Life on a Canvas. The sale of a regional Artist

The Artist. A humanitarian. Beautiful and talented. An old Meridian home now for sale. A life well lived. Her beauty shines throughout the home. A wonderful friend to so many and a good neighbor. Prominent figure in the support of civil rights. A woman and her husband ahead of their time. A respected and well known regional artist with great talent. Clo Ann Rabb was always evolving.  She was a work in progress and her art mediums were vast. Our sale includes early works, paintings, drawings, fabric creations, sculpture,  unfinished works and the works of some of her contemporaries. Her home is filled with decorative accessories, furniture and books as well as China and crystal. From the dining room to the massive basement, this is an estate sale you will not want to miss. Her talent and beauty is present throughout the home. Her family has made their selections from her works and furnishings and has now opened the home to her friends,collectors and the public. A woman ahead of her time. Clo Ann Rabb  award winning artist and friend to so many. Please join us for a weekend of a life well lived!  I am proud to say that Clo Ann and her family were close personal friends of ours and our neighbor. Her smile will always be with us!

Rabb is a graduate of the University of West Alabama. She studied art at the University of California in Berkeley, Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Penn., and with Homer Casteel at Meridian Community College. She has also been an active member of the Mississippi Art Colony, attending many of its workshops. As a teacher herself, she taught one adult and two children’s classes in her studio for five years.

Rabb has won awards in numerous competitive exhibits; including the Bi-State Art Competition at the Meridian Museum of Art; the Four-State Juried Exhibition at the Mobile Museum of Art; the Mississippi Art Colony Juried Travel Shows; Art Wave Three-State Juried Shows in Biloxi; the Neshoba County Fair juried competition; the Meridian Arts in the Park juried competition; and Day in the Park in Laurel.

She has also exhibited her work at Meridian Community College; the Coleman Center in York, Alabama; the Webb Gallery at the University of West Alabama in Livingston; the Lucille Parker Gallery at William Carey College in Hattiesburg; the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson; and galleries in Laurel, Hattiesburg, Jackson, and New Orleans. She is presently represented by K. Fulton Gallery in Meridian.

In a statement about her work, Mrs. Rabb says: “I work in four media: metal collage, paper collage, oil on canvas, and oil and metal leaf on paper. Because of my strong interest in texture, several years ago I began to crush and wrinkle the paper I painted on, often adding metal leaf. Then I began to collect old, crushed metal pieces and assemble them into compositions. I found this difficult, but rewarding. It isn’t easy to find the kind of metal I like to use no matter how many junkyards I visit. Sometimes I mix wood , fabric, and paper with the metal ... There is something exciting about using ‘found pieces’ and ‘trash’ in Art. It’s fun to see the beauty in an old burned drink can as well as a scene, a flower, or a face.” An excerpt from The Meridian Star.  2006