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July 9 — October 1, 2017 Lead Sponsor: The Kuehlthau Family Foundation Awards Sponsors: Anonymous Alice Chang Huntsville Museum of Art Docents Susan and Robert Kuehlthau Kelly and Randy Schrimsher Anne and Ed Uher Additional Supporters: Alabama State Council on the Arts Altherr Howard Design Huntsville Museum of Art Guild Copyright © 2017 Huntsville Museum of Art All rights reserved ISBN 1-885820-48-8 Catalogue Design, Illustration & Production: Betty Altherr Howard New Market, AL Photography: The Individual Artists Jeff White Huntsville, AL Printing: Colonial Printing Huntsville, AL Huntsville Museum of Art 300 Church Street Southwest Huntsville, AL 35801 USA 256.535.4350 www.hsvmuseum.org The Red Clay Survey is organized by Peter J. Baldaia, Director of Curatorial Affairs, and David J. Reyes, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections of the Huntsville Museum of Art, to highlight outstanding regional contemporary art. Contents Foreword & Acknowledgments 4 Museum Purchase Awards 5 Juror’s Comments 8 Juror’s Awards 10 The Exhibition 17 Exhibition Checklist 61 Foreword & Acknowledgments by Peter J. Baldaia Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Huntsville Museum of Art The Huntsville Museum of Art is very pleased Purves — for their hard work on behalf of to present the 2017 edition of The Red Clay this endeavor. Thanks also go to graphic Survey exhibition of contemporary Southern designer Betty Altherr Howard for providing art. Since its inception in 1988, this recurring a handsomely designed exhibition competition has provided a showcase for announcement and catalogue, and for her current art in our region through a critical meticulous supervision of all aspects of their selection of work from eleven Southern production. states. This year’s Survey features 81 works by 54 artists, juried by distinguished artist Public and private support provides the and educator Gerry Bergstein. As always, foundation for this exhibition. We are honored the exhibition took shape through a to recognize The Kuehlthau Family Foundation comprehensive two-fold process. The first as the lead sponsor of The Red Clay Survey. stage online review of images reduced an We are also grateful to The Alabama State initial field of nearly 1,500 submissions to Council on the Arts, Altherr Howard Design, 105 works by 72 artists. The second stage, and The Huntsville Museum of Art Guild, on-site review of actual works determined for providing additional project support. final inclusions and cash awards. For the Special thanks go to the following generous exhibition juror, the responsibility of sifting underwriters of artist awards: The Huntsville through such an abundance of material Museum Docents — Museum Purchase Awards; to formulate the exhibition is formidable. Susan and Robert Kuehlthau — Juror’s Choice Bergstein rose to the occasion with a diverse Award; Kelly and Randy Schrimsher — and well-considered selection of works that Alabama Artist Award; Anonymous Donor — celebrate maturity of vision, mastery of Merit Awards; Alice Chang — Merit Award and materials, and the unique artistic voice, People’s Choice Award; and Anne and Ed Uher serving the exhibition well. — Merit Awards. For the Museum, the logistics of organizing Finally, we extend our appreciation to each and managing a multi-faceted project of this artist represented in the 2017 Red Clay scale requires great team effort. Many thanks Survey, for providing impressive evidence go to the entire staff — with special thanks to of the unique strength and enduring vitality Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, David of contemporary Southern art. Reyes, and Curatorial Assistant, Katherine 4 Museum Purchase Award Sponsored by the Huntsville Museum of Art Docents Fragmented Transmogrification, 2016, saggar fired clay Robert Detamore born in 1947, Americus, Georgia lives in Barnesville, Georgia 2008 Group Exhibition, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA SCAD Foundation Faculty Group Exhibition, Savannah 1976 BVA Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA 1978 MFA University of Georgia, Athens, GA Honors & Awards 2009 — Present, Assistant Professor of Art, Visual Arts, Gordon State College, Barnesville, GA 2015 First Place, Second Place, Third Place and Honorable Mention, Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA Recent Exhibitions 2013 First Place Ceramics and Artist’s Award, Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA 2016 Academy/Academia Exhibition, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA Museum & University Collections 2012 Two Person Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition, Lamar Arts, Barnesville, GA Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA 2010 Delta National Small Print Exhibition, Arkansas State Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD