NBAF on Visual Arts
Posted on 08 July 2010 by admin
ACA Gallery of SCAD
Chakaia Booker: Sustain
July 15- August 29, 2010. Opening Reception: Thursday, July 15, 6 PM- 8 PM, held in conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA. Hours: Tues-Wed 10 AM- 5 PM, Thurs 10 AM- 8 PM, Fri & Sat 10 AM-5 PM, Sun 12 PM-5 PM, www.scadexhibitions.com.
The SCAD exhibitions department presents Sustain, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Chakaia Booker. Sustain pairs Booker’s signature abstract sculptures fashioned from found tires with a series of photogravures the artist recently created at SCAD. Highlighting her use of sustainable materials, these prints offer a rare view of the artist’s process as she ceremoniously forages the industrial landscape. Combined with the expressive materiality of the rubber sculptures, the two series allude to physical and personal
Chakaia Booker
strength, racial identity and the human relationship to the environment. A conversation between Carrie Mae Weems and Chakai Booker will take place in on Thursday, July 15, 2010 in the Rich Theater at Woodruff Arts Center, 6 PM.
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Sandler Hudson Gallery
Girls, Grillz, and Guns, July 13, 2010 – August 14, 2010, 1009 A Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30318, Hours: Tuesday- Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment, www.sandlerhudson.com, 404-817-3300.
Sandler Hudson will present Atlanta photographer, Shelia Pree Bright’s, “Girls, Grills, and Guns,” in conjunction with a book signing by the nationally known photographer and writer, Dr. Deborah Willis during the 2010 National Black Arts Festival. In the exhibition, “Girls, Grills, and Guns,” Sheila Pree Bright displays photographs from her “Plastic Bodies,” Gold Rush,” and “Guns” series. Pree Bright’s photographs in this exhibit will examine the intersection of male and female beauty standards for people of color and takes a look at young African American culture in America.
Dr. Deborah Willis will be signing her book, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890′s to the Present, a remarkable historical record that captures the civil rights era and the triumphs of the present-day. It includes work by some of the great photographers of our time, including, Carl Van Vechten, Eve Arnold, Bruce Davidson and Richard Avedon.
Sheila Pree Bright’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including “Young Americans” at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, “Suburbia” at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning” at The African American Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, the traveling exhibition “Reflections In Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present,” and “Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African American Art,” at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C., and is included in public and private collections throughout the United States. Pree Bright will also be included in the 2010 Armory Show in NYC.
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Plastic Body Series
Deborah Willis is a photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. She is the recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and Fletcher Fellowships. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University.
Deborah Willis – Posing Beauty
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Hammonds House Museum and Resource Center of African American Art
Louis Delsarte, July 11 – Sept 12, 2010 / Hours: Tuesday- Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., www.hammondshouse.org, 404-612-0500
Described as a figurative painter of dream-like compositions, Louis Delsarte emerged onto the art scene more than thirty five years ago as a painter. Using texture, abstraction, paints, ebony pencil and mixed media, Louis Delsarte takes the viewer to the depths of his own experiences and imagination.
He has been honored as artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Howard University in DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY, Towson University in MD, The Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, Arts Exchange in Atlanta, GA, Brandywine Printmaking Workshop in Washington, D.C., and The Faculty
Resource Network at New York University. Since moving to Atlanta many years past Delsarte has established himself as one of the leading artist in the region, in high demand for his skills as a muralist and his profound ability to capture the dreams and histories of the American experience.
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Hagedorn Foundation Gallery
Represent: Imaging African American Culture in Contemporary Art July 16-September 3, 2010, Opening Reception: Friday, July 16, 2010, 5-8 PM, Hours: Monday- Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m., 425 Peachtree Hills Avenue #25, Atlanta, GA 30305, 404.492.7718, www.hagedornfoundationgallery.org.
Hagedorn Foundation Gallery is pleased to announce REPRESENT: Imaging African American Culture in Contemporary Art, a group photography exhibition dealing with the roots of black culture and thus personal identity. Included are bold, nearly abstract images of the traditional, ceremonial hairstyles of Nigeria by Ojeikere, Demetrius Oliver’s powerful portrait series documenting cultural influence on the individual using surreal relationships between the subject and everyday objects, Don Camp’s investigations into the nature of Afro-American portraiture and rare examples of Malick Sidibe’s Bamako dance party contact sheets.
