In the 1970s, photographer Greg Day lived in the African American basket-making communities along the Gullah/Geechee Coast, documenting a way of life on the verge of change. Casting for shrimp with nets made as they are still made in Africa, making sweet grass baskets, scraping bristles off a freshly slaughtered hog, dancing at a juke joint on a Saturday night—these rural pastimes would soon be displaced by suburban sprawl, hastened by the destruction of Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
Greg Day's images were previous exhibited at the Fowler Museum at UCLA in September 2009. Check out his work tonight at his opening reception in downtown Los Angeles.
Opening Reception
Thursday March 3, 2011 6-9PM
Art Share Los Angeles
326 Hewitt Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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