Art Reviews
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 is... »
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... »
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... »
Eye Sea Reflections: Lillian Blades at Hammonds House Museum
Reflective light and brilliant blues have particular meaning for Lillian Blades, who grew up in the Bahamas. Given the title of her recent exhibition, Eye Sea Reflections, at Hammonds House Museum in the West End, I expected to walk into an installation of blues, mirrors, lights, amazing objects, and fabrics. But, rather than a... »
The Sculpted Wall at Terminus 200
Located in the heart of Buckhead, the Terminus office towers have designated both of their lobbies as exhibition spaces since the buildings were added to the city skyline in 2007 and 2009. Terminus 200’s second exhibition, The Sculpted Wall, is on view through April. It features work from several Southeastern artists, some of which... »
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... »
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