SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Event: Panel Discussion
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids free
*Event: Panel Discussion:
Creative Lives & Careers: On Ambition. Artists Craig Drennen and Nikita Gale, Gallerist Jennifer Schwartz, and Artistic Director Stuart Horodner discuss ambition as evinced by Atlanta’s artists, galleries, and collectors.
Exhibitions on view:
Day Job: Georgia, curated by Nina Katchadourian of The Drawing Center and Stuart Horodner of ACAC, brings together 15 artists whose various modes of employment have a clear link to the art that they produce. Selected from a statewide call for submissions that yielded hundreds of applicants, those chosen work in the food, architecture, gardening, sales, security, customer service, home improvement, and childcare industries.
100,000 Cubicle Hours, curated by Beth Malone and Courtney Hammond, of Dashboard Co-Op. Having recently started “real jobs” themselves, the four artists in this exhibition have created an office environment to give viewers a sense of what it’s like for creative types to bumble around under fluorescent lighting, secretly playing within the gray space in an effort to keep their spirits intact.

GET THIS! GALLERY
*new exhibition
Meet and great with the artist between 12:30-3pm
662 11th St. NW
www.getthisgallery.com / 678-596-4451
Open 12-5pm
Get This! Gallery is pleased to present Atlanta-based artist Heather Mcpherson’s solo exhibition, “shack, shanty, flat”. The exhibition features works that look at houses and the possibility of knowing something about their occupants through exterior clues. This being a continual focus in Mcpherson’s work. She writes of the work, “Each house has an attribute that becomes the focus and gives us clues about the houses’ inhabitants; sheets hanging on a porch, a pile of logs, a boarded up window, an old car parked in front. In these drawings, as in life, everything is not perfect. Time passes, erodes the paint on a wall, rots the wood on a porch, but there’s beauty and truth in these imperfections. These drawing are of the everyday, the beauty of the passage of time and of people living.”

{ Poem88 }
*12pm Artist Talk with Kristin Gorell
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03
White Provision Building
www.poem88.net, tel 404.735.1000, hrs: Wed-Sat, noon to 6pm and by appointment
Kristin Gorell: abstractions. For the last day of her exhibition, Gorell will speak about her two creative careers– one as a screenwriter and the other as a visual artist and how and where these two disciplines coalesce and inform each other. Kristin Gorell’s abstract paintings present her particular distillation of her experience traveling between two very different worlds: her life here in Atlanta Georgia where she is an artist and screenwriter comfortably ensconced with her two children in a Midtown bungalow and her life traveling with her husband, Eran, an Israeli writer and film director. While in Israel, Kristin has observed the strange fragility of life in a war zone as well as the transcendent energy of ancient holy sites from the various faiths uniquely present there; it’s a state of tension and wonder all at the same time. Her paintings embrace those dichotomies: dark and light passages coexist with layers of delicate, glittering color. They are experiments — an on-going working out of the push and pull of color, shape and gesture that resists and wants some kind of resolution.

SALTWORKS
*1pm Artist Talk, New Exhibition
664 11th Street NW
www.saltworksgallery.com, tel 404.881.0411, hrs 12 – 5pm
Artist Craig Drennen discusses his solo exhibition, [Dramatis Personæ], featuring new paintings and works on paper.  Continuing his exploration of overlooked and unknown cultural contributions, Drennen’s latest subject is Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.  Sustained viewing of Drennen’s work reveals subtle differences in composition and palette spread across a broad spectrum of painterly effects.  This verisimilitude alludes to an actor’s craft and the use of trompe l’oeil, gestural marks, and hard-edge abstraction is less about pastiche and more about allowing the physical material of paint to perform as many tasks as possible.  This exhibition continues until March 3.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
*Scott Ingram will be present for an artist talk at 2 pm
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208
www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Cusp, its first-ever exhibition of work by Atlanta-based artist, Scott Ingram. This solo show and 3rd exhibition of the nail polish drawings takes a broader look at the modern art world. Inspired by the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland, Ingram’s work also has a strong focus on line. Ingram explains, “For me the works are ultimately based in line and drawing. The lines that make up the pieces reflect ideas of human life for me. They all start the same and end the same, but it is the path that each unique line takes that creates the composition.”

KIANG PROJECTS
*3pm: Artist talk with Ben Steele and special guest curator Karen Tauches.
New Exhibition by Ben Steele
16 Sided Crystal
1011-A Marietta Street, 404.892.5477
www.kiang-gallery.com *open 12-5pm
Open to the public
*Ben Steele’s paintings are both transcendental and technological. Sixteen artworks are constructed and refer to the natural physical world, yet also feel digitally produced. In reality, however, there is no digital component to the work. Aiming to simulate a digital vocabulary through physical form, the paintings are based on straight photographs taken, through crystals and prisms, of actual physical constructions.

SANDLER HUSDON GALLERY
* 3pm Elizabeth Lide, Elizabeth Sheppell and Marshall Davis present at 3pm to answer questions.
*new exhibition
1009-A Marietta Street NW
www.sandlerhudson.com, tel 404.817.3300, hrs: Tuesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 12-5
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce recent works by Atlanta artists, Elizabeth Lide and Elizabeth Sheppell.  Atlanta artist, Marshall Davis will exhibit a recent work on the roof.  Elizabeth Lide’s work explores elements of nature. An avid gardener, Lide’s work is heavily guided by what she sees around her. Lide’s new body of work titled, “Recordings”, was created from her experience at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. Elizabeth Sheppell’s new body of work, “Surfaces” is an exploration of structures, color and layering. Sheppell’s abstracted works on panel are about finding new shapes and surfaces.
(image: Elizabeth Lide, Swimming Pool, 2011, mixed media on paper, 17″x20″)

Fall Line Press
*Bookstore Launch Party 5-8PM
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 112
www.falllinepress.com, phone (404) 885-1080
Join us from 5-8PM, to kick off the Fall Line Bookstore! For the launch party, we will be featuring books from four independent publishing companies of photobooks. Publisher Bill Boling intends to make Fall Line a resource and a community for artists. We hope you come by and see what we’re all about!

