Charleston, South
Carolina – The
Gibbes Museum of Art presents the exhibition Lure of the Lowcountry
in the Main
Gallery through April 18, 2010.
This exhibition features sixteen large scale mixed-media photographs by
artist John Folsom (American, b. 1967) 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 fourteen early Lowcountry landscapes from the Gibbes
collection, including paintings by Thomas Coram and Charles
Fraser.