"Metronome" | Not Your Ordinary Opening

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Perhaps it was the conversation about time’s existential implications or about our city’s burgeoning food truck culture or about what in the world was dotting the floor of the gallery, the opening reception of Metronome at whitespace gallery was certainly abuzz with excitement.  Featuring artist Michele Schuff’s series of encaustic paintings (please see previous entry for more detail), guests were introduced to her most recent works using three-dimensional cast forms.  Schuff captures the invisible process of time through the use of repetitive heat-fused brush strokes and forms, suggesting the metronome as a metaphor for the meditative beat of life’s fleeting moments.  

Artist Michele Schuff in front of her piece Big Blue.

A visitor studies Michele Schuff’s encaustic works.
In support, alliance, and promotion of Atlanta’s food truck community, whitespace’s reception for Metronome also welcomed King of Pops, Rattletrap Coffee Truck, and Sugar Coated Radical (SCR).  King of Pops came through to cool us down with his specialty pops while Rattletrap kicked it up a notch with some icey caffeinated goodness (and refreshing home made lemonade). The radicals of SCR set up their mobile candy shop to deliver an array of revolutionary sweets, not to mention plenty of sugar coated samples. 
Visitors using the QR code to find more information about Michele Schuff and her work.
Metronome is the also the first show to launch the use of Quick Response (QR) codes in the gallery.  QR codes have been installed throughout the gallery, enabling viewers to access exclusive artist related content on their mobile devices.  Metronome’s codes feature unreleased photo sets of Michele’s works in various states of creation.  Laid on foam core, the codes can be found slightly raised off the floor near pieces: 48squares, Big Blue, Oushak, and Reprise.  Additional information on QR codes can be found at the gallery’s front desk.  Come by and check it out for yourself!

Open until:        Saturday, June 23rd

"Metronome" by Michele Schuff at whitespace

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Michele Schuff, “Don’t Go,” Encaustic on panel, 48 x 60 x 4.5″

In Michele Schuff’s exhibition, Metronome, she explores the perception of time and how we measure life’s passing.  How long do I have to live?  How has my timing influenced every turn of my life?  Will I be able to do what I need to before I die? 

Michele uses the metronome, a tool traditionally used to set a fixed tempo while practicing music, as a metaphor for keeping time as well as a meditative device; with it one can set a beat or pulse that can become increasingly abstract and therefore has the potential to exist outside of our perception of linear time.  This body of work examines the space that is created when one is fully focused on any creative endeavor: where does that state of mind exist? Time can be momentarily suspended in the gap between the beats; collectively these beats and gaps make up a body of work, a life, a collection of lives. 

Metronome features a series of encaustic paintings on wood panel created by layer over layer of repetitive brush strokes fused together with heat. The repeated painted lines/phrases/objects are meant to create a textured ‘beat’ and somehow through their pattern and regularity, generate an abstract field of color and sound.

Michele Schuff received her BFA from Wayne State University in Detroit and her MFA from Georgia State University. She is a former Fellow of the Hambidge Center of Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Schuff’s work explores themes of light through encaustic painting and three-dimensional cast forms. 

Exhibition dates:            June 10 – July 23, 2011   

Opening reception:        Friday, June 10 | 7-10 pm

Gallery hours:               Wednesday – Saturday | 11 am – 5 pm or by appointment
                       
Location:                       814 Edgewood Avenue | Inman Park

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"Witch’s Brew" by Adrienne Outlaw

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April 21 – June 4, 2011

Opening Reception:  Thursday, April 21 | 7 – 10 pm


Details from the Fecund Series, Mixed Media

Whitespace is pleased to present “Witch’s Brew” featuring the sculptural and video works of Adrienne Outlaw.  Outlaw’s interactive exhibition “Witch’s Brew” sheds light on ethical issues created by the rapid advancement of biotechnology and in particular, the rising trend of DIYers growing biological experiments at home. The Fecund Series speaks to the human desire for progress and the possibility of Frankensteinian horrors.  She explores the often contentious debate about science, nature and religion and how that impacts the bioethical dialogue. Working with cutting edge scientists, Outlaw selects videos showing the latest advancements in the field of biophysics and makes her own movies of intimate maternal scenes. She places the videos and objects in anthropomorphic specimen cases so that they can be seen but not touched. Some works are fun, elegant and beautiful; others are marred by the recombination process. Viewers become participants in the work when they peer inside a piece and see their reflection.