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
Southern Comfort: Photographs and Installation by Lori Vrba
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 112
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com, phone (404) 885-1080, open Tuesday – Saturday 11-5.
Take in some southern comfort in the form of photographs and installation work by Lori Vrba. Most days you can find her elbow deep in chemistry or chasing the next picture with enthusiasm, die-hard determination and a trustworthy Hasselblad. The exhibition closes on January 28th.

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 Noon 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.  Information can be found on the group’s website www.wadatlanta.org.  To join our email list please send an email to wadatlanta@gmail.com

This Saturday’s Westside Art Walk presents great ideas for holiday gifts: art of all varieties!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Book Launch
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids free
*Creative Lives & Careers Book Launch: The Art Life: On Creativity and Career. Our new book brings together words of wisdom about the philosophical and practical issues that affect art-making and the marketplace. Many of the contributors have taken part in exhibitions and programs at ACAC from 2007 to the present.
Exhibitions on view: Sex Drive, and Mike Howard: Good Ole Boy. Sex Drive brings together artworks that address sexuality in a variety of way, with artists exploring issues of identity and gender, romance and lust, religious and legal strictures, and public scandals. The survey of paintings by Mike Howard examines some of the artist’s consistent themes, including hunting and fishing, food, art, and popular culture.

Get This! Gallery
*1pm Artist Talk
662 11th Street NW, 678-596-4451
www.getthisgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
Artist Ben “Bean” Worley will discuss his current solo exhibition SYNTHESIZ, currently on view in the gallery. The video on view is an experimental video which focuses on Worley’s interpretations of notable minimalist and post-abstract expressionist works. Show runs through January 7th, 2012.

{ Poem88}
*New Exhibition, 1pm Artist Talk
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03
White Provision Building, (404)735-1000
www.poem88.net, Hours: Wed-Sat, noon to 6pm and by appointment
Kristin Gorell: abstractions presents the artist’s particular distillation of her experience traveling between two very different worlds: her life here in Atlanta Georgia where she is an artist and screenwriter comfortably ensconced with her two children in a Midtown bungalow and her life traveling with her husband, Eran, an Israeli writer and film director.  While in Israel, Kristin has observed the strange fragility of life in a war zone as well as the transcendent energy of ancient holy sites from the various faiths uniquely present there; it’s a state of tension and wonder all at the same time. It is not surprising that her paintings embrace those dichotomies: dark and light passages co-exist with layers of delicate, glittering color. Her paintings have a gusto in gesture reminiscent of Philip Guston simultaneous with a transparency and luminous quality that conjures Odilon Redon.  They are experiments — an on-going working out of the push and pull of color, shape and gesture that resists and wants some kind of resolution. This exhibition continues until January 21.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
*New Exhibition
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208
www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Cusp, its first-ever exhibition of work by Atlanta-based artist, Scott Ingram. This solo show and 3rd exhibition of the nail polish drawings takes a broader look at the modern art world. Inspired by the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland, Ingram’s work also has a strong focus on line. Ingram explains, “For me the works are ultimately based in line and drawing. The lines that make up the pieces reflect ideas of human life for me. They all start the same and end the same, but it is the path that each unique line takes that creates the composition.”

*New Exhibition
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112, Atlanta, GA 30318
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com. (404) 885-1080. open Tuesday-Saturday 11-5.
Take in some southern comfort in the form of photographs and installation work by Lori Vrba. Most days you can find her elbow deep in chemistry or chasing the next picture with enthusiasm, die-hard determination and a trustworthy Hasselblad. The show runs through January 28th.

Kiang Projects
*New Exhibition
1011 A Marietta Street
info@kiang-gallery.com // tel. 404.892.5477
Gallery Hours: W-F 11-5 pm, Saturday 12-5 pm
16- Sided- Crystal: sixteen paintings by Ben Steele. Ben Steele’s paintings are both transcendental and technological. Sixteen artworks are constructed and refer to the natural physical world, yet also feel digitally produced. In reality, however, there is no digital component to the work. Aiming to simulate a digital vocabulary through physical form, the paintings are based on straight photographs taken, through crystals and prisms, of actual physical constructions. Curated by Karen Tauches. On view through January 28.

SALTWORKS
664 11th Street NW, (404) 881-0411
www.saltworksgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
*Solo exhibition: Glexis Novoa. Continuing a search for parallels in social phenomena, Novoa’s latest works present historical narratives of a dystopic society. The large mixed media works on paper, use metaphor to show the decaying centralizing force of past political icons and technology as the new dehumanizing enchantment. Novoa draws a dystopian world where identity is absent and the individual is displaced by technology. This is Novoa’s first solo exhibition at SALTWORKS.

This Saturday’s Westside Art Walk presents a good mixture of photography, video and mixed media works.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Guest Lecture
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids Free
*Guest Lecture: Atlanta social worker and therapist Bill Herring discusses compulsive sexual behavior and other sex-related conditions affecting people today. Exhibitions on view: Sex Drive, and Mike Howard: Good Ole Boy. Sex Drive brings together artworks that address sexuality in a variety of way, with artists exploring issues of identity and gender, romance and lust, religious and legal strictures, and public scandals. The survey of paintings by Mike Howard examines some of the artist’s consistent themes, including hunting and fishing, food, art, and popular culture. Sat evening 8-10pm, don’t miss a special Karaoke night with Fahamu Pecou(aka, Sex-Choc-If Ya Nasty).

