In new paintings on view in Nashville, artist Eleanor Aldrich combines a variety of materials to create impressions of pinched and protruding flesh. Read BA contributor Melinda Baker’s review.
Reviews
Art Review, Feature
Shutdown: Bill Traylor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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BA contributor Jordan Amirkhani considers what it means when the first major retrospective dedicated to an American artist born into slavery is interrupted by a government shutdown.
Art Review, Feature, MOMUS
No Outsiders: The 2019 Atlanta Biennial at Atlanta Contemporary
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The 2019 Atlanta Biennial collapses distinctions between “folk” and mainstream, past and future, making a case for art “inside and beside” the artworld. Read BA contributor Maura Callahan’s review, co-commissioned by BURNAWAY and our partner publication Momus.
In a solo exhibition at Tracey Morgan Gallery, painter Ralston Fox Smith imbues color theory and geometric abstraction with fresh emotional richness. Read BA contributor Jeremy Phillips’s review.
In a recent exhibition in Savannah, artist Erin Johnson’s video works combined ecological research and documentary techniques to investigate a South Carolina nuclear facility. Read BA contributor Jenna Crowder’s review.
In his first solo exhibition in New York, Atlanta-based artist Paul Stephen Benjamin continued his formal and conceptual investigations of blackness at Marianne Boesky Gallery.
In an exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky-born artist and curator Scott Rollins explores the archive of pioneering New York performance artist Richard Gallo. Read BA contributor Paul Michael Brown’s review.
Art Review, Feature
An Historical Instrument: Kevin Beasley at the Whitney, New York
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At the Whitney Museum in New York, artist Kevin Beasley plays a cotton gin like a musical instrument and reinterprets the Southern landscape. Read BA contributor Sam Korman’s review.
In a solo exhibition in Baton Rouge, New Orleans-based artist Katrina Andry reimagines the historical imagery of the Middle Passage in fantastical mylar prints. Read BA contributor Dillon Raborn’s review.
In his new direct-to-streaming film, director Dan Gilroy offers a biting but ultimately shallow parody of the movers and shakers of the Los Angeles art world.
In his Working Artist Project exhibition at MOCA GA, Atlanta-based artist Michi Meko confronts Black Americans’ fraught relationships with the quiet isolation offered by nature.
Artists' Books, Book Review
The Light the Dead See: Matthew Genitempo and Frank Stanford
Jan 8, 2019 0
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A new photobook by Matthew Genitempo serves as a visual companion to the work of poet Frank Stanford and his brief, meteoric life in the Ozarks.
“Labor Studies” presents collaborators Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick’s photographic chronicle of the labor practices that have defined Louisiana.
In the fourth iteration of its regional invitational exhibition, Chattanooga’s Hunter Museum of American Art showcases a diverse range of work by eight artists based in Tennessee and Georgia.
In a solo exhibition at the Lower East Side gallery JTT, interdisciplinary artist Sable Elyse Smith continues her investigation of the insidious influence of the racialized criminal justice system.
In a group show at Atlanta Contemporary, artists including John Edmonds, Lucia Hierro, David Onri Anderson, and Atlanta’s own FRKO consider sites and everyday objects that contain a sense of the passage of time.
The decadent ceramic vessels in “Collapse,” Robert Chamberlin’s first solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, offer commentary on the social and political implications of material excess.
At the Met Breuer in New York, an exhibition focused on sculptures by the late artist Jack Whitten demonstrates connections between his work and his Southern heritage, as well as his lifelong interests in traditional African sculpture and ancient Greek cultures.
