: Three Ohio Artists, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
1994 Associations, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois
Parables, Ordinary and Visionary, Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana
Fragments of Meaning, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
1993 Low Points of View, Front Street Gallery, Dayton, Ohio
1991 Three Person Exhibition, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio
1990 Recent Work, Acme Art Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015 Public/Art/ists Part I, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, Tennessee
Public/Art/ists Part II, Arts Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Summer Reading: Show Me a Story, Tell Me a Picture, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2014 Inaugural Art Exhibition: Your Attica On The Pacific, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, California 56th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center Little Rock, AR Honorable Mention
National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts Wichita Kansas
Circuitous Sucession, Epilogue, Scottish Rite Temple, Memphis, T ennessee
The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis & Nashville
Herstories, Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Feed the Soul, Glitch, Memphis, Tennessee
2013 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Present Tense - The Art of Memphis, 2001-Now, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee David Lusk Group Exhibition, The Arts Company, Nashville, Tennessee
It Came from Memphis, Bologna Performing Arts Center, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS
2012 Toylanders, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, New Jersey
2011 Ripped from the Studio, Work Habits Exhibition, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2010 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago Illinois Represented by Tory Folliard Gallery
2009 New Space/New Work, Scott Richards Gallery, San Francisco, California
When Animals Talk, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Radius 250, McComas Gallery, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi
2008 Artists at Play: The Art of the Toy, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesville, Arkansas
20th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
This and That: Recent Art from Memphis, University of Louisiana, Monroe, Louisiana
Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago Illinois Represented by Tory Folliard Gallery
2007 War or Peace: Art that Confronts the Realities of the Present, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama
50th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
20th Anniversary Invitational Retrospective, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, Ohio
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