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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In civilian speak, an “about face” can mean a sudden change in attitude or principle. But the term originated as a military command for directing soldiers to turn 180 degrees from the point of attention, causing a literal change in viewpoint. About Face, the current exhibition at Spruill Gallery, presents alternative perspectives on war, challenging...
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This Saturday, a new Atlanta bike race combines alley cat racing and photography. The race takes place in streets which have not been closed to car traffic; bikers make their own routes between checkpoints while teams of photographers take their portraits at each stop.
The race organizers have released an “Art Lover’s Guide to...
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Entering Opal Gallery to check out David Knox’s current show This World Below, I was struck by the strong narrative quality of his work. These are photos which suggest stories; these are photos which demand a story be told. This is both good and bad: While Knox’s new works are a departure from his...
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Upon entry into the “PHOTO-BASED” opening at Barbara Archer Gallery, I instantly sensed that the work in the show did not live up to its potential. Despite the press materials’ attempt to preclude a critique of the show’s lack of consistency (“Though every image begins with a photograph, the similarities end there”), I...
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The new shows at Jackson Fine Art prove to be simultaneously quirky, humorous, and disturbing. Vee Speers‘ “The Birthday Party” is the gallery’s main exhibit, with an additional room devoted to “The Fall River Boys,” a series of photographs by Richard Renaldi that chronicles the buildings and the people he met in a...
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