Westside Arts District

Annette Gates at Kiang Gallery

SATURDAY, MARCH 20
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE WESTSIDE ART DISTRICT!

Schedule of Events for the March “3rd Saturday” Art Walk:
All galleries open 11am to 5pm, unless otherwise noted.

GET THIS! GALLERY—Event Noon-1pm,  FREE
662 11th St. NW www.getthisgallery.com
Dawn Black Artist Talk.  Dawn Black’s drawings explore her own mania regarding “authentic” identity and of society’s at large by depicting scenes of figures meticulously drawn in gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper. These figures are all “found”, being culled from the Internet and various periodicals. Black’s selection of real figures from the past and present and her arrangement of these figures into a single composition has the effect of condensing time, since many different time periods and histories are present in one of her images.  These figure’s ambiguous relationships then become intertwined with the viewer’s own beliefs regarding the authentic and the covert, the formidable and the meek and are intended to invoke the aura of a forgotten myth while  exploring, satirizing, and critiquing current events and social conventions.

SALTWORKS—Event 1-2pm, FREE
664 11th St. NW www.saltworksgallery.com
Conor McGrady Artist Talk.  New York-based artist Conor McGrady speaks on his solo exhibition, On Foreign Soil, on view through April 24.  This is McGrady’s third solo exhibition at SALTWORKS.  McGrady’s recent body of work continues his long-term examination of the role of authority in contemporary society. His large-scale drawings and smaller works on paper investigate how power manifests itself in symbols, iconography, architecture and the social construction of individual and collective identity within the framework of nationalist narratives.

KIANG GALLERY—Event 2-3pm, FREE
1011-A Marietta Street, NW www.kiang-gallery.com
Annette Gates and Pandra Williams Artist Talk. Kiang presents In Significance.  Within the realm of the microscopic domain, hidden forces are at work simultaneously creating and destroying the world around us. Invisible and yet formidable, entities such as pollen and mold play roles in the cycle of life on which the macroscopic community depends.  Using porcelain Gates and Williams collaborate, seeking to expose the veiled beauty of microscopic forms while mapping the transfer of energy from the sun into soil, and the subtle relationship of how the energy transfers to macroscopic communities.

EMILY AMY GALLERY—Event 3-4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208 www.emilyamygallery.com
Beltline 101 Presentation by Angel Poventud. The Beltline is a project combining green space, trails, transit, and new development along 22 miles of historic rail segments that encircle downtown Atlanta.  With a recent open call for public art, the Beltline has become increasingly attractive to the arts community on the Westside as well as in the city at large.  Please join us to learn more about the largest urban redevelopment project currently underway in the U.S. and to get involved.  Image courtesy of Christopher T. Martin for Beltline.org

**SPECIAL EVENT**
Gather Atlanta Emerging Creatives Mixer – 7-10pm, FREE
@ Emily Amy Gallery, 1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208 www.gatheratlanta.com
Join the Gallery Atlanta crowd as they host in celebrating the Westside Arts District’s one-year anniversary!  Light refreshments will be provided.  This is an opportunity to network and chat with your friends of Atlanta’s emerging arts organizations and collectives.  We’ll also discuss the upcoming Gather Atlanta summer conference, voted Best Art Event of 2009 by Creative Loafing.

Additional galleries open for viewing:

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – open 11am – 5 pm
Members, Free; General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3;
Kids under 12, Free
535 Means Street, NW www.thecontemporary.org
Exhibition: Substitute Teacher, curated by Regine Basha and Stuart Horodner
What is a substitute teacher? Typically, it is a person who fills in for the regular teacher when he or she is unavailable. For our purposes, a substitute teacher is any being, situation, or object that has the potential to impart knowledge. Substitute Teacher acts as an alternative syllabus for art-life learning. The installed artworks, the participating artists, the curators, the exhibition, and the institution can all be considered “substitute teachers” that encourage visitors to assess and challenge their own wealth of knowledge while embarking on new journeys of discovery. On view March 5 – May 16, 2010.

