Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South

The South sprawls, and so does this new multimedia exhibit shared between N.C. State’s Gregg Museum and Duke’s Power Plant Gallery. Southbound is made up of works by fifty-five contemporary photographers and debuted at Charleston’s Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art last fall; this iteration of the travel exhibit curated by UNC-Chapel Hill professor Randall Kenan, who has further organized the exhibit into two themes: The Gregg’s “Home” and Power Plant’s “Flux.” Expect to find Jeff Whetstone’s mystical images of bodies of water, McNair Evans’s painterly images of home, and Tamara Reynolds’s humanistic portraits in which, no matter how crowded the frame, one subject always seems to hold the camera’s gaze. Following these two opening receptions, the exhibits run in Raleigh and Durham through December 29 and December 21, respectively.