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Renowned artist Cliffton Peacock has joined us here at Yellowhammer Press, adding his muted, eerie portraits to the eclectic YHP mix. Relying on images emerging straight from his imagination, Peacock avoids detail and instead lays down his subjects in broad raw strokes. The hushed blue and green backdrops are subdued starting points for surprisingly aggressive [...]

One of our very own, Jane Allen Nodine, presents a new exhibit of her encaustic art  at the Myst Contemporary Gallery in Spartanburg, SC.  The exhibit opens today (1.21) and runs through February 16.  If you’re in the area, show some support!

The Appalachian Photographers Project features 18 photographers from the Southern Appalachian states.  Their work [...]

Julie Püttgen’s Cloudmapping series is a spontaneous reaction to “a set of givens.” Exploring the revelatory aspects of artistic creation and the narratives that inadvertently stem from the creative act, Püttgen’s paintings are the nucleus of the multimedia collaboration Unless & Until, with text by JS van Buskirk, music by James R. Carlson, and [...]

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added three exceptional artists to our site tonight. Jane Allen Nodine, Elin O’Hara Slavick, and Christopher McNulty join our stable of Southern artists, and we couldn’t be happier.

Jane Allen Nodine, Professor of Art and Director of the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina [...]

Walter Inglis Anderson, the reclusive and troubled artist from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, is certainly not as famous as he deserves to be.  Though the museum that bears his name makes no mention of the exhibit on their site, Coastal Artists Reflect on Walter Inglis Anderson asks artists from the coastal South to reflect upon and [...]

“Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: The Nature of Being Southern” opened this week at the Troy Pike Cultural Arts Complex. Forty-one artists who live and work in Alabama are exhibiting their work, all of whom have received Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Notable artists include Caroline Davis, whose background in [...]

It is my pleasure to introduce the Art section of Yellowhammer Press, offering the first online space for contemporary and emerging Southern art (or at least the first one that takes a few steps away from ceramic roosters). We look forward to exploring issues of Southern identity and its impact on artists and their work [...]

In one of those rare moments of clarity, I awoke this morning remembering The Republic of Winston.  Having had a discussion with a friend last night about the hair-pulling over the Jones County story, I suddenly remembered a similar tale from Alabama.  Often referred to as The Republic of Winston, Winston County, Alabama was an [...]