In July of this year, Dr. Marjorie Hass began her job as the 20th president of Rhodes College. Coming from being the president of Austin College in Texas, Marjorie knew that creating a livable, comfortable home that would represent her new era as Rhodes College’s president would be an essential part of her transition to Memphis. And interior designer and Memphian Rachel Gray of Rachel Gray Interior Design & Consulting helped make this transition a seamless one for Marjorie and her family.

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PULSE Miami Beach 2017 has announced its artist selections for the PULSE PRIZE competition as well as the list of exhibiting artists who will be presented in the CONVERSATIONS Sections of the fair's South Tent. There are 16 artists who are contenders for the PULSE PRIZE and will present their art in the SOLO Section of the art fair, held during Miami Art Week in December. The PULSE PRIZE is a jury-awarded cash grant given directly to a chosen artist during PULSE Miami Beach. 

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Anne Siems considers herself a conduit of visual communication, as she says, “a visceral prophet.” She transmits inner and outer worlds as figurative artworks filled with feeling and intrigue. External factors such as her role in her family, her health, social political upheavals, the environment, spiritual practices, and technology affect her artworks unconsciously as she focuses her attention on making compositions that resonate on their own. She explains, “I like my work to be a mystery and that it expresses itself through discernment. It’s obscure, and I don’t really work from my brain, which allows me to make a bigger statement. I want it to really meet all of us at a level where we aren’t analyzing it. Where we are just letting it penetrate us.”

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Mark Bradley-Shoup’s abstract studies of architectural spaces feature exacting brushwork in scenes permeated with Zen stillness. Wolf Kahn’s paintings are also noted for their sense of stillness, but the artist’s preoccupation with natural landscapes makes his work a perfect complement to Bradley-Shoup’s.

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Hello! Here we are… September and Season No.2 of ART FOR YOUR EAR! I couldn’t think of a better way to kick things off than with the ghostly dresses, strange animals, delicate faces of the incredibly talented German born, Seattle based artist Anne Siems! I was so excited to finally talk to her, and thrilled to have another excuse to post a bunch of her stunning paintings.

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Artist Greely Myatt doesn't let his past life events go to waste. Take the pine tree he planted decades ago in his mother's yard. "When I was in the third grade, my teacher — Mrs. Davis — gave all the kids in the class a little pine sapling, and we were supposed to take it home and plant it," says Myatt, who is 65 and a professor of art at the University of Memphis. "Well, I was a reasonably good student, and I did. Fifty-five years later, my sister called me up and said, 'Hey, I cut your tree. Do you want any of it?'" Their mother had the pine tree cut down because she was afraid it would fall on her house. Myatt said he wanted all 60 feet of it.

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Hodges Taylor, in collaboration with David Lusk Gallery, presents the recent paintings and sculptures by Kit Reuther. The Nashville-based and self-taught Reuther has evolved over her career from realism to complete abstractionism.

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American photographer William Eggleston (who has been credited as “the godfather of color photography”) has announced his debut record at age 78. It’s called Musik, and it arrives October 20 via Secretly Canadian. He’s also shared the first song from the album. Watch the visual for “Untitled Improvisation FD 1.10,” and view the LP’s cover art and tracklisting below. Musik (in the German spelling in honor of “his hero” Johann Sebastian Bach) is produced by the Numero Group co-founder Tom Lunt.

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