Author: Dinah McClintock

“4 x 4,” at Barbara Archer Gallery through June 29, presents four distinctive bodies of work that offer entry into the public and personal worlds of their makers: Linda Hall, Joseph Kurhajec, Lydia Walls and Benjamin Jones. All four are in some way inspired by art that exists “outside” of mainstream studio practice, although with varying degrees of…

The “paintings” of Kimo Minton and Deedra Ludwig explore texture, line, medium, modernism and spirituality … and originate everywhere outside of the flat space of painting. Presented on separate floors of Tew Gallery through June 1, Minton’s multivalent and playfully complex woodcut paintings, together with Ludwig’s fecund layering of diaphanous veils of color and lush natural…

Recycling ready-made materials, repurposing common household items and creating art from the refuse of everyday life are classic strategies of the modern and postmodern avant-garde, from early-20th-century Cubist collages of newspaper clippings and the ephemera of popular culture to today’s recycling of high-tech detritus and consumer waste by artists such as Xing Danwen and Sarah Sze. Atlanta…

Lyle Ashton Harris explores identity, desire and masculinity in modern-day Ghana in the exhibition “Accra My Love,” at the Zuckerman Museum of Kennesaw State University through April 24. Produced in conjunction with the school’s “Year of Ghana” program, the show comprises photographs, collage and video from the artist’s seven years of partial residence in that West African country,…