Art Reviews
Chance encounters: Grassroots spirituality, art, and politics
Andrew Imm collects photos of missing people, and also the thin plastic innards from keyboards that look like Star Trek consoles. Held at Eyedrum last year, Systems of Chance was the artist and mathematics teacher’s first show. In classic “clusterfuck” style, Imm overlaid them with network-like graphics and piles of other cosmic junk. Anne... »
Susanna Starr: Pass the rag
It’s not uncommon for an artist to start with a material and end with an image. Cézanne turned some pigmented oils into apples and oranges; Picasso turned some sheet metal and wire into a guitar. It is less common, however, for an artist to stage the transition from material to image as a dramatic... »
Limitless at Dalton Gallery
The first show of 2010 at Agnes Scott College’s Dalton Gallery opened Thursday night. Entitled Limitless, this group show honors the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s invention of the telescope, inviting artists to “‘reveal hidden worlds’ by taking wide-ranging approaches to art making while using an expansive scope to view the universe.” Considering the... »
Gyun Hur at Get This! Gallery
Gyun Hur’s Repose is the kind of show you wish you could love, want to love, but somehow the chemistry never happens. You walk into the gallery and there it is, beaming up at you from the floor: a big, brightly colored carpet of thousands of tiny pieces of shredded cemetery flowers, arranged in... »
Unconventional Portraiture, studies in contrast at Terminus
The aim of portraiture has always been directed at capturing the inner essence of the portrayed. As stated by Charles Dickens, portraits often take the form of either “the serious or a smirk.” Marianne Lambert uses this to her advantage in Unconventional Portraiture. The exhibition currently on view at the Gallery Walk at Terminus... »
Saying goodbye to Gallery Stokes
Gallery Stokes has become a labor of love for Dayna Thacker, who started curating shows in the space in June 2007. She readily admits she had little knowledge of curatorial practices when she began the gallery, but with advice from friends and lots of hard work, she turned Gallery Stokes into a place that... »
Scott Ingram at Solomon Projects
Scott Ingram’s exhibition …through line…, currently on display at Solomon Projects through March 13, is a continuation of the artist’s fascination with Modernist sculpture. Ingram has the ability to deconstruct any building or structure into a simple arrangement of line that leaves only a hint of what he is representing. Unfortunately, his current show... »
Run for Cover at Spruill Gallery
For over half a century after recorded music began to be marketed, music was simply delivered on a labeled disk in a blank paper sleeve. It wasn’t much to look at, but it sounded (relatively) good. Then in 1939 designer Alex Steinweiss developed a cardboard sleeve with a picture on it called an “album cover,”... »
Micah Stansell’s Presynaptic Potential ends this Saturday
Micah Stansell’s Presynaptic Potential, which unfortunately will only be on view through this Saturday, January 16, is a big-time undertaking: five projections displaying five different channels of video, spread across three walls of one of Atlanta’s more imposing spaces, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. This is not your parents’ video art. Where... »
Katherine Mitchell: What is beauty?
Katherine Mitchell told me that “the thing that’s frightening about beauty is its infinitude.” Her collage, What is Beauty? engages this notion via its use of text and form. The work is part of her recent solo exhibition, Correspondences, Conversations, and Texts, which was up at Sandler Hudson Gallery through January 9. »
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