“I’m the guy at the party with no shirt on.” —Fahamu Pecou There are certain things about Fahamu Pecou that we know. He is The Shit. He has a badass haircut. And he has managed to become one of Atlanta’s most recognizable artistic figures in only a few years. Pecou found at an early age [...]
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04/27/10 Past. Perfect. Continuous.: Micah and Whitney Stansell at Whitespace
Past. Perfect. Continuous., Micah and Whitney Stansell’s collaboration currently on view at Whitespace Gallery, demonstrates how two artists can support, respect, and inspire one another while still pushing and challenging each other to new creative heights. The exhibition is the husband and wife’s first two-person show and includes a variety of media, from video installation, [...]
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04/22/10 To Do List
I have a terrible memory when it comes to times and dates, so much that over the years I’ve devised a system of cheats for remembering important appointments, deadlines, and art shows that just can’t be missed. (I still scribble these notes on actual paper.) My cheat sheet for this week is fortunately simple: Substitute [...]
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04/21/10 Metro professionals speak about arts funding, HB 1049, and the GCA
Note: The article and all quotations below reflect the legislative situation before the General Assembly reconvened Tuesday morning, April 20. Updates: See these articles by Jessica Blankenship at Creative Loafing and Jamie Gumbrecht at the AJC reporting events that may herald the restoration of the GCA, and keep watching this space for more info. For [...]
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04/20/10 Preview: Skies Over Atlanta this Saturday-Sunday at 850 Euclid
I was driving through Inman Park with my roommate last month when we passed by an abandoned church at 850 Euclid Avenue. The structure has a lazy, melancholy vibe about it, as if it hasn’t decided whether to be sad or to accept its disuse as a blissful fact of life. Even now, its surroundings [...]
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04/19/10 Special event: Reynoldstown Art and History Tour this Saturday
UPDATE: Due to the rain forecast this weekend, the Reynoldstown Art and History Tour has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 1. We will still meet at WonderRoot Community Art Center at 12 noon. Dear neighbors,
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04/16/10 About Face at Spruill Gallery
In civilian speak, an “about face” can mean a sudden change in attitude or principle. But the term originated as a military command for directing soldiers to turn 180 degrees from the point of attention, causing a literal change in viewpoint. About Face, the current exhibition at Spruill Gallery, presents alternative perspectives on war, challenging viewers [...]
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04/14/10 MOCA GA announces Working Artist Project winners!
BURNAWAY would like to send congratulatory shout-outs to each of this year’s Working Artist Project award winners: Micah Stansell, Alan Caomin Xie, and Katherine Mitchell! The Working Artist Project is a program of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) designed to support established visual artists who live in the metro Atlanta area. [...]
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04/14/10 From irony to mysticism: Two artists at Marcia Wood Gallery
With an arsenal of glass guns, sculptures of icy bears, and luminous grid-like constructions, Claire Lieberman addresses issues of violence, impermanence, and transformation in her first Atlanta solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery. By contrast, Robert Sagerman focuses on painting as a meditative process in a collection of eight abstractions in an adjoining room. While [...]
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04/13/10 Pandra Williams at Kiang Gallery
Pandra Williams’ installation Radicis is not easy to write about. Any wall-filling work that uses mulberry paper and porcelain for its outer structure and LED lights controlled by a microprocessor and powered by solar-charged batteries has already raised so many art-related issues that it would take an entire review just to list them.
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04/12/10 Another "urban decay" artist: Andrew Moore at Jackson Fine Art
In a recent juried show of photographs about “home” at Emory University, jurors noted how many of the hundreds of submissions pictured abandoned houses, and otherwise dystopic architectural spaces across the U.S. Being too obvious, repetitive, and cliché, these images were not selected for the final exhibition. The jurors, in an effort to uphold the [...]
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