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY—open 10am – 4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108 www.gillisgallery.com
Representing the work of 20 local artists.

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 10pm, FREE
1009-B Marietta Street NW www.octanecoffee.com
Brooke Helfen, a local Atlanta artist and designer, uses repurposed, earth-friendly textiles and materials to create pieces which express modern sentiment under the supervision of a mischievous inner child.  Influenced by her love of sustainability and kitschy fabric, she creates textural pieces which are strangely adorable and often humorous.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY–open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW, www.sandlerhudson.com
JO PETERSON – light dark near far
This exhibition features abstracted nature-based works entitled, light dark near far. Peterson says,” The natural world is a place where I can both achieve relief and find inspiration.”  Peterson captures elements of nature from her travels.  She then isolates areas of interest to create dream-like imagery using acrylic and vine charcoal on board.

Conor McGrady, Eternal Summer, 2009, Gouache on Paper, 90 x 159 inches.

CONOR MCGRADY
On Foreign Soil
Exhibitions Dates: March 19 – April 24, 2010
Opening reception, Friday, March 19, 7-10pm
Artist talk, Saturday, March 20 @ 1pm

SALTWORKS is pleased to present On Foreign Soil, new works on paper by New York-based Irish artist, Conor McGrady.  McGrady’s recent body of work continues his long-term examination of the role of authority in contemporary society. His large-scale drawings and smaller works on paper investigate how power manifests itself in symbols, iconography, architecture and the social construction of individual and collective identity within the framework of nationalist narratives. The work draws upon situations of social instability, military conquest and the latent utopianism inherent in the myths and rituals that embody concepts of national territory. Epic panoramic landscapes are the locus of romantic ideal, sites of acquisition and incorporation, and repositories of the sublime. Monumental in scale, they are populated by ambiguous figures that contribute an underlying feeling of disquiet to scenes of mountainous wilderness and bucolic harmony. In smaller works neo-classical architecture embodies an imagined order, stability and permanence. As with McGrady’s previous work, these pieces pose questions on the various manifestations of social order and on the control of space, personal and national boundaries.

Conor McGrady was born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, in 1970. He studied at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, before receiving his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. Most recently his work has been exhibited in the one-person exhibition, ‘Towards an Eternal Dawn,’ at Gallery Karas, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia, and in the group exhibition ‘Archiving Histories: Contemporary Art Practice in Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement’, which is traveling to the Holden Gallery, Manchester, Millennium Court Art Centre, N. Ireland and Wolverhampton Art Museum in 2009/10.   In 2002 he was selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is editor of Curated Spaces, a regular feature in the journal Radical History Review. He currently lives and works in New York.

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 ”Lucky No. 13″

       Please Join

        Bobbe Gillis & Staff

        For

        our 13^th anniversary art exhibition

        ”Lucky No.13″

         The opening reception will be

         Friday, March 19^th, 2010

         6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

          Bobbe Gillis Gallery

          1000 Marietta Street, NW

          Suite 108

           Atlanta, GA 30344

            404.347.9016

            www.gillisgallery.com

Saturday, February 20, 2010, The Westside Arts District will hold their monthly “3rd Saturday” art walk from 11am to 5pm.
Sign up for your email list by contacting us at wadatlanta@gmail.com.

Schedule of Events for the February 20th Westside Arts 3^rd Saturday Art Walk:

Gyun Hur: repose @ Get This! Gallery

GET THIS! GALLERY— event 1pm – 1:45pm, open 11am to 5pm

662 11th St. NW www.getthisgallery.com

Artist talk: Gyun Hur

Get This! Gallery is pleased to present Atlanta-based artist Gyun Hur’s solo exhibition repose. For the exhibition Gyun Hur has constructed a poignant, visual landscape with layers of hand-shredded silk flowers that has been executed on an ambitious scale. Collected silk flowers are carefully disassembled and hand-shredded by the artist and a community of people around her. The pattern produced by this labor-intensive installation references the artist’s mother’s wedding blanket, beckoning memories of the past and inherent ephemeral comfort. The artist’s methodical destruction and reassembly of the silk flowers creates an introspective site, transforming the gallery into a place where internal memories lie in repose.

