Gary Monroe
Tennessee
Artist Statement Submitted 2014
Many may view Tennessee as being famous for Elvis Presley, Country Music, the Great Smokey Mountains, Moonshine and Moon-pies. Tennessee is or has been home to Graceland, Liberty-land, Opry-land, Dollywood, Rock City, Twitty City and Buford Pusser’s Museum of Justice. From this information, many may consider my home state an “apocryphal locale”. This is an actuality, a locale were Southern and Appalachian culture intersect with kitsch and popular culture. These qualities are what inform my work.
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