Art Reviews

The Museum of Design Atlanta’s newest exhibition, The Art of Ichiyo Ikebana, brings an ancient personal art form into a formal modern setting. The work of Akihiro Kasuya, who has served as headmaster of Atlanta’s Ichiyo School of Ikebana since 1983, explores the spiritual art of flower arranging as a site-specific installation, broadening the...
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Nightmares of dolphins and sea turtles choking on oil loomed over our collective sleep this summer as the BP oil spill bled endlessly into the crystal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Most of us were dependent on the media for images instead of seeing it for ourselves. The experience was rather surreal. ...
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The reviews below represent two opposing views. The first praises Chakaia Booker’s Sustain at the ACA Gallery of SCAD while the second criticizes the exhibition. Santiago Junca Chakaia Booker slices, bends, and reshapes tires to form beautiful intricate sculptures. Her abstract formations vary from organic blob-like creatures with tendrils to mirror-like frames and spinal structures...
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The Southern landscape, renowned in literature as a backdrop for social relationships, comes to the fore in a new exhibition titled Through a Window of Paint: A Sampling of Southern Realistic Landscape Painters at Swan Coach House Gallery. The show concentrates on highly realistic paintings while including a variety of styles. With 28 works...
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Two small rooms at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum at Georgia Tech offer a garden of delights in changing exhibits for those enamored of paper. Closing today is a rare exhibit that examines the history of watermarks while revealing the exquisite beauty of this art form.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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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