H C Porter

My work has emotional conviction and represents Southern experience that often evokes strong responses. My paintings are successful when the viewer completes the piece with a response...give yourself the freedom to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice and you will complete my work...
H.C. Porter is an award-winning artist, whose original works of art are classified as mixed-media because they incorporate photography, printmaking and painting. They begin as black and white “environmental portraits” and are transferred onto paper with black ink using a silkscreen. Each piece is completed using acrylic paint and Prismacolor. Each piece is uniquely painted, although the same image may be used more than once.

Porter’s style began in 1992 with “Avenue for Art,” a grant-funded neighborhood art project for children. Porter eventually incorporated the neighborhood children into her work. Since, she has applied her style to other areas of the state, documenting the lives of fellow Mississippians. In September 2005, two weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Porter’s attention turned toward the people of her home state living in the aftermath of that devastating storm.

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B.F.A. University of Alabama, 1984
Emphasis on painting and photography

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
April 2, 2016-June 1, 2016
“Blues At Home: Mississippi’s Living Blue Legends,” National Blues Museum, St. Louis, Missouri.

Spring 2015: “Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories,” Waveland’s Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, Waveland, Mississippi.

Aug. 21, 2014-Oct. 2, 2014: “Blues At Home: Mississippi’s Living Blue Legends,” The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, Indianola, Mississippi.

April 1, 2014-Aug. 2, 2014: “Blues At Home: Mississippi’s Living Blue Legends,” The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, Mississippi.

Jul. 17, 2012-Sept. 28, 2012: “Blame it on the Blues” Featured Artist Mississippi Arts Center, Jackson, Mississippi.

Oct. 8, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012: “Mississippi Invitational,” Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi.

August 2011: “We’re Gonna’ Make You Whole” artistic performance, Acquire Arts, London,
England.

Aug. 5-Sept. 16, 2011: “H.C. Porter: Mississippi,” Roger D. Mackin Gallery at the E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center, Greenville, Mississippi.

Jan. 25-Feb. 26, 2010: “Southern Expressions: Works from the Mississippi Museum of Art,” Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gulfport, Mississippi.

March 1-April 1, 2010: “Backyards & ...