Author: Faith McClure

Atlanta artist Harrison Keys and Brooklyn-based Austin Eddy, in concurrent shows at Get This! Gallery this month, share a similar sideways humor. Dexterous and sprightly in their pencil scrawling and paint slinging, both artists reveal emotional complexity through otherwise playful and lighthearted handiwork. Harrison Keys, who studied printmaking at Georgia State University’s Welch School of…

Micah and Whitney Stansell’s video installations confer with the present by way of elevating the past. Scarlet Air, the Atlanta-based couple’s sixth major video project, on view at Whitespace Gallery through May 10, addresses the hyperconnected maelstrom of the 21st century through musing on previous generations, particularly that of the artists’ older siblings, who were…

Julie Mehretu, who will speak at the High Museum on April 21, makes large-scale paintings that combine the visual languages of architecture, mapping and gestural mark-making to form highly composed invented worlds. With emphasis on the dizzying complexities of 21st-century living, Mehretu’s works reference a broad spectrum of systems — global interconnectivity, geopolitics, social networks…

The brouhaha resulting from Kennesaw State University’s decision to yank sculptor Ruth Stanford’s artwork, since reinstated, from the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art’s inaugural exhibition last month had many unintended consequences. For one, it drew attention away from an otherwise successful curatorial project. See Through Walls (through April 26), the vision of artist-curator Teresa Bramlette Reeves…

Tedious and heavily process-oriented, the art of the print, like other analog forms, has become increasingly lost among more immediate solutions to image-making. The High Museum offers a substantial nod to the historically rich tradition with two concurrent exhibitions, both focusing on recent acquisitions. While Paper & Ink offers a lean sampling of the last…

From Aesop’s Fables and medieval bestiaries to Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Joseph Beuys’ dead hare, artists and writers have found powerful metaphors for the human experience in the animal kingdom, spelling out the ways of humankind in our most raw, instinctual and unselfconscious forms. The bird, in particular, has its own rich tradition in the arts….

The Savannah College of Art & Design welcomes internationally renowned Chilean artist, filmmaker and architect Alfredo Jaar this month as the 2014 SCAD deFINE ART honoree and keynote speaker. The MacArthur- and Guggenheim-award recipient’s numerous installations and large-scale public interventions are ethically motivated, illuminating the multiple faces of political imbalance, military conflict and human rights…

When Minimalist earthworks artist Walter De Maria died in July of last year, New York art critic Jerry Saltz wrote a commemorative essay comparing the sculptor’s signature geometric abstractions to his sprawling and lush Earth Room (1977) — an entire NYC loft filled with 280,000 pounds of dirt. A seeming corporeal departure from the artist’s…

A neighborhood embroidery workshop may not be the first idea that comes to mind when brainstorming your next art venture, unless you are Atlanta-based stitch guru, “manbroiderer” extraordinaire and, most recently, community-based art adventurer Aubrey Longley-Cook. His exhibition “Serving Face” — drag lingo for striking one’s best diva pose — is a delight, presenting community…

Photography elicits an illusion of pure legibility: that an image has an inherent power to reveal something deep and definitive about a person, that it can convey essence or uncover truths about an individual’s larger dimensional self. In reality, a photograph can only offer a constellation of information – a set of visual particulars that…