Beth Meadows

Beth Meadows is an artist from Memphis, TN that received her BFA in Studio Art form UT in 2007. She's lived in Knoxville ever since and is now the director of 17th Street Studios, a work space for 10 artists housed in a wing of Redeemer Church in Fort Sanders (the church does endorse the content of the art). I chose this artist because I saw she was the newest artist exhibiting at The Tomato Head downtown. I haven't been there yet, but I looked at the meaning behind the exhibit entitled "Good Packaging" and thought it was very interesting. Meadow doesn't like grocery shopping because she doesn't like being marketed to using aesthetically pleasing packaging on products.  She does like reading magazines and looking at the beautiful fashion on supermodels and having fashion being marketed on a beautiful body but the model not having anything to do with the creation of the apparel. So she went to the store specifically looking for nice packaging and put it on sketches of different supermodels. The analogy she makes with her art is much better explained in THIS interview she did with the Tomato Head but she posed some really good thoughts about how art is integrated into our lives, especially with commodities.  This exhibit will be featured at the market square tomato head location until early April and at the Bearden location from Early April till May. She also has some pretty cool prints for sale on her etsy website as well as some other art pieces. If you want to see more of her art or buy some prints, visit: http://withbearhands.com/