See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, May 27.
Archive Content from May 2010
05/26/10 Sex, death, and bovine flesh in Charles Westfall's Gypsy Acid Queen
In his most recent body of work, Gypsy Acid Queen, Charles Westfall wrestles with female archetypes of aggression, power, and violence. “Violence,” declares Westfall, “like anything else, is gendered and comes in masculine and feminine varieties.” References to gender in this brief body of four works are oblique, but persistent. In one smaller work, thick [...]
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05/25/10 Artists explore vibrancy and mortality in Kibbee Gallery's Sprout
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower/ Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees/ Is my destroyer. —Dylan Thomas (click here for entire poem) The poetry of Dylan Thomas haunts the exhibition Sprout, a nature-themed show by four emerging female artists at Kibbee Gallery. Curated by Anne-Marie Manker, Sprout [...]
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05/24/10 Postmodern is passé: Terry Smith defines contemporary art
In his most recent book, What is Contemporary Art?, art historian and theorist Terry Smith offers some compelling answers to a difficult question. To formulate the answer, he positions the contemporary within art history by contrasting it with modernism’s love of categorization and grand narrative. In this schema, postmodernism is passé since it was a [...]
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05/20/10 Art on the BeltLine project Coexist explores issues of gentrification
“… From the wrong side of the tracks.” Though the phrase marinated in Michi Meko‘s great, dreadlock-covered head for a lifetime, the thought leaves an aftertaste. Meko is one of 30 local artists selected to participate in the Art on the BeltLine exhibition, on display through October this year, spanning eight miles of train tracks [...]
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05/17/10 Anagama Kiln Firing at Hambidge Center for the Arts
At 5AM on a Sunday morning early this month, after 36 hours of heavy work with little rest, Tom Egan meticulously sorted bright white hemlock logs as the sun peeped through the clouds over Rabun Gap, Georgia. Egan already had coaxed the wood-fired anagama kiln to around 2,280 degrees Fahrenheit (a stage known as cone [...]
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05/13/10 To Do List: Events this week
MONDAY, MAY 13 Screening: Urbanized, a documentary film by Gary HustwitReinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium (Georgia Tech, East Architecture Building) / 6:30-7:30PM Last Day To See: Emory Visual Arts Department Student Exhibition and Open StudiosEmory Visual Arts Department (700 Peavine Creek Drive) TUESDAY, MAY 14 Lecture: Georgia’s Contribution to “Good Design”MODA / 6:30PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 Lecture: Ivy [...]
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05/11/10 Lucinda Bunnen reflects on Hatcher's Pond Wednesday
Lucinda Bunnen’s From Hatcher’s Pond at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) is a high point in a career that has already seen its share of high points. The large scale and fine clarity of artist John Dean’s digital prints are key to the success of Bunnen’s artfully selected photographs: The romantic [...]
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05/07/10 Atlanta PlanIt redesign debut
After nearly a year of planning, Atlanta PlanIt debuted a soft launch of its new design this morning. The official launch will be next week. Nicole Jones, Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta PlanIt, comments:
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05/06/10 Fight or Flight? Kelly McKernan sends mixed signals
Kelly McKernan‘s latest series of hybrid photo/paintings contain white butterflies, white patterns that could either be snowflakes or doily placemats, single white feathers frozen in midair, white birds that might be doves, and flowers that might be magnolias, but aren’t. I don’t bring up the color white to criticize the artist’s palette; McKernan’s hues are [...]
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05/04/10 Goodbye green: Cabbagetown imposes a new paint-out color
From 2008 to 2010, the Cabbagtown Neighborhood Improvement Association, which refuses to allow graffiti to continue on Cabbagetown’s lengthy public wall, established a dictatorship of green paint. And now that reign is over: The paint-out color of choice is back to light gray, to match the wall itself. Ironically, the new color calls attention to [...]
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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
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Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve