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Transplanted

Portraits of the non-native South.

Chaice + McKenna | All photos by Rebecca Drolen

Artist: Rebecca Drolen

Project: Transplants

Description: Rebecca Drolen’s Transplants explores questions of how regional culture is adjusted or reassembled by the influence of outsiders. The “outsiders” depicted in the work are people who have moved to Nashville from elsewhere.

 

Eyes on the South is curated by Jeff Rich. The weekly series features selections of current work from Southern artists, or artists whose photography concerns the South.





Rebecca Drolen

Rebecca Drolen, who considers herself a “Southern transplant,” received her MFA in photography from Indiana University in 2009. She has lived in Athens, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee. She currently teaches art the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.