Donna Mintz

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DONNA MINTZ

BIO

DonnaMintzisavisualartistwhosepaintingandinstallationisameditationonmemory andplace HerworkcanbefoundinthepermanentcollectionsoftheHighMuseumof Art,theMuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgiaandtheMobileMuseumofArt,where herpaintinghangsintheongoingexhibitionAmericanArt:1945tothePresent. Exhibitedwidelythroughoutthecountry,shehasheldsoloexhibitionsatsuchnearby venuesastheGeorgiaCollegeMuseum,theAtlantaContemporaryArtCenter,andthe LamarDoddArtCenteratLaGrangeCollege.

MintzwritesonvisualartforsuchartsjournalsasArtsATL,BurnAwayandSculpture magazine,andisatworkonacollectionofessaysaboutthelifeandinfluenceofthe writerJamesAgee,oneofwhich,'TheImmediateWorld,'waspublishedintheSummer 2016issueoftheSewaneeReview SheholdsanMFAfromSewanee’sSchoolofLetters attheUniversityoftheSouth.

ARTISTSTATEMENT

Beginningthiswork,Ireturnedtomyabidingexplorationoftime,place,andmemory withtheideaofthereliquary,aterminChristianCatholicismgiventoareceptacle, historicallygoldandjeweled,forsomethingholyorrevered, aconceptthatcrossesall majorreligions Itmattersnotthatthereliquarymayormaynotholdtheobjectitclaims –aRelicoftheTrueCross,orabonefragmentofSaintPaul;whatmattersisour perceptionthatitdoes.Thereliquaryissignificantbecausewehaveexalteditwith attention,beautyandmystery.

Forgedinthestars,goldhasbeenemployedinworksofartoverthemillenniatoinspire andtoevokeasenseofgrandeurandawe.Thatwhichwemostcareaboutwemake beautiful. ThedivinefiguresofancientEgyptians,theilluminatedmedievalmanuscripts, Byzantinemosaics,theheavenlylightinBernini’sEcstasyofSaintTeresa,thegolden joineryofJapanesekintsugi,GustavKlimt’sTheKiss Ihaveusedgoldleafinmuchthe samemanner,butwithmundanematerialsoffoundandpersonalpapers,journaland diaristicwritingincollage,theincrementsofalife.

OnlyasIreachedtheveryendofmakingitdidIcometounderstandthatthisbodyof workwasbornfromtheideasofabookIhavebeenwritingforseveralyears.Starsat Noon(itsworkingtitle)isaprosepoemtotwocreationsthathaveprofoundlyinfluenced me–theextraordinaryandunclassifiableLetUsNowPraiseFamousMen(1941),the writerJamesAgee’scollaborationwithphotographerWalkerEvansandWalterDe Maria’sTheLightningField(1977),aninstallationof400stainlesssteelpolesinthe HighPlainsdesertofwesternNewMexico Separatedbymediumandtime,thesetwo disparateworksareunitedbythecapacitytoevokeaweandtoapproximatehuman prayerinthosewillingtosurrendertodeepexperience.Fromsilence,eachwork

SoloExhibitions

DonnaMintz

donnajmintz12@gmail.com|404-317-1066 www.donnajmintz.com|@donnajmintz

2022 What Once Was, JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT

2019 Ex Astris,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

2013 Look Away,LamarDoddArtCenter,LaGrangeCollege,LaGrange,GA

2011 Untitled: Gray Paintings,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

2009 lighting the sun,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT

2008 lighting the sun,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

2006 Epigram,for Courting Disaster,TheAtlantaContemporaryArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA Lost,for Courting Disaster,TheAtlantaContemporaryArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA Recent Works,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT

Borrowed Poems, LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA

2005 Reliquary,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

2004 Recent Works,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA

2002 Empty Hours,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA Journal,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA

