Reynolda House Museum, North Carolina will present an exhibition named William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005'.
The exhibition will be on view from February 13, 2010 to June 27, 2010 at Mary and Charlie Babcock Gallery.
Since the early 1960s, the rural Deep South has been the focus of William Christenberry's art, in various media – photographs, sculpture, found-object assemblage, paintings, and drawings. Through his diverse work, Christenberry, an Alabama native, communicates themes of time, memory, and loss. This exhibition is an overview of the photographic component of his oeuvre – a practice spanning more than four decades and employing a range of formats.
In 1968, Christenberry moved to Washington, D.C., where he has since resided. Although he has not lived in Alabama for some time, he has dutifully returned home each year to photograph and consider the same locations – the palmist building and Coleman's Cafe, among others – fulfilling a personal ritual and documenting the physical changes wrought by the passing of a year.
His documentation of vernacular architecture, juke joints and honky tonks, country churches and humble graveyards, signage and landscape captures moments of quiet beauty in a sometimes mythic terrain that, with its worn iconography and buildings turned ramshackle, evokes the form and power of the passage of time. -- www.reynoldahouse.org
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