Whitespace Fall Exhibitions (Fridays)

From the venue:

Small Suns | Stephanie Dowda DeMer

A garden. A lens. A path. Each provides a map to meaning—planted, observed, traversed—and a way of seeing that connects us to what is here and what has transpired. Small Suns is a metaphysical guide for living and losing, a visual perplexing inviting us to seek what is illuminated in gravitational actions and feel the world on various planes.

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Coming from the South East | Cayse Cheatham

“This work comes from going on road trips. I pack the car the day before, go to sleep and get up very early in the morning. I drive through the night to my destination. I live in Atlanta and I’m driving through the south. It’s enjoyable, I get to listen to whatever I like, or nothing at all, my mind wanders. On the interstate the landscape goes zipping by but, as I get closer to where I am going the roads tend to get smaller and objects on the side of the road move closer. Maybe because its night time and I’m usually asleep but the world starts to look dreamlike and certain things take on importance almost like characters in a story.

I see the night sky, a column of smoke or steam, a plastic bag, a dilapidated road sign or a strange tree and, I’ll find myself thinking about them long after the drive. I use ride my bike to work, and out of self-preservation I noticed much more detailed information concerning my path. I could tell where cars have gone off the road, or where the homeless person lived and things like that. These things began to enter my work.

I struggle with the idea of making art about mystery, especially narrative art like mine. But like most artist I’m compelled to work so, I push on and hope to produce something that will strike a note in others.”
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Tiny House Investors | Neill Prewitt

Tiny House Investors is a companion piece to Prewitt’s new rock opera Emotional Real Estate. Both works investigate the personal and political effects of Atlanta having become one of the most overpriced housing markets in the country. Imagining peepspace as the tiniest house in Atlanta, a family moves in.

Neill Prewitt debuts the new rock opera Emotional Real Estate at Whitespace for Atlanta Art Week. Prewitt’s third rock opera, it is the story of a new dad struggling to do the best for his kid in one of the most overpriced housing markets in the country, Atlanta. Priced out of the middle-class lifestyle he was raised in and expects to be able to provide, Dad is tempted to mobilize behind his grievances. Only by becoming conscious of the role of racism in Atlanta’s growth and acknowledging his own relative privilege does he emerge with wisdom he can pass on to his child. Born out of Prewitt recently becoming a father, it is a parable for today’s polarized America. Written and directed by Prewitt, the 20 minute live performance features a trio of musicians Martha Williams, Mark Schoon, and JD Walsh, with Prewitt singing and performing in interaction with projected video.

exhibit page here