BioArtist Tara Bullington (1972) is an Aquarius, Meyers-Briggs type INTP, and a number 5 on the Enneagram chart. You could say that she has lived an interesting, yet random life so far. She grew up in Littleville, AL before moving to Tuscaloosa to earn a BFA in Painting and Sculpture. (Her mentor there was Al Sella.) After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, CA to pursue art and gain valuable life experience. And, although she never had to wait in line at any of the cool clubs and she had hung out with some really famous actors and musicians, Tara’s parents felt she best return home. (This is when she attended a different kind of educational interlude which lasted only 28 days.) When her soulmate, Henri (a beautiful merle colored Great Dane) suddenly died of bloat, she ran away to grad school at Memphis College of Art to get her master’s degree. Upon graduation, Tara won the MCA Travelling Grant to explore London and check out the YBAs until her money ran out. It was grand. When she came back to Littleville to live in the pond house and focus on her work, her dad let her know it would be cool if she found a job. Tara had a lot of experience in the work field. Over the years she had been a shoe-stylist for a stride rite commercial, a hostess at the world-famous Swingers Café, a painter of yellow stripes on parking lot, but nothing really stuck. So, for the next 8 or 9 years, Tara worked for her dad at his Lumber and Treating corporation, which was also conveniently located in Littleville, AL. In 2004, T moved to Florence Alabama, where she ultimately began teaching studio foundations at UNA and eventually NWSCC. When Covid struck, Tara decided it seemed like a great time to leave her friends and family to move across the country and buy a house with her boyfriend. Somehow, things worked out, as they always seem to do. She took up yoga and trail running as she settled into Austin, which seemed to be the perfect middle ground between LA and Littleville. She even lectures a few times a week for Austin Community College. It took a while, but she started making new friends and new art, and she and Griselda have decided to stick around for a while
EducationMFA Memphis College of Art
MCA Traveling Fellowship Award Jem Freyaldenhoven Award Graduate Scholarship Award BFA University of Alabama Outstanding Art Student Award University of Innsbruck, Austria |
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LinksJoiner, Dorothy. "Red Clay Survey 2017 at Huntsville Museum of Art". World Sculpture News, Volume 29 Spring 2017. (Image)
www.facebook.com/tarabullingtonart/photos/pcb.1638983249495463/1638983212828800/?type=3&theater http://quadcitiesdaily.com.s140587.gridserver.com/?p=106004 http://cityoftuscumbia.org/?page_id=852 http://www.courierjournal.net/news/article_abca5bfa-f919-11e2-b1df-0019bb2963f4.html http://m.timesdaily.com/news/local/article_71857316-dd54-11e2-bb89-10604b9ffe60.html Maddox,David. “Rhizomatic Reality”. Nashville Scene, December 9, 2004. (Images) http://m.nashvillescene.com/nashville/rhizomatic-reality/Content?oid=1190989 Higginbotham, Jennifer. “Russellville Artist Displays Work at UNA Gallery”. The Flor-Ala,September 9, 2004. Venn, Beth. Max:03/Show Catalog, 2003. (Images) MCA Graduate Catalog, 2003/2005. (Images) Grills, Erin. “U of M Max:03 art exhibition brings national curator to local artists”. The DailyHelmsman, July 31, 2003, page 7. (Image) Hamilton, Jeanne. “Max:03”, Number, No. 46, Fall 2003, Cover; pp.10-11(Cover, Images) http://www.numberinc.org/pdf/No46.pdf Hurt, Courtney B. “Tara Bullington: Drawing from Experience”. Bliss, Volume 1, Number 11,December 2001, Cover; pp. 1,2,6 (Cover Images) Koeppel, Fredric. “Art with Heart”. Commercial Appeal, February 10, 2004 Price, Mark. “Tara Bullington at the Memphis College of Art”. Number, No. 45, Summer 2003,p.20. (Image) http://www.numberinc.org/pdf/No45.pdf Arts Alive 2003 Poster Artist, Arts Alive Festival, Florence, AL |