Still Here: Photographs of Old Houses by Elizabeth Matheson
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Still Here features the color and black&white photographs of Hillsborough native Elizabeth Matheson, one of the state’s most respected contemporary photographers. Her 30-year career began at Penland where she first studied with her friend and mentor John Menapace. Architecture and landscape are the artist’s preferred subjects. Poet Thomas Meyer describes Matheson’s photographs as an “art whose subtle work is observation’s time and transformation.... There is revealed just as a heart might grow still, a world whose perpetual motion attains confident, physical order....Not wasting, but pressing time and light into unhurried grace and beauty.” Green Hill’s exhibition will include over forty photographs. Subjects include melancholic Shell Castle, a pre-civil war Halifax County plantation on the verge of being sold after being inhabited by the same family for a century; the slave quarters of the Stagville Plantation in Durham; Seaton, a bucolic 19th century hunting lodge; and two houses on the coast at Nags Head among others.
Curated by Edie Carpenter
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To view our Press Release, click HERE.
To check out more artwork in this exhibition, click HERE to view our Flickr album.