Memphis Material

March 20, 2026

Niles Wallace Part 2

From Niles Wallace’s webiste: I was born in Western Pennsylvania in 1948. My serious interest in Art began in high school and extended to college. I graduated from Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania in 1970 with a degree in Art Education. At Edinboro I became interested in Ceramics and subsequently attended graduate school at Alfred […]

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January 16, 2026

Don Estes Part 1

Don Estes is known for harmonious, dimensional abstractions of the landscape of the American South. He focuses on geological formations, river bluffs, coastlines, and horizons- places where water, land, and light interact and change through the passage of time. In a range of intensities and textures, he layers dry pigment, pastel, and gesso in horizontal […]

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August 1, 2025

Melissa Dunn Part 1

Melissa Dunn’s studio is in her house in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was born and has lived most of her life. She spent her early years immersed in the city’s music scene, splitting her time between playing with bands and making visual art. Her abstract-based work is the landing pad where stream of consciousness and the […]

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May 16, 2025

Cory Dugan

This interview with Cory Dugan was recorded on July 14, 2022. Cory Dugan has been told that he began drawing at a very early age, a mere babe at his mother’s side on the pew in a Southern Baptist church, scrawling savantishly detailed portraits on the church bulletin… no doubt in an attempt to divert […]