Emily Amy Gallery

*New Exhibition

1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208

www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5

Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Cecil Touchon: New Works and Old Favorites, the artists’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will feature new collages on paper as well as works on panel and canvas. Touchon views collage as directly reflective of his personal experience. He states, “This fleeting quality of papers and messages and the images they contain seems a fitting material for the contemplation of our temporal condition – of our brief sojourn in this world.”

Get This! Gallery
*New Exhibition
662  11th Street NW, 678-596-4451
www.getthisgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
On view will be the the solo exhibition, SYNTHESIZ by Atlanta based video artist Ben “Bean” Worley. The video on view is an experimental video which focuses on Worley’s interpretations of notable minimalist and post-abstract expressionist works. Show runs through January 7th, 2012.

SALTWORKS
*New Exhibition
664 11th Street NW, (404) 881-0411
www.saltworksgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
*Solo exhibition: Glexis Novoa. Continuing a search for parallels in social phenomena, Novoa’s latest works present historical narratives of a dystopic society.  The large mixed media works on paper, use metaphor to show the decaying centralizing force of past political icons and technology as the new dehumanizing enchantment. Novoa draws a dystopian world where identity is absent and the individual is displaced by technology. This is Novoa’s first solo exhibition at SALTWORKS.

Kiang Projects
1011 A Marietta Street
www.kiangprojects.com. 404.892.5477. Open Wednesday – Friday 11-5pm, Saturday 12-5pm.
Join us this November art walk to view our current exhibition, Existential Emptiness by Cui Xiuwen. Cui pursues a critical inquiry into the philosophy of emptiness and the phenomena rising from the Buddha’s observation that nothing possesses an essential enduring identity and that acceptance leads to wisdom and inner peace. This narrative is re -imaged in the dynamic between the artist and her alter ego or dopplegänger. The show continues through November 18, 2011.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Atlanta Ballet OFF Stage Kick-Off Party
* 12-2pm
Five Seasons Brewery-Westside
Atlanta Ballet is taking a walk on the Westside! Join us on the 5 Seasons rooftop for live music, specialty cocktails and tasty bites, a meet-and-greet with Atlanta Ballet dancers, and a chance to win some great Atlanta Ballet prizes. It’s the official kick-off party for our 11-12 season. Visit atlantaballetblog.com/off-stage for more information.

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Artist Talk
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids Free
*Artist Talk: Exhibiting artists from Sex Drive join painter Mike Howard to talk about issues of sexuality, politics, advertising, and sports.On view: Sex Drive, and Mike Howard: Good Ole Boy. Sex Drive brings together artworks that address sexuality in a variety of ways. The participating artists bring their own pleasures and political dispositions to bear on issues of identity and gender, romance and lust, religious and legal strictures, and public scandals. The survey of paintings by Mike Howard examines some of the artist’s consistent themes, including hunting and fishing, food, art, and popular culture.

{ Poem88 }
*1pm Artist Talk
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03 (404) 735-1000
White Provisions District (behind Perrine’s and Garden)
Atlanta, Georgia 30318
www.poem88.net  Open Noon to 6PM
In conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Poem88 presents Holly White: Cinematic Language. Atlanta photographer Holly White creates images that, despite the minimal presence of human beings, nonetheless suggest they are markedly there: in lawn chairs, or footprints on dewy grass, or the lone automobile on an otherwise empty street. There is an enormous feeling of fullness in that emptiness.  And, for the viewer, there is, also, a natural inclination to construct a narrative even if it is only loosely bound by the remnants of people.  Holly White seems to be warming up as a mis-en-scene  directing the story of mystery, or of longing, or of melancholy, or of something else entirely fleeting. Agnes Varda, in her essay “On Photography and Cinema” (1984) says: “To my mind, Cinema and Photography are like a brother and sister who are enemies…. after incest.” Holly White’s photographs seem to undo such a transgression of time. She allows the flickering view to be happily stilled.

SALTWORKS

*3PM Gallery Talk*

664 11th St. NW  (404) 881-0411

www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.

Founder/Director Brian Holcombe hosts an informal talk on the concepts in “buscame en el torbellino: but also time itself”, a project by artist William Cordova.  The exhibition “focuses on the duality and recourses of collective memory within our spatiotemporal continuum. Slowing down our visual sensors in order to comprehend and disseminate the parallels between familiar and distant historical moments in many cases forgotten or displaced.”  -William Cordova

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING>>>

Emily Amy Gallery
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208
Atlanta, Georgia 30318   tel 404.877.5626
www.emilyamygallery.com hrs: 11-5
Emily Amy Gallery’s first-ever photography exhibition, “Echoes of the Sublime,” curated by Stephanie Dowda is on view.  Loose ideas and interpretations of the sublime are present in the artists’ work, which is mainly process-driven.  The show will be on exhibition through October 22nd and is presented in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Get This! Gallery
662 11th st.
www.getthisgallery.com, (678) 596-4451, Open 12-5pm
Michael M. Koehler solo photography exhibition, In Between, is on view at Get This! through October 29th. This exhibition is in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.  

Kiang Projects
1011 A Marietta Street
www.kiangprojects.com. 404.892.5477. Open Wednesday – Friday 11-5pm, Saturday 12-5pm.
Join us this October art walk to view our current exhibition, Existential Emptiness by Cui Xiuwen. Cui pursues a critical inquiry into the philosophy of emptiness and the phenomena rising from the Buddha’s observation that nothing possesses an essential enduring identity and that acceptance leads to wisdom and inner peace. This narrative is re -imaged in the dynamic between the artist and her alter ego or dopplegänger. The show continues through November 18, 2011.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Get This! Gallery
* 12-1pm: artist talk
662 11th st.
www.getthisgallery.com, (678) 596-4451, Open 12-5pm
Michael M. Koehler will talk about the work in his solo photography exhibition, In Between. On view at Get This! through October 29th Exhibition is in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.  