SALTWORKS— event starts approx. 1:45pm  (follows artist talk @ Get This!  Gallery), open 11am – 5pm

664 11th St. NW www.saltworksgallery.com

Artist talk: Jiha Moon

Jiha Moon:  Blue Peony and Impure Thoughts. SALTWORKS is pleased to present Blue Peony and Impure Thoughts, featuring new works on paper and an installation by Atlanta-based artist Jiha Moon, on view through March 6.  Ms. Moon’s works abound in color, melding landscapes of varying perspectives.  Guston-like gestures and glimpses of Western iconography intermingle with traditional Asian calligraphy and brushwork creating an enchanting labyrinth of east meeting west.  *FUNDRED Collection location.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY– event 3pm – 4pm, open 11am-5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW, www.sandlerhudson.com

Artist talk:  Susan Robert

Atlanta artist, Susan Robert will do a presentation discussing her new body of work  from her current exhibition, Reductions, involving an investigation of art history icons.  In these new paintings, Robert considers different aspects of various masterpieces, focusing her inquiry upon deconstruction, color field arrangement, and formatting the paintings into a modern grid like context.

*FUNDRED Collection Stations

Bobbe Gillis Gallery, Kiang Gallery, Octane Coffee and Saltworks Gallery will each host artist Mel Chin’s FUNDRED Dollar Bill Project during the Westside 3^rd Saturday art walk on February 20. Everyone is invited to demonstrate that Atlanta cares about a solution to lead poisoning in New Orleans by drawing a FUNDRED Dollar Bill, an original, hand-drawn interpretation of a U.S. $100 bill, at one of the FUNDRED stations set up at each participating locating.  This nationwide project is raising awareness about the lead poisoned soil in New Orleans, one of the most lead polluted cities in the U.S., and seeks to collect at least 3 million FUNDREDS, the equivalent of $300 million, the estimated cost of making the soil in New Orleans lead-safe. To learn more or to make a FUNDRED in advance visit, www.fundred.org. The FUNDRED Dollar Bill Project continues at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center through March 18. 

Additional galleries open for viewing:

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY—11:30am– 12:00pm, open 10am – 4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108 www.gillisgallery.com

*FUNDRED Collection location.

EMILY AMY GALLERY–open 11 am – 5 pm, FREE

1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208, www.emilyamygallery.com

The Feminine in Abstract Painting: New works by Cora Cohen, Melanie Parke, Kiki Slaughter and Margie Stewart

Although the “feminine” can no longer be defined as a strictly female trait, artwork is often seen as inherently feminine or masculine in nature.  By delving into the oeuvres of four female abstract painters from different regions, backgrounds, and generations the notion of the “feminine” will be simultaneously challenged and embraced.  By exploring the style and context of each artists’ work in relation to qualities that are often associated with femininity (such as sensuality and sensitivity) the consideration of a “feminine” in abstract painting will manifest itself.

KIANG GALLERY— open 11am – 5pm, FREE

1011-A Marietta Street, NW www.kiang-gallery.com

Kiang Gallery is pleased to present an installation of new prints, sculpture, and installation works by Vietnamese born American artist, Hoang Van Bui. This will be his fourth solo show at the gallery, his first since 2004.  Homefronts III:  Born-Again explores complex issues of culture and identity, combining traditional sculpting materials and gathered objects. Van-Bui coaxes meaning out of exquisitely rendered materials, based on culturally specific symbols, such as the navel, which to Vietnamese is the physical center of human emotion, much like the heart to Westerners, searching for the emotional ground he calls home.  His process often forces incompatible materials into elegant harmonious compositions, reminding us that this is a poignant self –portrait.  *FUNDRED Collection location.

