Untitled (Back of House) by Andrea Morales
October 5 - December 28, 2024
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
Have You Seen? Emerging Artists from The Do Good Fund
Ahavas Chesed, Emily Williams
January 8 - March 1, 2025
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
The Jewish Experience in the South: work by Emily Williams
Store Front, Mobile, Alabama, 1956, by Gordon Parks
April 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Knowing Who we Are: The Rise of Abstraction, Vernacular Art and Photography
The art of the American South has never existed in isolation. It has – since the earliest moments of the American experience – run concurrent with dominant academic art movements and popular trends, while maintaining a distinct regional identity. On the 4th floor of Ogden Museum’s Goldring Hall, Knowing Who We Are will explore the rise of Abstraction, Photography and Vernacular Art.
While Modernism and Abstract Expressionism developed in the first half of the twentieth century, many artists working in the American South incorporated these new ideas into their practice after World War II. This section of the exhibition traces the development of abstraction in Southern Art through examples by leading figures including Fritz Bultman, Dusti Bongé, Sam Gilliam, Ida Kohlmeyer, Robert Reed, Eugene Martin, Minnie Evans, John T. Scott, Kendall Shaw and Dorothy Hood, among others.
As photography developed in the 20th century, Southern artists were deeply involved in bringing lens-based studio practices from the realm of commercial portraiture and journalism into contemporary art dialogue. Photographers include Marion Post Wolcott, Roland Freeman, Eudora Welty, William Christenberry, Kael Alford and L. Kasimu Harris, among others.
Art in the South came to the forefront of international attention, as when the art world embraced the freedom and innovation of Self-Taught and Visionary art in the late-20th century, and vernacular artists from the South arose as leading figures in that national dialogue. Works by Thornton Dial, Bessie Harvey, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Helen Burkhart Mayfield, Clementine Hunter, Roy Ferdinand, George Andrews and more are featured on this floor in conversation with abstraction and photography.
Rian and Friends by Peyton Fulford
September 15, 2023 - January 1, 2025
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
Exhibition on Tour:
September 15, 2023 - January 14, 2024 - High Museum of Art
February 01, 2024 - July 01, 2024 - Addison Gallery of American Art
September 01, 2024 - January 01, 2025 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The South has occupied an uneasy place in the history of photography as both an example of regional exceptionalism and as the crucible from which American identity has been forged. As the first major survey of Southern photography in twenty-five years, this exhibition will examine that complicated history and reveal the South’s critical impact on the evolution of the medium, posing timely questions about American culture and character.
Featuring many works from the High’s extensive collection, A Long Arc will include photographs of the American Civil War, which transformed the practice of photography across the nation and established visual codes for articulating national identity and expressing collective trauma. Photographs from the 1930s-1950s, featuring many created for the Farm Security Administration, will demonstrate how that era defined a new kind of documentary aesthetic that dominated American photography for decades and included jarring and unsettling pictures that exposed economic and racial disparities. With works drawn from the High’s unparalleled collection of civil rights-era photography, the exhibition will show how photographs of the movement in the decade that followed galvanized the nation with raw depictions of violence and the struggle for justice. Contemporary photography featured in the exhibition will demonstrate how photographers working today continue to explore Southern history and themes to grasp American identity.
Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund
Exhibition on Tour:
October 8, 2022 - January 8, 2023 ~ Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA
August 11, 2023 - November 5, 2023 ~ Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
February 8, 2024 - May 18, 2024 ~ Lowe Art Musuem, Miami, FL
June 15, 2024 - September 8, 2024 ~ Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
October 19, 2024 - January 12, 2025 - Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
This exhibition asks key questions that identify and complicate conventional ideas of the “American South” and “Southern photography” by resisting retrograde tropes and instead projecting the enigmatic, ever-changing qualities of the region and its people.
The exhibition highlights a wide-ranging group of photographers from the Do Good Fund—diverse in gender, race, and ethnicity. Photographs by seventy-three artists, including Gordon Parks, Sheila Pree Bright, Mark Steinmetz, Michael Stipe, and William Christenberry showcase both established and emerging names in photography. Reckonings and Reconstructions navigates the interface between nature and culture in the South. Themes of land, labor, law and protest, food, ritual, and kinship draw from historical legacies where despair and hope, terror and beauty, pain and joy, and indignity and dignity commingle.
