Originally featured as part of Le Flash Atlanta 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s reinstallation of Micah Stansell’s video work Presynaptic Potential opens this Friday, January 9. The reception will be held from 6:30-8:30PM. The work will only be on view for one week—through Saturday, January 16—so if you miss Friday’s reception,...
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I want to thank photographers Jessica Horwitz, Faith Ploener, and Sandy Hooper for their brilliant efforts last Friday night. They collectively shot over 200 photos of Le Flash, capturing the action from nearly every possible angle. Still, we couldn’t cover everything; there was simply too much. Today’s photo tour focuses on artist projects.
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Tags: ACP, Antonio Darden, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Axis Mundi, Carl DiSalvo, carroll street cafe, Danielle Roney, David Holstius, David Jones, Diana Ascarrunz, Drive By Shooting, Emma Adair, Fahamu Pecou, Fructose Fantasy, Garage Projects, Heidi Aishman, Jane Garver, Johana Moscoso, Kari Lennox, Le Flash, Le Flash 2009, Louise Shaw, Matt Haffner, May the Light Affect, Micah Stansell, Michael Reese, Mission, MOCA GA, Mons Boris, My Name in Lights, N Yo Face, Presynaptic Potential Presynaptic Peepshow, Shana Robbins, Steve Aishman, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Tracing What is Remembered, Tree Ghost in Iceland, We Are Survival Machines
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While murmurs from Le Flash continue, another week of ACP rolls forward.
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Tags: Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Beep Beep Gallery, Blake Williams, Brian Rutenberg, Chi Peng, Chris Carder, Cooper Sanchez, Deedra Ludwig, Eyedrum, Jack Art Gallery, John Paul Floyd, Kiang Gallery, Kibbee Gallery, Le Flash, MOCA GA, Oakland Cemetery, Robin Bernat, Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, Stephanie Dowda, Studioplex, TEW Galleries, Whitespace
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With 64 artist projects, it’s safe to say that Le Flash is the largest concentrated event we will see this year. With so much going on, there’s a lot to miss. (For example, check out this video preview of POUR by glowATL.) Since we here at BURNAWAY.org care about y’all so much, we want to help...
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Even though Le Flash has all the buzz this weekend, with Atlanta Celebrates Photography in full swing, there are plenty of shows to keep you busy!
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Tags: Abril Andrade Griffith, alan avery art company, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Buckhead Library, Castleberry Hill, High Muse, High Museum of Art, Le Flash, Mario Schambon, Mothers of a Nation, Portal Gallery, Share the Road art sign panel discussion, Still Water, Vestiges of New Orleans, WonderRoot, Young Blood Gallery
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As the buzz surrounding Friday’s Le Flash celebration in Castleberry Hill continues to build, page 20 of today’s Creative Loafing reveals a thorough preview by Wyatt Williams. Here’s a taste:
Since holding an open call for submissions last June, the group’s fielded a deluge of entries. Justin Cooper will travel from Chicago to ‘interrogate’ a...
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Cathy Byrd quickly became a household name in the Atlanta art scene when she arrived in 1995 and began writing for a number of our beloved publications, including Creative Loafing, ART PAPERS, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. From there, she went on to become the guest curator at Agnes Scott’s Dalton Gallery, where she spearheaded...
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Tags: cathy byrd, gerogia state university, Le Flash, maryland art place
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Le Flash 2009 invites proposals for experimental site work and performance by independent artists. Accepted projects will be installed/performed from dawn to dusk on October 2, 2009.
Proposals must center on light. Le Flash asks artists to:
Imagine light as a solid, a liquid or a vapor elemental to your project! Think of light through an...
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Tags: Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Castleberry Hill, Le Flash
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Mark your calendars! For one night only, from dusk to midnight on Friday, October 2 (rain or shine!), the fantastical art and creative events of the 2nd annual Le Flash will fill Castleberry Hill’s streets, galleries, vacant lots, windows, warehouses, and rooftops with surprise and mystery. This not-to-be-missed event includes installations, performance art, poetry...
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Sociologist Saskia Sassen’s studies on urban space and globalization have a great deal to offer the arts community. At her recent lecture for ART PAPERS Live!, Sassen stated that the city is no longer a clearly defined self-contained nucleus, but has evolved into multiple interconnected systems of meaning. Each part symbolizes several...
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Tags: A New (Genre) Landscape, Art Papers Live!, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, globalism v. regionalism v. localism, globalization, Le Flash, location and the public sphere, Saskia Sassen, The Global City, the Southeast
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