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Summer Salon at Get This Gallery!
This past Saturday I stopped in at two galleries that have been going strong in Atlanta since after I left town in the late 90s; Get This! and Saltworks next door. Â Saltworks is relocating. The director Brian Holcombe told me … Continue reading
Folding: anticipatory, routine, closure, by Nicole Livieratos
There can be a purity of purpose in dance and choreography can cross over into conceptual art. The mystery of unanswered or open-ended questions about meaning, doesn’t detract from the force of the performance. I saw this on Saturday, June … Continue reading
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Tagged choreography, clothing, dance, dancers, folding, mocaga, Nicole Livieratos, performance
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Bernd Hausmann at Emily Amy Gallery
On May 19th, Atlanta’s Emily Amy Gallery hosted an artist’s talk by German-born Bernd Hausmann, a Boston based painter having his first solo exhibition at the westside arts district gallery, through July 7th. The gallery’s blurb states: “The show title, Darwin’s Coral, is a … Continue reading
Seek ATL, studio visit with artist Nancy VanDevender
This past Saturday was jam packed with artists’ talks, a panel discussion on painting in the morning (more on that in the next post), and another Seek ATL studio visit and dialogue with artist Nancy VanDevender, who has a space over … Continue reading
Seek ATL, studio visit with painter Shara Hughes
The second monthly studio visit I attended with Seek ATL as host, was to Shara Hughes’ third floor Telephone Factory space. She showed several paintings that will be in an upcoming exhibit this fall. This visit, coordinated again by artists Ben … Continue reading
Alan Loehle, painter
I first met the painter Alan Loehle at a White Space gallery opening for his wife, the choreographer and performance artist Nicole Livieratos. The post on that event can be found here. This interview doesn’t follow much of a traditional question … Continue reading
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Tagged alan loehle, art, art opening, Atlanta, christian boltanski, correggio, guggenheim fellowship, jim herbert, marcia wood gallery, Nicole Livieratos, painting, seek atlanta, the drawing center, Two coats of paint, White Space
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Seek ATL, a studio visit
Like myself, Shara Hughes and Ben Steele are artists who have relocated to or moved back to Atlanta. In an effort to engage with more kindred spirits in the area, they recently set up a monthly salon for artists – painters, arts writers and curators are … Continue reading
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Tagged ACAC, art, art salon, Ben Steele, dayna thacker, frank stella, johannes itten, josef albers, Marc Brotherton, nancy vandevender, occupy atlanta, painting, Shara Hughes, studio tour, thomas nozkowski, walter darby bannard
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Painters from the UK, Scotland, Ireland and beyond
Some of my favorite and recent painting finds come from Europe, mostly artists from the UK and Scotland or Ireland. The beauty of Facebook is in knowing other artists and painters who regularly post or repost interesting work from all … Continue reading
Art worth seeing
What are the standards for ‘good’ art at the beginning of 2012? A loaded question that probably has a variety of answers for different segments of the population. And how is painting being changed? For an experienced art critic and … Continue reading
Rough Magic
These are the times when I would practically sell my soul to still live within driving distance of NYC. The Joan Mitchell exhibit at Cheim and Read is still up until January 4th, but I’ll miss it. Loren Munk (aka … Continue reading