ARThouse has opened its glamorous doors for the exhibition on Friday, January 23rd. Whitespace Gallery is proudly presenting our artists in the front room of the house. Tour the historic Rhodes Robinson Mansion as well as pieces represented by different galleries from the Atlanta Gallery Association. Tickets are available at Whitespace for the advance ticket price.
January 23 – February 8, 2009
Wednesday – Sunday, 10-5 p.m.
Tickets: $20/advance $22/door $12/youth (12-18) under 12 free
Walking to Guantanamoexhibition
JANUARY 16- FEBRUARY 28
Richard Fleming is an inveterate traveler, photographer, amateur musicologist, sometime deejay, and self-described “rabid birdwatcher” long enamored of the music, culture, and wild places of the Greater Antilles. When not on the road, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Walking to Guantánamo is the title of his first book and the first solo exhibition of photographs taken during that journey.
Despite having a wonderful girlfriend, a downtown Manhattan apartment, and a thriving career, Richard Fleming is afraid that his life is spiraling into “nightmarish mediocrity.” After obsessing over the notion for years, he finally decides that crossing the island of Cuba on foot might somehow rescue him from the fate he fears. Walking to Guantánamo is the chronicle of that journey. Rarely has a book about Cuba been so shorn of pretension, ideological blinders, or misplaced romanticism-and hardly ever has it been so genuinely funny. His text and photographs reveal a popular culture, particularly in music and spiritual life, of deep complexity. A discerning observer of daily life who rejects the clichés of Cuba’s enemies and friends alike, Richard Fleming ranges over the Cuban countryside with a rare ability to distinguish reality from façade and slogan from fact. A companion volume of photographs, The Road to Guantanamo: Images from a Journey through Cuba, is being published with Walking to Guantanamo.
Myrtha Vega & Rocio Rodriguez are able to
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
” Atlanta native Lauren Clay has grown from a formalist into something of an environmental philosopher. Using only paper and acrylic mirror, she standing and wall-mounted works, mediates the architectural surroundings of the gallery space to create a collaborative experience for visitors. Clay’s larger assemblage works include geometric armatures referencing space capsules or private environments that come to life in relation to other paper forms. They absorb and emit light, reflected onto the floor and walls, thereby extending sculptural form as light into the gallery space. Scale shifts within these open, relational pieces are intended to sensitized viewers to the particulars of the environment.
The smaller wall works recall Clay’s earlier sculptural paper works, drooping forms suspending on the wall, heavy with surrealist psychologist.. Now the small structures are crisp and sprightly, combining decorative motifs with subtle anthropomorphic forms. Large-scale drawings and gouaches punctuate the installation. “
Nameless Namer {2008}
Nat Slaughter, Lauren Clay, and Daniel Clay
Artist Lauren Clay by her piece, Inverted Continuum {2008}
Anonymous appearance by Cathy Byrd and Jennifer Brown
Artist Ann-Marie Manker and her boyfriend
“Ann-Marie Manker’s current drawings and paintings explore the conceptual connectivity between a lost piece of artwork Manker created as a child and the exploration of that same theme as an adult. The psychological narrative involves a single female and coupled animals within an organic setting. Elements of love, desire, fantasy and flirtation play out their role in an environment of mid-century inspired nature, design and motifs. The setting for these drawings were derived from a variety of early 1960’s pop culture, including the Southern California neighborhood where Manker grew up, Hong Kong pop YouTube videos, the lyrics from Rebecca Pan’s early 60’s hit “Bengawan Solo” and Disney’s It’s a Small World ride.
The current installation on view at whitespec, brings Manker’s drawings to life in a three-dimensional setting. A fantastical landscape is created with a variety of materials including sculpted and painted foam, cast plastic and plaster gumdrops that are painted and coated in glitter, cut painted paper and fabric. The artist invites the viewers to walk along the river’s pat while engaging in a visual and mental escape as the title Trip for Two suggests.“
River of love, behold
Where the palms are swaying low
And lovers get so enthralled
Bengawan Solo
Nightingales softly singing
In that moment divine
Jody Fausett, with Julia-Carr Bayler, Susan, and JennThe anticipated opening for Jody Fausett’s new body of work took place yesterday evening at Whitespace. The crowd steadily entered and there was much room for conversation, but that pace was shortly broken. Rush of crowds continued to enter and filled both of the gallery space and both sides of the courtyard in a rapid procession.
General patrons took their time migrating from one piece to another. Then they would all return for the list of the work. They migrated once more, if not twice and thrice. They would ask questions on the process of these works- Were they digitally modified? How did he achieve the lighting? I would see them chuckle after reading the titles.
The interaction between Jody’s intention and the viewer’s perception was very interesting. The honesty of the work was refreshing, enticing, surprising, fascinating. But we come to understand just how personal each subject and setting must be to Jody, and then we realize the level of the fantastical narration. It is not comprehended immediately. It yearns for further observation but demands instant acceptance. It builds a certain anticipation for the glamour that exudes from the simplest and the most direct exposure of his subject veiled in new light.
GALLERY HOURS {WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, 11 – 5 pm}
Susan & Julia Fenton
Steven in the center, and Roberto to the right
Victor & Sonya
The Fabulous Three: Angie Mosier, Anne Stevenson, & Thom Driver
Sarah Emerson, Harlow, & husband Jesse Crieger
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 7-10 PM
GALLERY HOURS WED – SAT 11-5PM or by APPOINTMENT
