Artist Matt Gilbert and visitors exploring "Latitude 34." Photo by Alex Christopher Williams.
Last Friday, October 5th was the opening reception for Austrian-Moroccan photographer Malika Sqalli. Malika currently lives in London, but was in Atlanta to meet with visitors at her opening and discuss her work. Continue reading
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The new paintings and drawings in Meg Aubrey’s “Domiciled,” at Whitespace through October 13, reflect an increasingly familiar social condition. Whether you talk about “liquid modernity” with sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, or “Noplaceness” as in the book of that title that ArtsATL co-founder Catherine Fox and I co-wrote with Cinqué Hicks, large parts of American life entail being “domiciled,” in the neutral legal term, in communities that could be anywhere, engaging in styles of life that are largely indistinguishable from one city to another, if only because the people who engage in them have often moved very recently from one city to another.
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Gaining inspiration from her own surroundings, Aubrey focuses on the landscapes and figures in modern suburban neighborhoods and how they represent feelings of emptiness and loneliness within such a structured lifestyle.
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Today, suburbs still signify a safe and predictable environment for many Americans, and Meg Aubrey’s little paintings (at left) focus on the iconography of that predictability: neatly trimmed trees on a roadway median, a red brick mailbox, a red shopping cart at the edge of a mall parking lot, and a “For Sale” sign, left generically blank in Aubrey’s rendering.
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Always a standout, Meg Aubrey’s work, which at times can feel emotionally remote, here looks positively fervid and as psychological as filmmaker Todd Haynes’ “Safe,” in part because of Aubrey’s piquant, mischievous point of view.
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December 13 – January 10, 09Whitespace is pleased to present a survey of new works by selected gallery artists for the December Show. Included artists: Jonathan Bouknight, Lauren Clay, Sarah Emerson, Fereydoon Family, Jody Fausett, Julia Hill, Anne-Marie Manker, Beth Marcum, John Otte, Mark Sandlin, Michele Schuff, Richard Sexton, Caroline Smith, Richard Sudden and Red Weldon-Sandlin
December Show + For-ever-green, this outside exhibition gleefully combines the popular green movement with curious evergreen alternatives.
1) Green Art – Exterior eco-friendly installations that connect art with the escalating green movement. Some artists have chosen to focus on conceptual ideas about the environment and current environmental issues, sustainability, or human interaction with nature while others have produced eco-friendly works from recycled and/or repurposed materials.
2) Tree Art (“Little Hatchet’s Eco-Lot”) – Basically the antithesis of Big John’s Tree Lot, we have invited creative interpretations of eco-friendly Christmas trees for our outdoor, “sustainable tree lot”(Susan’s driveway!)
Some of the participating artists include: Robin Brasington, Sean Caffrey, Rebecca DesMarais, Barrett Feldman, Angus Gallaway, Julia Hill, George Long, Scot Montgomery, Patricia Nelson, Justine Rubin, Mario Schambon, John Trefrey, Tracy Wagner, Xenia Zed.
December show sneaky preview
