SARA GOOD
EDUCATION
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, MFA, 1994
Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, BFA, 1990
University of Houston, Clear Lake City, TX, 1984-88
College of the Mainland Community College, Texas City, TX, 1983-84
Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, 1980-82
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Contextual Narratives, (Solo Exhibition), Tullahoma Art Center, Tullahoma, TN, 2019
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
59th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mt, NC, 2016 (juror Kim Winkle)
Arts in the Park Juried Exhibition, Arts in the Park Festival, Audubon Park, Memphis, TN, 2002 (juror Michael Beam)
Arts in the Park Juried Exhibition, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, 1997 (juror Carl Solway)
Thirty-Eighth Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1995 (juror Ted Potter)
Clay Does it All, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 1995 (juror Richard Shaw)
45th Spiva Annual Competition, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, 1995 (juror Warren Rosser, catalogue)
Arts in the Park Juried Exhibition, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, 1994 (juror Susan Krane)
Art With a Southern Drawl, Thomas T. Martin Fine Arts Building, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL, 1994 (jurors anonymous)
New Blood, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY, 1993 (juror Roseanne Somerson)
From the Mountains to the Mississippi, West Tennessee Regional Division, University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, 1993 (jurors Patricia Bladon, Kevin Grogan, Ellen Simak, Stephen Wicks)
Thirty-Fourth Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1991 (juror George Adams)
Arts in the Park Juried Exhibition, Arts in the Park Festival, Overton Park, Memphis, TN, 1991 (juror Claudia Demonte)
GROUP, CURATED EXHIBITIONS
Circuitous Succession: Epilogue III, (Multi-artist Curated Exhibition), Masonic Contemporary Gallery, Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Memphis, TN 2016
Belongings II: Repurposed, (Multi-artist Exhibition), Crosstown Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2016
Disco, (Multi-artist Curated Exhibition), Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2015
Hanging Participles, (Multi-artist Exhibition), Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2013
A New Beginning: The Vernal Season, (Three-person Exhibition), Harrington Brown Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2012
Defining Space, (Three-person Sculpture Exhibition), Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX, 2005
Surface Gardens, (Two-person Exhibition), Wright Gallery, Fielding Wright Art Center, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS, 2004
Max: 2003, (Regional Curated Exhibition), Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2003 (curator Beth Venn, catalogue)
The Dialectics of Space, (Two-person Installation Exhibition, Lecture, Studio Visits), Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 2000
4 From 3:Â The Southern Aesthetic Installed, (Four-person Installation Exhibition), University Art Museum, Fletcher Hall Gallery, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 1999, (catalogue)
Homelands, (Three-person Curated Exhibition), St. Petersburg Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1998
Max: 98, (Regional Curated Exhibition), Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 1998, (curator Kim Levine, catalogue)
Untitled, (Two-person Exhibition), Merkle Gallery, South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AR, 1998
Parts, Bits, Pieces: Charmed Objects and Leftover Landscapes, (Two-person Exhibition), Eads Gallery, Eads, TN 1996
Multiples II, (Group Exhibition), Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN, 1995
Multiples, (Group Exhibition), Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN, 1994
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Hanging Participles, Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2013
GM Selects, Component of Greely Myatt and Exactly Twenty Years, Caseworks Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 2009
Empire Builders, (Two-gallery Collaborative Exhibition), Ruby Green Contemporary Arts Center and Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2004
Arts in the Park Invitational Exhibition, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Gardens, Memphis, TN, 1998
Visions and Revisions, (Multi-artist Invitational Exhibition), University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, 1994
Perfect Oddities, Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center, Memphis, TN, 1994
Little Things, (Traveling Group Exhibition), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1992, Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center, 1993, Art in General, New York, NY, 1994
Masks to Monoliths, (Group Exhibition), Eads Gallery, Eads, TN, 1992
Standing Room Only, (Group Sculpture Exhibition), Eads Gallery, Eads, TN, 1990
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Seed to Soil to Seed: Ad Infinitum, Cameron Gallery, The Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC, 2017
Fixtures, Contraptions, and Other Composites, Upper Level Gallery, Caldwell Arts Council, Lenoir, NC, 2017
