Visual Arts
Man of his times Article
The art of stripes Article
For Art’s Sake - The price isn’t right Article
Visual Arts - Moving pictures Article
For Art’s Sake - Blasting bovines Article
Heads nor tails Article
Even if you’ve never heard of the Roswell-based design firm of Lorenc + Yoo, you have undoubtedly seen their work.
They have designed the graphic facade of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the stone entrance markers for Ansley Park and the exterior marquees for North Point Mall and the Woodruff Arts Center.
Since its inception in 1978, the firm has been virtually unlimited in its scope,...
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Every picture is supposed to tell a story. But photographers struggle with the fact that an image laden with insight and meaning to them does not necessarily translate to viewers.
In her exhibition of black-and-white photographs, Jennifer Julian seeks to capture people, often friends and family, in gestures and expressions that reveal their inner emotional workings.
Julian’s goal is an...
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For Art’s Sake - Gallery on the move Article
Home, sweet home Article
Visual Arts - Still life Article
For Art’s Sake - Gallery changes Article
Are we not men? Article
For Art’s Sake - Past and present Article
Atlanta thrashers Article
Making things with light Article
Unless you lived in a plastic bubble á la John Travolta, if you were a child in the ’60s and ’70s, you couldn’t ignore the strains of the television jingle, “Lite-Brite, making things with light. What a sight, making things with Lite-Brite!”
Thomas Edison may have invented the light bulb, but Marvin Glass, the da Vinci of plastic, made it fun. (The Chicago-based freelance toy designer also...
| more...Injury and self-identity Article
Inhuman touch Article
Joy Drury Cox’s photographs of domestic interiors specialize in an anti-decor, stripped free of personality or individuality. Like canned air freshener or deodorant, the neat-as-a-pin, color-coordinated bathrooms and monastic bedrooms that Cox photographs serve to deny the bodily functions and, by extension, the human lives that unfold in them.
It is hard to imagine anything like “relaxation”...
| more...For Art’s Sake - Picturing the ordinary Article
The art of advertising Article
Southern Pop couldn’t have found a more perfect venue than Lenox Square’s ArtWalk. In a space devoted to seductive and crude enticements to consume, Southern Pop examines an American landscape defined by comparable urges to spend! spend! spend!
With a nod to Pop artists of the ’60s who took the consumer culture of advertisements, comic books and TV as their inspiration, Southern Pop features...
| more...Visual Arts - Force of nature Article
Hide and seek Article
Task master Article
If the phantasmagoria of the human unconscious could be interpreted not by Salvador Dali, but by a combination of Modigliani, Marc Chagall and Cirque de Soleil, you’d have some idea of the lyrical spin artist Duy Huynh puts on psychology.
This Vietnamese-born, Charlotte-based artist’s paintings can currently be seen at Virginia-Highland’s Aliya Gallery. Using a palette of rich earth and jewel...
| more...For Art’s Sake - Glam city Article
Still life Article
Visual Arts