Curated by Phillip March Jones, Southern Democratic features 15 meditative vignettes, each comprised of the works of different artists actively examining the changing world. At the heart of the exhibition is a silent conversation with photographer William Eggleston’s Election Eve, a 1976 collection of 100 original prints in two leather-bound volumes, housed in a linen box and limited to five copies. Originally conceived as an assignment for Rolling Stone documenting the birthplace of Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate for President, Eggleston’s photo series documents a South that is decidedly devoid of people and nevertheless brimming with signs of life. As the South continues to shift and change in ways that would have been unimaginable in 1976, the works of Louis Zoellar Bickett, John Chae, Tag Christof, Rose Marie Cromwell, Dawn DeDeaux, William Eggleston, Claudia Keep, Coulter Fussell, Carey Gough, Y. Malik Jalal, Casey Joiner, Albert Moser, Amy Pleasant and Polo Silk offer additional perspective to the ever-changing region.
