TRANSFORMATION: A Photography Exhibit
March 20 - August 21, 2021 | Fort Gallery
Image Credit: Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976). Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogre-Remo, Nigeria, 2007. Digital C-print, 44 x 44 inches. Edition 7 of 9. Collection of Drs. Carlos Garcia Velez and W. Kent Davis, Chapel Hill, NC. © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Guest curated by Dr. Lawrence Wheeler, Dr. Carlos Garcia-Velez, and Allen G. Thomas Jr.
The photographer is an artist who applies a lens to the world and the contemporary social order. TRANSFORMATION is a gathering of powerful and intriguing images that open stories of our times and portray a world undergoing transformation.
The exhibition will also explore the transformation of the photographic process. Photography as an artistic medium has been the beneficiary of changing technologies and new materials in the last quarter-century. The artist now has dramatic latitude in terms of scale and visual media. Photography is no longer just a pretty picture or a document. It can be many things at once, integrating many materials and media.
Screening of Alex Prager’s (American b. 1979), Face in the Crowd, 2013, HD Digital Video, 11 minutes, 36 seconds
Tuesday, June 1 - 6PM
Thursday, June 24 - 11AM
Thursday, July 8 - 6PM CANCELLED
Tuesday, July 20 - 11AM
Thursday, July 29 - 5:30PM
Thursday, August 12 - 11AM
Special thanks to the following lenders: Drs. Carlos Garcia-Velez and W. Kent Davis, Chapel Hill, NC; Dr. Lawrence Wheeler and Donald Doskey, Chapel Hill, NC; Mr. Allen G. Thomas Jr., Wilson, NC; Hedy Fisher and Randy Shull, Asheville, NC; Chandra and Jimmie Johnson, Charlotte, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of Dean Hamric and Burt Mulford, Drs. Carlos Garcia-Velez and W. Kent Davis, Dr. Lawrence Wheeler and Donald Dosky, and Farris & Thomas Law