Adrienne Outlaw shows in museums, public art collections and exhibitions worldwide. She has shown in twelve museum exhibits including two solos shows. A dozen exhibition catalogs and two art books feature her work. She holds an MLAS from Vanderbilt University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

New Works by Craig Dongoski

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Whitespace is pleased to present new works by Craig Dongoski in his current gallery exhibition Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release. For this solo exhibition, Dongoski created drawings over-drawings on a variety of substrates including, wood, paper, and printed materials.  He also features works derived from his signatures that he used to produce “graphic scores” or non-conventional musical notation.  In conjunction with the artwork, Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release features artifacts and ephemera from these processes, along with a video and a sound installation.
Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release, Mixed Media
Craig Dongoski received a BFA from Milliken University and an MFA from the University of South Dakota. He has shown his work across the United States and internationally. Currently, Dongoski resides in Atlanta where he serves as an Associate Professor of Art at Georgia State University.
Exhibition: March 4 – April 16, 2011
Opening Reception:  Friday, March 4 | 7 – 10 pm

Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm

Snapshots From the Opening, " Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me"

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Wendy Given’s exhibition, Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me, opened to rave reviews in January despite the icy weather.  We had a packed house and a great time.  In case you could not make it for the opening reception, we have included some images from the event below.  There is still time to see the show, but Given’s exhibition is only up for two more weeks.  The last day is Saturday, February 26.
Both Burnaway and ArtsCriticATL posted glowing reviews of Given’s works, which explain why this exhibition is a must-see!

Gallery visitor takes a closer peek at the sleeping sparrow in Given’s, “Cubiculum”.

Wendy Given’s photograph, “Wake,” has caught the attention of a visitor.

A whitespace intern and “Of Augur and Auspice: No.5 (From Under the Pillow)”.

Gallery visitors discuss the composition of “By the Boat of Charon”

Artist Conversation with Wendy Given

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On a recent winter afternoon, Wendy Given spoke at the gallery about her current photography exhibit Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me. We appreciate everyone braving the cold to attend!

Wendy discusses her artist residency in Caldera, Oregon, 
where she created her current body of work for the exhibition.

Given (left) discusses her creative 
process & the photograph, By the Boat of Charon.

 

Based on a witches ladder, Given explains the meaning 
behind her rope and feather sculpture, Not All is Kept Hard or Soft.
Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me
Exhibition: January 14 – February 26, 2011
Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm 

Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me

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Whitespace is pleased to present Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me, a photography exhibit by Wendy Given.

Wendy Given produces work that resonates in the deep, dark and unstable ground between consciousness and collective memory. The current exhibition “Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me” consists of various portraits, objects and scenes depicting the subtle locus between metaphor, allegory, fact and fiction. The majority of the work was conceived and produced during a month long artist residency in 2010 at Caldera and Blue Lake in idyllic Sisters, Oregon.

Given’s photographs and sculptures are constructed to introduce a contemporary narrative directed by centuries of folklore and legend—ultimately depicting the fine, delicate line between realism and imagination. Given is keenly interested in observing and documenting the otherworldly—or seemingly supernatural—in the everyday experience, realizing an ongoing fascination with myth and magic.

Wendy Given received her Master’s of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California and her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work in photography and video has been exhibited in Germany, The Netherlands and nationally. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, two dogs and cat.

Exhibition: January 14 – February 26, 2011
Opening Reception:  Friday, January 14th,  7 – 10 pm
Conversation with the Artist: Saturday, January 15th @ 4 pm
Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm