Are you looking for the perfect exhibit to kick off the spooky season? Look no further! The Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s newest exhibit, The Photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, opens on October 1st. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s photographs are bizarre, eerie, and perfect for the kickoff of your Halloween celebrations.
Meatyard’s is best known for “dreamlike black-and-white photographs of family members in masks, elegant portraits of bohemian friends, and radical experiments in abstraction.” The shadowy photographs you will see in this exhibit often feature “dark, dilapidated locales populated by enigmatic characters” and have been compared to Southern Gothic literature.
Lucybelle Crater and her regular Mother
1970-72
Gelatin silver print
11.5 x 9.625 inches
Collection of the Estate of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery
Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography for the Ogden Museum speaks of Meatyard as “one of the most important photographers to emerge from the American South.” Meatyard is considered by many as a true renaissance man “who redefined the language of photography through a series of projects that pushed the boundaries of the camera.”
The Ogden Museum’s Meatyard exhibition will feature over 60 of the photographer’s images, divided into four distinct themes or bodies of work. Come see these collections – Portraits, Romance, Sound and Abstractions, and the Family Album of Lucybelle Crater – beginning October 1, 2022, through January 15, 2023.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located at 925 Camp Street. Ogden Museum is open daily from 10AM through 5PM. For more information, visit ogdenmuseum.org or call 504.539.9650
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