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Amy Pleasant, Painting MFA '99, wins Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

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Tyler congratulates Amy Pleasant, Painting and Drawing MFA '99, for her 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, awarded for exceptional creative ability in the arts. Plesant has held solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, (Hudson/NYC), whitespace gallery (Atlanta, GA), Augusta University (Columbus, GA), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IN), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), Atlanta Contemporary (GA), Auburn University’s School of Liberal Arts (AL), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), Candyland (Stockholm, Sweden), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (AL). Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in AmericaArt PapersArtforumThe Brooklyn Rail and Sculpture.