Emily Amy Gallery

*1 pm Curator-led tour through Echoes of the Sublime

1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208

Atlanta, Georgia 30318   tel 404.877.5626

www.emilyamygallery.com hrs: 11-5

To celebrate Emily Amy Gallery’s first-ever photography exhibition, “Echoes of the Sublime,” curator and local photographer, Stephanie Dowda will be leading a tour through the current show.  Ideas of the sublime and loose interpretations present in the featured artists’ photographs will be discussed.  The show will be on exhibition through October 22nd and is presented in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery

*2PM Artist Talk

1000 Marietta Street, Suite 112

Atlanta, GA 30318 tel. (404) 885-1080

www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com, hrs: 11-5 P.M.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Outlands: Land Over Time photographer Jason Houston will discuss his work shooting community-food focused projects across the country and his involvement in the upcoming book, Reclaiming Our Food: How the grassroots food movement is changing the way we eat.

More of his work can be seen on the gallery website and http://jasonhouston.com/

Sandler Hudson Gallery
*New Exhibition*

*2pm Marshall Davis and Didi Dunphy will be present to answer questions.

1009-A Marietta St. NW  404-817-3300
www.sandlerhudson.com Open Tuesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 12-5.

Sandler Hudson is pleased to present Marshall Davis and Didi Dunphy in a two person show. Marshall Davis’ new body of work, ”Recent Work,” uses a variety of media.  Didi Dunphy’s new body of work, “Cross Stitch,” is made up of QR images that when scanned by smart phones, link to a video work created by Dunphy.

SALTWORKS

*New Exhibition*

664 11th St. NW  (404) 881-0411

www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.

buscame en el torbellino: but also time itself, a project by artist William Cordova, ”focuses on the duality and recourses of collective memory within our spatiotemporal continuum. Slowing down our visual sensors in order to comprehend and disseminate the parallels between familiar and distant historical moments in many cases forgotten or displaced.  A sculptural element entitled, This one’s 4U is scaffolding turned sideways transformed into a self-contained projection module and will screen two films: Tupac Amaru by Federico Garcia Hurtado (1984) and Tupac: Thug Angel by Peter Spirer (2002).  Both film and structure nuance complex historical trajectories.”  -William Cordova

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING>>>

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
535 Means Street NW (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids Free
On view: Inside & Out: Melvin Edwards and Peter Saul, and Material Deposits
These two exhibitions explore the physical world in various real and represented ways. Minerals, food, found objects, tools, and pop culture are manipulated by emerging and acclaimed exhibiting artists. Don’t miss, as these exhibitions close Sun, Sep 18.

OCTANE
*PLF at Octane*
1009-B Marietta St.  (404) 815-9886
www.octanecoffee.com Open 8am – 11pm

Artist Peter Ferrari’s (PLF) latest show at Octane consists of 7 large panels painted in aerosol.  As with much of his work, this show seeks to combine both biological and industrial imagery with an attractive yet slightly sinister aesthetic.  He has been working on many large murals throughout Atlanta lately, and this show was intended to be a way for people to own a piece of his larger paintings.  PLF’s work is inspired by central American art, African art, Celtic knots, cathedral windows, graphic design, typography, graffiti, women, sex, love and hate.  He hopes that this show will expose his aerosol works to an even larger audience, and inspire creativity and curiosity in those who see it.     

www.flickr.com/photos/plfpaint
twitter: @plfpaint

FB: http://www.facebook.com/pferrari3

THE CREATIVES PROJECT ART SUPPLY DRIVE
Drop off new and used art supplies to benefit young artists in need at any of the Westside Arts District participating galleries.  Just look for the red bins!  This year the focus is on 2D art work – so we’re collecting items for drawing, painting, printmaking photography as well as miscellaneous items such as glue, glue sticks, scissors, rulers, matt boards, tape, etc.  You get the idea!
For more information about TCP, visit http://www.thecreativesproject.org/

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*Event 11am-12pm*
535 Means Street NW (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids Free
*Event: Artist Talk: Artists and Materials
Exhibiting artists including Melvin Edwards, Elonda Billera, Seana Reilly, Brion Nuda Rosch, and Weston Teruya discuss why materials matter.
On view: Inside & Out: Melvin Edwards and Peter Saul, and Material Deposits
Two new exhibitions that explore the physical world in various real and represented ways. Minerals, food, found objects, tools, and pop culture are manipulated by emerging and acclaimed exhibiting artists.

JENNIFER SCHWARTZ GALLERY
*Noon Director Talk, “Building a better Photographic Series”*
1000 Marietta St. NW Ste 118.  (404) 351-1050.
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com  Open 11am – 5pm.
Ryan Nabulsi, Director at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, will give a talk about how photographers can craft better and more cohesive photographic series.  Showcasing some of the books found at Fall Line Press, the talk will highlight what makes a cohesive, successful and meaningful body of work.

{ Poem88 }
*1PM Artist Talk – Jon Ciliberto*
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03
White Provisions District (behind Perrine’s and Garden)
Atlanta, Georgia 30318  tel 404.735.1000
www.poem88.net  Open Noon to 6PM
In conjunction with the exhibition “WORKS ON PAPER,” artist Jon Ciliberto will talk about his artistic practice, using found and donated materials and bestowing his drawings as gifts. In many ways, this activity is tied to his study of Buddhism and a practice of mindfulness, compassion and renunciation of material things. In keeping with this practice, his works on view at {Poem88} have been gifted to the gallery to be sold or not. His work recently appeared in ArtsCriticATL.com illustrating performances at Sonic Palooza.

