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The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia has announced the winners of its 2011-12 Working Artist Project grants. They are Brian Dettmer, Gregor Turk and Martha Whittington. Each will receive a stipend, a studio assistant and a solo exhibition at the museum, accompanied by a catalogue. Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary [...]

First WonderRoot, now the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. The High Museum of Art is really getting into this partnering, community-building thing. The White Lady on Peachtree has announced that it will host an exhibition highlighting selected paintings and drawings from MOCA GA’s permanent collection. Among the artists to be represented are Larry Jens [...]

Emory University’s Visual Arts Gallery is hosting one of the more bracing exhibitions in town. “Race*Sex*Politics*Religion … What not to talk about” does a lot of talking, in language resonant, pained, seductive, respectful, deadpan, confrontational and occasionally silly and hermetic. The show runs through April 16. Curator Larry Jens Anderson, who unites the conversations through an [...]

Meta Gary’s art is often compared to dreams, if only because much of her imagery comes from her own. But accounts of dreams are often of interest only to the dreamer, whereas the work in “Animal Instinct,” at Emily Amy Gallery through April 30, has fascinated nearly all comers. Gary’s paintings on untreated wood do [...]

Sex and sunshine — and the plenitude of both that the West Coast has always offered to cold-assaulted, repressed and tradition-bound Easterners — are at the heart of Sharon Shapiro’s solo show “California” at {Poem88} through April 2. Drenched in nostalgia both heartfelt and mildly campy, Shapiro’s strength in “California” is a woozy, bewitching evocation of [...]

Editor’s note: Wesley Lowrance is ArtsCriticATL’s new and already invaluable intern. He recently earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography degree from Kennesaw State University and is completing a minor in art history. The word “grok” means to understand or communicate with complete empathy. The term — the title of Kibbee Gallery’s current show — [...]