Fall Exhibits at the Atlanta Contemporary (sundays)

From the venue:

Sonya Yong James: Night Loom

Sonya Yong James's multidisciplinary practice centers on cloth, fiber, and thread: materials she describes as holders of memory that provoke a desire to touch, awakening multiple senses simultaneously. "Color and texture can be heard like a sound while the desire to experience art by physically touching it is using the eyes of the skin," James explains.

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Jiha Moon: Ten Moon

Ten Moon marks a moment of transition for artist Jiha Moon. Following her relocation from Atlanta—her longtime American home—to Tallahassee three years ago, Moon has embraced a new environment, and her visual language has evolved in response. This exhibition captures that evolution, offering viewers a glimpse into her ongoing transformation.
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Shaping Identity: Korean Print in Diaspora

Artists:
Tschang Yeul Kim
Kakyoung Lee
U-fan Lee
Jiha Moon
Yoonmi Nam
Nam June Paek
Jean Shin
Joo Yeon Woo
Jayoung Yoon

This exhibition explores the intricate relationship between cultural heritage, migration, and identity through the art of printmaking. Spanning four decades, the featured works highlight the experiences of Korean artists both in Korea and the diaspora, emphasizing how printmaking has served as a means of navigating cultural roots and hybrid identities in an increasingly globalized world.
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Ernesto Rivera: Trueque

In a trueque (barter), an exchange happens beyond the confines of language. Trades occur in the frontiers of one’s space, both parties must accept to give something up in order to receive. Regardless of the characteristics of the exchange; what remains constant is the increasing likelihood of the situation unfolding as the distance between the entities decreases. Ernesto Rivera’s installation emerges from domestic impressions, traces and memories of corners, smells and puddles that are sealed in memory even when they're long gone or far away.
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Gabriella Moreno: Lacer

Rhythm is magnetic. Pieces never move through space independently. Their weight, speed, and direction create chaos, and within that, patterns of convergence. This magnetic dynamism happens without awareness, unruly and always present. Gabriella Moreno’s practice is one of movement, reaching and digging for the spaces where bodies attract and repulse.Lacer is a site-responsive installation that activates Atlanta Contemporary’s lobby as a space of tantalization and physical strain.

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Jenny Jaramillo: 1999

In 1998, Jenny Jaramillo received an invitation to join the Rijksakademie, a classical institution in Amsterdam serving as temporary home to artists and philosophers. Throughout her two years in this residency, the cultural and spatial differences Jaramillo encountered drastically nurtured her practice, prompting the expansion of her incisive inquiries around memory and identity.
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Natalia Mejía Murillo: Draft Cadence

Bones provide support and protection, but once dried, their calcium structure, perhaps its purest form, is all that remains. They occupy a unique place between mineral and organic matter. Humans have been aware of this duality for over a million years, taking advantage of animals––bones specifically––as raw material. Tools made from animal bones were instrumental for the development of human consciousness; lunar cycles, equations and rulers are etched into them, proposing new ways to carry information and to understand the world.
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