January 25, 2008

STILL TIME:
SOUTHERN PHOTOGRAPHY BY DONNA HURT, JOHN DUCKWORTH, JENNIFER SHAW,
LESLIE ADDISON AND GEORGE YERGER

(Charleston, S.C.) Guest-curator Rebekah Jacob presents Southern photography exhibition
STILL TIME at The Brick Gallery, Clarksdale, MS. Selected artists will include Donna Hurt, John Duckworth, Jennifer Shaw, Leslie Addison and George Yerger. The evening reception will occur on Friday, February 15, 200, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at The Brick Gallery, 226 Delta Ave. downtown Clarksdale. The event is free and open to the public. The works will be on view from February 12-March 1, 2008.

Photography exhibition STILL TIME includes artists who create epic visual poems about the South, its land, waters, and people. The artists use their personal experiences in the South as inspiration to create a series of photographs that speak about the land and its dark, beautiful, revelatory components. Connecting spirit and earth, the artists ask us to contemplate the beauty and utilitarian aspects of nature and the people who experience it.

JOHN DUCKWORTH, CHARLESTON, SC
Walking the line between realism and abstraction, artist John Duckworth infuses his paintings, photographs, and films with a passion for pure color, an intimate knowledge of nature, and a rhythm drawn from life itself. Paintings from a camera, the Landscape Abstracts series shares the South Carolina Lowcountry in gently blurred photographs that evoke the essence of sea, forest, marsh, and sky in bands of infinitely serene colors. .

JENNIFER SHAW, NEW ORLEANS, LA
Jennifer Shaw uses the spontaneity of the toy Holga camera, which allows light leaks, and provides little control over the exposures, to capture images that provoke emotional responses to the smallest corners of the neighborhoods in New Orleans, as well as its vast, rural surroundings.

DONNA HURT, CHARLESTON, SC
Donna Hurt has created a repertoire of images that speak genuinely about the experience of her family and religion of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In her body of work, “Hauntings from Home,” each image is a poetic evocation of her surroundings in a small valley in Virginia that her family has occupied for several generations. Through the images, she explores the dichotomy, if not contradiction, of growing up in the South: a sense of kinship, community, continuity, and identity versus a sense of tragedy, loss, and alienation. Many of the images are spurred by stories heard as a child, which have held the family, community, and the land together over time.

LESLIE ADDISON AND GEORGE YERGER, NEW ORLEANS, LA
Team photographers Leslie Addison and George Yerger present photographs from their “Phantom Winds” series, which portrays the Louisiana landscape of mystery and shadows. These photographs have a moody poetic feel that describe the complex beauty and sensuality of the Louisiana land and rivers. The work is not to be a literal record but rather a look into a subliminal, internal, living, breathing land. The images were taken with twenty dollar disposable cameras, allowing the artists to work intuitively without the normal preoccupation of technical issues.