Sandler Hudson Gallery
*2PM – Artist Yanique Norman present*
1009-A Marietta St. NW  404-817-3300
www.sandlerhudson.com Open Tuesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 12-5.
The show continues until September 3, 2011. Sandler Hudson is pleased to present Yanique Norman in a solo show.  Norman’s new body of work, “Middle Passages Redux,” will feature graphite drawings that introduce the experimental use of collage and gouache.  This new body of work grew out of the artist’s search for understanding how to visually capture the emotional and psychological.

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING>>>

Astolfi Art
*SHIFT*
1170 Howell Mill Road P-16
Atlanta, GA 30318 (in the White Provisions Building)
www.astolfiart.com  (404) 307-0215.
Thursday- Saturday, 11-4, or by appointment
Astolfi Art is pleased to present ‘Shift’ by Atlanta based artist Gregor Turk.  His current series of sculpture and ceramic pieces echo his earlier works, which have themes of mapping and place making.  His new series features trapezoid shapes that have been paired together to create a visual portal using geometry and blues and greens found on the world map.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
*Summer Salon*
1000 Marietta St. NW, Ste. 208 (404) 877-5626
www.emilyamygallery.com Open 11am – 5pm.
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Summer Salon, a group exhibition of works from gallery artists. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper and mixed media works.

KIANG GALLERY
*Small Pieces, Loosely Joined*
1011-A Marietta St. Atlanta GA 30318  (404) 892-5477
www.kiang-gallery.com Open Wed-Friday: 11-5pm, Sat: Noon – 5pm.
Through July 30.  The title of this group exhibition by guest curator Karen Tauches refers to David Weinberger’s unified theory of the web. Internet culture has undoubtedly affected how we gather and connect nuggets of information. No longer are we bound to particular chronologies. This exhibition illustrates the fluidity of connections both in the content of individual works and in the style in which it is presented. ARTISTS: Marc Brotherton, Karen Brummund, Carolyn Carr, Inkyoung Chun, Amandine Drouet, Annette Gates, Hollis Hildebrand-Mills, Judy Rushin, Ben Steele, Christian Bradley West, Jan Vormann, Stan Woodard.

SALTWORKS
*Summer Salon*
664 11th St. NW.  (404) 881-0411.
www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Saltworks is pleased to present a summer salon exhibition of artists of the gallery.  Featured artists include Alejandro Aguilera, Avantika Bawa, William Cordova, Brian Dettmer, Conor McGrady, Jiha Moon, Prema Murthy and Michael Scoggins.  Please note our July Hours:  M-F by appointment and Saturdays Noon-5pm.

OCTANE
*Nathan Tavel*
1009-B Marietta St.  (404) 815-9886.
www.octanecoffee.com Open 8am – 11pm
Octane Coffee’s continuing series on promoting emerging artists continues with July’s exhibition of the works of artist Nathan Tavel.

THE CREATIVES PROJECT ART SUPPLY DRIVE
Drop off new and used art supplies to benefit young artists in need at any of the Westside Arts District participating galleries.  Just look for the red bins!  This year the focus is on 2D art work – so we’re collecting items for drawing, painting, printmaking photography as well as miscellaneous items such as glue, glue sticks, scissors, rulers, matt boards, tape, etc.  You get the idea!
For more information about TCP, visit http://www.thecreativesproject.org/

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

*Event 11am-12pm*
535 Means Street NW (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3,
Kids under 12 Free
*Event: Creative Lives & Careers: Inspiration  Studio Program Artists David D’Agostino, Marcia Vaitsman, and Nancy VanDevender discuss the inspiration for their distinct works.
On view: Jessica Jackson Hutchins: The Important Thing About A Chair, and John Heward: Things
Closing Sun, June 19! Two exhibitions that combine expressive gestures, sensual materials, and space-altering invention. Works by Jessica Jackson Hutchins bring together glazed ceramic vessels nestled into altered furniture, and mixed media works on paper combining printmaking, collage, and drawing/writing. John Heward is one of Canada’s most respected artists, and his formal investigations into the possibilities of painting and sculpture are well known in that country; this is the first major presentation of his work in the United States.

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*1PM Artist Talk – Blake Williams*
1100 Howell Mill Road, Suite A03
White Provision District (behind Perrine’s and Garden)
Atlanta, Georgia 30318   tel 404.735.1000
www.poem88.net  Open Noon to 6pm
In conjunction with the exhibition, “Marwencol: photographs by Mark Hogancamp and David Naugle,”
Atlanta filmmaker Blake Williams will talk about his interest in documentary filmmaking and his current
work with Flux Projects documenting each artist’s contribution.  Williams films can be seen on the Flux Projects site:
http://www.fluxprojects.org/films.html
“Marwencol” continues through June 25.  “Hogancamp’s project is undoubtedly a textbook example of outsider art, and enthralls for that genre’s particular reasons—aesthetic innocence, genuine otherness. But even without knowledge of the artist’s life, the photos step beyond neo-kitsch into a realm where child-like transference merges with a dramatic grandeur to create both a feeling of vintage Hollywood artifice and authentic pathos.“ — Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice, October 6 2010

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY
*2pm Artist is present – Donna Mintz*
1009-A Marietta St. NW  404-817-3300
www.sandlerhudson.com Open 12-5pm.
Artist Donna Mintz will be present at the gallery from 2 – 3pm.  Sandler Hudson is pleased to present Linda Armstrong and Donna Mintz in a two person show. Linda Armstrong’s new body of work, “Mycological Meanderings,” The artist uses topical contour drawings as an aesthetic terrain with narrative marks alluding to her movements through the landscape.  Donna Mintz presents four monochrome paintings titled, “untitled: gray paintings.”  Mintz’s labor intensive and process oriented large scale oils with collage represent a further exploration of recognizable themes of memory, time and place.  Note:  2pm, June 25th, Donna Mintz will give an artist talk.

