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Whitespace Fall Exhibitions (fridays)
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This Fragile Thing
Amy Pleasant’s solo exhibition This Fragile Thing was formed around a series of images that have evolved over the last 5 years. Through her drawing process, shapes emerge that inform her drawing, painting and sculptural work. These figurative images continue to transform in both shape and meaning over time.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a diptych titled Double Prop, each panel depicting a seated figure folding in on itself, propping its weight on bended knee in a protective and restful posture. Hung on the same wall, but spaced at a distance, they mirror each other, leaning forward as if to close the gap between them.
Neck, a series of 6 ink and gouache works on paper, stack in the shape of a pyramid, a symbol of both death and afterlife. The gouache shapes represent the space between the neck and chest, one of the most vulnerable parts of the body.
The powder-coated aluminum sculpture, Pivot, reveals a female torso twisting in a gesture that simultaneously touches the ground and reaches for the sky.
The works included in the exhibition This Fragile Thing are populated with images of the body falling, folding, collapsing, and twisting, all which speak to the instability and weight of this moment in time and its effects on our physical and mental well-being.
pete schulte drawing
Pete Schulte is an artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. This is his fourth solo exhibition at whitespace. All works in the exhibition are made utilizing some combination of graphite pencils, pigment, colored pencils, ink, and paper.
The Spring, (gonna sleep with one eye open)
Alison Hall
Clear water.
About a year ago Amy Pleasant (a gallery artist at whitespace) reached out to ask me if I would be interested in a show in a peculiar little space in Atlanta, a shed. Not just any shed, one that she said ‘felt like a small chapel and had incredible natural light, all of which are beautiful atmospheres for your paintings’. An important non sequitur—I purchased a small painting of Amy’s in NYC several years ago. I have since enjoyed sharing a correspondence with her. We both are living down south and I recognize a work ethic, a llabor, that I think is particularly southern. I feel connected to her through our seriousness in the undertaking of such a profession. I have loved living with her painting. It’s powerful but relaxed; and clear, clear as a bell. I look at it every day, it’s held up—and I’m tougher on painting than anything. She makes decisions in an exquisite way, an intuitive rigor—her hand is relaxed and her mind is sharpened like a blade. I like that she imagined my work in this shed.
The shed is a chapel. What a chapel can hold.
The Fuel and Lumber Company Presents: July
Jessica Ingram
The Fuel and Lumber Company was founded by artists Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte in 2013 to facilitate exhibitions and related programming in the Southeast and beyond. The Fuel And Lumber Company is an idea, not a traditional brick and mortar space, dedicated to contemporary art and community engagement.
Whitespace Fall Exhibitions (fridays) | 09/05/2025 11:00 AM