From large-scale installations to tiny works on paper, Jonathan Kent Adams presents his paintings in traditional and unorthodox ways. This presentation allows for viewers to imagine those who do not follow social constructions existing alongside those who do.

Adams's work places emphasis on the figure, but also explores communication through still life, video, poetry, and occasional landscape. Similar to contemporary artist Lesley Dill, Adams creates realities that stem from words he encounters. His work encourages self-discovery amid traditions that often deny the outsider's existence.

Adams earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of Mississippi. He studied under Mary Beth Mckenzie at the Art Students League of New York. His work was shown alongside other LGBTQ artists at Art Basel Miami in 2015 and 2016.

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Melanie Antonelli was born and raised in Central Florida. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Mississippi. Antonelli is a multimedia artist whose work explores femininity, pop culture, the macabre, and the surreal. Antonelli primarily does portrait commissions, but has also shown at the LeMieux Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana; Fischer Galleries in Jackson, Mississippi; and the Oxford Treehouse Gallery in Oxford, Mississippi.

Antonelli lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with her husband, Zachary, and their cats, Artemis and Oliver. She is the Collections Manager at the University of Mississippi Museum.

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After studying at at Ole Miss (BFA 2004), Miami University (MFA 2009), and teaching drawing and painting at Miami University, Mississippi State University, and Ole Miss, Charlie Buckley now spends his time as a working artist. He has participated in international and national exhibitions, and shows regularly in the region.

Buckley was awarded a Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Mississippi Arts Commission and his work is in the collections of the Walton Family Foundation, Bank Plus, The Graduate Hotel, the Community Development Foundation, Metropolitan Bank, the Arkansas Children's Hospital, CARTI Little Rock, the University of Mississippi, Baptist Memorial Hospital, and others.

Buckley operates a full-time studio in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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Jane Rule Burdine has photographed the people and landscapes of Mississippi and beyond for more than 40 years. She was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, but purchased a farm in Taylor, Mississippi, in 1983. During the Southern writing renaissance of the 80s and 90s in Oxford, her home became a central hub for bohemian life. Throughout the years, Jane Rule has hosted the famous and infamous - world renowned actors, musicians, artists and writers, mixed with farmers, hunters, outlaws, bootleggers, liars, and every imaginable storyteller.

"There is a vigor and honesty in her work not seen in American photography in many years. Once called by the writer Barry Hannah the 'Gertrude Stein of the Mississippi,' Burdine might be the most famous unknown artist in the South. Yet her talent reaches far beyond any region. Through the quotidian, she arrives at the universal, the uncanny, the beautifully strange."

- Michael Bible, author

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Linda Burgess is an artist and writer whose work can be found in the collections of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Mint Museum of Art, The Polaroid International Collection, Zimmerli Museum of Art, and McGraw-Hill Publishing, among others. In addition to writing about art for Art & Antiques, ARTnews, and The Washington Review, she is the author of Mount Vernon's Magnificent Menagerie and the Very Mysterious Guest, a children's book about George Washington's animals, illustrated by her daughter and artist, Maggie Dunlap.

Burgess received a BA in Art and Music from Appalachian State University, and an MFA in painting from Rutgers University, where she studied with Leon Golub. As an Associate Professor of Art, she taught Painting at Birmingham-Southern College, and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as an Adjunct Professor with the University of New Haven.

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Langdon Clay was born in the middle of a hurricane in New York City in 1949. He grew up in New Jersey and Vermont and went to school in New Hampshire and Boston. He got his first camera on St. Patrick's Day 1968. His first roll of film was of Robert Kennedy leading the parade in New York. Three months later, the presidential candidate was assassinated.

Clay moved to New York in 1971 and spent the next 16 years photographing there, around the country, and in Europe for magazines and books like Jefferson's Monteceillo by Howard Adams and Burgandy cookbook My Chateau Kitchen by Anne Willen.

His book CARS 1974-1976 was published by Stiedl in November 2016. Cars were an indispensable aspect of twentieth-century culture, both for their utility and aesthetics. From 1974 to 1976, Clay photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New York City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey, at night. Shot in Kodachrome with a Leica and deftly lit with then new sodium vapor lights, the pictures feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and occasionally the ghostly presence of people.

"I experienced a conversion of sorts in making a switch from the 'decisive moment' of black and white to the marvel of color, a world I was waking up to every day. At the time it seemed like an obvious and natural transition. What was less obvious was how to reflect my world of New York City in color... I discovered that night was its own color and I fell for it." - Langdon Clay

In 1987, he moved to Mississippi and has worked from there with his wife, photographer Maude Schuyler Clay. They have three adult children, Anna, Schuyler, and Sophie.

Clay and his wife, photographer Maude Schyuler Clay, are exhibiting at the University of Mississippi Museum for the first time together from September 17, 2019 until February 15, 2020.

