Archive for January, 2010

The Octane coffee shop on Marietta Street used to be a run-of-the-mill Standard Oil filling and service station (at least back in 1954, the year Burger King was founded—see photo). Today it is home to a trendy coffee shop that offers a variety of palatably divergent types of coffee French-pressed to order. Similarly, Cottage...
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Not only was Thursday a day of mourning in light of the passing of J.D. Salinger, but the Atlanta art scene felt an extra sting when news came down of the loss of one of its own: long-standing art collector Paul R. Jones. He passed on Tuesday in Atlanta at the age of 81.
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See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, January 28. And don’t forget to preorder your tickets for the ART PAPERS Auction, Saturday, February 6. Tickets are available here, along with an online preview here!
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Listen up local artists! The Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth has announced a new prize open to all artists currently living full-time in Georgia and over the age of 18. The winner of the Hudgens Prize will win $50,000 and receive a solo exhibition of their work at the Hudgens...
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The aim of portraiture has always been directed at capturing the inner essence of the portrayed. As stated by Charles Dickens, portraits often take the form of either “the serious or a smirk.” Marianne Lambert uses this to her advantage in Unconventional Portraiture. The exhibition currently on view at the Gallery Walk at Terminus...
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Gallery Stokes has become a labor of love for Dayna Thacker, who started curating shows in the space in June 2007. She readily admits she had little knowledge of curatorial practices when she began the gallery, but with advice from friends and lots of hard work, she turned Gallery Stokes into a place that...
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Scott Ingram’s exhibition …through line…, currently on display at Solomon Projects through March 13, is a continuation of the artist’s fascination with Modernist sculpture. Ingram has the ability to deconstruct any building or structure into a simple arrangement of line that leaves only a hint of what he is representing. Unfortunately, his current show...
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If you’re having a slow start kicking back into the daily grind of checking your Google Reader, you really should know that you’ve been missing out. I’m happy to report that our local arts journalists are keeping the discussion going. 1. Cinque Hicks is in the midst of a series of articles for Creative Loafing...
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The imagery in Jiha Moon’s paintings can thunder with laughter, whisper of legends long forgotten and some yet to be lived, and shed mournful tears of dripping blue and pink paint. Her new exhibition, opening at Saltworks Gallery this Saturday, January 23, from 6-9PM, is titled Blue Peony and Impure Thoughts. As Atlanta-based curator...
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See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, January 21. Please feel free to contact us about any corrections, updates, and new events to include in our lists!
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