sometimes something small …, Third Floor East Gallery, Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, Huntsville, AL, 2014
Seed to Soil to Sediment, (Lecture), Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL, 2014
Of Skin, Of Soil, (Class Talk, Gallery Talk), Salmon Library Gallery, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, 2013)
Pieces of the Field, (Gallery Talk), Troy Plunk Gallery, Bullinger-Clayton Fine Arts Building, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN, 2012
Ground Cover, Visual Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro, TN, 2012
From the Ground Up, Marley Berger Gallery, Arts Center of Cannon County, Woodbury, TN, 2012Â
In the Space of Soil, (Gallery Talk), Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 2011
What Grows, (Gallery Talk, Workshop), Adams Gallery, Heydel Fine Arts Center and Sculpture Studio, Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN, 2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Like Seed to Soil and So On, (Lecture), River Campus Gallery, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, 2010
Like Seed to Soil, Gallery B, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2010 Â Imprint, Edith Davis Gallery, Rose Center for the Arts, Morristown, TN, 2009
Soil-Less, (Gallery Talk), Rusteberg Gallery, University of Texas, Brownsville, TX, 2009
Fall, Rise, Cover, (Gallery Talk), Lula Ameen Gallery, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA, 2008
In the Walls & On the Ground, East Wing Gallery, Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN, 2008
I Works, Bry Gallery, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA, 2007
Gathered Selves, Burdette Gallery, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS, 2007, (catalogue)
Pieces of, Places for, Hendersonville Arts Council Galleries, Monthaven Arts Center, Hendersonville, TN, 2006
If Anything’s a Garden …, (Gallery Talk), Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 2004
Ideas About the Garden, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 2004, (catalogue)
Falling, Fallen, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2003
Of Land and Space and Fallen Things, (Lecture), Gardiner Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2003
Falling Leaves, (Gallery Talk, Lecture), Dupont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 2002
Fixtures, Coverings, and Other Pieces of Space, (Gallery Talk), Turner Art Center Gallery, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, 2001
Words to Wishes to Acts of Consumption, Omega Gallery, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN, 2001
Acts of Consumption, Acts of Will, Ruby Green Contemporary Art Foundation, Nashville, TN, 2001
Empathy Zones, (Lecture, Studio Visits), Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2001
Domestic Narratives, Inside Stories, (Lecture), Margaret Fort Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, 2000
Recent Works, Pieces of the Narrative, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, 2000
Wishful Thinking, (Lecture, Studio Visits), Moudy Exhibition Hall, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX, 1999
Presence of Mother, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1999
Secret, No Secret, Gallery II, University Gallery, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, 1997
Secrets, Answers, and Other Clues, University Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, 1997
It’s All in the Making, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN, 1992
Recent Works, Cossitt Library Gallery, Cossitt Library, Memphis, TN, 1992
PUBLIC WORKS, PROJECTS, INSTALLATIONS
Relic, Site-responsive Installation, Third Floor Corridor, Masonic Contemporary Gallery, Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Memphis, TN, 2016
Series of Site-responsive Installations, Part of Larger sometimes something small … Exhibition, Third Floor East Gallery, Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, Huntsville, AL, 2014 Â
Composite Botanical #1, 2-year Placement, Sculpture Garden Porch, Memphis Botanic Garden, Â Memphis, TN, 2011-13
Show Me Your Garden, Collaborative Project with 60 Art Students and Faculty of Overton High School, ArtLab Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2005
The Stuff that Surrounds You, Temporary Outdoor Installation, Collaborative Project with Various Student Groups, Special Projects Division, Arts in the Park Festival, Audubon Park, Memphis, TN, 2002
Room to Grow, Collaborative Project with 60 CAPA Art Students and Art Faculty of Overton High School, ArtLab Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2001
Like So Many Old Gloves, Interior Companion Piece to Exterior Site-specific Project, They Come and They Go, Gallery A, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 1997
They Come and They Go, Site-specific Commissioned Installation, One of Ten X Marks the Spot Projects, Exterior Amphitheatre Wall, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 1997
Big Catch Today, Temporary Outdoor Installation, Special Projects Division, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, 1995
Domestic Concerns (They Never Go Away), Temporary Outdoor Installation, Special Projects Division, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, 1993
They Never Go Away, Project Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, 1992
All the Innocence in the World Won’t Save You II, Temporary Outdoor Installation, Special Projects Division, Arts in the Park Festival, Overton Park, Memphis, TN, 1992