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Langdon Clay was born in the middle of a hurricane in New York City in 1949. He grew up in New Jersey and Vermont and went to school in New Hampshire and Boston. He got his first camera on St. Patrick's Day 1968. His first roll of film was of Robert Kennedy leading the parade in New York. Three months later, the presidential candidate was assassinated.

Clay moved to New York in 1971 and spent the next 16 years photographing there, around the country, and in Europe for magazines and books like Jefferson's Monteceillo by Howard Adams and Burgandy cookbook My Chateau Kitchen by Anne Willen.

His book CARS 1974-1976 was published by Stiedl in November 2016. Cars were an indispensable aspect of twentieth-century culture, both for their utility and aesthetics. From 1974 to 1976, Clay photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New York City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey, at night. Shot in Kodachrome with a Leica and deftly lit with then new sodium vapor lights, the pictures feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and occasionally the ghostly presence of people.

"I experienced a conversion of sorts in making a switch from the 'decisive moment' of black and white to the marvel of color, a world I was waking up to every day. At the time it seemed like an obvious and natural transition. What was less obvious was how to reflect my world of New York City in color... I discovered that night was its own color and I fell for it." - Langdon Clay

In 1987, he moved to Mississippi and has worked from there with his wife, photographer Maude Schuyler Clay. They have three adult children, Anna, Schuyler, and Sophie.

Clay and his wife, photographer Maude Schyuler Clay, are exhibiting at the University of Mississippi Museum for the first time together from September 17, 2019 until February 15, 2020.

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Maude Schuyler Clay was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi and the Memphis Academy of Arts, she assisted photographer William Eggleston.

Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; the National Museum for Women in the Arts; and the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia; among others. The University Press of Mississippi published her monograph Delta Land in 1999, which received the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award in 2000, and Delta Dogs, which received the award in 2014. She was the Photography Editor of the literary magazine The Oxford American from 1998 to 2002.

Her most recent book, Mississippi History, with a foreword by Richard Ford, was published in 2015 by Steidl. She continues to live and work in the Mississippi Delta with her husband, Langdon, and their three adult children, Anna, Schyler, and Sophie.

Clay and her husband, photographer Langdon Clay, are exhibiting at the University of Mississippi Museum for the first time together from September 17, 2019 until February 15, 2020.

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William Dunlap is a painter, writer, arts advocate, and commentator. The American landscape and its flora and fauna are essential elements in Dunlap's art, as are certain iconic Old Masters, such as Rembrandt's series of self-portraits, which he quotes in paintings and constructions.

He calls what he does Hypothetical Realism. "The places and situations I paint aren't real? but they could be." Allegory is ever present in this work. Whether on the page or the picture plane, Dunlap expects the viewer to meet him halfway. There is nothing backward looking about narrative art. On the contrary, one can hardly contemplate something more contemporary or edgy.

In a career spanning more than four decades, Dunlap has exhibited internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. He has received awards and honors from the Danforth, Rockefeller, Lila Wallace and Warhol Foundations, as well as the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.

William Dunlap maintains studios in Coral Gables, Florida; McLean, Virginia; and Mathiston, Mississippi.

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Ansley Givhan received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Painting from the University of Mississippi in 2016. Currently based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ansley experiments with various media including watercolor, ink, oil paint, pastel, spray paint, thread, and collage.

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With a juris doctorate cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law, a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Davidson College, and subsequent studies at Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris, Sarah Frances Hardy took an early retirement from practicing law to paint and write full time.

Hardy's paintings are characterized by vivid colors and expressive brushstrokes. She has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the Southeast, as well as at a gallery in Soho. Her corporate clients include Steve Wynn, who purchased several of Hardy's paintings for the Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Most recently, Hardy has redirected her creative juices towards writing and illustrating books for children - picture books as well as middle grade and young adult novels.

Her first book Puzzled By Pink, which she both wrote and illustrated, was published in 2012 by Viking Children's Books. Her next book Paint Me!, about a girl who begins the day painting a portrait of her dog and ends up painting everything she comes across, was published by Sky Pony Press in 2014.

Her newest release Dress Me!, about a little girl who dresses up in lots of different costumes trying out lots of different careers, was published in 2015 by Sky Pony Press.

Hardy lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with her husband, John, and their two daughters.

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Randy Hayes took his first art lessons from Lawrence Anthony at Southwestern in Memphis, Tennessee (now Rhodes College) at the age of 18. The following year, Hayes took a freighter to Europe with a friend. Hitchhiking on a meager budget, he was in Europe when he made the decision to become an artist. Upon his return, Hayes transferred to the Memphis College of Art, where he received his BFA. Moving to Boston in 1972, he found work as a freelance scenic designer. Most of his work was with the local PBS television station WGBH. The experience had a significant impact on his future work.

