Stock & Belle
Address: 387 South Main Street, Memphis, TN 38103
Opening Date: April 28, 2023
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10AM - 7PM; Saturday, 10AM - 6PM; Sunday, 12PM - 5PM
Website: stockandbelle.myshopify.com
Join Stock & Belle for an artist talk and opening reception feat. works on view by Brittney Boyd Bullock on Friday, April 28 from 4:00-9:00pm. The artist talk will begin at 4:00pm and the reception will begin at 6:00pm. This exhibition is a response to the Tennessee Triennial theme of RE-PAIR.
About the Artist
Brittney Boyd Bullock is a visual artist living and working in Memphis, TN. As an artist working in fiber, mixed media, and abstraction, her practice explores the power and connection felt when we slow down to reimagine and reframe the observable world. Outside of her studio practice, she is a non-profit arts consultant, educator, and arts advocate.
Boyd Bullock has worked as Project Manager for the Urban Art Commission, managing Memphis's largest public art archive, and as the Partnerships and Community Engagement Manager for Crosstown Concourse & Crosstown Arts, overseeing various collaborative creative programs and exhibitions. As the former director of youth programs for the Memphis Music Initiative, she developed an award-winning program for black and brown youth where she cultivated relationships with young people and arts organizations to build spaces for youth that inspire and invite joy, truth-telling, and anti-adultist practices.
She has been awarded grants and fellowships for her work as an artist working in communities, including the Americans for the Arts Public Art Scholarship and Robert E. Gard Award, The Kresge Foundation, and the Assisi Foundation. In 2022, she was awarded the Crosstown Arts artist residency and was a recipient of the 2022 Current Art Fund grant from Tri-Star Arts.
Boyd Bullock describes creativity as a "conduit for our well-being" and a bridge that connects us to the voices of artists and people from the past. She invites us all to sit in a place of inquiry and redefine how, why, and for what purposes we create.
Image credit:
Title: Out my mind, just in time
Year: 2021
Dimension: 4FT x 6FT
Medium: fiber, yarn, mylar, sequin, rope, zip ties, chenille stems, tulle
Image courtesy of the artist