Artist Sol LeWitt is responsible for two familiar Atlanta monuments: the large mural in the High Museum of Art’s Robinson Atrium and the once-controversial 54 Columns sculpture in Old Fourth Ward that is about to undergo a facelift. His art often consists of repeated geometric forms, lines and grids. “The idea becomes a machine that…
Commerce and radical politics find a common ally in the Modernist poster in Disrupting Design: Modern Posters, 1900-1940, on view at the High Museum of Art through April 24. The exhibition brings together just under 50 posters and includes a lot of heavy hitters from design history from the collection of Merrill C. Berman. Clean,…
Erin Jane Nelson’s One Entanglement, Under Clouds is on view through October 2 at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, where Nelson was selected as one of three Working Artist Project recipients this year. Guest curated by Marcela Guerro, the Jennifer Rubio associate curator at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, the show features…
The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art’s juried show Metro Montage XXI features more than 100 artists using a variety of media and methods. It’s on view through September 5. The opening gallery houses the jury’s first-place winner, Kirsten Stingle’s Stories Are Forgotten Dreams (2021). Stingle, an Atlanta artist, draws from her theater background to create…
Three Georgia artists — all women — take on the ever-slippery concept of the South in Southern Values at the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning through April 25. Curator Mary Stanley’s exhibition celebrates the region’s aesthetics as seen by Shanequa Gay, Amanda Greene and Joni Mabe. “These artists have a special talent for finding…
This exhibition can be seen in a 360-degree virtual tour through July 26. :: Zipporah Camille Thompson’s Looming Chaos associates the act of weaving with the notion of eternal return. The flux of nature inspires Thompson, who discusses interconnections between land, bodies and other natural phenomena in a short video accompanying her exhibition. Thompson’s practice extends…
In 1942, Albert Camus published The Myth of Sisyphus. Against the backdrop of World War II, the Algerian philosopher presents suicide as the foremost philosophical question. Camus reads new meaning in the ancient Greek myth of a seditious king’s punishment in the underworld. The gods condemned Sisyphus to push a boulder up a hill, but…
In 1966, Yoko Ono installed a work that required viewers to climb a ladder and use a magnifying glass to find a tiny YES (it was, incidentally, John Lennon’s introduction to the artist). Its opposite might be Atlanta-based Erin Jane Nelson’s 9-foot-tall NO titled Mother Earth Does Not Consent (2019), in the Nelson show Her…
I first met Canada-born, Atlanta-based Leisa Rich in November 2018 when she exhibited at Piedmont College, where I work. Her colorful, fiber-based art and dedication were impressive. The day after her show came down, she had the first of several surgeries for melanoma. Rich’s experience informs two new exhibitions: Aftermath: In the Pink, on view…
MOCA GA’s biennial group exhibition, Gathered IV: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, features 47 works by 38 artists from more than 330 submissions. Choosing those 38 were art professor and mixed-media artist Kevin E. Cole, longtime Atlanta artist Mario Petrirena and multimedia artist and arts administrator Lisa Tuttle. Sculpture, painting, photography, textiles and new media such…
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