In 1975, Hayes moved to Seattle and opened a used and rare book store with a friend. He established a gallery in the store and exhibited the work of numerous artists and photographers. At the same time, he began to exhibit his own art, both locally and nationally. A fellowship with two other artists from the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery made it possible for Hayes to work in Rome for two months. A commission for the Port of Seattle Headquarters allowed the artist to travel to Asia, Africa, and Europe to photograph ports. More recently travels to Turkey and Japan continued a lifelong passion for travel.

In 2004, the artist returned to Mississippi part time, and in 2014, he moved from Seattle to Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he now lives and works.

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Inspired by narratives and personal revelations, Terry Lynn creates artworks that evoke and challenge the viewers' memories and emotional response.

Lynn received his BFA from the University of Memphis and his MFA with an emphasis in painting from the University of Mississippi. His work is included in numerous private and corporate collections. Exhibitions include the David Lusk Gallery, Brooks Museum of Art, and Dixon Art Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee; the Bayou Art Gallery in Sumner, Mississippi; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, New York; and the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria. Notable collectors include Kanye West, Black Enterprise founder Earl Graves, Ralph White of Earth Wind and Fire, singer/songwriter Kem, Alonzo and Tracey Mourning, BET Founder Bob Johnson, and Ulysses "Junior" Bridgman, among others.

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The work of realist painter Laurin McCracken is influenced by the Dutch and Flemish still life painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. Although McCracken did not take up watercolor until later in life, his existing skills in drawing, photography, and observation provided a strong foundation for his mastery of the medium. He studied with Gwenn Bragg at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia, and with Alain Gavin at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also carefully studied the works of still life masters who inspired his work.

Before a serious commitment to the medium of watercolor in 2000, McCracken was a successful architect and a part-time photographer. He attended Auburn University and earned his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University. He followed that with a Masters in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University. His work as a practicing architect and as a photographer allowed him to travel extensively in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. His photographs have been widely published in architectural journals, as book covers, and as book illustrations.

McCracken's paintings have won many awards and have been exhibited in juried shows from coast to coast and internationally. Shows include those of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society, the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, and the Southern Watercolor Society. His paintings have also been included in many competitive international shows, including the Beijing International Art Biennale 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017; the Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial 2012, 2014; the Thailand World Watermedia Exhibition 2014; and the Masters of Watercolour 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia.

McCracken is the current president of the Watercolor USA Honor Society and the Country Leader for the USA for the Fabriano in Acquarello in Fabriano, Italy. He is a signature member of more than a dozen watercolor societies.

A native of Meridian, Mississippi, McCracken currently resides and paints in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Billy Solitario was born in Manhattan Beach, California, in 1972. His family then moved to Gautier, Mississippi, located on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1994, Billy graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in painting. After graduation, he moved to New Orleans. While attending the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, Billy worked as a graphic artist with a small advertising agency. In 1997, he received the Gwendolyn Ozol's Scholarship Award and studied painting full time. In 2003, Billy received an MFA in painting from Tulane University.

He currently shows at LeMieux Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Red Bird Gallery in Seaside, Florida; Sheldon Fine Art in Naples, Florida; Brown's Fine Art in Jackson, Mississippi; the Canary Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama; and the Pink Roster Gallery in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Billy Solitario can be found working on site or at his Magazine Street studio in New Orleans.

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Brooke White is both a practicing artist and educator specializing in art photography and video art, with an M.F.A. from Cornell University and a B.F.A from Alfred University, New York State College of Ceramics. White has exhibited her photographs and videos nationally and internationally including the Hammer Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in India and is a recipient of numerous Mississippi Arts Council Individual artist grants. Her work has been published in Aint Bad Magazine and the Oxford American and is part of the Do Good Fund's collection.

White is represented by Galerie MB in Paris, France.

White resides in Oxford, MS where she is Professor of Art in the Department of Art &

Art History at the University of Mississippi.

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Claire Whitehurst is an artist living and working in Iowa City, Iowa, where she is teaching and pursuing her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the University of Iowa. She was born in Louisiana and raised in Mississippi, earning her BFA at the University of Mississippi, and a Post Baccalaureate degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, PA.

Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions, and can be found in private collections throughout the United States, and abroad in France and Germany. She has been commissioned for public art installations in Jackson, Mississippi, and in St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She received the Stanley Foundation Grant for International Research to study the formal and sculptural qualities of cave paintings in the Dordogne region of southern France. She is also the recipient of the Mildred Pelzer Lynch Fellowship at the University of Iowa.

Her work explores the space between sense and emotion, the characteristics within the surface of objects as a mythology, and the possibility of narrative through an object's formal qualities.

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