Artist Bill in road

Bill Turner

Artist & Photographer

I started as a photographer and still produce photographs. I had a basic course in photography in my last year of college. Ever since that class, my first experience in visual arts, I’ve had a mild compulsion to create visual images that strike a chord in me.

When I first began showing these paintings, my first response was a little feeling of shock – “Roads? All my paintings have roads?” (Even occasionally when I do a painting that doesn’t have a road, it still has that atmospheric quality and looks into the distance). It’s not a scheme or plan – that is, to paint paintings with roads.

It’s just that roads are a marvelous vehicle for taking one’s imagination into a painting, especially one that evokes the sort of emotional qualities that I like for these paintings to have. 

If I’m successful, the viewer should know…

YearExhibitLocation
2004LaGrange National BiennialLaGrange, GA
2004Art Auction MuseumMontgomery, AL
1999Triennial Southeastern Juried Exhibition Museum of ArtMobile, AL
1998LaGrange National BiennialLaGrange, GA
1996“Landscapes” Heike Pickett GalleryLexington, KY
1996Art Auction MuseumMontgomery, AL
1995“Inside/Outside” Cumberland GalleryNashville, TN
1995Blue Spiral 1Asheville, NC
1994Wyndy Morehead GalleryNew Orleans, LA
1993Southside GalleryOxford, MS
1993Juried Art Exhibit Arts FestivalMemphis, TN
1992Gallery 300 Jubilee Cultural AllianceMarietta, GA
1989 – 1990Decatur Arts Visual Arts ShowDecatur, GA
1988Aina Parmelee GalleryFt. Lauderdale, FL
1986The All New Mattress Factory ShowAtlanta, GA
1986The Atlanta Photo Salon Nexus GalleryAtlanta, GA
1985Contemporary Southern LandscapesTampa, FL
1985“Atlanta in France”Paris, France
1984“Portrait of the South”Rome, Italy
1984Ten Southern Photographers Friedus GalleryNew York, NY
1983SECCA WinstonSalem, NC
1982Gilbert GalleryChicago, IL
1982“Artists in Georgia” LaGrange CollegeLaGrange, GA
1981American VisionsNYU, NY
1980Southeastern Photography Exhibition Greenville MuseumGreenville, SC
1978Fine Art Museum of the SouthMobile, AL
Year Exhibit Location
2016 Bill Turner Retrospective: Photos and paintings from 1978-2015 Coweta Centre for Visual and Performing Arts Francoise Gilot Gallery in Newnan GA
1998 Vermilion Gallery Atlanta, GA
1997 Southside Gallery Oxford, MS
1993 Bennet Galleries Nashville, TN
1992 Marietta Cobb Museum Marietta, GA
1985 Fay Gold Gallery Atlanta, GA
1982 Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
1980 Fourth Street Photo Gallery New York, NY
 
ExhibitLocation
Bavarian Motor WorksGreenville, SC
Columbus MuseumColumbus, GA
Albany MuseumAlbany, GA
Fine Art Museum of the SouthMobile,AL
Georgia Power CompanyAtlanta, GA
Coca Cola USAAtlanta, GA
IBMCharlotte, NC
Heery & Heery ArchitectsAtlanta, GA
Southern ProgressBirmingham, AL
Chase Manhattan BankNew York, NY