Artist's Bio
Biography: Dwight "Kuimeaux" Drennan
Born: Little Rock, Arkansas
Education: University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Political
Science; Self-taught as an artist
Resides: Scott, Arkansas
The
artist, a former resident of Monroe, Louisiana, claims two states as
home: Arkansas and Louisiana. His unique style of painting and drawing
most often depicts landscape and life in the deep South states of
Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. 
His work is included in several permanent collections in this region’s institutions, including Monroe City Hall, Monroe, Louisiana; Regions Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas; Bancorp South, El Dorado, Arkansas; and Rountree Gallery, Monroe, Louisiana. He also is represented in numerous private collections in the South, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.
The artist has been selected three times for inclusion in the Arkansas Arts Center’s annual Delta Exhibition.
Drennan was the only local (Monroe, Louisiana) artist chosen
to appear in Masur Museum’s 16th Annual Monroe National Exhibition,
with two works represented. He also has exhibited work at the Arts and
Science Center of Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Louisiana
Art and Folk Festival, Columbia, Louisiana; 13th Annual Celebration of
Arkansas Artists, North Little Rock, Arkansas; Grand Prairie Arts
Festival, Stuttgart, Arkansas; Arkansas Festival of Arts, Little Rock,
Arkansas; Louisiana Folklife Festival, West Monroe, Louisiana; Monroe
Festival of Arts, Monroe Louisiana; University of Arkansas Gallery,
Little Rock, Arkansas; and the “Louisiana Lace” Invitational at
Monroe’s Rountree Gallery.
The artist received the mayor’s award for painting at the Ark-La-Miss
Fair, Monroe, Louisiana. His work has been featured in one-artist
exhibitions at the Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock; Rountree
Gallery, Monroe, Louisiana; and Union Bank, Benton, Arkansas.
This artist’s work bears his signature, D. Drennan; however, he is
widely known by friends and family as Kuimeaux (pronounced key-mo).
Kuimeaux is the name given to him by friends in New Iberia, Louisiana.
(Spelled in the Cajun-French patois, the name is the Indian term kemo
sabe, meaning trusted scout and faithful friend.)
Much of the artist’s early work was destroyed by a tragic fire at his
home near Bayou DeSiard in Monroe, Louisiana. The artist was able to
escape the inferno without injury and has continued to pursue his life
as an artist in the small plantation community of Scott, Arkansas.
Copyright 2003-2005, Dwight Drennan