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Kathy Yancey’s work was featured in Atlanta’s High Museum of Art exhibition “Contemporary Southern Drawings from the Permanent Collection”
Spring/Summer 2004
Wall text shown below written by Curator Carrie Pryzbilla highlighted her work.

The painting, “Cupid and the Venus of the Gallery”, 1986, was shown in the
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s 2004 exhibit
“Selected Works: State of Georgia Art Collection”. Currently it is on permanent
display in the lobby of the Georgia Public Broadcasting building in Atlanta, Georgia.

Atlanta artist Kathy Yancey, is the recipient of the 1997 Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement and has received an SAF/NEA Fellowship among numerous other awards. Her works are in the collections of the High Museum of Art, State of Georgia, Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, Albany Museum of Art and private collections all over the world. For two decades her works have been widely exhibited at galleries including Nexus Contemporary Art Center, High Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Sogo Museum of Art in Yokohama Japan, and the Kaoshiung Municipal Museum, China to name a few. Her paintings were included in the Rizzoli art book "Elvis & Marilyn: 2 x Immortal". The following works are in the collections of the aforesaid institutions.
Title: What a Square Thing to Say	Title: He was Asleep When She Came In	Title: The Bride as a Sail

Kathy Yancey had two works which traveled with the "Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal" exhibit for 5 years from 1995 to 1999 all over major museums in the United States and Asia. Her work was included in the full color art book published by Rizzoli, Inc. in English and Japanese, entitled "Elvis + Marilyn". Some of the other artists included in the show were, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Audrey Flack and Willem de Kooning.