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Desires, landscapes swirl in Britton show at Marcia Wood Gallery

ARTS ATL StaffFebruary 6, 2019

Benjamin Britton likes to create paintings that make viewers feel as if they have superpowers. In Desire, broadly, which opens February 6 (reception 7–9 p.m.) a...

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Art + Design Best Bets: February 5–11, 2019

Kathy JanichFebruary 5, 2019

Every Tuesday, we give you our top picks for the week, from installations and sculptures to paintings, drawings, street art, videos and more. Each category is...

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Cullum’s Notebook: January brings new gallery exhibitions of special interest

Jerry CullumJanuary 10, 2019

The 2019 art season begins with a week of several particularly intriguing exhibition openings and the final days of equally intriguing exhibitions. Because of t...

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Review: Joe Peragine paints hunt scenes for a post-natural world in “After the Hunt”

Dan WeiskopfMay 30, 2018

“Death’s still the secret of life, the garden reminds us./Or vice-versa. It’s complicated.” -- Charles Wright, "Disjecta Membra" Wildness is fading from the n...

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Review: “Smoke, Mirrors” at Marcia Wood Gallery illustrates the importance of stewardship

Rebecca BrantleySeptember 1, 2017

Rich Gere and Dayna Thacker’s Smoke, Mirrors, on view at Marcia Wood Gallery through September 9, borrows its title from an old idiom that implies deception and...

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News: The Beacons project shifts its focus to Castleberry Hill

Christina LeeJuly 28, 2017

The Goat Farm had a vision with its Beacons program: forge an arts artery in metro Atlanta, in the midst of its rapid gentrification. But after developers brought much progress in South Downtown to a halt, the Goat Farm is shifting its focus to Castleberry Hill with a new approach....

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Review: Scott Eakin’s “Yes Button” is a jolt of summertime pleasure

Donna MintzJuly 18, 2017

Yes Button, Scott Eakin’s show of new work at Marcia Wood Gallery, his first solo show at the venue, is as meticulously ordered as its title is fanciful. There ...

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Review: Camblin’s “Clues & Scientific Method” takes a detective’s eye to art

Rebecca BrantleyMarch 3, 2017

The show's title was inspired by an essay by Carlo Ginzberg which contains theories of knowledge that, according to Camblin’s brief statement, have “strong applications in today’s so-called post-truth world.”...

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Review: Benjamin Britton’s “The Incandescent Sub-Present” tackles the complexities of memory

Rebecca BrantleyDecember 16, 2016

Close your eyes and try to remember the last place you were. Try to remember the particulars of the environment or the people that were around you. It’s difficult, right? Images are fragmented and fuzzy. Other sensations like taste and touch are even more evocative....

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Review: The thought-provoking “Transitions: States of Being” tackles cultural appropriation

Donna MintzOctober 7, 2016

The show poses questions about the conditional nature of our understanding of cultural objects and reminds us that the best questions are ultimately those we must continually search for answers....

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