Mkpuk Eba by J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere
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MASON MURER FINE ARTThe Solemn Sounds of Silence: A New Orleans Metaphor July 10 – August 31, 2010. Opening Reception, Saturday, July 10, 7 PM-10 PM, held in conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival, Mason Murer Fine Art 199 Armour Drive, Atlanta, GA 30324. Open Tuesday-Friday 11AM-5PM, Saturday Noon-5PM. www.masonmurer.com
The Solemn Sounds of Silence: A New Orleans Metaphor focuses on photography by Eric Waters with Poetry by Kevin Sipp. Also Featuring Cash Crop: A Sculptural Installation by Stephen Hayes, Charles Falarara: Works on Paper, Amana Johnson: Sculpture and an important Historical Collection with works from Robert Scott Duncanson, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lois Mailou Jones, Charles Ethan Porter and William H Johnson.
By Eric Waters
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AVISCA FINE ART GALLERY
Two-Person Exhibition by April Harrison and Zoya Taylor, July 9-July 31, 2010, Opening Reception: Friday, July 9, 2010, 6-9 p.m., Hours: Thursday- Saturday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m., 507 Roswell Street, Marietta, GA 30060, www.aviscafineart.com.
April Harrison a native of Greenville, South Carolina, paints images primarily in acrylic, powder, watercolor, pencil and collage. Found objects such as coins, specialty papers, magazine print and interesting treasures found on the street are often incorporated into her paintings. These, coupled with bits and pieces of her recycled older works, create strikingly rich textures and dimensions. Her mosaic use of color and her rich patchwork collage of fabric, paper and found objects add a physical reality and a quilt-like quality to her work, rooting it firmly within an African-American artistic tradition. Both in a formal sense and in a visionary way, the strong visual appeal that she achieves proves that disparate elements can form harmonious and stimulating combinations. A self-taught artist who has been professionally involved in art for nearly 20 years as an award-winning artist and illustrator, Harrison has achieved a great measure of success and popular acclaim in those relatively short years. She acknowledges her natural talent as a gift that was bestowed on her. Her work has April Harrison – Side by Side been featured at numerous venues including the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, VA, Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA and the Romare Bearden Juried Invitational at Charlotte’s Mint Museum. Her work has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s McDougal Littell’s Literature, The Judith Roth Collection and San Francisco’s Image Conscious. Her work has also been featured in ‘Upscale’, ‘Essence’ and ‘Talk’ Magazines as well as on BET, 106 & Park. Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Atlanta Housing Authority, Vanderbilt University and Erskine University Museum collections and high profile collections such as Whoopi Goldberg and S. Epatha Merkerson.
Zoya Taylor was born in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She spent her early childhood in Germany and moved with her Jamaican father and Canadian mother to Kingston, Jamaica when she was eight. Her academic career includes a Masters degree in International Social Work, and teaching experience at universities in Canada, Jamaica and Norway. She is essentially a self-taught artist, but has taken classes in painting, sculpture and drawing. She enjoys gallery representation in the USA, Germany and Norway, and has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Europe and the Caribbean. She currently lives in Oslo, Norway.
Zoya Taylor – You and Me Against The World
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Michael Carlos Museum of Emory University
When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection
Visit the exhibition free of charge from 1–4 p.m. on Friday, June 11, 2010.
571 South Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, 404-727-4282, www.carlos.emory.edu.
The Carlos Museum brings the splendor of Indian art and culture to Atlanta. This exhibition celebrates the awe-inspiring technical craftsmanship of Indian jewelry with more than 150 pieces spanning 2,000 years. When Gold Blossoms includes spectacular rings, anklets, earrings, hair pendants, jeweled crowns, ivory combs, and an elaborate swing and a gold throne for a deity. Some of the pieces are worn in daily life, others dedicated to deities in Hindu temples. Photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries will be displayed alongside the jewelry to provide a fuller understanding of the ways in which jewelry is worn and used.
