by Catherine Fox | Jul 1, 2010
In keeping with its name, the Forward Arts Foundation invests in the future with an annual award to a talented Atlanta artist who has had no major solo show and is not connected with a commercial gallery. The prize is $10,000 and a solo show at the Swan Coach House Gallery, which the foundation operates.
Cosmo Whyte, the 2009-10 winner, is a very good choice. If you saw his delicate, haunting drawings at Agnes Scott College’s Dalton Gallery or at Marcia Wood Gallery in past years, you probably remember them. (At left: a detail of "High Tide," at Swan.)
In the current exhibit, titled "The ...
by Catherine Fox | Jun 24, 2010
Exhibitions for newly minted MFA students are an annual affair at Mason Murer Fine Art. Never before, however, has owner Mark Karelson accorded a single student the primo spot directly opposite the entrance. You’ll understand why he's done it now the minute you lay eyes on “Cash Crop,” the stunning installation by SCAD graduate Stephen Hayes.
The piece exerts a totemic impact, even from a distance. Arrayed in the large open space are 15 concrete life-size figures, each naked and manacled to a charred oblong wooden sculpture that looks, aptly, like a cross between a boat and a tombstone.
The shape is taken ...
by Catherine Fox | Jun 23, 2010
Got a spare wall that could use some art? Monica Campana would like to talk to you. She and Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi are the duo behind "Living Walls: The City Speaks," a colloquium and exhibitions using street art to address urbanism and public space, and vice versa.
Their ambitious project has attracted artists from three continents, who will join locals to participate in the August 13 conference and two exhibits at Eyedrum gallery. One is a large display of wheat-paste posters; the other is gallery-type artworks.
In a departure from the norm for graffiti art, the organizers are seeking permission from property owners to ...
by Catherine Fox | Jun 22, 2010
We know Theodor Seuss Geisel as Dr. Seuss, creator of children's books beloved for their rhymes, fanciful creatures and madcap stories. "Dr. Seuss Goes to War .. and More," an exhibition at the William Breman Museum through Aug. 31, shines a light on Geisel the political cartoonist.
Propelled by the events running up to World War II, Geisel expressed his outrage through his pen. He was in the vanguard against American isolationism. He spoke out against it and against anti-Semitism and warned of the dangers of Hitler's regime in more than 400 political cartoons published in the New York newspaper PM.
The genie never returned to the bottle. The exhibit shows ...
by Catherine Fox | Jun 17, 2010
As demonstrated by the lively exhibit filling the High Museum of Art's Anne Cox Chambers Wing, Europe is a veritable Vesuvius of creative contemporary design.
By turns witty, poetic and outrageous, these designers reinterpret utilitarian objects in ways that upend expectations and delight the senses. They borrow cutting-edge technologies and find new uses for industrial plastics, feathers, fire and found objects. They challenge conventions of stability, function and comfort. They blur the boundaries of design, craft and art.
That's on the one hand. On the other, modernism, its classic forms and spare elegance, still exerts a hold on many in this generation of designers. Both approaches are documented ...
by Catherine Fox | Jun 17, 2010
Maybe little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails. Bigger boys, to judge by Andy Moon Wilson's solo exhibition at Get This! Gallery, are made of comic-book grotesques and weapons and hallucinatory doodles in saturated colors.
Like a manic master jeweler, the Atlanta artist inscribes intricate line drawings, wily caricatures and dense complicated patterns on 4-by-4-inch squares of paper -- 500 of them, to be exact -- filling in with vivid color so that no millimeter of each tiny picture remains untouched. (Medievalists call this ''horror vacui"; today we might call it OCD.)
Perusing "Laserwarrior" is like paddling down Wilson's stream of consciousness. Macho street talk, ...