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 10pm
1009-B Marietta Street NW www.octanecoffee.com

*FUNDRED Collection location.

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – Closed for installation

535 Means Street, NW www.thecontemporary.org

Closed for installation.  Our next exhibition Substitute Teacher , opens March 5.

*Alternate FUNDRED Collection locations at Bobbe Gillis Gallery, Kiang Gallery, Octane Coffee and SALTWORKS.

Westside Arts District 3rd Saturday Art Walk

Saturday, January 16, 2010, 11am-5pm

ATLANTA – Saturday, January 16, 2010, The Westside Arts District will hold their monthly “3rd Saturday” art walk from 11am to 5pm.

Visit our website www.wadatlanta.org or contact us by email at wadatlanta@gmail.com.

Schedule of Events for the January Westside 3rd Saturday Art Walk:

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – Event 11am – 12pm, open 11am – 5 pm
Members, Free; General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3; Kids under 12, Free
535 Means Street, NW www.thecontemporary.org
Guest Lecture: Richard Flood
Richard Flood, Chief Curator at the New Museum in New York, discusses his projects at the New Museum and Walker Art Center, including solo exhibitions with Jeremy Deller, Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, and Sigmar Polke. This will be Flood’s first talk in Atlanta. This event is part of our Artist Survival Skills series.

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY— Event @ 12:30pm – 1pm, open 10am – 4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108 www.gillisgallery.com
On January 16th, Bobbe Gillis Gallery will host the first in a series of lectures entitled, “Start with Art.”  Bobbe Gillis, BFA in Interior Design, will lead a discussion through the process of finding a piece of art that you absolutely love and designing an entire room around it.  This month’s featured artist will be Alisa Coffey.  Alisa is a “green” artist.  She uses found materials and repurposes them to create a modern masterpiece.  The discussion will begin at 12:30pm and last approximately 20 minutes.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY– Event @ 1pm, open 11am-5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW, www.sandlerhudson.com
Susan Robert -Reductions, January 15 – February 20
Atlanta artist, Susan Robert will discuss her new body of work involving an investigation of art history icons.  In these new paintings, Robert considers different aspects of various masterpieces, focusing her inquiry upon deconstruction, color field arrangement, and formatting the paintings into a modern grid like context.

KIANG GALLERY— Event 2pm – 3pm, open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1011-A Marietta Street, NW www.kiang-gallery.com
Artist talk: Hoang Van Bui
Kiang Gallery is pleased to present an installation of new prints, sculpture, and installation works by Vietnamese born American artist, Hoang Van Bui,. This will be his fourth solo show at the gallery, his first since 2004.  Homefronts III:  Born-Again, explores complex issues of culture and identity, combining traditional sculpting materials and gathered objects.  Van-Bui coaxes meaning out of exquisitely rendered materials, based on culturally specific symbols, such as the navel, which to Vietnamese is the physical center of human emotion, much like the heart to Westerners, searching for the emotional ground he calls home.  His process often forces incompatible materials into elegant harmonious compositions, reminding us that this is a poignant self –portrait.

Additional galleries open for viewing:

EMILY AMY GALLERY—open 11am – 5pm, FREE.
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208 www.emilyamygallery.com
Winter Salon: Studies, Sketches, and Selections from the Flat Files
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present our winter salon featuring new small works, studies and works on paper from the current stable of gallery artists.

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 10pm, FREE.
1009-B Marietta Street NW www.octanecoffee.com
Local Atlanta artist Kombo Chapfika showcases his unique perspective on ordinary life through colorful bricolages of abstracted backgrounds and figures resulting a modern, eclectic peices.

GET THIS! GALLERY— Closed for installation.
662 11th St. NW www.getthisgallery.com
“repose” new work and installation by Gyun Hur, opens January 23.

SALTWORKS— Closed for installation.
664 11th St. NW www.saltworksgallery.com
“Blue Peony and Impure Thoughts, new work by Jiha Moon” opens January 23.

