Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Biography: Deanna Leamon



Shroud 1, 2007
Mixed media
30 x 40 1/2 in

Deanna Leamon (b. 1957)

Columbia, S.C., artist Deanna Leamon teaches at the University of South Carolina art department as well as the S.C. School of Medicine, which hosted her 2002 show Lab Drawings. Her work was in Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life, a 2004 exhibition that traveled the Southeast for three years. She also was represented in The Felt Moment, a 2003 show of art from the Carolinas at the Columbia Museum of Art.

Leamon was in 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century, an overview of 20th century South Carolina art at the S.C. State Museum. She has been in group and solo shows across the country. The Alton, Ill., native holds a BA in visual communications from Eastern Illinois University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University. 

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