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Winter Exhibits at the Atlanta Contemporary (fridays)
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Sat., Jan. 31- Sun., May 17
Georgia Women to Watch 2026: A Book Arts Revolution, Atlanta Contemporary — Five female artists from Georgia have been picked to show off their latest work at the second Women to Watch exhibition of the book arts. Presented by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the aim here is to celebrate the book as an artistic medium by showing the depth and range of book-based art practices, according to organizers. The consulting curator, Cynthia Nourse Thompson of Kennesaw State University, chose the following artists: Eliza Bentz (Savannah); Hannah Israel (Columbus); Cynthia Lollis (Atlanta); Serena Perrone (Atlanta); and Eileen Wallace (Athens). “These talented artists engage with the rich and intricate history of bookmaking while also exploring the vast possibilities of the form - structurally, conceptually, and politically,” says Thompson. “It’s a privilege to witness such innovative practices that embody resilience, experimentation, and the transformative power of storytelling in its many varied expressions.” — Kevin C. Madigan
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Georgia Women to Watch 2026
Georgia Women to Watch 2026: A Book Arts Revolution celebrates the book as an artistic medium, showcasing five innovative Georgia artists who are redefining what books can be. Curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, this exhibition explores how contemporary women artists are pushing the boundaries of book-based art practices.
In an era of renewed interest in materiality and narrative, the artist's book has emerged as a powerful format for experimentation, protest, and memory—often resisting commercial and conventional publishing norms. The artists featured in this exhibition engage with the rich history of bookmaking while exploring the vast structural, conceptual, and political possibilities of the form.
The Women to Watch exhibition series is a collaboration between Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and the Georgia Committee of NMWA.
Unbound Narratives
Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language brings together Bethany Collins, February James, a’driane nieves, and Gabi Madrid, artists who treat language as something lived, felt, and carried within the body. Across painting, sculpture, film, and installation, their work moves beyond the page to explore how words, memories, and histories take physical form. Drawing from literature, personal writing, and the written record, these artists reveal language as an active force, one that shapes identity, marks experience, and gives shape to both personal and collective memory.
Natalie Rose Eddings
This outdoor installation A Litany for Shelter by Natalie Rose Eddings situates the work within an open, shared environment where material, body, and time remain in constant exchange. Exposed to weather, light, and public presence, the installation foregrounds questions of labor, rest, and interiority, while acknowledging the power structures that shape who is seen, protected, or surveilled within built and natural spaces. The work operates as both a site of pause and a register of ongoing use, inviting viewers to encounter shelter not as a fixed condition but as a negotiated one.
Jean Shon
Bleed frames Jean Shon’s practice through material acts of transmission, where memory is carried not through clarity or completion but through stain, residue, and absence. The works in this exhibition foreground paper, text, and trace as sites where personal and collective histories quietly surface. Rather than offering legible narratives, Shon presents memory as something that seeps, fades, and persists beyond the boundaries of documentation.
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Brittany Adeline King
Dokafleh is a new conjuring of dolls by New York City based artist Brittany Adeline King. Coining its name from the Liberian colloquial phrase for a reworn garment, the exhibition explores the fashions of reinterpretation. Carefully constructed with archival images, lappas, found objects and video; Dokafleh considers the responsibility to keep record through rendered silhouettes punctuated by pattern and histrionics. The figures are held together through hand sewn joins, suggesting a weight shaped by accumulation, reconciliation, and repair.
Johnson Publishing Company Archives
The exhibition Rejoice, Resist, Rest: Images of Black Liberation from the Johnson Publishing Company Archives presents a selection of artworks, archival photographs, texts, and zines by students of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and the Spelman Photography Program produced through access to the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, an initiative supported by the Getty Research Institute. Students engaged with historical photographs and other ephemera symbolic of the 20th century Black American experience and responded via themes of freedom and liberation. The results include a variety of interpretations and responses dependent upon a student’s personal, artistic, and academic interests. The project materialized in photography and curatorial studies courses taught in the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College under the direction of Nydia Blas, M.F.A., and Chad Dawkins, Ph.D.
This project is made possible with grant support awarded to Spelman College from Getty Research Institute through Johnson Publishing Company Archive initiative.
Winter Exhibits at the Atlanta Contemporary (... | 01/30/2026 12:00 PM