Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States.Renowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history. Elegyampamp160brings together Beys three landscape series to dateNight Coming Tenderly Blackampamp160ampamp1602017ampamp160In This Here Placeampamp160ampamp1602021 andampamp160Stony the Roadampamp1602023ampamp8212elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States. Bey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia where Africans were marched onto auction blocks to the plantations of Louisiana where they labored and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio where fugitives sought selfemancipation.