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Q&A: In O Smithereens!, Sarah Emerson juxtaposes life’s beauty, frightfulness

Aileen FarshiApril 17, 2019

Sarah Emerson’s O Smithereens!, at Whitespace through May 4, explores the fragility of life and early pleasures and builds on her 2018 series Are We the Monster...

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Art + Design Best Bets: April 9–15, 2019

Kathy JanichApril 9, 2019

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

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Year in review: Highlights from a rich and varied year in Art+Design

ARTS ATL StaffDecember 30, 2015

Artists are working to transform gritty South Broad Street into an arts district. (Photo by Allie Goolrick) A December vantage point is a bit too early to qua...

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Review: Sarah Emerson’s MOCA GA solo show a cartoon tapestry of apocalypse and renewal

Matthew TerrellDecember 22, 2015

Sarah Emerson: Of Brute Matter (I-VI) on left; Where the Light is as Darkness (I-IV) on back wall. Sarah Emerson addresses dark, violent themes with a subvers...

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Review: In “Day Job: Georgia” and “100,000 Cubicle Hours,” artists make the most of work

Christina CotterJanuary 20, 2012

The starving artist is a common trope, and for a reason. Besides those fortunate enough to have inherited wealth or come upon it by other means, or who have man...

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Artadia names 15 Atlanta finalists for cash awards

Catherine FoxOctober 14, 2011

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, a New York-based organization that operates a national network of support for working artists, has announced the 15 fina...

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Atlanta artists in Québec City biennial

Catherine FoxMarch 5, 2010

Catastrophe is the theme of Manifestation internationale d'art de Québec, Manif d’art 5, Québec City's upcoming art biennial. But the citywide exhibit is defini...

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Worlds awry from Sarah Emerson and Jeff Grant, at Whitespace gallery

Catherine FoxSeptember 21, 2009

"Withershins" -- a Scottish adverb meaning going in the wrong, or unnatural, direction -- sums up the mood of quite a bit of contemporary art. It is, in fact, t...

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