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Paul Edwards, Small Lion Tamer Paul Edwards: Lion Tamers installation view. Paul Edwards: Lion Tamers Through July 15, 2018 Tops at Madison Avenue Park 151 Madison Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 Tops is excited to exhibit two paintings from Paul Edwards  Lion Tamers   series at the Madison Avenue Park space.  Paul Lynn Edwards (1948-2014) was raised in Detroit, MI. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. After his service, he moved to Memphis to attend the Memphis Academy of Art where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1981. He then attended Yale University where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting in 1986. Paul moved to New York after school where he taught at the School of Visual Arts and regularly showed his work at the Allan Stone Gallery. By the mid 90's Paul had returned to Memphis to focus on his painting. He often lived in makeshift studios that he created in dilapidated ...

  Tom of Finland Ernest Withers   Walter Robinson Detail of a painting by Stephen Lack Scott Reeder   Gallery owner / photographer, Matt Ducklo Kevin Ford Lester Merriweather (left) and Kevin Ford   Paul Edwards (left) and Leo Fitzpatrick   Detail of work by Paul Edwards  Paul Edwards, Humpty Dumpty   Detail from work by Paul Edwards   Tom of Finland Installation view with work by Marlous Borm, David Deutsch (left) and Ernest Withers Kevin Ford, Stephen Lack, Marlous Borm (floor) and David Deustch (l to r) Tom of Finland A review of the show written by Frederic Koeppel for The Commercial Appeal - Cops Through February 6, 2016 Tops info

  Photograph on left by Matt Ducklo of the interior of TOPS Gallery and on the right a painting by Dale McNeil.   Walter Robinson   Chris Dorland   Igor Siddiqui   Paul Edwards Work by Terri Phillips with paintings by Dale McNeil and Jered Sprecher.  Jered Sprecher  Dale McNeil     Guy Church Paul Edwards (left) and Corinne Jones An attendee at the opening, on September 19th, views a painting by Paul Edwards. Photograph courtesy of ArtsMemphis' Instagram TOPS @ ArtsMemphis Victoria Sambunaris, Seth Kelly, Chris Dorland, Terri Phillips, Sarah Jones, Lester Merriweather, Dan Torop, Igor Siddiqui,  Walter Robinson , Corinne Jones , Jered Sprecher , Dale McNeil ,  Paul Edwards , and Erin Harmon through November 14, 2014 ArtsMemphis 575 South Mendenhall Memphis, TN 38117  * All photos by Dale McNeil except where noted.

Installation view w/ work by (from left) Igor Siddiqui and Dale McNeil TOPS at ArtsMemphis  TOPS at ArtsMemphis features artwork by: Victoria Sambunaris, Seth Kelly, Chris Dorland, Terri Phillips, Sarah Jones, Lester Merriweather, Dan Torop, Igor Siddiqui,  Walter Robinson , Corinne Jones , Jered Sprecher , Dale McNeil ,  Paul Edwards , Erin Harmon Opening reception with guided tour by Matt Ducklo Friday, September 19 | 6 – 8 pm Through September 19 - November 14, 2014 TOPS gallery will adopt the ArtsMemphis office space and gallery September 19 through November 14. TOPS at ArtsMemphis brings work by artists affiliated with the gallery to ArtsMemphis’ friends and donors.  The opening reception on Friday, September 19 will be at ArtsMemphis from 6 - 8 pm. TOPS opened in October of 2012 with a show of ...

This post presents the work of the expressionistic, figurative painter, Paul Edwards. Edwards was born in Detroit, but has spent a good portion of his life in the South; primarily Mississippi and Tennessee. After serving in Vietnam (for which he received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star), Edwards attended the Art Academy in Memphis (now the Memphis College of Art) and eventually went on to earn an MFA from Yale University. He graduated from Yale in the same class as  John Currin, Sean Landers and other notables. After school he moved from New Haven, CT to New York where he drove a cab and taught a color theory class at the School of Visual Arts. During this time he had success with regular showings at the Alan Stone Gallery in Manhattan before moving to California for a brief period. Since then Edwards has spent most of his time in the deep South living in makeshift studios in derelict buildings and garages. Edwards recently built his own house and stud...