“Lure of the Lowcounty” Exhibition Coming to the Gibbes Museum of Art
The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the exhibition Lure of the Lowcountry in the Main Gallery from January 22 through April 18, 2010. This exhibition features sixteen large scale mixed-media photographs by American artist John Folsom, selected from his series entitled Lure of the Lowcountry. Folsom’s photographs depict several locations in the region, including Palmetto Bluff and Edisto Island, both in South Carolina, along with Cumberland Island, Georgia. To explore the art-historical precedents of Folsom’s work, this exhibition pairs his photographs with early Lowcountry landscapes from the Gibbes collection, including paintings by Thomas Coram and Charles Fraser.
John Folsom’s process begins with a photographic image that is divided into a grid and printed on separate panels. The panels are then attached to a large wooden panel to create a unified image. However, the grid lines remain visible as a reminder that the image is a construction of the artist’s making, not an objective representation of nature.
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