Exhibition catalog available for order here
PAST EXHIBITIONS
August 10 - September 28, 2024
My Southside: Photographs by Kenny Gray
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
April 27 - August 3, 2024
Summertime: Summer Scenes from the Do Good Fund & Perdido work by Richard McCabe
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
March 2 –April 13, 2024
Pardon Me, just looking—Photographs by Peggy Nolan
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
January 12 - February 16
Energetic Line & Color
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
September 21 - October 29, 2023
Beyond the Bounds: Photographs by Holly Lynton
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
September 21 - October 29, 2023
Facing Y’all: Inclusion Through the Lens
Spruill Center of the Arts
April 13 - April 29, 2023
Paul Kwilecki Photographer
Firehouse Art Center, Bainbridge, GA
November 2 - January 1, 2023
Paul Kwilecki: Decatur County
Ten Nineteen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
April 5 - July 29th, 2023
Breaking News: Ledger Enquirer Photographs from the Columbus Museum
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
February 27–March 31, 2023
What Has Been Will Be Again
Gammill Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
February 1st - March 25th, 2023
Morbid Curiosity: Works of Butch Anthony from Drs. Joseph & Francye Largeman Collection
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
October 8, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Reckonings and Reconstructions
The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
August 5 - October 7, 2023
More Than A Likeness: Portraits from The Do Good Fund Collection curated by Jerry Siegel
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
October 12 - January 14, 2023
A Two Fold Vision: Baldwin Lee & Mark Steinmetz
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
Aug 27 - Oct 14, 2022
UNCANNY
Columbus State University, Illges Gallery
April 30 - June 18, 2022
Jared Ragland: what has been will be again
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Jan 14 - Mar 26, 2022
Tender is Our Skin
Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Mobile, AL
July 22 - Aug 22, 2022
LAND LINES
Columbus State University, Illges Gallery
Aug 20 - Dec 20, 2021
Looking Male
The Bo Bartlett Center
Columbus, GA
Mar 12 - April 23
No Shade in the Shadow
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
June 25 - Aug 5, 2022
A Better Life For Their Children
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Aug 13 - Sept 24, 2022
Cherish What Remains
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Oct 2 - Nov 13, 2021
LAND STAR: Photographs by Richard McCabe
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Sept 4 - Nov 13, 2021
Close to Home: Photographs by Paul Kwilecki and Jimmy Nicholson
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Aug 20 — Sept 30, 2021
The South: Then and Now
Mississippi University for Women Art Department Galleries
Rosenzweig Arts Center
Columbus, MS
Spring 2021
Pictures of Us: Southern Portraits from the Permanent Collection
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Feb 20 — Aug 1, 2021
Of Care and Destruction: 2021 Atlanta Biennial
Atlanta Contemporary
Atlanta, GA
Mar 4 — Jun 26, 2021
WORK, WORSHIP & COMMUNITY:
Photographs by Paul Kwilecki
Albany Museum of Art
Albany, GA
Sep 18, 2020 — Apr 18, 2021
Youthful Adventures: Growing Up in Photography
Telfair Museums, Jepson Center
Savannah, GA
Feb 5 — Apr 3, 2021
Looking Male
LaGrange Art Museum
LaGrange, GA
Mar 21, 2020 — Jan 10, 2021
And So She Did: Women of the Chattahoochee Valley
The Columbus Museum
Columbus, GA
Aug 25— Nov 15, 2020
Documenting the South
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Jan 18 — Oct 11, 2020
Documenting the Rural South
The Columbus Museum
Columbus, GA
Mar 13 — Jun 27, 2020
The Drowned
Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Mobile, Alabama
May 1 — Jul 3, 2020
Six Feet Apart
A community collaboration, during COVID-19, showcasing ideas by CSU’s graduating BFA candidates.
Riverwalk, Columbus, Georgia
Jan 7 — Apr 11, 2020
Small Talks
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
and Illges Gallery, Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia
Mar 10 — Apr 7, 2020
Carolyn Drake: Knit Club
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Dec 4, 2019 — Jan 7 , 2020
Uncomfortable Truths
Organized by Columbus State University creative writing students
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Aug 6, 2019 — Jan 5, 2020
Auburn, AL Takeover
Southern Landscapes, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill
Southern Portraits, Auburn Public Library
Perspectives, The Department of Art and Art History’s Biggin Gallery
Southern Interiors, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art’s Corridor Gallery
Southern Architecture, The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Sunny Slope
Oct 30, 2019 — Nov 21 , 2019
Fun & Games: Kids on the Edge
Organized by Brookstone School students
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Sep 26 — Oct 24 , 2019
Southern Selves: Portraiture and Identity in the South
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Sep 17 — Oct 3, 2019
Appalachian Views: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus
Sept 20 — Oct 11, 2019
Visions of Georgia: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
University of North Georgia, Oconee Campus
Apr 12, 2019 — Jun 6, 2019
Landscapes: Selections from The Do Good Fund Collection
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Mar 7, 2019 — Mar 31, 2019
Picture Your Story: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
Central ArtSanctuary
Mobile, Alabama
Feb 22, 2019 — Apr 11, 2019
Kristine Potter: Manifest
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Jan 19, 2019 — Apr 28, 2019
RaMell Ross: Down South, AL
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Auburn, Alabama
Dec 14, 2018 — Feb 20, 2019
The Food Show
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Nov 1, 2018 — Dec 10, 2018
Georgia Rhodes: Athens Work
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Oct 10, 2018 — Mar 10, 2019
New Southern Photography
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 1 — Oct 28, 2018
Macoa’s Views of the South: Photographs from The Do Good Fund
The Montgomery Area Council On Aging, Archibald Center, Montgomery, Alabama
Sep 29, 2018 — Jan 6, 2019
Views of the South: Photographs from The Do Good Fund
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery, Alabama
Sep 21, 2018 — Nov 18, 2018
Mark Steinmetz: Looking South, Photographs from The Do Good Fund
KONTEK
Durham, North Carolina
May 9, 2018 — Nov 9, 2018
Alabama Art: Inside Out
Troy University's International Arts Center
Troy, Alabama
Apr 6, 2018 — Apr 27, 2018
Portraits from The Do Good Fund Collection
Columbus State University's Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus, Georgia
Mar 22, 2018 — Jun 10, 2018
One Place Understood: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisianna
Mar 2, 2018 — Mar 17, 2018
Taking a Second Look: Following the Path of William Christenberry & Beyond
Greensboro Opera House
Greensboro, North Carolina
Mar 1, 2018 — Apr 8, 2018
Women: Photographs from The Do Good Fund
Riverworks Gallery
Greenville, South Carolina