Spring Exhibits at the Atlanta Contemporary (saturdays)

From the venue:

Craig Coleman: Closet Geometry

Closet Geometry, Atlanta-based artist Craig Coleman transforms Sliver Space into a luminous meditation on the complexity of self. Using video projection in the narrow, trapezoid-shaped room to create a kaleidoscopic environment where fragmented projections depict the multiplicity of identity.


The projections create a moving collage of geometric forms—triangles, circles, diamonds, and stars—referencing non-binary identities. Oscillating between abstract visuals and symbolic imagery, representing fragments of the artist’s life and journey as a non-binary, bisexual individual.

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Courtney Brooks: Journey of a Black Girl

Journey of a Black Girls presents, “This Crown Belongs to US” a fiber art installation originally displayed on Art Atlanta BeltLine’s Southside Trail in 2020, is community hair braiding project were Artist, Courtney Brooks created oversized braids made out chunky yarn and other mixed materials to hang as a public art experience to highlight the creativity, sisterhood and importance of Black hair practices. The braids are dedicated to the moments when we learned to adorn our hair in every texture, color and style. Exploring our self identity, loving ourselves and embracing our culture. THIS CROWN BELONGS TO US included, Hair Day, a workshop where Black women and girls connection on hair braiding techniques, open dialogue and to participate in making the 15ft long braids. The importance of creating unity, sisterhood with shared hair experience is uplifting and empowering for acceptance. This Crown belongs to US, also recognizes and inspired to bring awareness to The CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) is a law that prohibits discrimination based on hair texture or style. It protects people from being denied employment, educational opportunities, or access to programs and activities that receive federal funding.

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Eso Tilin: The Pliable and The Brittle

Eso Tilín is proud to present The Pliable and the Brittle, a group exhibition that brings together a diverse group of artists who have worked/will work with Eso Tilín, but more importantly explore the various ways in which knowledge can be understood, constructed, and validated across different cultures, disciplines, and contexts.

Influenced by the concept of “epistemological diversity,” found in the work of Puerto Rican philosopher and sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel, this exhibition emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing multiple knowledge systems—especially during periods of change and crisis. During such times, hegemonic systems, justified by the pursuit of order and stability, often enforce a single dominant culture, eroding cultural and intellectual diversity as alternative groups and perspectives are pressured to conform to dominant norms.

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Kristan Woolford: K!n€t!c Dr£@m$

Using eye-popping collage aesthetics to, as he says, “to peel back the digitized layers of the subconscious and examine its relationship to cultural identity, markers, and signifiers,” Atlanta-born artist Kristan Woolford wryly addresses the spectrum of cultural richness and “vulturism” in hip hop and the American entertainment industry writ large.

With K!n€☥!¢ Dr£@m$, Woolford radically expands his earlier single-channel work fr33theL@nd (2023), providing a meditation on what he calls “indigenous and African diasporic resistance in the face of colonization.” Visualized through the movements of the Brazilian martial art capoeira, the horrors of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and hip-hop culture, Woolford’s piece is an urgent reminder of how excavating the past continually reshapes the present. Commissioned to be shown at Off the Wall, fr33theL@nd premiered as part of the Cinédance! series at the site in July 2024.

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Alyson Denny: Photon Motions

As a photographer, filmmaker, and live visual artist (she is a member of celebrated psychedelic outfit the Joshua Light Show), Denny is a shaper of light. In her series Photon Motion, the New York-based artist offers hypnotically meditative explorations of light and time by capturing the abstract play of light sources as they are refracted through motorized glassware. Referencing other media from light art to stained glass to abstract painting, these works were originally shown as part of Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce’s launch in August and September 2023.

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Sayma Hossain: “Ten Toes Down”

Through weaving, Sayma Hossain explores themes of transformation, sustainability, and the power of resilience, offering a visual representation of life’s continual ebb and flow, and humanity’s ability to reshape and reimagine the world around us. Plastic, often discarded and overlooked, is transformed in her work into something new, holding within it both the remnants of its past and the potential for reinvention. The resilience of plastic mirrors the cyclical nature of the human experience and reincarnation, where what seems to be an end is always the beginning of something else.

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Christian Walker: The Profane and The Poignant

Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant  surveys the work of artist, critic, and curator Christian Walker (1953–2003). Walker was a path-making photographer who made compelling and experimental work about queer sexuality, race, and their intersections from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. In the mid-1980s, his artistic practice shifted from documentary photography and portraiture to alternative photographic processes involving multiple exposures, archival appropriation, and the integration of paint and nontraditional materials.

Walker’s artworks, criticism, and exhibition-making addressed a myriad subjects, including queer public sex, interracial intimacy, HIV/AIDS, censorship, drug use, and Blackness and whiteness in public and private image cultures.

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Ato Ribeiro: Forever Young

Ato Ribeiro (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA. and spent the formative years of his life in Accra, Ghana before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, where is currently a studio artist at the Atlanta Contemporary. He recently served as a 2024 Artist in Residence at the Fountainhead Residency, a 2022/2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow, a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee, and has received Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME. His work has been exhibited at the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix, AZ), Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), and Anastasia Tinari Projects (Chicago, IL) among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Mercedes-Benz USA Headquarters among others. He earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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