Nashville Book Launch with Kristine Potter

Join Aperture and the Green Ray Bookstore for a book signing with Kristine Potter to celebrate the launch of her most recent publication, Dark Waters (Aperture, 2023).

Dark Waters, Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of “murder ballads” from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs, capturing the landscape of the American South, and creating a series of evocative portraits that stand in for the oft-unnamed women at the center of their stories. Dark Waters both evokes and exorcizes the sense of threat and foreboding that women often grapple with as they move through the world. Author Rebecca Bengal contributes an evocative short story that underscores the sense of anxiety and foreboding that Potter infuses into each of her images; a deliciously compelling, if chilling, combination.

This event is presented in partnership with the Green Ray Bookstore.

Parking for this event will be provided behind Sapphire & Sage in front of Green Ray bookstore.

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Kristine Potter (born in Dallas, 1977) is an artist based in Nashville. She holds a BFA in photography, a BA in art history from the University of Georgia, and an MFA in photography from Yale University. In 2021, her work was included in But Still, It Turns, an exhibition (and book) curated by Paul Graham that launched at the International Center of Photography, New York, before traveling to the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, in 2022. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2019–20). Manifest, her first monograph, was published in 2018. Potter is currently an assistant professor of photography at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Image:  Kristine Potter, Impasse at Sodom’s Creek, 2017; from Kristine Potter: Dark Waters (Aperture, 2023). © 2023 Kristine Potter

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