NOTE: Gallery is closed every Monday and Tuesday.
Pulse January 13 - February 27, 2012
Monday, Dec 26, 2011 - Sunday, Apr 01, 2012PULSE is a project designed to elicit and register the “pulse” of the public around notions of memory prior to this spring’s launch of the CLA’s major initiative, The Memory Project. Visitors will be invited to respond to a series of “I remember” topics, including family, food, music, and the environment. To trigger and inspire public recordings of memory, PULSE will offer an exhibition of memory-infused works by two significant photographers, Jennifer Shaw’s Hurricane Story and Herman Leonard’s Above All, Enjoy the Music.
Hurricane Story is a series of color photographs by Jennifer Shaw that uses dolls and children’s toys to depict her family’s evacuation experience during Hurricane Katrina. Shaw was 9 months pregnant when Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and gave birth to a son while the family was living in a motel in southern Alabama. The photographs represent various elements of her ordeal, including the birth, the travels, and the return. The project began as a cathartic way to process some of the lingering anger and anxiety over her bittersweet journey, and grew into a narrative series of self-portraits that illustrate her experiences and emotional state during her time in exile.
Above All, Enjoy the Music features 40 masterworks of Herman Leonard, whose photographs feature jazz icons such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, among many others. Leonard (1923-2010) was a great photographer and jazz aficionado, who in 1948 began to create a dazzling visual collection of the world he loved. The exhibition honors jazz as an American art form, and captures a pivotal moment in jazz history: from its popular origins in the African American community of New Orleans in the 1890s to the explosion of jazz on the New York club scene in the 1940s. Leonard expressed his love of jazz by his well-known quote, “Above all, enjoy the music.” This exhibition provided by Herman Leonard Photography, LLC.
This program has been made possible by grants from The J .L. Bedsole Foundation, the City of Mobile, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Mobile County.
For more information please call 251.208.5657.
