DICK JEMISON

Alabama-native Dick Jemison grew up in Birmingham. His father was an investment banker and sent
Dick to school at Choate, a college preparatory boarding school in Connecticut. On school holidays
Jemison rode the train to New York City where he visited galleries and museums. During one such sojourn
he visited the MOMA and was completely overwhelmed when he saw a large work by Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis. Such an encounter it was, that Jemison decided that he, too, could probably “make it” in the art world. Jemison went on to college at the University of North Carolina and then to art school, eventually earning his master’s degree from the University of Georgia. Jemison moved to Santa Fe, NM, in the 1970s and in the late ‘90s moved back to Birmingham where he spent the remaining years of life running his gallery and studio.