UA Art Gallery will Host National Artist with Southern Roots

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – From Feb. 28 through April 30, the Sarah Moody Art Gallery on the campus of The University of Alabama will feature the photography of Sally Mann, an artist and photographer of national reputation.

Mann achieved notoriety in the early ‘90s for seductive gelatin silver prints featuring her husband and children. Her recent work features haunting landscapes of her native South. The work revisits the historic material of photography as Mann uses antique lenses, adding a sense of chance to the modern process.

Mann has received numerous accolades for her work, including a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as the honor of being named American Photographer of the Year for 2001 by TIME magazine.

Her work is part of many notable collections, including the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Va., where she continues to live and work. She received her bachelor’s from Hollins College in 1974, and a master’s in writing from the same school in 1975.

The exhibition was organized by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. The Farley Moody Galbraith Exhibition Fund provides funding support. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.