Previously known for her photography, Sarah Hobbs boldly marks a recent milestone for more adventurous artwork in Atlanta.
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06/06/12 Thompson’s Tannhäuser Gate Celebrates the Unknowable
P. Seth Thompson’s Tannhäuser Gate paints a vivid image of the human journey.
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05/01/12 Call for Artists: Upcoming Deadlines for May and Beyond
MODA releases a call for designers to take over their exhibition space, while APG calls for photography that “amaze and confound.”
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01/05/12 Scott Ingram Discusses His Nail Polish Paintings
Scott Ingram’s current solo show at Emily Amy Gallery, Cusp, continues his twelve-year long series of nail polish paintings. Ingram has used the medium to take the aesthetics of mid-century painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Morris Louis into a humorous pop-cultural context that explores how painting can still be relevant. I spoke with [...]
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11/16/11 Mike Wsol’s Limited Vision Provokes Ontological Narratives
Of the many stories invented by the partisans of Freud, Marx, and Darwin to explain the roots of human psychological, social, and biological behavior, it is astonishing how few of these narratives are even remotely convincing. It is enough to make one believe in the neurological hypothesis that we are hard-wired to compose narratives that [...]
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11/09/11 Holly White’s Cinematic Language at Poem88 Recalls the Truth of Art
Rejecting the gallery as a privileged space is a fad that has cycled through the art world for at least the past 40 years. It currently has its hold on Atlanta, as seen by the success of Flux Projects and the recent changes at Solomon Projects. Regardless, our city is ripe for a permanent art [...]
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10/28/11 Solomon Projects, Leaving the White Cube Behind
This is the way Nancy Solomon’s gallery ends, not with a whimper but a bang. On September 16, 2011, Nancy Solomon inaugurated the beginning of her new role as director of the reinvented Solomon Projects by firing rounds from a .22 Beretta. She was at the Quickshot Shooting Range with a group of arts enthusiasts [...]
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09/14/11 Vaitsman’s Study of Strange Things Taps into a Personal Mythology
Described by Marcia Vaitsman as a work in progress, her Study of Strange Things at Solomon Projects is a body of photography and video that explores the relationship between art, society, and the individual consciousness. The visual metaphors she employs aren’t just made up out of culturally received symbolism; they’re personal proto-symbols—symbols, however, of nothing [...]
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09/13/11 Q&A with Lloyd Benjamin on Riding Trains and Making Trax
Lloyd Benjamin began riding freight trains when he was nineteen. He settled in Atlanta at the tail end of a six-year period spanning over 15,000 miles, he says, “traveling hard” throughout the United States and Canada. Today he’s the owner and director of Get This! Gallery, and he’s also a participating artist in BURNAWAY’s Second [...]
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06/01/11 ARTSpeak: Doug Weathersby’s Environmental Services
Click the player above to listen now, or click here to download the audio file. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM. Episode 28: Artist Doug Weathersby of Environmental Services calls [...]
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04/06/11 Why do young artists leave Atlanta?
Seven artists with roots in Atlanta discuss their reasons for relocating, their new independent creative paths, and why they all wish there was more to come home for.
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03/23/11 Snapshot reviews: Four galleries on a pleasant Saturday afternoon
I spent Saturday morning in crisis mode, frantically driving around Atlanta in search of a prescription for insulin. Not to be hyperbolic, but it was the worst thing that ever happened. Miserably, I trudged across the highway to the Westside, hardly expecting art to make me feel any better. To my surprise, the four recently [...]
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12/09/10 Kathryn Refi’s chaos and happenstance at Solomon Projects
Currently on view at Solomon Projects is Kathryn Refi‘s exhibition, The 2nd of November. The show combines two bodies of work organized around the theme of the artist’s date of birth: November 2, 1975. The first consists of eight large drawings, five in charcoal and three in color pastel, based on newspaper photographs of events [...]
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06/21/10 Holly Coulis and David Humphrey at Solomon Projects
Solomon Projects is currently exhibiting two new bodies of work by New York artists Holly Coulis and David Humphrey.
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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