Artists
Survey 1: the EDGE District
Cat
Peña
Peña's artwork blends photography, installation, public art, and sculptural elements in works that challenge the viewer to reposition their perspective physically and mentally.
Peña’s work has been exhibited in-group shows in Seattle, New York, Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis, Boulder, Las Vegas, and Kansas City.
Outside of her studio practice, Peña is dedicated to teaching, and exploring Public Art and Social Practices. In 2014 Pena created Collabortory to help stimulate creative conversations and expand public art in Memphis, TN.
Marco
Pavè
Memphis native Marco Pavé sits at the intersection of hip-hop, arts communities, technology, and local activism, harnessing the power of music to transform his city. From rapping in the third grade at his North Memphis elementary school to performing at SXSW 2014, Marco’s experiences coming of age as the youngest of four in a Muslim household with a single father render him a unique storyteller and observer of social reality.
Cedar
Nordbye
Cedar Lorca Nordbye works across artistic disciplines of performance, installation, writing, and printmaking to address topics of conflict, idea construction, arguments, and the interrelationships between seemingly unrelated things.
Nordbye has a B.A. from Hampshire College and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He serves as Associate Professor of Art at the University of Memphis.
Kiersten
Williams
Williams primarily works in mixed media collage at Marshall Arts Studio and Gallery. Her work has been featured in the Brooks Museum of Art, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the Dixon Gallery among others.
She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Memphis, 2004 - Memphis, TN /Overton High School, Advanced Placement Studio Art- Memphis, TN
Lester
Merriweather
Merriweather is a Memphis-based visual artist. He attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture & holds an MFA from Memphis College of Art & a BA from Jackson State University.
Merriweather has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. at various venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, TOPS Gallery & Powerhouse in Memphis, Diverseworks in Houston, and the Contemporary in Atlanta. He has also exhibited abroad at the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland & currently serves as a member of ArtsMemphis’ Artist Advisory Council.
Robin
Salant
Salant's work is concept-driven and experiential, often engaging community / public in execution or inception. From interactive installation to performance art to photograph, from place-making to art object, form follows function through each media.
Inspired by science, aesthetics and collaboration, the work aims to be broadly accessible, and to also speak in layers upon each interaction.
Kristi
Duckworth
Duckworth is a ceramicist, mosaic artist, and painter who works with communities on public art projects. She has a studio at 597 Madison where she teaches. works on projects, and invites in other artists and musicians for events. She loves nature and works with Memphis Kids in Nature (a non-profit that provides fun experiences for kids in nature).
Anthony
Lee
Lee’s current mode of painting utilizes geometric abstraction with neo-minimalist sensibilities that is influenced by the cultures and heritage of the places he has lived. Lee credits his West Indian roots in the U.S. Virgin Islands as an important contributing factor in his creative development but considers himself a Memphis native.
His work has been featured at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Powerhouse, Dixon Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, National Civil Rights Museum, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, and several galleries throughout the U.S. In addition Lee has created many public art projects and large-scale mural works, of which one was nationally recognized and awarded in 2009.