ABOUT THE WESTSIDE ART WALK
The Westside Art Walk is a presentation of the Westside Arts District and occurs on the third Saturday of every month from 11am to 5pm, unless otherwise noted.  This art-centric event is intended to encourage public interaction and education of visual art in the emerging art district in Atlanta’s Westside neighborhood.  There is plenty of free parking at each venue, however, the public is encouraged to walk the approximately 1 mile route between member locations to view the exhibitions and, in many cases, attend a lecture or tour given by the art space.  Events are free unless otherwise noted.  Maps and exhibition information will be available at each location the day of the event.  To join our email list please send an email to wadatlanta@gmail.com.

The Westside Arts District’s “3rd Saturday” Art Walk
Saturday, December 19, 2009
11am to 5pm

The galleries of the Westside Arts District wish you and yours a joyous holiday season!

Still searching for that special gift?
Give the gift of original artwork from any of our member galleries
or purchase a gift membership at the Contemporary
and support quality art programming.

Schedule of Events for Saturday, Dec 19:

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – event 11am – 12pm, open 11am – 5 pm
Members, Free;
General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3;
Kids under 12, Free

535 Means Street, NW www.thecontemporary.org
Curator Talk: Stuart Horodner, 11am – 12 noon
Artistic Director Stuart Horodner leads a tour through More Mergers & Acquisitions, on view Dec 10 – Feb 14. More Mergers & Acquisitions is a dynamic exhibition featuring several Atlanta artists in combination with modern master works borrowed from area collections. Last winter’s version was noted as one of the most memorable group shows of 2009 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and won a “Best of Atlanta” accolade from Creative Loafing. Works by Heidi Aishman, Steve Aishman, Leah Busch, Joe Gibbons, Sam Gilliam, Golden Blizzard, Ron Gorchov, Curtis Mitchell, Jiha Moon and Rachel Hayes, Joe Peragine, Arnulf Rainer, Scott Reeder, Frank Stella, Team SHaG, Brad Tucker, William Wegman, Richard Wentworth, Joel-Peter Witkin.

Katherine Mitchell, The Veil (Blue), 2009, acrylic, graphite and chine colle on paper, 22" x 22"

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY– event 2pm – 3pm, open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW, www.sandlerhudson.com

Atlanta artist, Katherine Mitchell, will discuss her recent exhibition at Sandler Hudson Gallery entitled, Correspondences, Conversations and Texts.  She will discuss the origin of these drawings and paintings which involves text and forms a departure from her past more purely geometric and abstract works. Katherine Mitchell is recently retired from Emory Visual Arts Department having taught there for almost 30 years.

Additional galleries open for viewing:

EMILY AMY GALLERY—open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208 www.emilyamygallery.com

Winter Salon: Studies, Sketches, and Selections from the Flat Files
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present our winter salon featuring new small works, studies and works on paper from the current stable of gallery artists.
Give the gift of art this holiday season!

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY—open 10am – 4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108 www.gillisgallery.com

Representing the work of 20 local artists.

GET THIS! GALLERY— open 11am – 5pm, FREE
662 11th St. NW www.getthisgallery.com

“WHIRL TRADE” is a new suite of NEOPOP paintings by Atlanta artist Fahamu Pecou. Inspired by his travels, these new paintings address the impressions, interpretations and misconceptions of blackness that African descended communities perform for each other. “WHIRL TRADE” re-presents, questions and plays with the global representations reflected in popular media and entertainment.

KIANG GALLERY— open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1011-A Marietta Street, NW www.kiang-gallery.com

Chi Peng (Beijing), an internationally recognized artist, is known for his surrealistic staged photographs.  His recent work, “The Journey to the West” blends a magical Monkey King with monsters and Buddhas and modern settings into formats reminiscent of ancient scroll paintings, made magical in content by the artist’s phenomenal use of digital media, his primary tool, bringing the ancient story to life.

