Exhibitions
JIM ANN HOWARD: MOTHER ME MOTHER
Zeitgeist Gallery / 516 Hagan St. , #100 April 5 - 30th
Jim Ann Howard
Jim Ann Howard’s ensemble features work from her series, Herstory, in which she was asked to provide pencil and charcoal drawings of earth mothers and female deities from the archeological record for a collaborative book project with author Donna Wilshire, Virgin, Mother, Crone, Inner Traditions: Myths and Mysteries of the Triple Goddess (Rochester, VT, 1994). Howard spent 6 months doing research at the Jungian Institute in Manhattan, working from images found there as well as from objects in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other private collections in the area.
Jim Ann Howard is a Nashville-native. She studied painting and drawing at University of North Carolina, Greensboro and College for Women, Bristol, Virginia. After years in Boston, NYC, and Central America, Howard now resides in Nashville.
Her work can be found in public, corporate and private collections including The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; and Shawmut Bank of Boston, MA. Her work has also been collected by renowned artist-colleagues such as Louise Bourgeois and Sue Coe.
Image: Jim Ann Howard, Reunion (detail)
