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Category: 2018 Archives - Gibbes Museum of Art
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
A native of Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s artistic practice combines diverse media including photography, performance, painting, sculpture, film, and video. Her work is autobiographical, investigating themes of history, memory, gender, and religion and how they inform identity. Through deeply poetic and haunting imagery, Campos-Pons evokes stories of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, indigo and sugar plantations, […]
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Stephen L. Hayes, Jr.
Stephen Hayes explores the history of race relations in America through a variety of media, including sculpture, fiber, video, blacksmithing, and installation work. He employs symbolic imagery to represent the physical and mental damage rendered by the psychology of racism. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Hayes received his Bachelor of Arts degree from North […]
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Birney Imes
For more than 30 years, photographer Birney Imes has captured the people, places, and culture of his native Mississippi. Working in both black and white and color, Imes’s photographs take viewers inside juke joints and dilapidated restaurants scattered across the Southern landscape. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art […]
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Leo Twiggs
A native of St. Stephen, South Carolina, Leo Twiggs works in batik, a wax-resist method of dying textiles. Much of his work explores family history, cultural heritage, and how the past is manifest in contemporary life. His series titled Requiem for Mother Emanuel recently traveled throughout the southeast, earning acclaim as a powerful tribute to […]
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Susan Worsham
Photographer Susan Worsham was born in Richmond, Virginia. Her recent work focuses on her family, particularly the death of her parents and the suicide of her brother after he severed his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. Worsham’s photographs capture her relationship with her neighbor, Margaret, who was the last person to see her brother […]
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