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 10pm,
1009-B Marietta Street NW www.octanecoffee.com

Atlanta artist Emily Norman displays her colorful and creative work using a variety of media including acrylics, collage, photo transfers, and giclee prints to capture her unique subject matter.

SALTWORKS— open 11am -5pm, FREE
664 11th St. NW www.saltworksgallery.com

“Ten Tigers of Kwangtung” Featuring new works on paper and sculpture by Houston-based artist Dawolu Jabari Anderson will be on view through January 9, 2010. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Atlanta, “Ten Tigers of Kwangtung” takes it name from a Shaw Brothers film of the same title released in 1979. The Shaw Brothers Studio was the Hong Kong-based Hollywood-styled film studio responsible for the large U.S. import of English-dubbed Kung Fu movies during the early 80’s. Through drawings and sculpture, Anderson has created a hybrid alternative reality full of irony and humor where the shared experience occurs simultaneously and cross-culturally, highlighting the parallels of experience and the abstraction of heroic figures.

To join the Westside Art District email list please send an email to wadatlanta@gmail.com.

Works by Chi Peng at Kiang Gallery.  Photo Credit:  Erik S. Lesser.

Westside Art District in Sunday’s New York Times Travel Section

November 22, 2009
Surfacing
An Upstart Art Scene, on Atlanta’s West Side

By SHAILA DEWAN
THE warehouses and industrial buildings to the west of downtown Atlanta have not had the benefit of a concerted attempt by the city at urban revitalization. Instead, the West Side has lately given rise to a sort of ad hoc group of contemporary art galleries that have styled themselves as a more intellectual alternative to the city’s designated downtown art district, Castleberry Hill.

“We do our art walks on Saturday during the day because we don’t want to have that party atmosphere,” said Christina Caudill, the associate director of Saltworks Gallery, which relocated to the area in 2008. (The Westside Arts District walks are on the third Saturday of each month; www.wadatlanta.org.)

Saltworks (664 11th Street SW; 404-881-0411; www.saltworksgallery.com) shows art by locals like Kojo Griffin, a Whitney Biennial alumnus, and Brian Dettmer, who carves old books and other media into three-dimensional sculptures, as well as international artists.

With its furniture showrooms and salvage companies, the neighborhood can feel less than welcoming. Even the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (535 Means Street NW; 404-688-1970; thecontemporary.org), a pioneer that moved to the West Side in 1989, is on a side street in a former truck repair facility. In response to the increased foot traffic, though, the Contemporary recently opened a shop that sells art books, jewelry and recordings.

Other galleries have also responded to the shift, including Get This! (662 11th Street; 678-596-4451; www.getthisgallery.com), which has stretched beyond its original skate-punk aesthetic since moving to the neighborhood, and Kiang Gallery (1011-A Marietta Street NW; 404-892-5477; www.kiang-gallery.com), which shows American and Chinese artists.

The West Side’s transformation isn’t limited to galleries. The coffee shop Octane (1009-B Marietta Street NW; 404-815-9886; www.octanecoffee.com) serves as the meeting place for the Atlanta chapter of Pecha Kucha (from the Japanese phrase meaning chitchat; www.atlantapechakucha.com), where once a month or so members of the city’s creative class present their work.

Visit our ABOUT section for a full list of member galleries!

Fahamu Pecou: WHIRL TRADE @Get This! Gallery

Schedule of Events for the November Westside Arts District 3rd Saturday Art Walk:

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY—event 11:30am – 12:30, open 11am – 4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108 www.gillisgallery.com
Art lecture, 11:30 – 12:30pm
Bobbe Gillis Gallery will host Gary Hughes, consultant for the “Audubon Centennial Edition” collection. Gary will discuss the “Life and Art of John James Audubon” at 11:30 am. A 40- minute video presentation will be ongoing throughout the course of the day and selections from this limited edition folio will be on display and available for acquisition.

