In over 50 years of studio practice Jerry Walden’s (b. 1941, Langdale AL; d. 2019, Rock Hill, SC, USA) work has been exhibited across the US and around the world, including these institutions: The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; the Columbia Museum of Art, SC; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN; Palazzo Vagnotti, Italy; Nam-Do Fine Arts Center Gallery, South Korea; The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Alaska State Museum, Juneau, and The Mississippi Pavilion at The Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans; among others. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including: the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS; the Columbia Museum of Art, SC; The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; The Meridian Museum of Art, MS; Capitol One Bank, Arlington,VA; West Point Pepperell (Now West Point Home), New York, NY; Greenville National Bank Collection, MS; Delta State University, Cleveland, MS and others. He earned his BFA from Auburn University, Auburn, AL, in 1968, and his MFA from the University of Georgia in 1971. Schooled heavily in the academic tradition of figure drawing Jerry was equally accomplished in representation and pure abstraction, which he explored primarily in painting, drawing and printmaking but at times in sculpture and mixed-media collage and assemblage. Stylistically his studio practice waxed and waned between expressionism, minimalism and surrealism and at times, combining aspects of these styles in the same artwork.