With his massive chockablock canvases loaded with visual detritus and his jocular drawings that exhibit a tendency to dig into his own psyche, Texas artist Trenton Doyle Hancock’s exhibition at ACA Gallery of SCAD, We Done All We Could And None Of It’s Good, transports you to the id-factory of an artist’s studio, that physical [...]
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02/28/11 A warm and open sit-down with Marina Abramović
I met with Marina Abramović before her keynote address for SCAD-Atlanta’s second annual deFINE ART program. To be entirely truthful, I was nervous, something you can’t seem to avoid in the presence of the “grandmother of performance art.” My primary reception of Abramović has been in the form of still photographs that show her staring [...]
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02/01/11 Mind the gap: JuYeon Kim explores the space between cultures
The In-Between is a bicultural work of art, produced collaboratively by Korean émigré JuYeon Kim and sixteen fiber arts and sculpture students at the Savannah campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Though their preparatory studies are a major part of this touring exhibition, to name the sixteen collaborators would feel like a [...]
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10/29/10 Art Crush: Lucha Rodriguez, bubblegum-pink pop princess
Lucha Rodriguez has been everywhere this year, showing her work in exhibitions from Spruill Gallery, to the ACA Gallery of SCAD, to Hong Kong and even Paris. She’s kind of like Atlanta’s version of Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz; it’s easy to imagine her floating through the skies from place to [...]
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03/08/10 Clare Rojas at ACA Gallery of SCAD
Clare Rojas’ paintings and drawings combine influences of folk art with decorative patterns found in quilts and outdated wallpaper. The initial comforts offered by these traditionally lighthearted and decorative designs make Rojas’ depictions all the more disturbing. Characters and symbols echo through the work, arranged in rows or clusters that resemble collections of family portraits. [...]
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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