JENNIFER SCHWARTZ GALLERY
*3PM Artist Talk – Chris Jordan*
1000 Marietta St. NW Ste 118.  (404) 351-1050.
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com Open 11am – 5pm.
Artist Chris Jordan will speak at 3pm.  In an era of dwindling traditional publications, Diffusion:  Unconventional Photography strives to introduce new and innovative voices through articles, interviews, portfolios and a large group showcase.  This exhibit celebrates the release of the third volume of Diffusion, allowing editor Blue Mitchell the opportunity to share the works that shaped the vision of the annual in a traditional gallery setting. Included in the exhibition is a great cross section of artists working in innovative ways that push the proverbial photographic envelope.

GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING BY AREA -

BRICKWORKS >>>

EMILY AMY GALLERY
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208  (404) 877-5626
 www.emilyamygallery.com Open 11am – 5pm
Michael Abrams: The Haunting Hudson.  
Growing up in Rensselear County in upstate New York would eventually have a profound influence on Michael Abrams’ artistic career, although he was not aware of it then.  The views out his childhood bedroom window of the Hudson River Valley became deeply engrained in his subconscious and have since become the predominant subject of his work.  The landscapes are loosely based on these Hudson River Valley vistas he remembers but are also partially fabricated in his imagination.  The combination makes for atmospheric, luminescent and ethereal paintings created from layering glazes from semi-transparent to opaque.  The result is a beautifully rendered edenic nature of Abrams’ own personal invention.

KIANG GALLERY
*New Exhibition*
1011-A Marietta Street  404 892 5477
www.kiang-gallery.com  Open Noon – 5pm.
“Small Pieces, Loosely Joined.”  Curated by Karen Tauches, this group show is titled after David Weinberger’s unified theory of the web. Internet culture has undoubtedly affected how we gather and connect nuggets of information. No longer are we bound to particular chronologies. Artists have been known to use loosely associated images and information to gesture abstractly toward a concept. This exhibition illustrates the fluidity of connections both in the content of individual works and in the style in which it is presented. artists: MARC BROTHERTON, KAREN BRUMMUND, CAROLYN CARR, INKYOUNG CHUN, AMANDINE DROUET, ANNETTE GATES, HOLLIS HILDEBRAND-MILLS, JUDY RUSHIN, BEN STEELE, CHRISTIAN BRADLEY WEST, JAN VORMANN, STAN WOODARD.

OCTANE
*New Exhibition*
1009-B Marietta St.  (404) 815-9886.
www.octanecoffee.com Open 8am – 11pm
Octane is psyched to present “Made,” an exhibition of contemporary handmade graphic design. Inspired by the resurgence of interest in handcraft (in fashion, food, objects, and more), Made pays tribute to contemporary artisanship by upsetting its assumptions and de facto aesthetic. Made is curated and produced by The Southern Design Concern and features the work of 20 designers who have ties to the American South. This show is presented in partnership with Modern Atlanta and with support from Son & Sons. Additional information can be found at www.southerndesignconcern.com

11th Street >>>

GET THIS! GALLERY
662 11th St. NW.  (678) 596-4451.
www.getthisgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
On view in the gallery: Gone With the Twins by Atlanta based female street art duo, Paper Twins.  Edgar and Nica met in Atlanta when they started working in the same coffee shop.  Having different backgrounds, they became infatuated with each other’s cultures, sharing music and films and spending long nights telling each other stories.  Little did they know that these stories were the stepping stones of a new body of work.  Wood, sand, sound, grain, grass… They used everything they could to coax these stories and memories to come alive again. But memories will never come alive again.  Don’t be fooled; experiences and stories are distorted with time and after the years you end up telling your stories the way you want to remember them, romanticizing hardship, chuckling at deep-rooted superstitions and seeing the past through affection-tinted eyes.

SALTWORKS
*Final Day*
664 11th St. NW.  (404) 881-0411.
www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Saltworks is pleased to present Black Drawings works by Atlanta-based Cuban artist Alejandro Aguilera.  The Black Drawings began as “formal experiments in technique and improvisation inspired by music, textile design through geometrical forms and the natural landscape.” The works then expanded to incorporate early modernist takes on African Art specifically those from the art historical movements of Primitivism, Cubism and Futurism. Since his arrival to Atlanta, Aguilera added the Southern Vernacular Art to his library of influences.

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*11AM – 5PM Open House – New Location*
White Provision residential bldg
1100 Howell Mill Road, Suite A03
Atlanta, Georgia 30318
www.poem88.net
tel 404.735.1000
11am – 5pm:  open house for the new {Poem88} location
7pm: opening for “Marwencol: photographs from Mark Hogancamp and David Naugle”
8pm: film screening, “Marwencol” (2010) by director Jeff Malmberg
{Poem88} has the distinct pleasure of presenting  Marwencol: photographs from Mark Hogancamp and David Naugle. In 2000, Mark Hogancamp, a resident of a tiny, upstate New York hamlet, was brutally beaten as the result of a bar room brawl.  The victim of a hate crime (Hogancamp is a cross-dresser), he suffered significant brain damage and after completing what government-funded rehabilitation was available, Hogancamp embarked on his own self-prescribed therapy to restore his imagination.  David Naugle, a local photographer, after befriending Hogancamp, was welcomed into the unbelievable story that is Marwencol.

