Visual Arts
Ben Worley, aka Bean Summer, data mines Information (1) Article
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“Information Randomized Mix-up #4” is an encyclopedia. The artwork, a scintillating grid of tiny inkjet images by Atlanta video artist and VJ Ben Worley, contains a world. Everything from elephants to earthworms to an ironic-looking guy with a beard rolls across the surface in a Red Bull- and NoDoz-fueled mesh of nervous animation. The work also happens to be a literal encyclopedia...
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Michelle Obama unveils the Truth Article
And, no, it’s not her husband’s birth certificate.
Michelle Obama delivered a statement at the unveiling ceremony for a new bust of Sojourner Truth at the Capitol on Tuesday:
I hope that Sojourner Truth would be proud to see me, a descendant of slaves, serving as the first lady of the United States of America
Sojourner Truth, a prominent abolitionist and proto-Civil...
| more...Artists look ELSEWHERE for inspiration Article
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After witnessing secondhand another critic’s less-than-positive reception of Saltworks’ Cumanana show (“art whose list of materials reads like the inventory of a homeless lady’s shopping cart”), this writer is more than a little curious to see what’s next.
Enter ELSEWHERE: a group show at Saltworks Gallery opening Sat., April 25 from 7-9 p.m. On one hand, the press materials...
| more...Desert Jewels bedazzle and bewilder SCAD (1) Article
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I can only assume that curators of African art are under contractual obligation always to paint the walls of their galleries terra cotta orange. Desert Jewels, an exhibition of North African jewelry from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès collection currently on display at the ACA Gallery of SCAD trots out such clichéd decor, but fortunately offers more than enough visual flair to make the...
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Desert Jewels bedazzle and bewilder SCAD Article
Photographer contemplates a Lost Vanguard at Lumiere Article
Swedes build Lego Jesus. ‘And it was good.’ Article
Sez’ AP, by way of the AJC:
Parishioners at a church in Sweden celebrated Easter on Sunday by unveiling a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks.
It took the 40 volunteers about 18 months to put all the tiny plastic blocks together, and their creation shows a standing Jesus facing forward with his arms outstretched.
The...
| more...Titus Brooks Heagins’ neighborhood watch (1) Article
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Every city has its communities that the local tourism impresarios would rather visitors not know about. (Summerhill, anyone?) Photographer Titus Brooks Heagins captures Durham, N.C.’s disowned area of East Durham in Durham Stories: Not Hell But You Can See It from Here, currently on view at Composition Gallery. The result is a trenchant living document of a community both entirely...
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Every city has its communities that the local tourism impresarios would
rather visitors not know about. (Summerhill, anyone?) Photographer Titus Brooks Heagins captures Durham, N.C.’s disowned area of East Durham in Durham Stories: Not Hell But You Can See It from Here, currently on view at Composition Gallery. The result is a trenchant living document of a community both entirely unique and...
Poised stands tall at Solomon Projects (1) Article
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We’ve officially gone urban. As of last year, more people in the world lived in urban environments than not, according to the United Nations. So it comes as no surprise that the artists in Poised, now on view at Solomon Projects, have channeled our collective confrontation with all things architectural in surprising and satisfying ways.
Poised is curated with a...
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We’ve officially gone urban. As of last year, more people in the world lived in urban environments than not, according to the United Nations. So it comes as no surprise that the artists in Poised, now on view at Solomon Projects, have channeled our collective confrontation with all things architectural in surprising and satisfying ways.
Poised is curated with a minimalist’s hand, and wisely...
Not Hell’ but you can see it from Composition Gallery Article
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Hell’s only a kitchen if you live in New York. In East Durham, N.C., it’s in your backyard. Or at least, that’s the implication behind the title of Titus Brooks Heagins’ Durham Stories: Not Hell But You Can See It From Here. The exhibition, which opened this weekend at Composition Gallery in Candler Park, continues Friday during normal gallery hours.
In videos and color...
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The Buddy System: Rock-animation spectacle at WonderRoot Article
Horse Mountain from Lauren Gregg on Vimeo.
According to its MySpace page, the Buddy System snatches the audience “by the scruff of its collective neck and throws it into a strange, colorful world where cats can fly and bunnies divide asexually like amoebas.”
Rock bands are, of course, prone to hyperbolic self-aggrandizement, but in this case, the claim comes close to the truth....
| more...Vee Speers contemplates child’s play in The Birthday Party Article
Every film buff knows that children turned creepy in the 1970s and haven’t looked the same since. Australian-born photographer Vee Speers continues in the long tradition of The Omen’s Damien, those twins from The Shining, and all the other children of the corn in The Birthday Party, Speers’ solo gambit at Jackson Fine Art.
Each of The Birthday Party’s 21 large-format cibachrome prints depicts...
| more...Photos: Cartoon Madness IV:Circus Article
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If you don’t suffer from coulrophobia (fear of clowns) or your love of cotton candy and trapeze stunts overwhelms said fear, this art show is right up your alley. The cartoon and circus-themed Cartoon Madness IV: Circus opened at Alcove Gallery March 6. See more photos from the opening.
(Photo by Liz Barclay)
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Evil clowns famously fuel kiddie nightmares, just as sad clown paintings on black velvet inevitably trouble the dreams of art critics.
Alcove Gallery owner H.C. Warner genuinely loves the greasepaint and sawdust, however, and the word “trapeze” even figures in his e-mail address. For his birthday every February, the Decatur-based artist goes to the circus. “The...
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Evil clowns famously fuel kiddie nightmares, just as sad clown paintings on black velvet inevitably trouble the dreams of art critics.
Alcove Gallery owner H.C. Warner genuinely loves the greasepaint and sawdust, however, and the word “trapeze” even figures in his e-mail address. For his birthday every February, the Decatur-based artist goes to the circus. “The circus usually comes through...
| more...Cumanana’s new world order Article
At least one historian has described the Peruvian song form called cumanana as descuidado, or careless. He meant that in the best way, referring to the form’s random, haphazard meter. Likewise, the group exhibition Cumanana currently on view at Saltworks showcases art that feels casual, thrown together and improvisational.
The 13 artists assembled by curator William Cordova all have long...
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Mini series: All Small Redux Article
Honey, I shrunk the art.
When it came to art in the 20th century, bigger was better. All Small Redux at Agnes Scott College’s Dalton Gallery, however, reconsiders the conundrum of scale by looking through the other end of the telescope. Nothing in All Small exceeds 6 inches in any dimension, or about a minute in length for video works. The hundreds of works by 47 artists range from itty-bitty...
| more...Retrospective celebrates 50-year career of Edward L. Daugherty Article
Next time you’re at the corner of North Avenue and West Peachtree Street, notice the sunlight shining on All Saints Episcopal Church. It’s the red stone edifice on the northwest corner across from the MARTA station. The light isn’t an accident. Landscape architect Edward L. Daugherty put it there in 1977.
Daugherty may not have physically moved photons through space, but his efforts that year...
| more...Beep Beep Gallery’s Popaganda attempts to tackle the visual language of politics Article
By the time the ink on this article dries, the nation will have sworn in the president with the catchiest catchphrase since Eisenhower’s “I like Ike.” If ever there was a time for art to explore political language, it’s now.
Beep Beep Gallery’s Popaganda attempts to tackle the visual language of politics without all the messiness of actual politics. Organizers Mark Basehore and James McConnell...
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