ALICE SEBRELL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 (Sept) Cutouts, The Captain’s Bookshelf, Asheville, NC
2006 Secrets, Highsmith Gallery, UNC-Asheville, Asheville, NC
2003 Hover, Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Black Mountain, NC
2002 Between Earth and Sky, Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
1999 Reckonings on Matters of Pleasure and Consequence, Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC
1996 Animal Politics, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
1993 Animal Politics, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC
Animal Politics, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
Animal Politics, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1992 Animal Politics, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
1991 Upon the wall of the cave..., The Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
1981 Alice Sebrell - Photographs, Janvier Gallery, Newark, Delaware
1978 Photographs, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
SELECTED GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008/2009 Telling Our Stories, Traveling Exhibition across North Carolina
2008 Photography, Hodges-Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Seek and Hide, Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, Fairhope, AL
positivenegative twenty-three, (juror: Antoine Guerrero), East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2007 Make It New, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2006 Alice Sebrell – Photographs, Hodges-Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Blood and Spirit, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
American Standards, Meadows Museum, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA
2005 American Standards, The Front Gallery, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
2004 Art on the Bias, The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
Hover, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2003 Point of Return, University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
The News, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
The News, ION Gallery, Asheville, NC
Contemporary Western North Carolina Works on Paper, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2001 What’s Missing, CPCC Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2000 Gallery Retrospective, Zone one contemporary, Asheville, NC
Journal of Influences, The Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
22nd Annual Raleigh Fine Arts Society Artists Exhibition, Raleigh, NC (juried)
1999 Women of Vision Revisited, Watkins Gallery, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
Taide-Kasityo-Taide, Art and Craft from North Carolina, USA, Craft Museum of Finland, Jzafkla, Finland
Group show, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1998 Collectors Choice, Zone one contemporary, Asheville, NC
Works on Paper, Zone one contemporary, Asheville, NC
Photoworks, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
1997 Nine Southeastern Photographers, Peachtree Lofts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (Traveling show with catalog, curated by Susan Krane)
International Photography and Digital Image Exhibition, Wellington B. Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (Juror: Olivia Parker)
1996 Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
Worth Seeing: Art from the Inside/Out, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Santmeyers & Sebrell, Arts Council of Wilson, Wilson, NC
1995 ALTERED PERCEPTIONS: The Mexico Project, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, AL
In Review: Charlotte Photographers from the Andy Grundberg Critic-In-Residency Program, Spirit Square Center for Arts & Education, Charlotte, NC
1994 BI-LOCATION, Galleria Bellas Artes, Oaxaca, Mexico
Alice Sebrell and Steven Bliss, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1993 Summer Invitational, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Women of Vision-Artists Working in the Medium of Photography, Watkins Gallery, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
1992 Expressions of Animal Awareness, Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN
Southern Visions, The Museum of York County, Rock Hill, SC (Juror: Jerry Uelsmann, traveling exhibition)
1991 HOMECOMING: Artists Celebrate Their Teachers, Spirit Square Center for Arts & Education, Charlotte, NC
Silver House Studio, Savannah, Georgia (Invitational group show)
La Grange National XVI, La Grange, Georgia (National juried competition)
Paper Landing, Dickson Foundation Gallery, Spirit Square Center For The Arts, Charlotte, NC
1990 National Exposures, Sawtooth Galleries, Winston-Salem, N.C. (National juried competition)
Graduate Students’ Show, The Savannah College of Art & Design
1981 Art Institute of Chicago (National juried competition)
1980 Philadelphia Print Club International Competition, Philadelphia, PA (International juried competition)
1979 41st Annual North Carolina Artist’s Exhibition
1979 Photography Invitational, Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, N.C.
1978 The Magic Silver Show, Murray, KY (National juried competition)
R.J. Reynolds North Carolina Photography Competition
The Southeastern Regional Photographic Competition, Greenville Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC
1977 The Southeastern Regional Photographic Competition, Greenville Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Bank of America Photography Collection, Charlotte, NC
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Lamar Dodd Art Center, La Grange College, La Grange, GA
North Carolina Art Society, Raleigh, NC
R.J. Reynolds, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC
University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
EDUCATION
1990-1992 The Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, MFA in Photography
1985-1986 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Graduate classes in 16mm Film Production
1979-1981 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, BFA in Photography
1977-1979 University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999-present Program Coordinator, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Fall 2000 Adjunct Faculty (Photography), Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
1998-2000 Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, Asheville, NC
1993-1997 Assistant Director, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
1992-1993 Program Coordinator, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
1990-1991 Freelance Photographer, The Coastal Heritage Society, Savannah, GA
1990 Slide Library Assistant, The Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
1982-1989 Studio Manager, G/Q Studios Ltd., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981-1982 Assistant Photographer, University of Delaware Photographic Services, Newark, DE
1980-1981 Assistant Darkroom Manager, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1977 Photography Instructor, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
GRANTS
1994-95 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Project Grant
1993-94 Charlotte/Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council Regional Emerging Artist Grant
PUBLICATIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Bostic, Connie, “Deny This: Digital-photo show exposes the viewer’s secrets”, MountainXpress, June 28-July 4, 2006, Pg. 40
2004 Maschal, Richard, “Sebrell captures the wind”, The Charlotte Observer, May 14, 2004, E & T Section, Pg. 17
2003 Godfrey, Robert, “On the Art of Compassion”, an illustrated paper given in Guernica, Spain and other locations.
Godfrey, Robert, “Gunning for Answers”, (Review), Asheville Citizen-Times, July 13, 2003, Pg. B3
2002 Hopes, David, “Sight insight”, (Review), Asheville Citizen-Times, November 17, 2002, Pg. B3.
1998 McGee, Melanie, “Artistic Collisions”, (Review), Mountain Xpress, August 19-25, 1998, Pg. 16-17.
Duncan, Katherine, “In the Eye of the Beholder”, (Review), Asheville Citizen-Times, Sunday, Aug. 16, 1998, Pg. D3.
1997 Grissom, Harriet, “Tangle of Complexes”, (Review of exhibit at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA), ART PAPERS. Vol. 21, Issue 2, March/April, 1997, Pg. 45.
1995 Work included in the slide presentation “Women and Animals: Oppression, Representation, and Resistance” at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Atlanta, GA
1992 SilverWorks, The Savannah College of Art & Design (publication of student work)
The Savannah College of Art & Design Photography Dept. brochure, (cover image)
1980 Latent Image 5, a publication of photographs by North Carolina photographers
1978 Kodak Encyclopedia of Practical Photography, Vol. 2
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2003 Co-juror, Western Carolina University Annual Student Exhibition, Cullowhee,NC
2000 Co-juror, Upstairs Gallery Photography Biennial, Tryon , NC
1994-1997 Vice-chair/secretary, Society for Photographic Education, Southeast Region
1996 Juror, 20th Annual Southern Exposure Photography Competition, Fayetteville, NC
1995 Coordinator of the Southeast Regional Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Conference, Charlotte, NC
1994-1996 Co-Juror, Scholastic Photography Awards, Charlotte, NC
1988 National Juror, Scholastic Photography Awards, New York, NY
ARTIST’S LECTURES
2003 University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
2002 The Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
1999 Nashville Tech, Nashville, TN