ASTOLFI ART
*11AM Artist Talk – Gregor Turk*
1170 Howell Mill Rd., Ste. P-16.  (404) 307-0215.
www.astolfiart.com Open 11am – 4pm.
Astolfi Art presents artist Gregor Turk in “Shift”.  This new series will be exhibited at Astolfi Art at White Provisions in Atlanta with an opening reception on May 19, 2011. Turk’s work typically references mapping and place-making and often incorporates elements of institutional markers, signs, symbols, iconography and pictograms. The new series features panels and sculptures that are all pairings of trapezoidal shapes that in turn form a visual portal.

SALTWORKS
*1PM – 2PM Coffee Flight Tasting.*
664 11th St. NW.  (404) 881-0411.
www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
In celebration of the exhibition “Black Drawings” work by Alejandro Aguilera, Saltworks will offer a free tasting of a flight of African coffees.  The artworks on view were created using coffee as an ‘ink’ and medium of artistic expression with forms inspired by African art.  Stop in from 1 to 2 PM to enjoy a free tasting of African bean coffee provided by Octane Coffee and crafted by one of their excellent baristas!

JENNIFER SCHWARTZ GALLERY
*2PM Gallery Talks*
1000 Marietta St. NW Ste 118.  (404) 351-1050.
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com Open 11am – 5pm.
*Final Day* for Still.Life. which features work by Julie Blackmon, Michael Marshall, Aline Smithson and Maggie Taylor.  Ryan Nabulsi, Director of the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, will be holding an informal discussion about the work and the status of photography in the digital age.
*Opening of Fall Line Books + Discussion*  Fall Line is a project undertaken by photographer and writer Bill Boling to establish a fine art photography press in Atlanta.  Fall Line has many projects scheduled for the rest of 2011 and for the future.  Bill and other artists and writers involved will hold a talk following Ryan’s talk to give a peak into what Fall Line has planned.

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*Event 5PM – 8PM*
535 Means Street NW (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org Open 11 am – 5 pm
Members, Free; General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3;
Kids under 12, Free
*Event: Open Studios
.  The 14 participants in our Studio Artist Program open their spaces to share recent works and talk with the public about their ideas and interests. Plus music, snacks, cash bar. General admission $5, Members $3.
On view: Jessica Jackson Hutchins: The Important Thing About A Chair, and John Heward: Things
Two exhibitions that combine expressive gestures, sensual materials, and space-altering invention. Works by Jessica Jackson Hutchins bring together glazed ceramic vessels nestled into altered furniture, and mixed media works on paper combining printmaking, collage, and drawing/writing. Hutchins was an acclaimed participant in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. John Heward is one of Canada’s most respected artists, and his formal investigations into the possibilities of painting and sculpture are well known in that country. He is also an internationally known jazz drummer. This is the first major presentation of his work in the United States.

GET THIS! GALLERY
*Opening reception 7PM – 11PM!*
662 11th St. NW.  (678) 596-4451.
www.getthisgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
On view will be the exhibition, Gone With the Twins by Atlanta based street art duo, Paper Twins. This is their first exhibition with Get This!  An opening reception for the artists will be held from 7 to 11PM.

BRICKWORKS >>>

EMILY AMY GALLERY—*New Exhibition*
Open 11am – 5pm
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208
 www.emilyamygallery.com Open 11am – 5pm
May 6 – June 18, 2011
Growing up in Rensselear County in upstate New York would eventually have a profound influence on Michael Abrams’ artistic career, although he was not aware of it then.  The views out his childhood bedroom window of the Hudson River Valley became deeply engrained in his subconscious and have since become the predominant subject of his work.  The landscapes are loosely based on these Hudson River Valley vistas he remembers but are also partially fabricated in his imagination.  The combination makes for atmospheric, luminescent and ethereal paintings created from layering glazes from semi-transparent to opaque.  The result is a beautifully rendered edenic nature of Abrams’ own personal invention.

KIANG GALLERY
1011-A Marietta Street. (404) 892-5477.
www.kiang-gallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Danille Roney: On the Edge of Self. In collaboration with Jeff Conefry and contributions from Penny Aviles. Roney’s newest multimedia project deftly sets the stage of a poignant moment in time, a choice, “to stay or to leave”. Circumstances are deconstructed through a series of parallel, bifurcating movements in which randomization software plays a key role, allowing a third and final author to participate, beyond the artist’s creation. Roney explores the psychological space “ in between”, where hybrid identity is crystallized and personal and social identities are transformed by multicultural and virtual influences in a real-time world.

OCTANE COFFEE BAR
1000 Marietta St. NW. (404) 815-9886.
www.octanecoffee.com Open 10am to 10pm.
Group exhibition pop-up show!

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY
1009-A Marietta Street NW  (404) 817-3300
www.sandlerhudson.com Open 12pm to 5pm.
Linda Armstrong and Donna Mintz will show together May 20-June 25, 2011. Reception, May 24, 2011, 7-9pm.
In Linda Armstrong’s new body of work, “Mycological Meanderings,” The artist uses topical contour drawings as an aesthetic terrain with narrative marks alluding to her movements through the landscape. Sculptural, fantastical, colored fungi pieces simulate movements of mycorrhiza (a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant) growth.
Donna Mintz will present four monochrome paintings titled, “Gray Paintings.”  Mintz’s Labor intensive and process oriented large scale oils with collage represent a further.

