Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Augusta Art Exhibit:: Paintings by Sally Donovan
Aiken artist exhibiting at Sacred Heart Keith Claussen
Paintings by Sally Donovan of Aiken, S.C., go on display this week at Sacred Heart Cultural Center's Art Hall, with an opening reception scheduled Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Donovan received her first oil painting set at the age of 12 along with her first lesson from her aunt. She attended the Arts Students League and worked in the art department of a greeting card company in New York City until life led her in a different direction.
Following her retirement in 1995, she studied with Ralph Stone Jacobs and began painting still-lifes and landscapes. After relocating to Aiken, she continued instruction under Al Beyer at USC Aiken. Her art has been selected for juried shows, has been exhibited in many galleries both north and south, and can be found in collections from California to Florida. She is a member of the Aiken Artists Guild.
The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art will open its fourth annual Spring Artists' Market and Festival March 19 with a wine and cheese reception from 6 to 8 p.m., followed by a full week of activities. The opening reception will preview an exhibition and sale of works by the institute's member artists. Works will remain on view and available for purchase through March 26.
Saturday, March 20, there will be a free festival, with children's activities, hands-on art projects and artist demonstrations. The GHIA will be open free to the public all next week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Also opening Friday, March 19 will be an exhibit of the work of Chad Cole in the Creel-Harison Community Gallery at GHIA. An Augusta resident, Mr. Cole says he is influenced by the "literature, mythologies and psychological underpinnings of Southern Gothic." His work responds to classic Southern literature, landscape and architecture.
Speaking of Southern literature, the 35th annual Sandhills Writers Conference is scheduled March 18-20 at Augusta State University. American Book Award recipient Kimiko Hahn kicks off the conference with a keynote address at 11 a.m. March 18 in ASU's Galloway Hall.
The Conference also features Georgia authors Joshilyn Jackson (novelist) and Nathaniel Lachenmeyer (childrens literature), California-based non-fiction author and poet David Starkey, New York City literary agent, Brandi Bowles, and poet Robert Parham. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Caroline Aiken will also perform during the literary celebration.
In addition, there will be fiction, children's literature, and poetry craft sessions, an authors reading and book signing, and a talk by Bowles, Why You Need An Agent. There will also be a special guest appearance by Parham, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at ASU and editor of the Southern Poetry Review, the prestigious national magazine now celebrating its 50th year of publication.
Part of the celebration marks the publication of Don't Leave Hungry, an anthology of poetry first published in the magazine. Parham, along with Hahn, Starkey and Jackson, will be the featured readers at the 3 p.m. Reading-of-Writers on Friday, March 19, in Galloway Hall. Conference registration is open until March 18. For details, call 706-737-1636, e-mail akellman@aug.edu, or visit the conference website at www.sandhills.aug.edu.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Art Event:: JOHN WESTMARK New Works
Alan Avery Art Company will hold a reception for the exhibition John Westmark-New Works. The reception will be from 7 until 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, 2010 in conjunction with the First Thursdays + Buckhead Gallery Walk. This evening will also be a special event benefiting the Atlanta Humane Society. The exhibition continues through July 24, 2010.
It may have been John Westmark’s unorthodox materials – paper sewing patterns within his paintings - that first garnered attention, but with his Folklore Series it is the imagery that draws you in. Dramatic figures and allegorical scenes culled from myths and fables are the central theme to Westmark’s new work. The Gainesville, Florida artist considers the instructional text on the sewing patterns to be a metaphor “reinforcing the notion of the story.”
The gallery will also feature a group show in support of Going to the Dogs, a collaboration of the Buckhead galleries on E. Paces Ferry and N. Fulton streets. Several of our artists have specifically created a work of art that includes a pet or animal for this show. Ten percent of the evening’s sales will benefit the Atlanta Humane Society, who will be on hand with pets available for adoption. Participating galleries: Alan Avery Art Company, Catherine Kelleghan Gallery, Copeland Collection & Frabel Glass, D.E. Fine Art, The Sportsman’s Gallery, Twenty 21 Collections/Gallery Rodin.
Alan Avery Art Company is located at 315 East Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. Hours of operation are Tuesday – Friday from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., also by appointment.
