To Do List
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, We Wanderers
Spring showers bring sparse but interesting offerings this week, including underground film at Whitespace and glass bead collage at Marcia Wood Gallery.
Heidi Aishman, Stuft
FRIDAY
Gallery Stokes
Heidi Aishman
In the collections “Stuft,” “Mounted,” “Inards,” and “Pelts,” Aishman literally deconstructs children’s stuffed animals, mounting them as hunting trophies or leaving their disemboweled remains strewn haphazardly. Aishman’s exhibition opens March 27 during Castleberry Hill’s Fourth Friday Art Walk. The show continues through April 18 at Gallery Stokes.
Whitespace Gallery
Screening and discussion: Is My Brain a Germ or Disease
The first of a three-week short film series at Whitespace, “Is My Brain a Germ or Disease” features a screening and discussion of Mary Jordan’s Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis. The documentary explores the work of influential 60s film maker and artist Jack Smith. The film series, curated by Brad Lapin, continues at Whitespace April 3 and April 10.
SATURDAY
Center for Puppetry Arts
Film: Monster Road
Another documentary film, Monster Road follows revolutionary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford, examining influences of Cold War paranoia and exploring his collaborations with Frank Zappa. A question and answer session with director Brett Ingram will be held after the film. The documentary will be shown at the Center for Puppetry Arts March 28 at 8PM. $7, $5 for CPA members.
Bruce Bickford, still from Prometheus' Garden
WEDNESDAY
WonderRoot TV
WonderRoot Community Arts Center screens a monthly, volunteer-organized video program, WonderRoot TV, on every first Wednesday of the month at 8PM.
THURSDAY
Museum of Design Atlanta
Sketchbook Project Tour
Art House Co-op’s Sketchbook Tour has already visited venues in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and Washington, DC. The next stop? A return to Atlanta. The exhibit opens April 3 at 7PM at MODA.
Marcia Wood Gallery
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Describing her work, Sunstrum writes:
In my work I allude to my own nomadic upbringing through references to travel, searching and migration as a way of understanding my own shifting, transnational, cultural identity …. I am also interested in what happens psychologically in the moments of cultural isolation that accompany travel, migration and other processes of (dis)location. In my work I respond to these moments by replicating myself—creating simultaneous selves and simultaneous worlds in order to haze at myself, to meet myself and give myself things to keep or carry, receive or transmit. These notions of simultaneity and transmission often surface in my work as repetition, as play, and as ritual.
The opening for Sunstrum’s exhibit, which features glass bead and collage work, is Apr 2 from 7-9PM at Marcia Wood Gallery. The exhibit will be on display through May 9.
