by Catherine Fox | Mar 5, 2010
Catastrophe is the theme of Manifestation internationale d'art de Québec, Manif d’art 5, Québec City's upcoming art biennial. But the citywide exhibit is definitely a boon to Atlanta artists Sarah Emerson and Katherine Taylor. Curator Sylvie Fortin, the editor in chief of Atlanta-based Art Papers magazine, has included them in the event, which will run May 1 through June 15.
Fortin intends to explore catastrophe in its various manifestations, from catalcysmic events to the subtler "shadow of the permanent threat of catastrophe." These two artists, both trained in Atlanta, fit the bill. Emerson creates a world whose Bambi innocence belies the strange doings that take place therein. Taylor often limns a landscape laid waste by ...
by Catherine Fox | Mar 4, 2010
The Serenbe Photography Center, which launches with an open house on March 13, is more good news for metro Atlanta. The nonprofit center has a lab like no other in the Southeast, outside of academia, for traditional color and black-and-white printing as well as digital processing. It will also offer workshops and other programs.
The core of the lab, which is open to any photographer for a monthly fee, is equipment that originally belonged to the Photographer's Print Studio. That Decatur photo lab was founded in 2005 by a group of photographers who pooled resources to buy equipment after all the local commercial labs had closed. Longtime Atlanta artist ...
by Catherine Fox | Feb 24, 2010
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries’ display of its permanent collection offers the most comprehensive array of African-American art in town, including a goodly number of contemporary Georgia artists. Gallery director Tina Dunkley reinstalled the collection in August, and if you haven’t seen it, now is a good time because you’ll also catch “King Seppy’s Dream of the Tree of Life.”
The creation of Thaddeus LaCrette, Seppy and his consort Queen Enid are resplendent life-size figures composed of 3 million multi-colored, multi-shaped, multi-textured beads manipulated into an eye-popping array of patterns. LaCrette, 62, is a tailor by trade, and it shows in the design ...
by Catherine Fox | Feb 17, 2010
The recession may have stymied artists wanting to pursue a traditional gallery-museum career, but it has also heightened their entrepreneurial skills. Former Atlanta artist Amber Boardman took advantage of the Internet as an exhibition space for "Give me a Minute," a lively online video art show in which each piece lasts no more than -- you guessed it -- 60 seconds. Her call drew more than 60 entries, including quite a few Atlanta artists.
Boardman deploys video, music, animation and drawing in creative combinations to explore contemporary culture. We spoke with the New York-based artist, who is part of The Shirey, an artist group formed ...
by Catherine Fox | Feb 15, 2010
Textile artists have a new resource and advocate. The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education about fiber arts and to promoting and preserving them. The group hopes to develop an art center in Atlanta devoted to the medium, which encompasses weaving, knitting, embroidery and all manner of art that makes use of textile and its materials.
"It is our goal to provide one location for meetings, classes, workshops, library collections, gallery sales and exhibitions, and to serve all segments of the fiber arts community -- individuals, organizations, businesses and educators," says Suzi Gough, SEFAA president.
The group, which is looking ...
by Catherine Fox | Feb 12, 2010
Like skinning cats, there's more than one way to learn to be an artist. Scott Ingram, for instance, is a summa cum laude graduate of the school of art-handling. The Atlanta artist's experiences as a preparator at the Des Moines Art Center in his native Iowa and at the High Museum of Art were formative in the development of his aesthetic and high standards of craftsmanship, both of which are amply demonstrated in his solo show at Solomon Projects.
There's nothing like up-close and personal contact with objects of all kinds and the artists themselves to hone an understanding of how art is made and how ...