All the Innocence in the World Won’t Save You, Project Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, 1991
LET ME BORE YOU WITH MY PRESENCE, Second Street Windows, Memphis, TN, 1991
Private Totem #2, Temporary Outdoor Installation, Memphis State University Campus, Memphis, TN, 1991
Road God in Totem Form, Permanent Outdoor Installation, Eads Gallery Grounds, Eads, TN, 1990
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, GALLERY TALKS
Workshop Series and Gallery Talk, Conducted for Project, Show Me Your Garden, Executed with 60 Art Students of Overton High School, 2005
Workshop Series, Conducted for Project, The Stuff that Surrounds You, Executed with Various Student Groups, 2002
Workshop Series and Gallery Talk, Conducted for Project, Room to Grow, Executed with 60 CAPA Art Students of Overton High School and 2 Classes from University of Memphis, 2001
Public Lecture, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, 2000
Workshop Series, Conducted for Project, Comfort Zone (Doily Effect), Executed with Classes from University of Memphis and Memphis College of Art, 2000
(See other lectures, gallery talks, studio visits in exhibition listings)
AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS
Best of Sculpture, Arts in the Park Juried Exhibition, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Gardens, Memphis, TN, 1997
Second Place Award, Special Projects Division, Arts in the Park Festival, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, 1995
Best of Show, 45th Spiva Annual Competition, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, 1995
Merit Award, Art with a Southern Drawl, Thomas T. Martin Fine Arts Building, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL, 1994
Graduate Assistantships, Office of the Dean and Department of Art (Sculpture, Ceramics), University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 1991-94
Part-time Masters Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Memphis, 1992-93
Best of Special Projects, Special Projects Division, Arts in the Park Festival, Overton Park, Memphis, TN, 1992
COLLECTIONS
Various Private Collections in Memphis, TN, Chicago, IL, and Houston, TX
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, POSTS
Sara Good: Seed to Soil to Seed: Ad Infinitum, Indy Week, Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, August 16-23, 2017, pg. 33
Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, Offers Two New Exhibits Featuring Works by Four Artists, Carolina Arts, Vol. 21, No. 2, February, 2017, pgs. 23,24. http://www.carolinaarts.com/217/217carolinaarts-sp.pdf
Artist Reception with Sara Good, Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, October 2, 2014, http://lowemill.net/ai1ec_event/artist-reception-with-sara-good/?instance_id=
Beyond Boundaries: Sara Good Breaks Barriers of Imagination in Installation Art Exhibit, Entertainment, Decatur Daily, June 5, 2014, http://www.decaturdaily.com/life/entertainment/beyond-boundaries/article_03acb8a8-ec31-11e3-976a-10604b9f7e7c.html
Sara Good Exhibit Shown at Alabama Center for the Arts, WAFF, April 22, 2014, http://www.wsfa.com/story/25311539/sara-good-exhibit-at-alabama-center-for-the-arts
Alabama Center for the Arts to Host Exhibit and Lecture by Sara Good, News, Quadcities Daily, March 30, 2014, http://quadcitiesdaily.com/?p=161203
Sara Good: Like Seed to Soil, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, October 24, 2012, http://www.memphis.edu.amum/exhibitions/sgood.php
Installations by Sara Good Shown at Center, Visual Art, The Boropulse, Murfreesboro, TN, August 1, 2012, http://boropulse.com/2012/08/installations-by-sara-good-shown-at-center//
Abstract Works Thoughtful, Spontaneous, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, March 19, 2010
MMA Hosts First Exhibits of the Year, The Meridian Star, Meridian, MS, 2006
Empire Builders, Number: No. 50, Fall 2004
Max : 03, Number: No. 46, Fall 2003
If Going to the Museum Expect Lines, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, July 20, 2003
Sara Good: Perspectives in Nature, The Conglomerate, Shreveport, LA, December 7, 2001
Art Installation Examines Consumption, Domesticity, and the Correlation of the Two, Nashville Scene, Nashville, TN, July 14, 2001
Things to Do With That Empty Space, The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, KS, April 9, 2000
Good Hunting: Sara Good’s Story and Attractive Opposites at Ledbetter Lusk, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, January 27, 2000
‘Max: 98’ Fills a Void and Bends a Vision, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, June 13, 1998
Maxed Out, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, June 11, 1998
X Marks the Spot: Artist Profiles, Number: No. 33, Fall 1997
Exhibition Reviews, Number: No. 32, Summer 1997
Picks of the Week: Art, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, January 19, 1997
Young Memphis, Number: No. 30, Fall 1996
News and Reviews, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, December 14, 1995
Creative Artists Exhibit Feats of Clay, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, March 21, 1995
Group Shows are a Grab Bag of the Fine, Fun and Funky, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, December 3, 1994
Art Reviews, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, October 18, 1992