2001 Still,DolbyChadwickGallery,SanFrancisco,CA

2000 what I have kept,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

1999 After August,CallanwoldeFineArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA

SelectedGroupExhibitions

2024 Patterns of Place,AtlantaArtFair,Atlanta,GA

2023-4 Winter Exhibitions,AtlantaContemporaryArtCenter,Atlanta,GA

2020 Before, During and After,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

2018 Sign of the Times,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsand Sciences,RabunGap,GA

Little Things Mean a Lot,SwanCoachHouseGallery,Atlanta,GA

2017 Summer Thunder,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA

2016 American Art: 1945 to the Present, MobileMuseumofArt,Mobile,AL Lightweight,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsandSciences, RabunGap,GA

Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA

2015 Sprawl: Drawing Outside the Lines,HighMuseumofArt,Atlanta,GA Summer Salon,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

The President’s Art Series,athree-personexhibition,SellarsGallery,BrenauUniversity Galleries,BrenauUniversity,Gainesville,GA

Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA Hambidge Art Auction + Performance Gala,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsand Sciences,TheGoatFarm,Atlanta,GA

2014 Roving Room,AnInauguralExhibitionatHabershamMills,Demorest,GA Mailbox,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsandSciences,Rabun Gap,GA

2013 Fables of the Eco-Future,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsand Sciences,RabunGap,GA

2012 Groundstory: tales from the shade of the South,DaltonGallery,AgnesScottCollege,Atlanta, GA

Today’s Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, A Fresh Look,MobileMuseumofArt, Mobile,AL

Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA

2010 Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts, LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA

Transitive Geographies: Contemporary Visions of an Evolving South,GeorgiaCollegeand StateUniversityMuseum,Milledgeville,GA;RebeccaRandallBryanGallery, CoastalCarolinaUniversity,Conway,SC;AlabamaSchoolofFineArts, Birmingham,AL

2009 Found Objects,SellarsGallery,SimmonsVisualArtsCenter,BrenauUniversityGalleries, Gainesville,GA

2008 Where You’re From,LeeGallery,ClemsonUniversity,Clemson,SC Summer Group Show,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

Moving Pictures,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT

2006 On the Spot,CityGalleryEast,BureauofCulturalAffairs,CityofAtlanta,Atlanta,GA Group Show,MelvinGallery,FloridaSouthernCollege,Lakeland,FL

2005 Giving,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT

Open Spaces,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT

2004 Drawings and/or Works on Paper,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA Gallery Artists,LesYeuxduMonde,Charlottesville,VA

Selections from the Sandler Hudson Gallery,UWGGalleries,StateUniversityofWestGeorgia, Carrollton,GA

2003 Visions,QuinlanVisualArtsCenter,Gainesville,GA

2002 Little Things Mean a Lot,SwanCoachHouseGallery,Atlanta,GA

2001 Repetition,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

IX Artists,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA

2000 Brenau University National Invitational Art Exhibition, BrenauUniversity,Gainesville,GA

1999 Spectrum 1999,TheHunterMuseumofAmericanArt,Chattanooga,TN Portraits: Self and Otherwise,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA

Mayor’s Art Program,CityofAtlanta,BureauofCulturalAffairs,CityHall,Atlanta,GA Jump Start the Art, WoodruffArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA

1998 Abstractions,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA Movement into the Millennium: Lightness,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA

SelectedPublicationsasAuthor

“InGrass,Lost,” SWING Literary magazine, Volume1,Issue1,Autumn2023

“JosephPeragineDeliversBeautyin Vanitas PaintingsfortheAnthropocene,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution, ArtsATL.org,December19,2023

“SteveSchapiro:Warhol&Ali,’”JacksonFineArt,ArtsATLorg,February6,2023

“‘SouthernRites’Delivers,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,ArtsATLorg,February6,2023

ZuckermanCelebratesBeautyNowWhenWeNeedItMost,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ArtsATLorg,November3,2022

“CharmaineMinniefield’s‘IndigoPrayers’ResonateswithEnergy,DeepRoots,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution,ArtsATLorg,August9,2022

“AtlantaContemporaryTurnsLandAcknowledgementintoAction,”ArtsATLorg,July6,2022

“MichaelMurrell:ALifeLivedinArt,” Sculpture Magazine,April8,2022

“MOCAGA’s‘GatheredV’RevealsDepthandDiversityofGeorgiaArtists,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution,ArtsATLorg,February24,2022

