Upcoming at Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
Posted on | July 4, 2010 | No Comments
NEXT OPENING RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING, JULY 13th, 7-9pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday July 17th 2pm
SHEILA PREE BRIGHT - GIRLS, GRILLZ, & GUNS
DR. DEBORAH WILLIS – BOOK SIGNING FOR POSING BEAUTY
at Sandler Hudson Gallery in conjunction with National Black Arts Festival
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition by Atlanta photographer, Sheila Pree Bright, entitled, Girls, Grillz and Guns. Bright will exhibit work from her Plastic Bodies, and Gold Rush II series, and will be introducing a new series in progress, In High Definition. In Plastic Bodies, Bright manipulates images of the Barbie doll with the bodies of young multicultural women. This icon of “perfect” beauty, a figure to which women of all races aspire, is an issue that Bright addresses in this series. In the Gold Rush series, Bright immersed herself into the guarded world of Hip Hop Culture. She went to Eddie’s Gold Teeth, a place where young black males purchase dental “bling” and approached customers waiting to be adorned. In the latest series, In High Definition, Bright examines the prevalence of firearms in urban culture. Bright says, “I think my work is about change; changing perceptions about stereotypes.”
Bright received national attention after winning the Santa Fe Prize from the Santa Fe Center for photography in 2006 for a series of work entitled, The Suburbia Series. Bright’s most ambitious project to date called the Young Americans, was underwritten by a grant from the Aetna Foundation and premiered as a solo exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in May 2008 and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in September of the same year. Bright’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including “Suburbia” at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning” at The African American Museum of Philadelphia, the traveling exhibition “Reflections In Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present,” and “Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African American Art,” at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C., and is included in public and private collections throughout the United States. In 2009, The Young Americans series traveled to the University of California at Irvine and Winston-Salem State University in Winston, Salem and is still traveling to museums across the country. Pree Bright was also included in the 2010 Armory Show in NYC.
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to host the nationally recognized artist, writer, and educator, Dr. Deborah Willis, and the signing of her book, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present. It is a remarkable historical record of photographs that captures the civil rights era and the triumphs of the present day. It includes work by some of the great photographers of our time including, Carl Van Vechten, Eve Arnold, Bruce Davidson and Richard Avedon. Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is the Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment as a University Professor with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, as well as the 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Professor Willis has just received the honored educator award at the Society for Photographic Eduation.
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