Whitten Sabbatini: Another Day in Paradise
August 26, 2021
Location
Visual Arts Center Gallery
Artist 麻豆传媒ment: Another Day in Paradise is a collection of portraits and landscapes made throughout The Hill Country: a somewhat fictional region located between Memphis, TN and New Orleans, LA, where men wear camouflage and 鈥淗onk If You鈥檙e Horny!鈥 is painted on highway overpasses.
Whitten Sabbatini (b. 1990, Mississippi) received his MFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2017, where he was awarded the Follet Graduate Merit Award. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including recent shows at The Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Sabbatini鈥檚 photographs are held in various permanent collections, including The Joan Flasch Artists鈥 Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Do Good Fund, and The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Sabbatini contributes photographs to editorial clients that include TIME, The New Yorker, GQ, WSJ Magazine, ESPN, and The New York Times. His work has appeared in various publications including, the MoCP鈥檚 Go Down Moses (2019), One Day Projects鈥 And Light Followed the Flight of Sound (2018), VUU Studio鈥檚 Super Special (2017), and Mossless: The United 麻豆传媒s (2014). Another Day in Paradise, his first monograph, was nominated for MACK's First Book Award and released in Spring 2018.
The Visual Arts Center Gallery is open Monday鈥揊riday, 1pm鈥6pm and Saturday 1鈥4pm.
Public reception and meet the artist: Thursday, August 26, 5pm鈥6pm.