By Catherine Fox | May 19, 2010
It takes a village to raise a complex project like the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s $55 million expansion. A team of planners, architects, landscape architects and engineers, not to mention visionary executive director Mary Pat Matheson, have created a wonderful experience for visitors.
It begins with easy access to the garden and its beckoning arrival sequence, continues in the meandering pathways through it, and culminates in the variety of botanical material, artwork and experiences it offers.
The debut of the Canopy Walk, Cascade Gardens and Edible Garden and Outdoor Kitchen, discussed in my article in the AJC, marks the completion of the project and cements the garden's position as a leading Atlanta ...
By Catherine Fox | May 18, 2010
Atlanta's High Museum of Art and Brenau University have entered into a three-year collaboration to share resources and enhance the Gainesville school's curriculum. The first such partnership for both institutions, it will enable Brenau to draw on the High’s exhibitions, collections, programs and staff expertise.
Beginning in August, Brenau students and faculty will receive free or discounted access to the High’s exhibitions and collections. The museum will offer students internships and special programs. Faculty members will receive annual updates on the High’s long-term plans for exhibitions and programs, so that they can determine how to integrate them into the curriculum.
Says High director Michael Shapiro: “Just as ...
By Catherine Fox | May 17, 2010
The Forward Arts Foundation has announced that Lucha Rodriguez has won the 2010-11 Emerging Artist Award. The award is presented each year to a talented Atlanta artist who has had no major solo show and is not connected with a commercial gallery.
Rodriguez will receive a $10,000 grant and a solo show at the Swan Coach House Gallery in August. Her intricate cut-paper work is included in the Swan Coach House Gallery's current exhibition and in "LatinGA" at Spruill Gallery in Dunwoody, where she has transformed one gallery into a bower of paper forms.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Rodriguez earned a BFA in graphic design from ...
By Catherine Fox | May 15, 2010
Drawing has long been critical to Rocio Rodríguez's creative progress, usually as a vehicle to explore ideas for her paintings. The medium takes center stage in her installation in the Education/Resource Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, where her first-ever wall drawing will span the 9-by-25-foot ramp wall through July 3.
The energetic "non-narrative landscape," as Rodríguez calls it, is a compendium of mark-making -- ruled lines, wispy whirling skeins, velvety staccato gestures -- created in charcoal. Atlanta photographer Reis Birdwhistell made a stop-action video charting her progress, which accompanies the piece.
Following is an excerpt from my interview with Rocio Rodríguez.
CF: Did you come in ...
By Catherine Fox | May 14, 2010
“Absence of Certainty,” the title of Susan Cofer’s lovely exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, put me in mind of a poster I once saw, which read: “Teenagers! Tired of being hassled by your stupid parents? Move out now while you still know everything!”
Maturity is the recognition of how little you know. The trick is to embrace the unknown with the fearlessness of youth. For artists, this can mean the flowering of a new direction. Think Monet’s "Water Lilies."
And so it has been for Cofer, whose progression toward a new expression is charted through the drawings in ...
By Catherine Fox | May 13, 2010
The clock is ticking.
Louise Nevelson’s “Dawn Forest,” the monumental installation that has graced the Georgia-Pacific Center lobby since 1986, will move to Florida in June. The company is remodeling the lobby, and Georgia-Pacific LLC and MetLife, the owners of the work, have donated it to the Naples Museum of Art.
Nevelson, who died in 1988, remains a towering figure in American art. She is best known for assemblages constructed of found wood, often scavenged scraps, woven into tight compositions and unifed by monochrome color, usually white or black.
"Contemporary sculpture and installation-based art owe a considerable debt to Louise Nevelson's aesthetic risk taking," wrote ...
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