A pattern slowly rises to the surface and makes itself apparent the thing left in and thought to be unimportant becomes the passage that anchor the entire piece. Like abstract thinking, perhaps in a daze. Any significance achieved in the course of painting the picture is a significance drawn from memory, from upbringing and shaping by others, from a place and set of manners and morality drawn from these sources and worked out in a non-objective methodology allowing these factors to come out.

I was raised by an Expressionist and even while becoming a painter of things, I have gravitated toward and aesthetic allowing for the introduction of the picture as a natural object in its own right, rather than a description of nature. I find that the quality defined as Southern has become metaphorical and I am left with my upbringing by well-meaning family and an abstract sense of belonging to a place and time that no longer seems to exist.Įach of my pictures is a representation of this concept, time and place as a metaphor. I agree, being Southern born but having lived nearly everywhere as a child. When informed of his mistake he was insistent that his version was the better of the two. Historic Courthouse Collection, Nashville, TNĪ family member who shall remain nameless once misinterpreted a song lyric to read “I am a Southerner of nothing in particular.” (The actual reading is “I am the son and heir…”) Music City Center, Nashville Convention CenterĪlexander & Alexander Insurance, Nashville, TN

BFA – Painting & Printmaking – Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN – 1975Ģ018 New Work by Bill Killebrew, Cumberland Gallery – Nashville, TNĢ015 New Paintings by Bill Killebrew, Cumberland Gallery – Nashville, TNġ988 Rosewood Arts Center – Kettering, OHġ980 Nashville Artist Guild – Nashville, TNġ979 Martin Wiley Gallery – Nashville, TNĢ010 Todd Gallery – MTSU, Murfreesboro, TNġ991 Rosewood Arts Center – Kettering, OHġ980 Martin Wiley Gallery – Nashville, TNġ980 Nashville Artists Guild – Nashville, TNġ980 Nashville Century III – Nashville, TNġ978 Martin Wiley Gallery – Nashville, TNġ977 Martin Wiley Gallery – Nashville, TNĢ013 Delta Award – Delta Annual, Arkansas Arts Centerġ980 Purchase Award – Nashville Century II competition, John Canaday, Jurorġ978 Purchase Award – Appalachian State University, Boone NC, Vito Acconci – Juror

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