Craig Dongoski Durations at Puritan Mill
"Duration: Fragment" by Craig Dongoski
Meet us at Puritan Mill on Wednesday, September 19 for a sound performance by Craig Dongoski. As an end note to his exhibition Durations at Puritan Mill, Dongoski will perform an interpretation of an enigmatic Takehisa Kosugi graphic score comprised solely of +, – and I symbols. He will be accompanied by Amanda Pepping on trumpet and Matt Rowles on trombone. This is also one of the last opportunities to see Durations at Puritan Mill before the show ends September 30, 2012.
Puritan Mill | 916 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd | Atlanta
Ann-Marie Manker Candy Coated at SCAD Atlanta
"King of Queens" by Ann-Marie Manker
Thursday, September 20
artist talk: 5 – 6 PM
reception: 6 – 7 PM
Join Ann-Marie Manker for an artist talk and reception at SCAD’s Trois Gallery on Thursday, September 20 at 5 PM. Originally exhibited at the Pinnacle Gallery on SCAD’s main campus in Savannah, Ann-Marie’s exhibition Candy Coated was part of the school’s deFINE ART week in February and now has made its way to Atlanta. Candy Coated closes September 21, 2012.
Trois Gallery | SCAD Atlanta | 1600 Peachtree Street | Atlanta, GA
Wendy Given Death Caps and Dark Wood at W+K Gallery
Wendy Given's current exhibition "Death Caps and Dark Wood" at W+K Gallery
September 6 – September 27, 2012
Wendy Given‘s second exhibition at WKG, Death Caps and Dark Wood, continues her enchanting production of visceral installations with large scale color photography and multiple sculptures that resonate in the dark and unstable ground between consciousness and collective memory. Given produces work that stems from a profound interest and practice guided by natural philosophy, folklore, myth and magic—”magic” used as a term meant to conjure the notion of the interconnectedness of all life forces.
Observing, documenting and constructing the otherworldly—or seemingly supernatural, ardently fascinates Given. Her contemporary work delves deep into a curious trove that reverberates with a primordial and strangely modern mysticism. With this new exhibition, Given uncannily crosses the fine, delicate line between realism and imagination.
Check out this interview with Wendy Given about her show!
W+K Gallery | 224 NW 13th Ave | Portland, OR
Benita Carr and Matt Haffner Groundstory at Dalton Gallery
September 28 – November 16, 2012
The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott presents “Groundstory: tales from the shade of the South.” The exhibition is organized with support from The Margaret Virginia Philip Art Endowment Fund. “Groundstory” is a gathering of visual artists and writers whose work is rooted to place with a firm foundation in the southeastern United States. They narrate tales, piecing together location, history and experience through nuance and direct narrative. Some shovel stories into grains of a photograph, others lay words like bricks into a poem. They might include objects that reveal where the author comes from, that pose questions like where were they found—were they dug up, and if so, how deeply were they buried? Weather systems might play an important role, from the swell of a flood to a too bright day. Many who spend considerable time in these humid climes are storytellers. Through the land flows their sense of selves. Stories of devotion and death are embedded in raked red earth yards and in houses of peeling paint. In “Groundstory,” the artist’s notion of what a story is expands just like the contradictions of the place.
Visual Artists Scott Belville , Benita Carr & Bill Orisich, Lonnie Holley , Captain William Jordan, Hailey Lowe, Deborah Luster, Michi Meko , Donna Mintz , Gina Phillips , Ruth Stanford , Stefanie Jackson
Writers Alabama Chanin, Maria Artemis’69, David Bottoms, Calvin Burgamy, Betsy Cain , Jason Cameron, Doug Crandell , Jerry Cullum, Jane Fishman, Matt Haffner , Grady Harris, Brian Hitselberger , Joshilyn Jackson, Susan Kidd, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier , Laura Noel , Steven Satterfield, Laurel Snyder, Karen Tauches, Katherine Taylor, Bob Thomas, Milford Earl Thomas, Cole Tufts, Susan Rebecca White
Dalton Gallery | 141 E. College Avennue | Decatur, GA
Adrienne Outlaw Take Care at Wright Museum of Art
August 12 – October 11, 2012
“Take Care: Biomedical Ethics in the 21st Century “ curated by Adrienne Outlaw, addresses unprecedented bioethical dilemmas brought about by the rapid advancement of medical technology and specifically considers civilization’s unease with modern family planning, maternal and fetal care, childbirth and child rearing. The exhibit features sculpture, photography, and video works by nine artist including Adrienne Outlaw’s Fecund video series, which explores ethical issues developing with advancing biotechnologies. Videos of mysterious, fleshy forms juxtaposed with the latest advancements in biophysics seem to float inside mirrored, breast-like sculptures. The traveling exhibit continues at the Wright Museum of Art through October 11, 2012. For more information, check out this video about the show.
Wright Museum of Art | South Gallery | 700 College St. | Beloit, WI
Tommy Taylor Shadowland at Institute 193
"Day Tripper" by Tommy Taylor
September 6 – October 27, 2012
Tommy Taylor’s current exhibition, Shadowland, at Institute 193 is an exhibition of new paintings by the Atlanta-based artist. In this body of work, Taylor has arranged imagery gleaned from cartoons, films, and found family photographs into compositions that convey the competing “drives, histories, expectations, and accepted social norms” that characterize modern identity. Taylor’s paintings mine his own personal psychology in an attempt to illustrate how sexuality, religion, and nostalgia can exert contradictory influences on our inner lives. Like a lived experience, his work depicts feuding impulses that have nevertheless been formed into carefully composed arrangements.
Institute 193 | 193 N. Limestone Street | Lexington, KY