Photographer Sheila Pree Bright’s work is known for nuanced but complex studies of racial identity and her ability to shatter audiences’ assumptions. Bright’s current exhibition, Girls, Grillz, and Guns, currently on display at Sandler Hudson Gallery, ups the ante on Bright’s anthropological insights into facets of black urban culture. Read more »
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This Saturday, July 31, is the closing day for Dayna Thacker’s exhibition, Pivots of Moment and the Structure of Accumulation, at Barbara Archer Gallery.
During her artist talk last month, Dayna Thacker piqued my curiosity when she mentioned that the imagery of her collage titled Implied Agreement by Tenant (Higher Still) was in part inspired by the Slavic legend of the Baba Yaga. Like many other fairytale witches, the Baba Yaga can fly by means of a broom (or a giant mortar and pestle) and likes to spend her time inventing new ways of tormenting small children. She also is a figure of untold wisdom and, in some stories, lives in a cabin with enormous walking chicken legs. The anecdote intrigued me, but it sadly was one of several details I was unable to address in my forthcoming review in print. Read more »
When I showed up at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on a stormy Friday night earlier this month, I found it absolutely crawling with patrons and buzzing with energy. Over 450 people had descended on the gallery, drawn in by the promise of witnessing Shana Robbins’s most recent performance, Supernatural Conductor, scheduled to coincide with the opening of her exhibition by the same name. Amy Myers’s Feminine Space also opened that evening. The place was packed. Read more »
Jerry Saltz called this week. It was indeed an “evil fake-out.” Simon picked up the artists to escort them to “an amazing museum where some of the greatest artists in the world show their work.” As they accompanied Simon on what may have been his first subway ride, my expectations were high. Would this be the Work of Art equivalent of the Project Runway Metropolitan Museum of Art costume challenge where contestants were given reign to create designs inspired by their favorite artwork in the museum’s collection? Needless to say, we did not expect the show to take us to the Children’s Museum of the Arts.
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Now that Peter Sekaer is finding his place in photographic history as a contemporary and fellow traveler (literally) of Walker Evans, thanks in large part to the catalogue of Julian Cox’s splendid exhibition at the High Museum introducing his work to Atlanta audiences, it is high time to consider the oeuvre of two figures from regional photographic history. Read more »
In an unfinished, unpublished draft for an article dated January 4, after stumbling through several false starts attempting to sum up the previous 12 months, I finally concocted an appropriate phrase to describe 2009. I called it The Year of the Ninja. Read more »
24 years ago this month, at Alan Sondheim’s suggestion, Xenia Zed and I published an artist pages issue of Art Papers devoted to “Love and Death in the Old South.” It featured memorable contributions from any number of since-legendary and not-so-legendary Southern artists.
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