During the past 5 years Derryberry’s solo exhibitions, Private Domain and Truth To Tell, have traveled to venues in Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Her work has also been included in curated group exhibitions such as FABRICation (shown in over 12 museums and galleries across the U. S.) and in over 50 juried exhibitions. Her art has been reviewed in publications such as New American Paintings, Oxford American and in exhibition catalogs. She is frequently chosen to be a visiting artist, most recently as the 2020 Barbara Ritzman Devereux Artist at the University of North Florida.
Awards received: Southeastern College Art Association’s Outstanding Artistic Achievement and the Annual Artist Fellowship; UNC-Asheville’s Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award and the Feldman Award for Scholarship; College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art and inclusion as 1 of 4 artists interviewed in 2020’s Amazing Women; American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist (2010 and 2016). Public collections include: the Carnegie Museum, Asheville Art Museum, Tennessee State Museum, West Virginia Museum, Georgia’s Morris Museum of Art and others. Public art installations include 16 paintings at the Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport and a 10-piece multi-panel painting at the Knoxville Convention Center.
Cuba Libre, 2019, 3 oil on canvas panels, 40 x 112 inches
Innocence and Experience, 2020, 6 oil on canvas panels, 86 x 82 inches
A Few Good Men, 2018, 4 oil on canvas panels, 84 x 115 inches
Boxing At Shadows, 2020, oil on canvas, 40 x 54 inches
At The Eclipse, 2018, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inches
