Summertime: Southern Scenes from the Do Good Fund

Perdido: Lost Florida Gulf Coast, by Richard McCabe

April 27 - August 3, 2024

In reverence for the season, The Do Good Fund brings two summer-themed exhibitions to the Do Good Fund Gallery.

Summertime, features work from the Do Good Fund permanent collection by 18 artists being exhibited together for the first time. Photographs range from work collected in 2013 to more recent acquisitions from 2023. The images selected portray the iconic experience of summer in the American South from seeking respite at the beach to hot car seats, from front porches to the limitless supply of watermelon.

“I think the memory of every Southerner lies fixed in summertime. From the beginning of our lives, it seems, we knew the big, slow month-after-month turning of sights and sounds and scents, the kaleidoscope of pleasures in the duress of heat…”

- Eudora Welty, “Occasions: Selected Writings”

Perdido, work by New Orleans based curator, photographer and writer Richard McCabe, explores the changing landscape of Florida's Gulf Coast. The title of the exhibition, Perdido is taken from the Spanish and Portuguese word for “lost.” Perdido is also an homage to Perdido Bay and Key, located to the west of Pensacola. A sense of loss, grief and a life in transition inspired the creation of the work for this exhibition of photographs, lo-fi projections, found-objects and paintings.

"Perdido is a meditation on place, time and memory. In the fall of 2019, I began making a new series of photographs in the Florida Panhandle. At the same time, my connection to the region through my mother and family was beginning to slip away. Bittersweet feelings of sentimentality for the past and a longing for stability in the present guided my search for solace within art." - Richard McCabe

Do Good Fund exhibitions and events are free and open to the public

Gallery hours: Wed, Thurs, Fri: 1-5 PM | Sat: 10-3 PM

The Do Good Fund Gallery | 111 12th Street suite 103 | Columbus, GA 31901