“It’s really about painting” may be an odd thing for a painter to say about her work, but Deanna Sirlin often finds herself compelled to repeat it. The Atlanta-based artist emerged into international prominence when a commission from the High Museum in 1999 had her placing huge transparent photographic reproductions of her swirling brushstrokes and…
The Hammonds House Museum celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with a series of exhibitions and ambitious plans that both honor the past and look to the future. Interim director Leatrice Ellzy Wright, who planned the anniversary programs for the West End venue, launched the exhibition series with artist Carrie Mae Weems’ classic From Here…
Respondez S’il Vous Plait (RSVP) currently on view at the Hammonds House Museum exhibits artworks that operate as narratives.
Paul Stephen Benjamin’s exhibition Come Over will strike your eardrum well before any of the pieces come into view at Gallery 72 (through April 7). But if you follow what sounds like a vintage recording of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” the visual impact will stop you in your tracks. Measuring 10 x 18 feet, the nearly…
How do we remember the past and process its impact on our present? How do we record, protect and keep that which is beloved but gone? Is there a meaningful way to document ephemera? Or are our unreconciled emotional histories and identities a perfect metaphor for the transience of the human condition? Kevin Sipp has…
Currently part of “Incendiary Exposure” at Hammonds House Museum, Daryl Harris’ “The Greatest Fear” (2009) may read like a one-liner about the sources of white racism, but Harris practices equal-opportunity satire. His paintings make pointed comments about the ills of both the white and black communities, and it is unlikely that anybody can see this whole…
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