Associate Professor of Photography Tema Stauffer's SOUTHERN FICTION Solo Exhibition at Tracey Morgan Gallery
TEMA STAUFFER: SOUTHERN FICTION November 5 - December 23, 2021 Reception for the Artist: Friday, November 5, 6-8pm Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to present a selection of large-format color photographs from Tema Stauffer's ongoing series, Southern Fiction . This is Stauffer's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Southern Fiction traces the literary landscape of the American South, investigating sites which were formative to canonical fiction writers of the region such as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor, among others. An affinity for the works of these iconic writers has informed Stauffer's photographer practice, and her road trips through rural Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia are pilgrimages of sorts. Her resulting images capture a fascination with the beauty, mystery, and layered complexity of the South. Paramount to the works of many Southern writers is a strong sense of place, and Stauffer's