“TimothyMcDowell’sCompellingShowGivesPerspectivetoCovidTribulations,”ArtsATLorg, November22,2021

“Memory,NatureExploredinElegantGroupShow,”ArtsATLorg,October13,2021

“KatherineMitchell‘hearsthetrees’inPoeticExhibitatMOCAGA,”ArtsATLorg,August31,2021

“BreakingtheSilence”toShedLightontheLifeofGeorgiaAuthorandActivistLillianSmith, ArtsATL.org,December18,2018

“AtlantaArtistMichiMekoSeekstoCreateaSenseofPeaceatMOCAGA,”ArtsATLcom,November 29,2018

“AttheHighandinHaleCounty,PhotographerWilliamChristenberry’sTestamentstoTimeand MemoryStillStand,”ArtsATLcom,October29,2018

“Montgomery’sLynchingMemorialConfrontsthePainfulTruthofourNation’sHistory,”ArtsATLcom, July19,2018

“TheUnseenWorkofaGreatAtlantaStreetPhotographerFinallyComestoLightatGallery72,” ArtsATLcom,June27,2018

“‘TheWonderofItAll:’SusanCoferandJerrySiegelDedicateExhibitionstoMembersoftheAtlanta ArtsCommunity,Burnawaycom,May23,2018

“EmoryProfessorJosephCrespinoDigsDeeptoFindtheGenesisofanAmericanIcon:HarperLee’s AtticusFinch,”ArtsATLcom May7,2018

“JohnHenryDreamsBigWithSculptureFields,”ArtsATLcom,April19,2018

“AWalkintheWoods:MichaelMurrellatYoungHarrisCollege,”Burnawaycom,January24,2018

“‘MoreThanSelf’LooksattheVietnamWarThroughtheEyesofAtlantansWhoLivedIt,” ArtsATLcom,January19,2018

“ElizabethLide:TheMuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,” Sculpture Magazine,October2017

“PaulGraham’s‘TheWhitenessoftheWhale,’”ArtsATL.com,September18,2017

“ScottEakin’s‘YesButton’isaJoltofSummerPleasure,”ArtsATL.com,July18,2017

“Humanity’sOldestStories,ToldintheFirstPerson:PhotographerStephenAlvarez’sAncientArt Archive,”ArtsATL.com,June23,2017

“Brandt’s‘1864’atJacksonFineArt:TheCity’sComplexityDeservesDeeperReflection,” ArtsATL.com,May25,2017

“AfterSurvivingWildfire:TheHambidgeCenter,”ArtsATL.com,January31,2017

“StephanieDowda’sSpectralPhotographsHumanizeGrief,”ArtsATL.com,January13,2017

“CynthiaFarnell’s‘Garlands’atPoem{88}MeditatesandMourns,”ArtsATL.com,January3,2017

“SeeingSubjectivity:BenjaminBrittonatMarciaWoodMidtown,”Burnaway.com,December20,2016

“Appreciation:WilliamChristenberry’sPhotographsWillForeverBringOutsidersIn,”ArtsATL.com, December13,2016

“TheThought-Provoking‘Transitions:StatesofBeing’TacklesCulturalAppropriation,”ArtsATL.com, October7,2016

“TheImmediateWorld,” The Sewanee Review,Vol.124,Number3,Summer2016

“FormsofAbstractionatMOCAGA,”Burnaway.com,June2,2016

“MarcusKenney’sRollicking,Frenzied,andDisillusioned‘Babble,’”ArtsATL.com,May24,2016

“BucklowandWrightUseSimplicitytoRevealTheirOwnDistinctDeeperTruths,”ArtsATL.com,May 6,2016

“‘BetweentheSweetWaterandtheSwarmofBees’atEmory’sMichaelC CarlosMuseumGives GlimpseintoYorubanCulture,”ArtsATLcom,March28,2016

“GregorTurkTransformsTrashintoTreasureatPonceCityMarket,”ArtsATLcom,February19,2016

