Sheila pree bright biography of christopher
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Faraway Nearby · Addressing Suburbia
Chris Ballantyne · Sheila Pree Bright · Don Lambert · Paho Mann · Matthew Moore · Amy Stein · Greg Stimac · Brian Tolle · Michael Vahrenwald
Faraway Nearby • Addressing Suburbia features 50 works by nine artists who draw inspiration from – or critique – today’s suburbs. Their works examine the origins, preconceptions, sustainability and social implications of the suburban landscape. “As a contemporary art museum and college located in a major suburban community, it seems especially appropriate for our museum to organize this exhibition,” said Bruce Hartman, executive director of the Nerman Museum.
More Americans now live in suburban areas than in central cities and rural areas combined. However, despite its scale and influence (physically, economically and socially), suburbia is a relatively under-examined power in shaping America’s cultural life.
The suburbs have served as an arena for conjuring images of both the best and the worst of contemporary social life. Alternately stereotyped as either a domestic utopia or a realm of conformity, these stereotypes disguise a more realistic interpretation of contemporary suburbia. Many of the artists in Faraway Nearby address popular, preconceived notio
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Sheila Pree Brightis often described as a "Cultural Anthropologist. Her earliest experience as a photographer began when she spent time in Houston where she began photographing the gangsta rap scene and confronting the dynamic between Hip hop and gun culture. In 2003, she created her MFA thesis photo series, Plastic Bodies, which would later be featured in the film Through the Lens Darkly and go viral on Huffington Post in 2013.
Bright earned national acclaim when she won the Center Prize at the Santa Fe Center of Photography in 2006 for her Suburbia series which features images of African American suburban life. In 2008, she premiered her first solo exhibition at the High Museum of Art, featuring her series Young Americans.
In 2014 and 2015, Bright visited Ferguson and Baltimore after the murders of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray to photograph and document the protests. The culmination of these photos would become her series 1960Now which was published by Chronicle Books October 16, 2018.
1960Now series is now in the collection of the Smithsonian African American History and Culture Museum, Washington, DC; The High Museum of Art Atlanta; The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA; City of Atlanta, Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs and the Pyramid Peak Foun
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