It may have been John Westmark’s unorthodox materials – paper sewing patterns within his paintings - that first garnered attention, but with his Folklore Series it is the imagery that draws you in. Dramatic figures and allegorical scenes culled from myths and fables are the central theme to Westmark’s new work. The Gainesville, Florida artist considers the instructional text on the sewing patterns to be a metaphor “reinforcing the notion of the story.”
The gallery will also feature a group show in support of Going to the Dogs, a collaboration of the Buckhead galleries on E. Paces Ferry and N. Fulton streets. Several of our artists have specifically created a work of art that includes a pet or animal for this show. Ten percent of the evening’s sales will benefit the Atlanta Humane Society, who will be on hand with pets available for adoption. Participating galleries: Alan Avery Art Company, Catherine Kelleghan Gallery, Copeland Collection & Frabel Glass, D.E. Fine Art, The Sportsman’s Gallery, Twenty 21 Collections/Gallery Rodin.
Alan Avery Art Company is located at 315 East Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. Hours of operation are Tuesday – Friday from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., also by appointment.
Art Exhibit: Art Institute Student Exhibit
As part of the upcoming “Nina Simone Experience,” premiering in
The “Nina Simone Experience,” presented by the Nina Simone Estate, is a multi-genre, multi-faceted national celebration that will include a professional fine art exhibition, panel discussions, spoken word art, performing arts, and a fashion show. In addition to The Art Institute of Atlanta, various locations around
The artwork by the first, second, and third place student winners will be on view from April 16 through 25 at Thirteen TEN Events. The students will be presented with their awards at a special reception on April 21 at 7 pm.
The “Experience” kicks off on April 16 with a collector’s reception at 6 pm and a public reception at 7 pm at Thirteen TEN for “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl,” the fine art exhibition , followed by a live performance by Nina Simone’s daughter, Simone.
Nina Simone, who was not only a singer, but also a pianist, arranger, and composer, was often called “The High Priestess of Soul” and “The Queen of African-Rooted Classical Music.” In addition to being a compelling and accomplished musical artist, Nina Simone was a force in the Civil Rights Movement. For more information about all the events of the “Nina Simone Experience,” visit www.ninasimone.com.
The Janet S. Day Gallery is located at The Art Institute of Atlanta,
The Art Institute of Atlanta (www.artinstitutes.edu/atlanta) is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The Art Institute of Atlanta, including its branch campuses — The Art Institute of Atlanta – Decatur, The Art Institute of Charleston, The Art Institute of Tennessee – Nashville, The Art Institute of Virginia Beach, The Art Institute of Washington, and The Art Institute of Washington – Northern Virginia — is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane,
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Photography show at Fulton Cotton Mill
| New Works photography show at Fulton Cotton Mill by Gray Chapman This weekend, an urban loft in Cabbagetown's Fulton Cotton Mill was the backdrop for the New Works photography show, featuring works from twelve photography students at SCAD Atlanta. The show is part of the ongoing Emerging Arts Scene project, which seeks to highlight local emerging artists in series of gallery shows at the Cotton Mill (a.k.a. "the Stacks"). Denise Leitch Jackson, the owner and manager of the Emerging Arts Scene Gallery, has been curating art events throughout the city for the last two years. The New Works show was organized in part by SCAD Atlanta photography student Lauren Necko, under the direction of professor Judith Pishnery, who has held an internship with the Emerging Arts Scene for the past several months. Necko, who will receive her BFA from the college in May, said that the internship gave her the perfect opportunity to organize a senior portfolio exhibition for herself and her classmates. "We took a field trip over to the Stacks, and everyone fell in love with the space," she explained. "They all were saying, 'I want to shoot here!' and 'I want to live here!', so it seemed like a great fit."Necko herself had shot at the Stacks, and her texturally rich architectural shots are included in the show alongside a dozen of her peers' works. The collection is small but diverse, ranging from ethereal, antiqued landscapes to sharp, contrasted black-and-white images. Gray Chapman is a writer living in Atlanta. |
Monday, March 8, 2010
Art Event: Exhibition of work by 20 emerging at Avisca Fine Art Gallery
(PRLEAP.COM) Marietta, GA (March 8, 2010) – "A Woman’s Work", an exhibition of fine art in a variety of media by 20 emerging and mid-career women artists opens at Avisca Fine Art Gallery in Marietta on March 19, 2010 and will run until April 9, 2010. The exhibition, organized in honor of Women’s History Month, opens with a reception on Friday, March 19 at 6:00 PM. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will host an informal artist talk with some of the participating artists on Saturday, March 20 at 3 pm. All events are free and open to the public.
