As dandyism dominated the 2024 Met Gala and films like “Sinners” brought southern aesthetics to the big screen, visual artist Najee Dorsey found his decades of work suddenly in cultural conversation.

His latest exhibition, “From Beale Street to Bourbon Street,” which opened May 22 and runs through July 19 at Black Art In America in East Point, traces the layered visual storytelling of an artist whose work emerges from the cultural crossroads of the American South.

The show presents nearly two decades of Dorsey’s creative expression, spanning painting, mixed media, photomontage, digital collage, sculpture, and installation. Through these varied media, Dorsey creates what he calls “a textured narrative” where bluesmen and conjure women serve as guardians of memory.

“Stories untold are sto

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