Best Photography Exhibition in Nashville 2026: LeXander Bryant: 'Dirt Road Baby' at Red Arrow
It’s not like LeXander Bryant is new to exhibiting in Nashville — his 2022 solo museum show at the Frist was essential viewing for anyone interested in how strong the local photography scene can be. But Dirt Road Baby, staged late last year at Red Arrow, was still a breakthrough. The large-scale photos of Bryant’s Alabama hometown were both original and completely in step with contemporary art’s investigations into place and identity. And Bryant’s inclusion of smaller cyanotypes — a photographic method suggested to him by Frist curator Michael J. Ewing — made the whole thing feel like a love letter to his community.
