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Jerry Siegel
BIO
Born and raised in Selma, Alabama, Siegel studied at the University of South Alabama in Mobile and the Art Institute of Atlanta, where he graduated with honors. While successfully maintaining a commercial photography studio in Atlanta since the 1980s, he found his passion in doing his own personal work. Like a wanderer Siegel began traveling the South seeking his subject matter. Perfecting the art of portraiture and understanding how to capture a person’s individualism for his many corporate clients helped him to understand the sensibility required in what became his Portraits of Southern Artists project, now including over 70 images. Anna Minges of The Ogden Museum of Art wrote about this series as “three generations of the most important artists whose work has come to define the genre.”
Siegel’s work has been in solo exhibitions at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Alabama Arts Council in Montgomery, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta and galerieMC in Atlanta. His work is in private and corporate collections in Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma and New Orleans. Permanent public collections that include his work are the Telfair Museum in Savannah, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta. In 2007 Siegel’s series, Rt 2, Box 348E about his family home in Selma, was featured in the exhibition Responding to Home at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta. Also during 2007 Southern Artists was exhibited at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Black Belt Color at the Julie Collins Smith Museum in Auburn, Alabama (2007) and Black Belt Panoramas at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (2008) in Montgomery, Alabama. A solo exhibition of Siegel’s work is being planned for 2008 at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Georgia.
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