A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, on view at the High Museum of Art through January 14, moves in and out of the complications of the American South and, more overtly, the complications within the medium of photography. Photography requires us to untangle truth and reality, the fabricated and found, meaning…
To experience the whole story behind her East Point installation, Ghost Pools, the artist and writer Hannah S. Palmer says the viewer needs to experience both the site and history of the segregated community swimming pools that were built in 1953 and closed in 1982. Ghost Pools is a summer-long public art project that makes…
Like sewing a quilt, Jerry Siegel’s photographs are pieces of the past collected over time and ordered to make something new– a longing for time to stand still, a desire to pause and take in the surrounding scene.
Cosmo Whyte’s work weaves personal history, secret ritual and the inflicted emotional and physical trauma from colonization into textured works that inform a sense of identity. Growing up in Jamaica and now living in the United States, Whyte’s art traverses through the inquiry of “how notions of identity are disrupted by migration — particularly migration…
When I arrived at Cooper Sanchez’s Clarkston home, Sanchez was standing at the window of the sunroom that makes up the front façade of his home. I thought he was at the window to greet me, but soon realized his gaze was not at my car but at a Monarch butterfly that flapped against his large window….
The tropics are imaginary lines that circle the globe, signifying the northernmost and southernmost points where the sun can be seen directly overhead. The Tropic of Gemini too is a fictional place, created by artist Kirstin Mitchell, from which a journey begins and ends. Over the course of three hours, a walking meditation invites us…
Species — a gallery within a studio within a museum — opens within the usually locked gates of the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artists courtyard. Its founders, Erin Jane Nelson and Jason Benson, recently moved to Atlanta. For Erin, Atlanta has the familiarity of home. For Jason, rooting here makes sense with the progression of his increasingly…
Returning to Atlanta from the Bay Area, printmaker Dianna Settles, along with her partner Witt Wisebram, have big plans to revive the venerable Beep Beep gallery space into a working print studio — Hi-Lo Press. Equal parts working artist space and store front, Settles has imaginative plans to spark interest in the arcane arts of letterpress and…
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