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*Event 11 am – 12 pm*
535 Means Street NW (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org Open 11 am – 5 pm
Members, Free; General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3;
Kids under 12, Free
*Event: Curator Talk: Stuart Horodner
Artistic Director Stuart Horodner leads a tour and discussion of the current exhibitions. He will focus on the artists’ use of materials, and issues of tradition and process.
On view: Jessica Jackson Hutchins: The Important Thing About A Chair, and John Heward: Things
Two exhibitions that combine expressive gestures, sensual materials, and space-altering invention. Works by Jessica Jackson Hutchins bring together glazed ceramic vessels nestled into altered furniture, and mixed media works on paper combining printmaking, collage, and drawing/writing. Hutchins was an acclaimed participant in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. John Heward is one of Canada’s most respected artists, and his formal investigations into the possibilities of painting and sculpture are well known in that country. He is also an internationally known jazz drummer. This is the first major presentation of his work in the United States.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY
*1pm Artist Talk (Brett Smith)*
1009-A Marietta Street NW  (404) 817-3300
www.sandlerhudson.com Open 11am to 5pm.
Alex Brewer, Dixie Purvis, and Brett Smith:  Mark Making in Black and White.  This exhibition is about the act of painting, specifically mark making in a restrictive palette.  The artists share the art of mark making in their work.  This gestural act is used dramatically and differently by each of these three artists.

{Poem88} at Tanner-Hill Gallery
*4pm New Exhibition and Performance*
White Provision Bldg.
1170 Howell Mill Rd., Ste. 111. (404) 580-4299
.
www.poem88.net Open 11am – 5pm.
{Poem88} will present visual artist David D’Agostino in collaboration with the Atlanta Poets Group in a language performance, drawing on both scripted scores and as-yet-unknown thoughts that may emerge during the performance.  D’agostino’s “Whiteout” paintings series (part of the current Axis Mundi exhibit) will provide the spark; the APG will navigate the possibilities.

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING:

AT HOWELL MILL + MARIETTA ST

EMILY AMY GALLERY
1000 Marietta St. NW, Ste. 208  (404) 877-5626
www.emilyamygallery.com Open 11am – 5pm.
Exhibition: Meta Gary: Animal Instinct.  Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present new works by emerging Atlanta-based artist, Meta Gary. Painting on untreated, exposed wood, Gary incorporates a contact paper/stencil technique to create a strong visual contrast and to accentuate her whimsical and seemingly simple imagery. Gary’s dreams about animals inform her work. Human and animal interaction, specifically the intimacy between the two, serves as the catalyst for the imagined scenarios that occupy her exposed wood panels. The distinct parallels that can be drawn between animals and humans serves as a significant theme the can be found throughout Gary’s work.

JENNIFER SCHWARTZ GALLERY
*Special Temporary Exhibition*
1000 Marietta St. NW Ste 118.  (404) 351-1050.
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com Open 11am – 5pm.
Slanted Aesthetics: A student exhibition presented by Georgia State University’s Art Student Union.  The annual year-end GSU Student Exhibition, Slanted Aesthetics, featuring works from 23 artists in a variety of artistic mediums, including photography, painting, textiles, video, performance, sculpture, and ceramics.

KIANG GALLERY
*New Exhibition*
1011-A Marietta Street. (404) 892-5477.
www.kiang-gallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Danille Roney: On the Edge of Self. In collaboration with Jeff Conefry and contributions from Penny Aviles. Roney’s newest multimedia project deftly sets the stage of a poignant moment in time, a choice, “to stay or to leave”. Circumstances are deconstructed through a series of parallel, bifurcating movements in which randomization software plays a key role, allowing a third and final author to participate, beyond the artist’s creation. Roney explores the psychological space “ in between”, where hybrid identity is crystallized and personal and social identities are transformed by multicultural and virtual influences in a real-time world.

OCTANE COFFEE BAR
*New Exhibition*
1000 Marietta St. NW. (404) 815-9886.
www.octanecoffee.com Open 10am to 10pm.
On view:  Big In Japan.  New works inspired by the songs of Tom Waits by artist Chris Hamer.

AT 11TH STREET

GET THIS! GALLERY
662 11th St. NW.  (678) 596-4451.
www.getthisgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Jill Storthz: Woodcuts.  On view is San Francisco based artist Jill Storthz’s third solo exhibition with Get This! Gallery.  The exhibit focuses exclusively on Storthz’s reductive woodblock prints.

SALTWORKS
*New Exhibition*
664 11th St. NW.  (404) 881-0411.
www.saltworksgallery.com Open Noon – 5pm.
Saltworks is pleased to present “Black Drawings” works by Atlanta-based Cuban artist Alejandro Aguilera.  The Black Drawings began as “formal experiments in technique and improvisation inspired by music, textile design through geometrical forms and the natural landscape.” The works then expanded to incorporate early modernist takes on African Art specifically those from the art historical movements of Primitivism, Cubism and Futurism. Since his arrival to Atlanta, Aguilera added the Southern Vernacular Art to his library of influences.

TWIN KITTENS GALLERY
TK Currently Dark due to Moving!
TWIN KITTENS is dedicated to promoting the work and lives of contemporary artists from near and far. We do this by presenting the viewing public with thought-provoking, ambitious, exhibitions unencumbered by the marketplace and introducing the artists through creative programming and community engagements. We are currently changing locations and will re-open soon!  www.twinkittens.com

AT WESTSIDE PROVISION DISTRICT

ASTOLFI ART
*New Exhibition*
1170 Howell Mill Rd., Ste. P-16.  (404) 307-0215.
www.astolfiart.com Open 11am – 4pm.
Astolfi Art will be presenting new works from Anke Schofield and Luis-Garcia Nerey from the Bosque series.  The gallery will also be exhibiting works by Todd Murphy, Tony Hernandez, Kevin Archer, and several others.