Posts Tagged ‘ Green issues ’

Although Cooper Sanchez is an artist who prefers to remain beneath the radar of Atlanta’s artistic community, if you have ever spent any time in eastern Atlanta you probably recognize his work. His projects are tucked away everywhere from the greenhouse at Oakland Cemetery (plants, paintings, and cyanotypes) to 97 Estoria (paintings) to telephone...
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Today, as I conducted my daily bike errands, I noted the scenery around me. The highlights? A dirty bucket and a decaying sock of questionable origin. I figure if I’m going to freeze my ass off riding around town, I (and my fellow street-stompin’ travelers) could at least use something pleasant to look at....
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I’ve only met a handful of artists who are recipients of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Although I’m sure a broader survey will turn up a few sour apples, my experience so far paints them as a remarkably articulate and passionate lot. Like the others, Bill Daniel is a true fan of his own work. As...
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Scott Silvey’s small body of work titled Civic Remedies: New Paintings from Tokyo, now showing at Whitespace Gallery, comprises maniacally consistent, well-made, illustrated landscapes. Dominating the center of nearly every composition are whitened, almost ghostly structures of modern Asian-esque architecture. But our view of these buildings is obscured by the expansion of flowering weeds,...
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Elsewhere is a quiet, underwhelmingly beautiful show, a “sophomore” effort by curator Shinique Smith (herself an artist of some note). Dreamily, Elsewhere pines toward nature and away from urbanism. (Of course, it’s funny that most of the artists in the show choose to live in the largest metropolis in America ….) From its location...
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Whitespace features two winter exhibitions, “For-Ever Green” (located outside) and “The December Show” (located inside). “For-Ever-Green” revolves around the idea of Big John’s Christmas Tree Lot. Despite being whimsical and playful, this tree lot is a kind of sculpture garden with a conceptual stance toward the effects of human interaction with the environment, which...
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