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Dusti Bongé at Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN 'Southern/Modern'

26 January - 28 April, 2024
Gallery artist Dusti Bongé's work Where the Shrimp Pickers Live (1940) is included in the group exhibiton Southern/Modern at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TennesseeSouthern/Modern is the first comprehensive survey of paintings and works on paper created in the American South from 1913 to 1955, Southern/Modern features more than one hundred works drawn from public and private collections across the country. The exhibition focuses on artists such as Carroll Cloar, Aaron Douglas, Caroline Durieux, Will Henry Stevens, Alma Thomas, and others who worked in states below the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as those bordering the Mississippi River. It also includes artists from outside the South, such as Josef Albers and Elaine de Kooning, who were instructors at North Carolina’s experimental Black Mountain College, as well as Thomas Hart Benton, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and others whose works reflect on Southern experiences from a distance.
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