Meryl Truett
“My work is often described as ‘Southern Gothic.’ To
some extent, the subject matter and gritty, elegiac feel
of the photos bears that out. However, it’s the tension
between the past and present that permeates the imagery.”
Meryl Truett’s recent series of photographs includes largescale
color and black and white prints on watercolor paper.
Truett documents the evolving social terrain of roadside
Americana. From urban transition to the vanishing rural
individuality of the exurban landscape, she captures a
personal sense of place.
Truett is a fine art and editorial photographer whose work
is exhibited and collected nationwide. She graduated in
2003 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography
from Savannah College of Art and Design with additional art
training in France. She has received numerous awards
including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the
Tennessee Arts Commission. Among the many publications
featuring her work are: Art Papers, Darkroom Magazine,
Petersen's Photographic, Camera Austria, The Vanderbilt
Review, SCAD Alunmni Magazine, deep, and Skirt!. A second
printing of Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies,
a book of fine art photographs depicting the quirkier side
of southern living will be released this fall. Her clients
include Polygram Records, Sony Music, and the Ingram Group.
Her works are represented in the private collections of
Troutman Sanders attorneys-at-law, King and Spalding
attorneys-at-law Roseanne Cash, Chet Atkins, Richard Leo
Johnson, Vanderbilt University, BellSouth Corporation,
Savannah College of Art and Deign and the University of
South Carolina.
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