In conjunction with Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, the Museum will present an installation of approximately 24 photographs by Baltimore photographer Linda Day Clark, who has traveled to Gee's Bend annually since 2002 when she made her first visit on assignment for The New York Times. The exhibition will be on view from September 16, 2008 to December 14, 2008.
Clark's photographs capture the richness of the rural landscape as well as the strong sense of community forged by the women who are carrying on the quilt-making tradition in Gees Bend. One image, titled The Road to Paradise shows the single, unpaved country lane that leads in and out of the town, a narrow track of red-clay earth surrounded by pine trees. Also included are powerful photographic portraits of the artists such as Mary Lee Bendolph, Creola Pettway, Arlonzia Pettway, and Annie Mae Young, whose work is featured in the Gee's Bend exhibition.
Currently a Professor of Fine Art at Maryland's Coppin State University, Clark received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Delaware.
Her work has been featured in the book Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photography 1840-1999 by Deborah Willis Kennedy, and is in collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University the Maryland Historical Society and the Smithsonian Institution. -- www.philamuseum.org
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