White light, white heat: Clusters of pulsating light pods radiated from Kibbee Gallery’s corners and floorboards, and tendril-ous gossamer jellyfish floated down from the ceiling, amid melted and misshapen plastic bottles. I was a vaguely afraid I would step on something and was strangely convinced that, if I didn’t watch my feet, whatever rare, delicate [...]
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02/24/10 Mall education: gloATL’s Bloom at Lenox Square
Black-corseted creatures wrapped in tulle, lace, and ruffles gradually wiggled their way through the mass of Valentine’s Day shoppers two weekends ago in the atrium of Atlanta’s Lenox Square mall. Titled Bloom, the three-night performance featured an impressive list of local contemporary artists: the dance project gloATL, Georgia Tech’s Sonic Generator, and Big Rube, an [...]
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02/24/10 Preview: Here We Hide opens this Saturday at MINT
Collaborative art projects are the order of the day in Atlanta. You can’t swing a brush in this town without hearing someone’s emphatic description of the “awesome” new project, art show, or performance they’re cooking up with other local creatives. And, really, why shouldn’t it be like that? Funding is hard to come by, let [...]
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02/23/10 Feminine painting: Abstractions about an abstract concept?
Emily Amy Gallery’s current exhibition, The Feminine in Abstract Painting, provides a look at four drastically different female artists working within the realm of abstract painting. With an exhibit like this one, the premise of femininity automatically triggers associations with the history of women artists, as well as comparisons to the predominantly masculine history of [...]
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02/22/10 Steven Sachs' Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Paper Scissors, currently on view at Barbara Archer Gallery, is an all-inclusive retrospective of the styles and techniques explored throughout the career of veteran Atlanta artist and self-proclaimed urban archaeologist Steven Sachs. The exhibition spans everything from figurative found-object sculptures to dense optical paintings that come equipped with 3-D glasses. Thanks to the help [...]
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02/19/10 Dialogue: Two reviews of Tommy Taylor's Tangent
Two reviews of Tangent at Whitespace Gallery, which continues for its final view this Saturday, February 20. Laura Hennighausen I honestly hadn’t used the word “anthropomorphic” since the days of art history term papers, but it comes in handy when describing Tommy Taylor‘s exhibit of abstracts currently on display at Whitespace. Entitled Tangent, the show [...]
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02/17/10 Come help Art Sign the BeltLine Saturday at Eyedrum
At noon this Saturday, February 20, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery will be hosting a WonderRoot-sponsored painting party, Art Sign the BeltLine 2.0. The goal is to create 216 works of art to be placed around town at various BeltLine sites and public right-of-way crossings. If this strikes you as a lofty goal, let me [...]
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02/15/10 Nurture: Amy Jenkins at ATHICA
Commissioned by ATHICA for this solo show, which runs through February 28, Amy Jenkins’ video Audrey Superhero updates the adventures of her daughter, who first made national art-world news before her second birthday. Jenkins has long explored the more universal dimensions of her own life and her own body; a memorable early video (not in [...]
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02/15/10 Choreographed confusion: Sonic Generator at Woodruff Arts Center
A typically packed house enjoyed another exuberant (and cost-free) gift from Georgia Tech’s Sonic Generator music ensemble on Monday, February 8. Their second performance at the Woodruff Arts Center’s Rich Theatre was a special treat because of the venue’s ample seating, cinematic capacity, and role as civic pedestal. (They usually play on campus at the [...]
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02/11/10 Art in Crisis: Nonprofit resources tour to visit the ATL
If you’re familiar with any nonprofit arts organization, you’re probably already intimately familiar with the hardships they have been facing in recent years. Even organizations that were once strong and thriving have been pushed into a state of uncertainty, if not all-out panic. However, leaders of arts organizations are now looking earnestly to the future: [...]
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02/11/10 To Do List
See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, February 11. Don’t forget Lauri Stallings’ Bloom, another dance-and-multimedia performance by gloATL at Lenox Mall this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
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02/10/10 Art on the BeltLine: Call for public art proposals
Today, as I conducted my daily bike errands, I noted the scenery around me. The highlights? A dirty bucket and a decaying sock of questionable origin. I figure if I’m going to freeze my ass off riding around town, I (and my fellow street-stompin’ travelers) could at least use something pleasant to look at. This [...]
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karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve