Exhibitions
BRITTNEY BOYD BULLOCK: FIRST BEGIN
Tri-Star Arts / 4450 Candora Ave., Candoro Marble Building February 20 - April 25th (Reception: February 20 5:00pm - 8:00pm)
Brittney Boyd Bullock
Tri-Star Arts is pleased to present the next exhibition in their Main Gallery at the historic Candoro Marble Building. A solo show, First Begin, featuring recent work by artist Brittney Boyd Bullock (Memphis, TN) opens Friday, February 20 and will run through Saturday, April 25, 2026. Curator: Brian R. Jobe.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 20, 2026 from 5:00 until 8:00 pm (artist in attendance). There will be an artist talk given by Bullock beforehand on Friday, February 20 from 3:30 until 4:30pm. The address is 4450 Candora Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920 and admission is always free of charge. Visitors should drive only on the crushed gravel driveway and parking lot surfaces. Driving vehicles on the lawn is always prohibited.
Brittney Boyd Bullock is a Memphis-based visual artist whose practice traces the intimate relationship between craft legacies, material labor, and identity. Working through textiles, beading, and collage, in slow, modular processes, she builds abstracted worlds that honor both personal and collective memory.
Her work is grounded in repetition - stitching, beading, spinning, cutting, arranging - each functioning as a form of embodied research and ritual. Bullock draws on archival photographs, family histories, and Southern craft traditions to examine what has been preserved, overlooked, or obscured within Black American life. Rather than reenacting memory, she reframes it by treating materials as carriers of cultural knowledge. Her signature use of grids, layered images, textiles, and fiber reflects her interest in labor as a site of beauty, resistance, and renewal.
Bullock’s work has been exhibited at The Frist Museum, Cameron Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Phillips Collection, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Benjamin Hooks Library, and the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. She’s been awarded grants and fellowships for her work as an artist working in communities, including the Americans for the Arts Public Art Scholarship and Robert E. Gard Award, the Kresge Foundation, and the Assisi Foundation. Awarded artist residencies/ grants include Crosstown Arts, Carrell Artist in Residence, New Public Artist Fellowship, and Current Art Fund grant from Tri-Star Arts.
In addition to her studio practice, Bullock is the Director of Programs at Contemporary Arts Memphis and a long-time educator, mentor, and facilitator. Her work in community contexts mirrors her artistic ethos: care, precision, and deep attention to the stories that shape us. She has also served as Project Manager for the Urban Art Commission, overseeing Memphis’s largest public art archive, and as Partnerships and Community Engagement Manager for Crosstown Concourse & Crosstown Arts, leading collaborative creative programs and exhibitions. As the former Director of Youth Programs for the Memphis Music Initiative, she designed and implemented an award-winning arts program that served Black and Brown youth across the city.
