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artist's statement |
chronology |
M.F.A. Thesis |
hamlett dobbins2553 Broad Avenue |
education |
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1999 |
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Master of Fine Arts. |
1998 |
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Master of Arts. |
1993 |
University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, Bachelor of Fine Arts. |
Grants, Awards, and Residencies |
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2003 |
Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant |
2000 |
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Bemis Center for Contemporary Art , three month residency, Omaha, Nebraska. |
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Vermont Studio Center, four week fellowship, Johnson, Vermont. |
1999 |
Best of Show, Arts in the Park Juried Show, Jerry Saltz, juror. |
1998-1999 |
Pelzer-Lynch Fellowship for Graduate Students in Painting. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. |
recent & upcoming |
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Fall 2007 |
Every One Every Day (one person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee. |
Summer 2006 |
Color, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama. |
Summer 2006 |
Everyone (one person show), Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee. |
Winter 2006 |
Early Morning Paintings (one person show), CAP Gallery, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee. |
Spring 2006 |
Early Morning Paintings (one person show), Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana. |
exhibitions |
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Spring 2005 |
Early Morning Paintings (one person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee. |
Spring 2005 |
Group Show, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. |
Spring 2004 |
Paradise or Parking Lot, (two person show), Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia. |
Summer 2004 |
Early Morning Paintings, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee. |
Spring 2004 |
Suburban Abstraction, organized by Barbara Campbell, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina. |
Winter 2004 |
The Stillness of Skin (one person show), Freed Hardeman University, Henderson, Tennessee. |
2004 |
Under Run, organized by Julia Marsh, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. |
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New Work: New Gallery Artists, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa. |
2003 |
Switchyard, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee. |
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Marshall Abstraction, Fugitive Art Space, Nashville, Tennessee. |
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the stillness of skin (one person show), art museum university of memphis, memphis, tennessee. |
2002 |
Now Serving, Art in General, New York, New York. |
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee. |
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The Stillness of Skin (one person show), Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee. |
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Side by Side, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee. |
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The Invention of a New Star (one person show), Art Museum, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. |
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The Memphis Connection, Kunstruimte40, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
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2001 |
The Invention of a New Star (one person show), Fine Arts Center, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas. |
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Featured Emerging Artist, 2001 Invitational Art Exhibit, Arts in the Park, Memphis, Tennessee. |
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Omaha Paintings (one person show), Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, Tennessee. |
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MAX: 2001, All About Paint, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, Tennessee. Holly Block, curator. |
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dh-hd, Artfarm Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee. |
We Like Each Other, Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. |
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| 2000 | notfromhere, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska. |
Winter Show, Percival Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa. |
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The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery Memphis, Tennessee |
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From the Story of the Rose (one person show), Iowa Gallery, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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| 1999 | Young Memphis, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. |
Arts in the Park, Memphis Tennessee. Jerry Saltz juror. |
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This is Always Finished, 7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. |
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Road Trip, New Work from the University of Iowa, Fassbender Gallery Annex, Chicago, Illinois. |
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M.F.A. Show, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa. |
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Tuesday Night Collaborative Drawing Group, Reservoir Space, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. |
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| 1998 | Each Child's Story Illuminates the Others', Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, Iowa. |
Five Days, Five Shows (one person show), Eve Drewlowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. |
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Winter Invitational, Kanga Arts Cooperative, Davenport, Iowa. |
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| 1997 | Larry and Company, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 1995 | Between and Combined: Regarding History & Fiction in Portraiture, Plan B Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee. |
selected reviews and publications |
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Art Papers |
Susan Knowles, Review of Early Morning Paintings at David Lusk Gallery, p. 48, November/December 2005. |
Memphis Flyer |
Carol Knowles, First Light: The "Early Morning Paintings" of Hamlett Dobbins, July 20, 2005. |
Number: An Independent Journal of the Arts |
Terry Thacker, Long Live the Death of Modernism: The Practice of Thomas Nozkowski, Hamlett Dobbins, and Greely Myatt, pp. 10-11, Summer 2003. |
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Mark S. Price, Hamlett Dobbins at AMUM, pp. 20-21, Summer 2003. |
New American Paintings vol. 40 |
Open Studio Press, pp. 42-45, July 2002. |
The Tennessean |
Alan Bostic, Getting Down to Specifics, July 28, 2002. |
GAMUT |
Meikle Gardner, iD Hamlett Dobbins, June 2002. |
The Commercial Appeal |
Jeanne Hamilton, What Lies Beneath, July 28, 2002. |
New Art Examiner |
David McCarthy, Studio Visit, February 2000. |
Dateline Memphis |
John Weeden, Focus on Hamlett Dobbins, January 15, 1999. |
The Commercial Appeal |
James DeRossitt, MSU Juried Exhibit Stimulating, March 5, 1994. |
Teaching and Lectures |
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2005 |
Graduate Advisor | Memphis College of Art |
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Instructor | Rhodes College |
2004 |
Graduate Advisor | Memphis College of Art |
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Instructor | Rhodes College |
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Guest Lecturer | Freed-Hardeman University |
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Guest Lecturer | University of Alabama |
2003 |
Instructor | Rhodes College |
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Guest Lecturer | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
2002 |
Instructor | Rhodes College |
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Guest Lecturer | University of Arkansas |
2001 |
Instructor | Rhodes College |
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Instructor | Memphis College of Art |
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Instructor | University of Memphis |
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Guest Lecturer | Memphis College of Art |
2000 |
Instructor | University of Mississippi |
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Guest Lecturer | Bemis Center for Contemporary Art |
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Guest Lecturer | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
1999 |
Instructor | University of Memphis |
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Instructor | Preucil Pre-School |
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Graduate T.A. | University of Iowa |
1998 |
Graduate T.A. | University of Iowa |
related experience |
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2004-present |
Organizes exhibitions for Material, an alternative exhibition space. |
2004-present |
Advisory Board member for Lantana Projects. |
2001-present |
Director, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. |
2003-2004 |
Gallery Coordinator for Non-profit arts organization Delta Axis, Memphis, Tennessee. |
2001-2003 |
Board member and contributor for independent arts quarterly, Number Inc. |
2001-2003 |
Board member for Non-profit arts organization, Delta Axis. |
1999-2003 |
Curator of Memphis alternative exhibition space, Delta Axis at Marshall Arts. |
1994-1996 |
Member of Memphis artists' studios and exhibition space, Marshall Arts. |
1990-1991 |
Volunteered for non-profit gallery, Memphis Center for Contemporary Arts, director Robert McGowan. |
