Richard McCabe
Richard McCabe is an artist, curator, and writer based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up in the American South. His photo projects LAND STAR and Roadside Ruins both deal with documenting the disappearing vernacular signage and structures that live along Southern backroads. Since 2011, he has been the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. He has organized and curated over forty exhibitions including: The Mythology of Florida, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s - 40s, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry and New Southern Photography. McCabe’s own photographs have been included in gallery and museum exhibitions across the United States at institutions like the Pensacola Museum of Art, (Pensacola, FL.); Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL); AM Richard Fine Art Gallery (New York); Boyd/Satellite Gallery (New Orleans); Pensacola Museum of Art (Pensacola, FL); and Little Shotgun House (New Orleans), to name a few.