The exhibition will present a survey of work that explore the response of this group of artists to contemporary issues and, in looking at who they are and how they think about their work, aims to focus attention on the strengths of women artists and their art-making.
Avisca Fine Art Gallery is an alternative gallery space in downtown
Exhibition Dates: March 19 – April 9, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, March 19, 6:00 pm – 10:00pm (Free/open to the public)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Photography Event: Three Voices Opens at Snapdragon, March 13th
Three Voices Opens at Snapdragon, March 13th
“THREE VOICES
Photographs by John Bohannon, Pam Moxley, and Ansley West
March 13 – May 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 13, 7-10pm
Snapdragon Photography/Jennifer Schwartz Gallery,
Snapdragon Photography/Jennifer Schwartz Gallery is pleased to announce our latest exhibition, “Three Voices”, featuring photography by
John Bohannon creates images which capture his encounters with places and things that he feels have emotive potential. The resulting photographs are a collection of moments and memories – a personal experience, both for the photographer and viewer. Bohannon has been included in dozens of juried exhibitions throughout the Southeast, and his work has been featured in Shots magazine and the Florida Review. In 2009, he was one of twelve photographers chosen to participate in Gifted, Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s Public Art Project.
Self-taught artist Pam Moxley is the co-owner of Original Art Finders and Curator of Grace Gallery in
Ansley West’s photographic compositions interpret narratives both real and imagined. She often places herself into the photographs, in order to recontextualize these stories. Her work sometimes portrays social issues about which she is passionate. The images selected for this show come from two bodies of work: “Fences” addresses the physical and psychological hurdles we face and how we move past them, while “Landscapes” seeks to show that human connection to the earth can be a symbiotic rather than a parasitic relationship. As well as being included in many group exhibitions across the
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Art Opening: 'The Art of Losing' Exhibition Opens at Emory
'The Art of Losing' Exhibition Opens at Emory
Includes elegies from poet Kevin Young's new anthology
The death of a loved one often brings feelings of despair and isolation, but a new exhibition and anthology of poems offers comfort through shared experiences. "The Art of Losing" exhibition opens March 15 at
The exhibition coincides with the March 16 release of "The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing," an anthology of elegies selected by poet Kevin Young, co-curator of the exhibition. Young is the curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at MARBL, and the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory.
The book includes poems by Elizabeth Alexander, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey (the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry in Emory's Creative Writing program), Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Seamus Haney, Ted Hughes, Mary Oliver, Anne Sexton and Dylan Thomas, as well as several by Young himself. Also included are poems by recent readers in MARBL's Danowski Poetry Reading Series: Robert Pinsky, C.K. Williams and Li-Young Lee.
Young and Trethewey will read selections from the anthology at 7:15 p.m., Thursday, March 18 in the Decatur Library Auditorium at the
"Through elegy and throughout the years, poets have traced their own journeys through grief in order to comprehend the incomprehensible, to comfort themselves and others," Young says. "Like the book that inspired it, this exhibition traces grief's journey, from Reckoning to Regret, through Remembrance to Ritual and Recovery; if it doesn't resolve the grieving process with simple acceptance, it does end with a kind of Redemption. For while these poems chronicle loss and its rituals, elegies also celebrate life - and ask us to care for ours, if only by honoring the lives of loved ones."
Elizabeth Chase, MARBL's coordinator for research services and a Ph.D. candidate in Emory's English department, is the exhibition's co-curator.
"The poems put into words the emotions and experience of loss that are so difficult to express, and in a way I believe people can identify with," Chase says. "Even though the exhibit deals with loss, my hope is that visitors will experience it in a way that's reassuring. These poems convey deep sadness, but they also celebrate the complex personal bonds shared by these poets and those whom they love."
