Most Atlantans are likely familiar with Buckhead’s reputation as a shopping and dining hub, but they should know there’s another worthy destination in the neighborhood. Jackson Fine Art is a 20th–century and contemporary photography gallery gem in a converted quaint ‘n’ cozy 1935 Tudor-style home about a mile south of Lenox Square mall. “We’re a…
“I’m a landscape kind of guy,” says visual artist Gregor Turk. “The great thing about public art? It becomes something else.” It won’t take long to see what he’s talking about. Both personable and humble, Turk is an artistic Renaissance man. From photography and design to ceramics, rubber and rubbings, he’s fascinated with geography, maps…
Much of the world had to learn how to shelter in place in 2020. Then there are those to whom peacefulness comes naturally, like the team at North Georgia’s historic Hambidge Center. The new-ish Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab offers an experimentative five-month residency for musicians, dancers, photojournalists, writers and visual artists. It’s where they can…
Charly Palmer is all in. Blackness. No half-stepping. No excuses. The Power of BE, 15 new paintings by the Atlanta artist, are vivid, large-scale works that act as an artistic benefactor for Black humanness. See them through March 25 at Mason Fine Art in Midtown. You’d be wise to pause and take in the saturated color…
“An artist’s duty is to reflect the times,” the great singer and activist Nina Simone once said. It’s easy to believe that she supernaturally perceived the Jack Sinclair Gallery at ArtsXchange. The space uses her quote, a beautiful truth, as a welcoming wall text. The exhibition truth 2 power: ART IN A TIME OF UPHEAVAL, on view…
“The one thing I can count on is being able to make something no matter what’s going on around me,” says Atlanta visual artist Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin. Known in art circles as Yuzly (a name her mom gave her because she looked unique), her creativity in acrylic and oil painting, graffiti art, drawing, film photography…
“I feel like I’m in my second childhood,” says Susan Bridges, director and owner of Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood. “It’s been a time of creative activism.” Bridges opened Whitespace in September 2006 with photographer David Yoakley Mitchell’s Old South. Passion is what connects the gallery’s eclectic history with its contemporary present. The property…
When you want people to experience something one of the best ways is the time-tested show-and-tell. In 2013, after living and working in Savannah for more than 20 years, artist and Brickworks Gallery owner Laura W. Adams moved to Atlanta’s Virginia-Highland neighborhood with her husband, photographer Andrew Feiler. They did so in a big way….
Historically and contemporarily, the Black narrative speaks loudly. There’s a powerful testament of humanity, erasure and loss throughout Strange Fruit, the latest virtual exhibition at September Gray Fine Art Gallery. The exhibit runs through December 10 with photography, paintings and mixed media by acclaimed artists Àsìkò, Paul S. Briggs and Okeeba Jubalo. As you enter…
It’s no secret that Covid-19 is deadly, or that internationally celebrated photographer Carrie Mae Weems is sounding the alarm about how the pandemic is disproportionately impacting the lives of Black, Brown and Native American communities. Her website messaging is clear, “COVID-19 is not an equal-opportunity virus, it’s a double tragedy for people-of-color communities.” Her RESIST…
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