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Jeane
Umbreit, Memphis,TN
Represented
by: David Lusk Gallery contact
person: Robert Hollingsworth
Born in 1953 in
Minneapolis, MN
I am amazed with the photograph. In photography I am the creator, but
I am also an outsider, a spectator. As simultaneously spectator and
creator, I witness and capture the perspective, moment, or subject
which makes the real surreal. I sometimes layer my images to create
photomontage, their combinations demonstrating the complexities of
the subject. My application of oil color to the black and white photographs
is also surrealistic in nature.
In realizing a photograph I search for a meaning that the spectator
can bring to the photograph, hoping he connects with it on a deep and
personal level of consciousness. Roland Barthes states "Of course
I could make out in photography a whole network of essences, material...regional...but
I branched off; instead of following the path of a formal ontology
(of a logic), I stopped, keeping with me, like a treasure, my desire
or my grief. As spectator... I wanted to explore it not as a question
(a theme) but as a wound: I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe,
and I think. "
solo exhibitions
2005 Blackbird, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2002 Blue, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
1997 Passage, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995 The Fall, Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994 The Painted Photograph, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville,
TN
1991 Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
La Desercion Divina, Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1990 The French Lessons, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989 Home, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
1988 Fall Exhibition, Mc Coy Theatre, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Secret Places, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
group exhibitions
2004 Work selected for participation in the US Art in the Embassies
Program, on loan to the US Embassy in Damacus, Syria
Brown vs School Board Invitational, National Civil Rights Museum,
Memphis, TN
2001 The Price is Right 3, Don't Stop `Til You Get Enough, David Lusk Gallery,
Memphis, TN
2000 Visualizing the Blues, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 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, Glens Falls, NY; Telfair Museum of Art,
Savannah, GA;
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Spectrum `00, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
The Price is Right 2, Once is Never Enough, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Southern Exposure, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
traveling to Hand
Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke,
VA;
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
18th Annual Juried Show, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Light and Life, Buckman Arts Center, St. Mary's, Memphis, TN
1999 Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, exhibition at Memphis College
of Art, Memphis, TN
Price is Right, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 YWCA Centennial Women's Art Exhibition, Tennessee State Museum,
Nashville, TN
Director's Council Exhibit, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Works on Paper, The Armory, New York, NY
1997 The Hand Painted Photograph, traveling exhibition through 1998: University
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
Memphis College of Art Biennial, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Works On Paper, The Armory, New York, NY
1996 Art Fair Seattle, Seattle, WA
The Art of Photography, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Tree As Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Gardens: Primeval and Eternal, Delta Axis Contemporary Art Center, Memphis,
TN
Memphis In May 20th Anniversary, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995 Holiday, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995 Opening, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994 The Other Show, Martshall Arts, Memphis, TN
1993 Tennessee Women Artists, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN (curated
by National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, DC)
From The Mountains... to the Mississippi: West Tennessee Women Artists, The
University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN
1992 Photography in the South: From Barnard to Eggleston, Photogroup Center,
Coral Gables, FL
Midtown Y- Photography Gallery, New York, NY
Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Emerging Southern Photographers, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1991 The Magic Silver Show, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls,
IA
21st Annual Prints, Drawing & Photographs Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center,
Little Rock, AR
1990 National Works on Paper, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Hot Springs Cultural Arts Center, Hot Springs, AR
1989 The City of Memphis and Coalition for Visual Arts, Memphis North Light
Gallery, Memphis, TN
8th Annual Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
1988 Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Women Artist 88, Matrix, Sacramento, CA
1987 Introductions, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
19th Annual Prints, Drawings, & Photographs Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center,
Little Rock, AR
2nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Downtown Association of Memphis, Memphis,
TNactivities & awards
2005 Selected by the US State Department along with fifty other artists for
inclusion in publication of desk diary given as an official gift to members
of the international diplomatic corp
1998 Excellence in Design & Communication for Passage catalog, Communigraphics
Show
Commissioned works for Memphis/Shelby County Room, Public Library Building,
Memphis, TN
1997 Memphis Advertising Federation & St. Jude's Hospital, images for greeting
cards
1991 Memphis In May Poster Artist for France
bibliography
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowlers, The Far Side of Memory: Southern Perspectives
from Jeane Umbriet and Pam Cobb,
November 17-23, 2005
Memphis Flyer, Year in Review, December 29, 2005, p 23
Fredric Koeppel, Commercial Appeal Artistic Sights Worth Seeing in 2005, Dec
30, 2005, p. 26
Fredric Koeppel, Commercial Appeal, Pick of the Week, September 25, 1994
Fredric, Koeppel, Commercial Appeal, Festival Exhibition Steps Up In Quality,
September 15, 1994
Fredric Koepple, Commercial Appeal,, Photographer's Works Illustrate Death
As Beauty, November 22, 1991
Fredric Koeppel, Commercial Appeal,, Photographer Interprets French Dreamscape,
April 23, 1990
Ashley Moore, Commercial Appeal, Gardens Exhibit Combines Gaudy & Subtle
Delights, April 1996
Memphis Business Journal, Ed Hicks, Shades of Blue, Artist provides another
view of Memphis landscapes, April 5-11, 2002, pg.39-40
Memphis Flyer, L. Betel, An Imperfect Pairing, January 19-25, 1995
Memphis Magazine, Visualizing the Blues: An Exhibition of the Dixon
Gallery and Gardens, October 2000, pgs. 80-84
September 1997, pg. 9
Memphis: New Visions, New Horizons, David Dawson & Brian Groppe, Towery
Publishing, Inc., 1997, Cover Image
Mid-South Artist, Meet The Artist Series, October 1995
Number, Cory Dugan, Introductions, Winter 1988, Volume 1, Number 3
Southern Accents, September/October 1997
public collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Assisi Foundation, Memphis, TN
BellSouth Mobility, Memphis, TN
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Campbell Clinic, Memphis, TN
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Delta Airlines, Memphis, TN
Dobb's House, Inc., Dallas, TX
Enterprise National Bank, Memphis, TN
Ernst & Young, Memphis, TN
GI Pathology, Memphis, TN
Harrah's Casinos Headquarters, Tunica, MS
Holiday Corporation, Atlanta, GA
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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