Field Notes: Searching for Southern Mythology
Leslie Addison and George Yerger

November 30 – December 30, 2010
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-8 pm

Cole Pratt Gallery
3800 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-891-6789
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm

With their “Field Notes” exhibition, husband and wife photographers George Yerger and Leslie Addison describe the offhand moments and everyday iconography that is the essence of what they call a “culturally rich and immensely layered southern existence.” Both artists were born and raised in Louisiana with deep roots in both Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta region. Their images are “watery stuff, swamps, out of control vegetation, heat, sweat, bayous, the Mississippi. But not so simplistic because there’s poverty, pride, stagnation, unrelenting work, dirt…there’s earthiness” and as the artists point out “very remembered histories.” With unfocused, hazy light and abandoned environments, Addison and Yerger’s images portray the South as moody, poetic, and mysterious.