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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Tags: Ghetto Boys, Girls Grillz Guns, L.V., National Black Arts Festival, NBAF, photography, Plastic Bodies, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Scarface, Sheila Pree Bright
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In an unfinished, unpublished draft for an article dated January 4, after stumbling through several false starts attempting to sum up the previous 12 months, I finally concocted an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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Tags: art walk art stroll, botanical gardens, Carolee Schneemann, Fahamu Pecou, Get This! Gallery, Gyun Hur, Kiang Gallery, Matthew Barney, Pandra Williams, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Shana Robbins, Sheila Pree Bright, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Westside Arts District
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While BP gets lambasted for the monumental tragedy in the Gulf, an exhibition at Sandler Hudson Gallery examines the role we all play in environmental degradation. In her new solo show Material Drift, Pam Longobardi spotlights the plastic marine debris that litters our beaches, kills marine wildlife, and forms giant garbage patches in the...
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Tags: BP oil spill, Material Drift, Pam Longobardi, Sandler Hudson Gallery
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See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, April 8.
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Tags: Alcove Gallery, avant garden, Beep Beep Gallery, brett smith, carroll street cafe, Castleberry Hill, dodek, Dodekapus, edward t. welburn, emory visual arts, Eyedrum, Fahamu Pecou, films from the arab world, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Heidi Aishman, High Museum, johnny waggener, kelly mckern, Kelly McKernan, kenn kotara, micah stans, Micah Stansell, MOCA GA, Obscura, Raw Space Gallery, Sandler Hudson Gallery, the 15 project, The Contemporary, To Do List, Whitespace, Whitney Stansell, woodruff arts center
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Note: We are now publishing our weekly To Do Lists every Thursday. Now you have an extra day to plan ahead!
See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, January 14. Please feel free to contact us about any corrections, updates, and new events to include in our lists!
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Tags: ACA Gallery, Apache Cafe, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Bobbe Gillis Gallery, Cao Fei, Edward Morris, Erick Swenson, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Hoang Van Bui, Kiang Gallery, Map Office, MINT Gallery, Paul Hagedorn, Rialto Center, Richard Flood, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Sarah Hobbs, SCAD-Atlanta, solomon projects, Spruill Gallery, Susan Robert, Susannah Sayler, Swan Coach House Gallery, Tanner Hill Gallery, Thornton Dial, Tommy Taylor, Trois Gallery, Welch Gallery, Westside Arts District, Whitespace Gallery
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Katherine Mitchell told me that “the thing that’s frightening about beauty is its infinitude.” Her collage, What is Beauty? engages this notion via its use of text and form. The work is part of her recent solo exhibition, Correspondences, Conversations, and Texts, which was up at Sandler Hudson Gallery through January 9.
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Tags: aesthetics, and Texts, collage, Conversations, Correspondences, Katherine Mitchell, Paul Cézanne, Sandler Hudson Gallery, the infinite infinity finite define definition, the Sublime, What is Beauty
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Between film screenings, artist lectures, an architecture fair, and a tribute to the Mexican Dia de los Muertos in the works, there’s still plenty to see and do in the week ahead.
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Tags: ACP 11 Lecture, Adair Park, Annual Day of the Dead Show, Art Department Gallery, ASIFA-Atlanta, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Ellen Diresta, Emory University, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Grant Henry, Henry Lautz, High Museum of Art, Howardena Pindell, International Animation Day, Jeanne Dielman, Jon Arge, Matt Odom, Our Trees public art dedication, Riva Lehrer, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Sister Louisa, Sister Louisa’s Confessional, Studioplex Fourth Friday Art Walk Studioplex, Tanner Hill Gallery, Tierney Gearon, Totems and Familiars, Tweet Design, Youth Architecture Fair
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Rarely do people set out to be “local artists”—not when the industry has become so highly professionalized, global, and grand. Although there are practitioners who bring true dignity to the phrase, its contemporary usage still carries an unsaid judgment that lingers in the air like an annoying, dull dagger. Embarrassing and often...
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Tags: "local artist", Art Space International, art world anthropologies, Banksy, Brett W. Thompson, Chris Moses Tolliver, Dan Peterman, David Hammonds, Duke Riley, globalism v. regionalism v. localism, glocalism, Joe Peragine, local artist + atl, Meg Aubrey, R Land, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Shana Robbins, Sister Corita
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The collaborative show by Angelbert Metoyer and Charlie Koolhaas at Sandler Hudson Gallery threatens to fall apart conceptually (which could also be a trademark of good art?). The exhibition centers on the premise that this motley collection of collages, photographs, drawings, and paintings depicts Global Static. Static is unintelligible noise, insofar as...
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Tags: Angelbert Metoyer, Cane River Creole, Carmon Colangelo, Charles Mingus, Charlie Koolhaas, Damien Hirst, Fables of Faubus, Global Static, Louisiana, Sandler Hudson Gallery, the Return of the Living Dead, zombies, zombification
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If every week’s To Do List has a theme, then this week’s is community. Between site specific performance art, festivals galore, and anniversary parties you should have no trouble relishing in the awesomeness that summer in Atlanta has to offer.
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Tags: Angelbrt Metoyer, Beep Beep Gallery, Centennial Olympic Park, Center for Pan-Asian Community Service, Charlie Koolhaas, Chris Appleton, DIY, East Atlanta Beer Festival, Eyedrum, Indie Craft Experience, Kiang Gallery, Meng Jin, Nancy Popp, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Scott Silvey, The Contemporary, Thy Mighty Contract, Twist Gallery, Whitespace, Whitespec, WonderRoot, WonderRoot TV, Yukari Umekawa
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