By ALANA WOLF
Jeannette Montgomery Barron’s childhood home was very formal, designed after a mansion in Vézelay, France. “My Mother's Clothes,” her exhibition of photographs at Jackson Fine Art, offers a glimpse, through a Peachtree Battle window, of that world and an era now gone.
We are invited into the closet of one Eleanor Morgan Montgomery Atuk, the artist's singularly stylish mother. The photos reflect the life of a woman whose social axis spun along Coca-Cola royalty, one who depended on her personal clothing adviser at Atlanta's Rich's department store to keep her au courant when Bill Blass, whom she counted ...
By ALANA WOLF
Remember when your mother’s favored advice for how to get along in the world was to be yourself? As an adolescent, you may have dismissed the advice as trite and unprofitable, but mercifully, social pressures shifted as you moved through life.
The time came when you grew comfortable in your own skin: you weren't aspiring to some impossible loftiness, but came to accept your unique strengths and weakness. No longer fretting over or raging against the complexities of currying favor with everyone, you saw the value in being liked for yourself.
"Pressure Luck," Harrison Keys' latest work on view at ...
By REBECCA DIMLING COCHRAN
Last winter, the Emory University Visual Arts Gallery presented photographer Dawoud Bey’s traveling exhibition “Class Pictures,” which pairs striking portraits of high school students with text they have written. Now Bey, who is based in Chicago, is working on the Emory Project, a special photographic project commissioned by the university that is to be installed on campus this fall and then become part of the school's permanent collection. Guest contributor Rebecca Dimling Cochran caught up with Bey during one of his recent photo shoots in Atlanta.
Rebecca Dimling Cochran: The exhibition “Class Pictures,” which Atlantans may have seen recently at Emory University, has been ...
By JERRY CULLUM
Brandon Sadler has traveled a long way conceptually in the past year, and he is about to travel an even longer way geographically. The SCAD graduate’s departure for a year in Korea confirms his fascination with Asian cultures, which has developed in conjunction with his involvement with graffiti and street art.
His newest work, at Wm. Turner Gallery through July 31 in an exhibition titled "Red Dawn," is hard to divide tidily. The quickly but very skillfully executed drawings, in media ranging from ink and colored pencil to oil and acrylic, owe a great deal to the graffiti traditions out of ...
By JERRY CULLUM
Fernbank Museum of Natural History has always included art-oriented photography in its presentations of the natural world, so it’s fitting that the five-story-tall praying mantis in its “Bugs” Imax film should be complemented by oversized butterflies in the more-than-macro photography of Bill Harbin.
Parents taking their offspring to Fernbank’s “Bug Out Festival” this coming Sunday (or to anything else at Fernbank through September 6) can contemplate the astonishingly velvety texture of butterfly and moth wings (plus a grimly beautiful shot of one in the grasp of a spider) in Harbin’s enormously detailed images.
The patterns on butterfly wings have long inspired ...
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We’re pleased to introduce Daryl Foster, founder and co-artistic director of LIFT, a new organization built to attract and retain male dancers in Atlanta through performances and mentoring. Foster danced professionally with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2 and Opus Dance Theater New York, and he holds an MFA in dance from Florida State University. As choreographer and teacher, Foster (at left) remains deeply invested in the local dance community, and he offers a unique perspective on some of the challenges Atlanta dance artists face. -- Cynthia and Pierre
By DARYL FOSTER
It’s a quiet Monday, ...