GET THIS! GALLERY—event 1pm – 2pm, open 11am-5pm, FREE
662 11th St. NW www.getthisgallery.com
Artist talk, 1 – 2pm
Fahamu Pecou will give an artist talk about his solo exhibition, WHIRL TRADE.
“WHIRL TRADE” is a new suite of NEOPOP paintings by Atlanta artist Fahamu Pecou. Inspired by his travels, these new paintings address the impressions, interpretations and misconceptions of blackness that African descended communities perform for each other. “WHIRL TRADE” re-presents, questions and plays with the global representations reflected in popular media and entertainment.

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – event 1 – 4pm, open 11am – 5 pm
General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3; Members, Free; Children under 12, Free
535 Means Street, NW www.thecontemporary.org
Family Day, 1 – 4pm
Kids of all ages can participate in artist Mel Chin’s nation-wide FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL Project, and help support OPERATION PAYDIRT’S solution to lead-related pollution in New Orleans. Final weekend to view exhibitions, Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber, Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage, and Will Rogan: Remnant World. FUNDRED activities are free; admission fees apply to view the exhibitions.

Additional galleries open for viewing:

EMILY AMY GALLERY—event, open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208 www.emilyamygallery.com
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present our fall exhibition of new works by Sarah Hinckley, Color Logic. Drawing inspiration from a spring show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors, Hinckley began further exploration of multi-color relationships. Painting from memory and through emotion, Hinckley’s process is grounded in her appreciation of line, her automatic response to gesture, and most importantly, the logic of color.

KIANG GALLERY—event, open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1011-A Marietta Street, NW www.kiang-gallery.com
Chi Peng (Beijing), an internationally recognized artist, is known for his surrealistic staged photographs. His recent work, “The Journey to the West” blends a magical Monkey King with monsters and Buddhas and modern settings into formats reminiscent of ancient scroll paintings, made magical in content by the artist’s phenomenal use of digital media, his primary tool, bringing the ancient story to life.

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 10pm
1009-B Marietta Street NW www.octanecoffee.com
Octane presents its annual staff art show, an eclectic show featuring various Octane staff, former employees, and close friends.

SALTWORKS—event, open 11am -5pm, FREE
664 11th St. NW www.saltworksgallery.com
“Ten Tigers of Kwangtung” Featuring new works on paper and sculpture by Houston-based artist Dawolu Jabari Anderson will be on view through January 9, 2010. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Atlanta, “Ten Tigers of Kwangtung” takes it name from a Shaw Brothers film of the same title released in 1979. The Shaw Brothers Studio was the Hong Kong-based Hollywood-styled film studio responsible for the large U.S. import of English-dubbed Kung Fu movies during the early 80’s. Through drawings and sculpture, Anderson has created a hybrid alternative reality full of irony and humor where the shared experience occurs simultaneously and cross-culturally, highlighting the parallels of experience and the abstraction of heroic figures.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY– open 11am-5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW www.sandlerhudson.com
Know for a wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork, Howardena Pindell’s exhibit will include abstract paintings, collages, “video drawings,” and “process art.” Her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. The show includes mixed media works featuring Pindell’s dot pieces, split photographs, and video drawings from 1974-2009 and is in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

ABOUT THE WESTSIDE ART WALK

The Westside Art Walk is a presentation of the Westside Arts District and occurs on the third Saturday of every month from 11am to 5pm, unless otherwise noted. This art-centric event is intended to encourage public interaction and education of visual art in the emerging art district in Atlanta’s Westside neighborhood. There is plenty of free parking at each venue, however, the public is encouraged to walk the approximately 1 mile route between member locations to view the exhibitions and, in many cases, attend a lecture or tour given by the art space. Events are free unless otherwise noted. Maps and exhibition information will be available at each location the day of the event. Information can be found on the website www.wadatlanta.org. To join our email list please send an email to wadatlanta@gmail.com.

