Archive for November, 2008

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A fascination with paradox explains, at least in part, my fondness for the horror genre—”ecstatic with fright” is one of my favorite emotional states. Throw the living dead into the mix and add some art, and I enter a state of nirvana. Thus my excitement when I happened upon the plot summary for Dying to... »

B-Complex held an elaborate Halloween themed show three weekends ago – an event that every single Burn Away writer unfortunately missed. The B-Complex artists gave us another chance to catch up last weekend, opening their 8,000 square foot exhibition space (and homes/studios) for the 2008 West End Art Tour. »

James (of Beep Beep Gallery) posted a long rumination on Atlanta’s current “indie” art scene last Friday: People are always asking us about the economy: “So how’s art business in this economy?” or I bet people aren’t buying art in this economy?” Yeah it’s true times are definitely rough for all of us in the... »

Bleeding hearts, ghost dancing savages, turkeys, pilgrims, and yes, even you “Big Angels”: my fellow Atlantans—you are beautiful. We have work to do… »

Why not take the setting another direction, make the gallery a home? It’s all a part of my big picture: smell bad, sweat, dance, get too drunk or stay sober… I want a home for people to do that in. All in all I don’t feel there are enough magical environments out... »

If Eyedrum’s current 20-artist group show, “Crop Circles, Cosmograms, Psychogeographies” aims at eclecticism, it certainly achieves it. In an unlikely gambit, a disparate range of styles are united by an equally broad, multi-part theme loosely inspired by UFOs. »

The painting above—a possible Jackson Pollock purchased by retired truck driver Teri Horton for five dollars in 1992—recently made headlines again: Gallery Delisle in Toronto, Canada, is now offering it for 50 million U.S. dollars. »

Young Blood’s 1st Annual “Day of the Dead” show presented a fantastic collision of American and Mexican low culture, using Dia de los Muertes coffin shrines as framing devices for tributes to Hank Williams, mariachi, Jesus and Mary, mermaids, Tammy Faye, Elvis Presley, Frida Kahlo, and (of course) dozens of skeletons. »

I typically hate reading interviews. 80% of them begin with inane questions like “What got you started being creative? Why did you decide to pick up ?” But then some interviewer comes along and—as the exception that proves the rule—does something a little different. In her... »