University, Jonesboro, AR Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 2009 32nd Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Bradley University, Peoria, IL High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 50th Anniversary Atlanta College of Art Faculty Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA Macon Museum of Arts and Science, Macon, GA 5 Museum Purchase Award Sponsored by the Huntsville Museum of Art Docents Wolf River Harbor Nocturne, 2016, oil on linen panel Marc Rouillard born in 1959, St. Louis, Missouri lives in Memphis, Tennessee 1981 AFA Graphic Communications, St. Louis Community College — Florissant Valley, St. Louis, MO 1983 BFA Advertising Design, Memphis College of Art, Number: Presents Art of the South 2015, Memphis Memphis,TN College of Art, Memphis, TN (also 2014) 2011 MFA Studio Art, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN River Arts Fest Invitational Show, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis, TN 2000 — Present, Instructor, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN Sideshow, LM Gallery 363, Memphis, TN Recent Exhibitions 57th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR 2016 Idle Speed Only, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN 2014 Biennial Alumni Exhibition 2014, Memphis College of Art, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO Memphis, TN 2015 Commonplace, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN Horn Island 30 Selects, Gallery Ten Ninety-One, Horn Island Influences, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Ocean Springs, MS 2013 TEXT-URE, Jay Etkin Gallery, Santa Fe, NM MCA Inaugural Faculty Biennial, Memphis College of Art, Works on Paper, New Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Memphis, TN 6 Museum Purchase Award Sponsored by the Huntsville Museum Association Cultivated, 2015, mixed media Ted Whisenhunt born in 1973, Birmingham, Alabama lives in Young Harris, Georgia 1995 BFA Sculpture, Birmingham-Southern College, 2007 The Red Clay Survey: 2007 Exhibition of Contemporary Birmingham, AL Southern Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 1998 MFA Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Honors & Awards 2009 — Present, Associate Professor of Art/Art Department Chair, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA 2008 Grantee: Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibtion “New Harmonies”, Alabama Humanities Recent Exhibitions Foundation/Alabama State Council for the Arts, Montgomery, AL 2016 Cultivated (solo Eexhibition), The Rymer Gallery, 2007 Visiting Artist Grant, Hale County, AL Nashville, TN; Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2014 Alabama Sculpture Invitational, The Evelyn Burrow Museum & University Collections Museum, Hanceville, AL 2009 Two Person Invitational, Alabama Artist Gallery, Fayette Art Museum, Fayette, AL Montgomery, AL Judson College, Marion, AL 7 Juror’s Comments I very much enjoyed engaging with the terrific work The diversity of the work was quite striking. Many submitted to this year’s Red Clay Survey. My overall disciplines were represented as well as many approaches impression was that it was smart without being academic, to technique, form, and content. Such diversity is very imaginative, vibrant in expression, and liberated in its healthy and desirable. Work ranged from vehement to unselfconscious exercise of freedom. The painful difficulty almost silent, from manic to melancholic, from tightly came in the process of eliminating work and granting controlled to explosive — this list could go on for quite awards. There was much more wonderful work than a while. What counts is not the choice of what to available space could accommodate. I viewed each piece investigate, but the depth of the investigation. In a show several times, first online and then in person. I let my such as this, the distance between works can add to the impressions evolve slowly. I was not a judge in the sense depth of the viewing experience. Conversations between of reaching evaluations according to a rulebook, for such different visions can be as exciting as a single vision. I a book does not exist in the multifaceted world of hope that my selections will spark resonances between contemporary art. Instead I ended up including work that individual artworks and lead viewers to compare and touched my heart, mind, and spirit more deeply with contrast the different visions of these artists with the each repeated viewing. Some works were ambitiously often contradictory complexity of their own visions of virtuosic and others quite subtle and understated. Some the world. seemed to grow while others diminished. Of course, had there been even more time I might have reached different Gerry Bergstein conclusions. Such are the vagaries of experiencing art. Cambridge, Massachusetts 8 Gerry Bergstein born in 1945, New York, New York lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1969 BFA Painting, School of