Meryl Truett
Meryl Truett (b. 1953) is a photographer and mixed media artist based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She received her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2003, and she has received numerous awards, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Her work has been featured in Oxford American, Art Papers, Darkroom Magazine, Petersen’s Photographic, Camera Austria, The Vanderbilt Review, SCAD Alumni Magazine, Home: Miami, deep, Skirt! Paprika Southern, and South Magazine. Her books include Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, an anthology of fine art photographs depicting the quirkier side of southern living, and Vernacular Highway: the Road Less Traveled. Her handmade book, Relics, Ruins, and Artifacts, was created in 2014.
Her photographs are included in public and private collections, most notably, the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Telfair Museum of Art-Jepson Art Center, Savannah, GA; BellSouth Corporation, Vanderbilt University, Savannah College of Art and Design, and the University of South Carolina. Her clients include Polygram Records, Sony Music, and the Ingram Group, and she was recently commissioned to create works for the Indigo Hotel in Savannah, GA and Grove Point Plantation, Richmond Hill, GA.
She is currently working on a portfolio of mixed media pieces exploring the iconography of Mexico entitled Tropes and Topes.