Conceptual artist Fahamu Pecou casts himself as the shining superstar of his own hip-hop universe. His paintings, performances and music videos feature a finely crafted alter-ego — “Fahamu Pecou is the Shit” — modeled after popular tropes of hip-hop music and entertainment industry. As both artist and PhD student in Emory University’s Institute of Liberal…
Pete Schulte makes geometric works on paper that vibrate with a lifelike pulse. His current solo exhibition Build a Fire, on view at Whitespace through March 28, is mathematical in its concision. The suite of abstract minimalist drawings, sculptures and wall paintings mirror the architectural nuance of the gallery, accentuating the broader geometry in which…
Daniel Fuller, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center’s new curator, combines art world sophistication with down-to-earth accessibility. He arrives at ACAC after a having served as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (MECA) for four years, preceded by curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a program of the Pew…
Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights invited Baltimore-based, internationally known street artist Gaia to complete a mural for its Martin Luther King Jr. Gallery and temporary exhibition space. Gaia’s piece, #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, is inspired by the eponymous Twitter hashtag Mississippi attorney C. J. Lawrence created after seeing the negative representations of Ferguson teen Michael Brown…
On December 15, about 50 well-attired African American men gathered before the federal courthouse in Los Angeles for a silent vigil in support of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and countless other black men who have fallen victim to police brutality in America. The vigil, called “Suits in Solidarity,” was also intended to address racial profiling…
Gender, typically classified by science as a function of biology, is slowly inching its way toward much broader subjective definitions. Just this year, India, a country that still outlaws gay sex, has legally recognized what is commonly referred to as the “third gender,” a generic category for those who don’t neatly fit within the male/female…
After more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man — the technological simulation of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions…
Pam Rogers uncovers the secret lives of flowers, herbs and other natural organisms in her small fictitious worlds. Her solo show, Terra Flora, on view at Swan Coach House Gallery through September 19, presents meticulously crafted mixed-media works that teeter on the edge between decorative and psychologically compulsive. Rogers’ natural specimens spawn exquisite abstractions,…
Julie Delliquanti brings a variety of experiences — in arts education, administration and community engagement — to her new position as executive director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. ArtsATL sat down with the California native, who took over on July 14, to hear her thoughts about the future of ACAC and how her background…
Political critique, social commentary and the anti-establishment have long wound their way into the canvases of art history’s greatest painters. Picasso’s Guernica, Francisco Goya’s The Third of May, Diego Rivera’s Marxist murals of the Mexican revolution, amid innumerable others, recall the heyday of painting as an influential vehicle of political action. Contemporary painting, however, can…
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