Guest Lecturer: Dan Cameron at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

ATLANTA – Saturday, October 17, 2009, The Westside Arts District will
hold their monthly “3rd Saturday” art walk from 11am to 5pm. Several events will be in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Schedule of Events:

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER — event 11am – 12pm, open 11am – 5 pm
General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3; Members, Free; Children
under 12, Free
535 Means Street, NW www.thecontemporary.org
Guest Lecture: Dan Cameron, 11am – 12 noon
Curator Dan Cameron discusses his numerous curatorial projects
including Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of
international art ever organized in the United States. Exhibitions on
view through November 22, Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber,
Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage, and Will Rogan: Remnant World.

EMILY AMY GALLERY—event 12pm – 1pm, open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208, www.emilyamygallery.com
Sarah Hinckley will discuss her recent exhibition currently on view:
12pm – 1pm
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present our fall exhibition of new works by
Sarah Hinckley, Color Logic. Drawing inspiration from a spring show at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors,
Hinckley began further exploration of multi-color relationships.
Painting from memory and through emotion, Hinckley’s process is
grounded in her appreciation of line, her automatic response to
gesture, and most importantly, the logic of color.

KIANG GALLERY—event 2pm – 3pm, open 11am – 5pm, FREE
1011-A Marietta Street, NW, www.kiang-gallery.com
Gallery Talk: 2pm – 3pm
Chi Peng (Beijing), an internationally recognized artist, is known for
his surrealistic staged photographs. His recent work, “The Journey to
the West” blends a magical Monkey King with monsters and Buddhas and
modern settings into formats reminiscent of ancient scroll paintings,
made magical in content by the artist’s phenomenal use of digital
media, his primary tool, bringing the ancient story to life.

SALTWORKS—event 3pm – 5pm, open 11am -5pm, FREE
664 11th St. NW, www.saltworksgallery.com
LRLL RLRR drumming performance by Harrison Haynes: 3pm – 5pm **Atlanta
Celebrates Photography (ACP) Event**
Harison Haynes, photographer / performance artist / drummer for the
band Les Savy Fav, presents LRLL RLRR, in which he and a collaborator
play the same drum beat continuously for two hours. The performance
investigates where the production of music overlaps and/or is
reciprocated by the production of art as well as the iconographic role
of the drum set and the drummer in film, literature, pop culture and
art.
Currently on view in gallery:
Everything In-Between, Featuring new works by Alejandro Aguilera, Kojo
Griffin, and Jefferson Pinder.

Additional galleries open for viewing:

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY—open 11am – 4pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108, www.gillisgallery.com
Currently on view, the exhibition Common Ground.

GET THIS! GALLERY– open 11am-5pm, FREE
662 11th St. NW, www.getthisgallery.com
Bill Daniel’s solo exhibition Ground Score is currently on view
through October 31st. (In conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates
Photography). Ground Score traces the course of a self-taught artist who was
initially turned on to photography while participating in the
skate/punk scene of Austin in the early 1980s. Included in this trip
are records from a 20-year obsession with hobo folklore, graffiti,
street culture, and post-oil survivalism.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY-event 2pm, open 11am-5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW, www.sandlerhudson.com
Well-known Atlanta artists, painter, Holle Black and sculptor, Mario
Petrirena will exhibit their recent works exploring both flora and
fauna.

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 10pm,
1009-B Marietta Street NW, www.octanecoffee.com
Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge will be participating in Atlanta Celebrates
Photography during October. The show will feature various Atlanta
photographers and mixed media artists working with photographic
prints. Featured photographers and artists include: Nate Dorn, Peter
Ogilvie, Usha Menard, Shannon Jenkins, and Troy Stains.

Robert C Williams Paper Museum at Georgia Tech – open 1pm -3pm
500 10th Street NW, http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/index.htm
In 1978, Sukey Hughes published Washi: the World of Japanese Paper, a
meticulously researched and beautifully written volume that explores,
through text and illustration, this revered and ancient Japanese
craft. The museum is pleased to present an exhibition based on this
landmark publication and images that Ms Hughes collected as she
traveled through Japan in the early 70’s.