“‘ThisPostmanCollects:TheRaptureofKerryandC BettyDavis’atClarkAtlanta,”Burnawaycom, February16,2016

Faulkner&Silver:AnExplorationofSouthernIdentityandGenerationalMemory,ArtsATLcom, February9,2016

“ClarkAshton:ShoutingtotheHardofHearing,”ArtsATLcom,February3,2016

“WhatisNear:ReflectionsonHome”attheHighMuseumProvestoBeaQuietlyDisarmingCollection,” ArtsATLcom,February2,2016

“‘PrintorProjection’:Intelligent,Thought-ProvokingandBrandNew,”ArtsATLcom,January21,2016

“TheHambidgeCenter:ACreativeSanctuary80YearsintheMaking,”Editor&Co-writer,Winter2014

SelectedBibliography

DeannaSirlin,“HumanImpactonEcoSystemsProminentinSatisfyingSandlerHudsonExhibit,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution +ArtsATLorg,May23,2022

JerryCullum,“Sensuality,Poetry,IntellectBeamfromDonnaMintz’sGolden Ex Astris,”ArtsATLorg, April10,2019

LillyLampe,“RovingRoom,” Art Papers,September/October2014

KarenTauches,“HabershamMillsBringsHighArttotheHinterlands(well,Demorest),”Burnawaycom, July12,2014

LisaAlembik,“FablesoftheEco-Future,TheHambidgeCenter’sWeaveShedGallery,” Fables of the Eco-Future,June2013

LillyLampe,“ArtistsandwriterstappersonalandcollectivememoryinAgnesScott’s‘Groundstory,’” ArtsATLcom,October26,2012

DanielMcDonald,“TransformativeGeographies,” Milledgeville Union-Recorder,January23-25,2010

GregMarshall,“Arteology:DonnaMintzCombinesArt,Archaeology,” Park City Record,June5,2009 VisualArtNotes,“FiveThousandLittlePieces,” Salt Lake Tribune,May21,2009

PamolaPowell,“Collector’sEye,” Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles,December2008

CatherineFox,“ShrinkingLakeLanierSparksArtistry:Mintz’sWorkRevealsLake’sHiddenPast,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,July4,2008

SusanRichmond,“CourtingDisaster,” Art Papers,July/August2006

JerryCullum,“BeautyEmergesfromChaosAftertheStorm,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,May7, 2006

FeliciaFeaster,“ChaosTheory:‘CourtingDisaster’exploresinhumantragediesandhumanreactionsto them,” Creative Loafing,April27-May3,2006

RuthLatter,“Sky’stheLimitforAtlantaArtist,” The Daily Progress,February9,2006

ErikaHowsare,“BorrowedPoemsbyDonnaMintz,” C-VILLE Weekly,February7–13,2006

PhilKloer,“BackStory/TheArtistBehindtheArt:PainterHoldsSpiritofWaterSacred,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,October2,2005

JerryCullum,“DistinctiveSensibilitiesMadeManifestinMarvelousWays,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,October11,2002

CathyByrd,“‘Repetition’BreakstheMoldforSummerShows,” Creative Loafing,August22-28,2001

JerryCullum,“LotsofVariationsWithin‘Repetition,’” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,August17, 2001

CatherineFox,“PaintingPoemstoNature’sDetails,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,July7,2000 New American Paintings, BookXXVIII,July2000

JerryCullum,“AHeads-UpPortraitShow,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,August13,1999

CatherineFox,“DistilledLandscapesPleaseEye,EnterMind,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,March 26,1999

JerryCullum,“EmphasizingtheThingsNotSeen,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,August28,1998

EducationandResidencies

StudioArtistinResidence,AtlantaContemporary,Atlanta,GA 2021–present Fellowship,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsandSciences,RabunGap,GA 2009–present Fellowship,LillianE SmithCenterofPiedmontUniversity,Demorest,GA 2019 WriterinResidence,RivendellWriters’Colony,Sewanee,TN 2018,2017 MFA,Writing,SewaneeSchoolofLetters,UniversityoftheSouth,Sewanee,TN 2017 BS,FloridaSouthernCollege,Lakeland,FL 1978

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