Nancy Floyd Wins Inaugural ICP / GOST First Photo Book Award

December 23, 2019
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Nancy Floyd is the winner of the inaugural ICP / GOST First Photo Book Award for her series “Weathering Time.” The five shortlisted photographers are Ignacio Colo, Ciaran Dunbar, Richard Andrew Sharum, Camillo Pasquarelli and Federico Vespignani.

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Winner of the ICP/Gost First Photobook Award Announced

December 19, 2019
icp.org
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The winner of the inaugural ICP/GOST First Photobook Award is Nancy Floyd for the series “Weathering Time.” The five shortlisted photographers are Ignacio Colo, Ciaran Dunbar, Richard Andrew Sharum, Camillo Pasquarelli, and Federico Vespignani.

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Drawing as Refuge

December 7, 2019
hyperallergic.com
By Thomas Micchelli
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Most of the drawings that fill Properties of Dust and Smoke, pt. 2, a layered, quirky, perplexing, and altogether stunning exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, were made by the Alabama-based artist Pete Schulte during a two-month residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

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Review: In HortoPhillia, Charlie Watts comments on society and images of women

November 19, 2019
ArtsAtl.org
By Jerry Cullum
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Charlie Watts’ Hortophilia, at Whitespace through December 7, addresses head-on a number of difficult topics regarding the human body, society and images of women. These compellingly beautiful photographs and sculptural assemblages may well tell the viewer even more than their instigator claims — or they may question our right and capacity to make such assumptions.

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ARTADIA NAMES 2019 ATLANTA AWARD WINNERS

November 19, 2019
ArtFourm.com
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Artadia, the nonprofit organization that supports visual artists based in seven US cities with unrestricted, merit-based awards, announced today that Danielle Deadwyler​ and ​Sonya Yong James​ were named the winners of this year’s Atlanta awards. They will both receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds.

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Bojana Ginn: Phygital Muse

November, 2019
Brooklynrail.org
By Rebecca Brantley
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​The future looks good in Bojana Ginn’s Phygital Muse. Nature and technology co-exist throughout Ginn’s interdisciplinary exhibition. She explores transhumanism, a school of thought dedicated to the notion that technology will radically enhance human life. Curated by Shannon Morris, Phygital Muse is on view at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, at Augusta University, in Augusta, Georgia, through December 13.

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Nature is an artist’s helpmate and muse in “Loud Magic”

September 11, 2019
AJC
By Felicia Feaster

In her solo exhibition “Loud Magic,” at Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta-based artist Sonya Yong James uses nature as a kind of collaborator, the source of her inspiration and font of her materials.

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Sonya Yong James: LOUD MAGIC

Art Papers
October 2, 2019
By EC Flamming

Sonya Yong James’ exhibition LOUD MAGIC [September 6 – October 19, 2019] at Whitespace in Atlanta is a slow-simmering study of potential energy. The collection acts like a spell—works in it aren’t necessarily static. They’re constructed to activate change, and the material decisions act as catalysts to push the potential to the kinetic.

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Distaff, Spindle: Sonya Yong James at Whitespace, Atlanta

Burnaway.org
October 15, 2019
By Claire E. Dempster

Late last winter, I spent my Tuesday evenings perched at the edge of an uncomfortable bench, learning to weave. I watched my patterns emerge with the unbridled optimism of a delighted novice after each wobbly pass of the shuttle. Made of cheap beginner’s wool, my tea towels, table runners, and scarves packed down into simple cartographies of weft and warp.

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The latest Instagrammable art experience, 29Rooms, will feature two Atlanta artists

August 7, 2019
atlantamagazine.com
By Myrydd wells
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​Atlanta artists, Neka King and Sarah Emerson will feature in 29Rooms this summer. 29Rooms runs in Atlanta from August 29 through September 8th.

The Agnes Scott professor and abstract artist will participate in the “Traveling Billboard” installation, in which an artist in each host city creates a “billboard mural” (Emerson’s will be 10 x 20 feet) to be displayed at their individual city’s event. Emerson’s mural will explore the “psychological landscape” of Atlanta. (excerpt from Atlanta Magazine article)

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