Micah and Whitney Stansell are a married couple who frequently collaborate on artistic projects. Though in their youth they both lived for a time just outside of Atlanta, the two actually met as freshmen at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in the Fine Arts program. They became friends due to taking foreign language classes at…
In a mid-century former church in the Lake Claire neighborhood, artist W. Chester Old presents a retrospective of his career. Spanning five decades, the works on display exhibit elegance paired with a particularly American irony that feels right on time given the nation’s current challenges and difficulties. Inside, a wall-sized grid of photographs depict the…
Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection — a group of 85 works in various media on paper currently on view at the High Museum — is a promised gift to the museum that celebrates the language of abstraction. It will bridge a gap in the museum’s collection of American artists of…
One often thinks of Georgia O’Keeffe as the quintessential American woman artist who painted large flowers and bones placed against the backdrop of the Southwestern landscape. O’Keeffe’s urban landscapes — Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks — at the High Museum through February 16, reveal a different side of this artist. Time and place collapse through…
This summer, the High Museum of Art has mounted a new installation on the Woodruff Arts Center’s Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza: Panorama by Rotterdam-based Studio Sabine Marcelis. This is the ninth in the series of temporary interactive works from the museum’s Department of Decorative Arts and Design that began in 2014. Previous piazza installations include…
Georgia Retyped, Tim Youd’s exhibition at the Atlanta Contemporary is part of the artist’s 10-year project of retyping 100 novels. Youd had typed 81 novels by the time the exhibition opened. During the first two weeks of the current exhibition, Youd retyped Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage in the gallery on three typewriters: a Smith-Corona…
Square One, George Long’s solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery through June 22, comprises large, unframed works on paper and a series of figurative clay sculptures on five low, black pedestals in the center of the gallery. The physical presence of the artist’s hand and the obsessive quality of his artmaking is palpable in all…
When an artist pays homage to his influences and friends in his own work, the result can be meaningful. In several of Michael David’s works made with a substrate of wood panels supporting shattered black mirrors, his content seems to be referencing his artistic heroes, perhaps including Captain Beefheart, the cover of whose 1971 album…
It is hard to fathom that A Walk in the Park at Johnson Lowe Gallery through June 28 is Judy Pfaff’s first exhibition in Atlanta. The show rewards those who have been waiting decades for an exhibition of the work of an artist who first came to prominence in the mid-1970s. Pfaff’s large-scale sculptural relief…
Genevieve Gaignard’s artist’s billboard, Look At Them Look At Us (2022) is installed permanently on the side of a parking structure at 79 Marietta St. The title is in pink neon, and the text sits on a flowered background of a reproduction of vintage wallpaper. Above this a screen temporarily displayed photos of the artist…
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