Georgia-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright’s large-scale, mostly black-and-white photographs are on view in Jackson Fine Art’s new, 4,000-square-foot Atlanta space through May 26. The show includes images from three of Bright’s series: The Rebirth of Us, Behold the Land, and Invisible Empire, whose title is borrowed from an essay by W.E.B. DuBois about the social and cultural conditions in Georgia – the beauty of the landscape as well as the state’s history of slavery and racism. With meditative landscapes and two lush portraits in which a female face is framed by flowers, the work on view engages with the generational trauma of the south but also with joy and beauty. Bright’s portrait of Stacey Abrams is included in Black American Portraits at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art through June 30.