The exhibition features books and unique items from MARBL's collection that feature poems reprinted in Young's anthology, along with additional highlights from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, MARBL's general holdings and recent acquisitions. One item not in Young's anthology is Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon's poem "Incantata," a long poem written in memory of his ex-lover, Mary Farl Powers. The limited-edition printing contains artwork by Powers's friends, and the exhibit pairs the book with an abstract painting by Muldoon himself, taken from Muldoon's archive, which is housed at Emory.
One of Young's notebooks with a draft of his poem "Bereavement," written in memory of his father, will be displayed alongside a wall panel of its printing last summer in The New Yorker.
Also on display is a letter, recently acquired by Young, written by poet John Berryman to Vernon Watkins about the death of his friend and poet Dylan Thomas. Apart from hospital personnel, Berryman was the only person in the room when Thomas died in 1953. He never spoke publicly of Thomas's death, and his letter has never been published in full; this will be its first appearance in a public exhibition, and provides a remarkable firsthand account of not just Thomas's passing but the process of grief.
The exhibition, which runs until Oct. 10, 2010, is free and open to the public during normal MARBL hours, which are Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. MARBL is located on the 10th floor of the Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322. For more information, call 404.727.6887, e-mail MARBL or visit MARBL News and Events.
Contact:
1. Maureen McGavin: 404.727.6898
2. Elaine Justice: 404.727.0643
Friday, March 5, 2010
Gallery 4463 March 2010 exhibition: "New Member Exhibition"
Gallery 4463, Acworth's Premier Fine Arts Sales Gallery, will feature the works of our newest members for our March 2010 exhibition. Painters Marsha Chandler, Julian Cowdart, Cathryn M. Green, Greg Holzhauer, Gail Koornick, Tina Steele Lindsey, Marianne B. van der Haar, and Paul Wagener, and photographers Sherry Ghavassi, Bill Graham, and Charles Holton will be featured in our main gallery. Our new artists are known locally as well as internationally and have a wide variety of styles. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday evening, March 5th from 6:00 to 9:00p.m. The show runs through Sunday, March 28th. Admission to the gallery is always free.
Gallery 4463 is Acworth’s Premier Fine Arts Sales Gallery and represents the works of over 35 artists from Atlanta and North Georgia. The gallery is located at 4463 Cherokee Street in the heart of historic downtown Acworth, across the railroad tracks and less than a mile from I-75. Gallery 4463 is in a prominent brick and glass two-story building that features 14-foot-high ceilings and a spacious interior, and is a space uniquely suited for a full-size gallery. The gallery is operated by a group of professional artists who are committed to the idea of creating a quality fine arts gallery that is unique: a resource for professional artists, a center for fine arts in our town and community and ultimately a magnet for art patrons from all over north Georgia.
Artist Spotlight: Sarah Emerson and Katherine Taylor
Atlanta artists in Québec City biennial 
Catastrophe is the theme of Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec, Manif d’art 5, Québec City’s upcoming art biennial. But the city-wide exhibit is definitely a boon to Atlanta artists Sarah Emerson and Katherine Taylor. Curator Sylvie Fortin, the editor-in-chief of the Atlanta-based Art Papers magazine, has included them in the city-wide event, which runs May 1-June 15.
"Swarm" by Sarah Emerson
Fortin intends to explore catastrophe in its various manifestations, from catalcysmic events to subtler “shadow of the permanent threat of catastrophe.” These artists, both trained in Atlanta, fit the bill. Emerson creates a world whose Bambi innocence belies the strange doings that take place therein. Taylor often limns a landscape laid waste by weather — Atlanta’s floods in her most recent work. Her paintings are sourced from newspaper or television images, which often neutralize the emotional impact of their subject. You might say she depicts the banality of natural disaster.
Emerson, 36, will contribute a site-specific silhouette tableau on windows of the Museum of Civilization as well as a temporary mural, location yet to be determined, that reprises the locusts that swarmed in her discomfiting recent show at her Atlanta gallery, Whitespace.
Both artists consider Manif an important opportunity. “Sylvie’s been really supportive,” Emerson says. “She encouraged me to stretch.”
Although she has shown abroad, Emerson says this her most important show thus far because she will be exhibiting in the context of internationally recognized artists. Taylor, who is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery, is also excited by the prospect of a new platform. An artist who tends to lose herself in her work, the 44-year-old painter says, “It’s also made me think about my work differently, to think about its value outside of the studio.”
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