By Jerry Cullum Kelly Kristin Jones’s exhibition “Cotton Is Still King (Although Robbed of Some of Its Dictatorship)” at Sandler Hudson Gallery is the artist’s response to the ubiquity in Metro Atlanta of historical signage that honors “mostly … a past war and dead white men.” She further remarks, in the explanatory brochure that accompanies … Continued
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In her imaginative sculptures, Amy Landesberg explores the boundaries between nature and artifice, life and nonliving systems, and uncanny objects in general. “Things Grow Hair,” at Berry College’s Moon Gallery in Rome, Georgia through April 13, is her most recent iteration of the interstitial, or the intersectional, or the in-between, as a recent anthropology textbook … Continued
Leisa Rich’s extraordinary exhibition “grownupland,” which closes on January 13, has gone more unnoticed than it should have, in part because its host, Gallery 180, is centrally located but effectively invisible. Occupying the offices of the architecture firm Stanley Beaman & Sears at 180 Peachtree Street, it sits directly across from a downtown MARTA station but … Continued
“This Beautiful Tangle” is a logical and wonderful title for the current Dalton Gallery exhibition at Agnes Scott (open through December 3), the final part of Lisa Alembik’s ambitious, poetic investigation of the American South and contemporary life in general. One way or another, the previous shows, “Blackbird on Your Shoulder” (2006) and “Groundstory” (2012), were … Continued
Seana Reilly’s new Whitespace exhibition “Docking on the Orphic Shore” bears a title that might lead the classically educated among us to expect mystical initiation—or at least the story of a creative personality who has been to Hell and back without accomplishing the goal. Most of us may not quite remember whether Orpheus had to … Continued
Longtime and sharp-eared listeners to Atlanta public radio may recall hearing Lisa Alembik’s last name in the days when Alembik, Fine & Callner, her father’s law firm, was an underwriter of programming on WABE-FM 90.1. By the time I began hearing that distinctive surname broadcast, Lisa and I had already met through the independent (and long defunct) Buckhead-based … Continued
Larry Walker has just been announced as the winner of the 2016 Nexus Award, given by the Atlanta Contemporary. Walker will be fêted on August 27 in conjunction with the Contemporary’s ART PARTY fundraiser. The Nexus Award is given to individuals, groups, or organizations that have made significant contributions to the contemporary arts landscape in Atlanta and who … Continued
On January 30, a curious encounter of generations and artistic genres took place at Whitespace Gallery, as Dr. Thomas L. McHaney, author of half a dozen books on William Faulkner and editor of a vast range of Faulkner arcana, conversed with Atlanta artist Mimi Hart Silver, whose paintings reflect the intensely personal encounter with Faulkner’s … Continued
