Bio
A Memphis native, Jimpsie began her career as a stained glass artist and muralist while living in California and Florida. Her later work as a painter of textiles earned her a listing in Who’s Who in California. Since returning to Memphis, she has been exhibiting her work around the region, both at commercial galleries and at independent venues. Most recently, her love of the Southern landscape has led her to the discipline of plein aire painting.
“My hope is to paint sincerely and gratefully and to engender a response to non-verbal truth that will take the viewer beyond the confines of his or her everyday existence. At the end of the day, so to speak, the primary circumstance that draws me to work in paint is the versatility and potential of the medium itself and the ever changing nature of the challenges it presents.”
– Jimpsie Ayres
Jimpsie Ayres: Selected Exhibitions
Finding Place [duo], L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2021
Learning to be Astonished, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN, 2021
HELLO, my name is…Artist, Juried Group Exhibition, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2019
What We Saw [duo], Arkansas State University Mid-South, West Memphis, AR, 2019
Women at Prayer, Episcopal Church & the Visual Arts, 2014
Of the Heart, Episcopal Church & the Visual Arts, 2013
Seasons, Juried Exhibition, Town of Collierville, Collierville, TN, 2012
Unveil Downtown, third prize winner, Memphis, TN, 2012
13th Annual Online Judeo-Christian International Art Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, 2011
Featured on the Episcopal Cafe website, February 2011
Arkansas Arts Center, 52nd Annual Delta Exhibition, Little Rock, AR, 2010
St. Elisabeth’s Art Exhibit, Memphis, TN, 2009
Women’s Foundation of Memphis, Tribute Artist, Memphis, TN, 2008
Grace-St. Luke’s Church Art & Soul Festival, Memphis, TN 2006
Featured artist in At Home in Memphis magazine, June 2002
Jimpsie Ayres: Public Collections
Askew Nixon Ferguson, Architects
Conaway Brown Advertising
Independent Bank
Marsh Companies
Methodist Hospital Hospice Facility
Renasant Bank
The Rutland Group
Southeastern Asset Management