Tag: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

Art Installation, Rollerderby, Etc: Week in Review

This week has been a long one of art installation at GSU’s Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery. “BRAZIL PROJECT: One River: Two Views & Palmo Quadrado” took 5 tough days to install, and left me fried I couldn’t recall the artists on display.  But fortunately I don’t have to…

…from the GSU BRAZIL PROJECT website, “…Curated by Welch School faculty member Pam Longobardi, One River: Two Views is an exhibition of Brazil-inspired works by artists Jacqueline Bishop, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Bob Nugent, of Sonoma, California. Nugent has organized Palmo Quadrado, the touring exhibition of small works by contemporary Brazilian artists also on display…”

The different artists’ works are pretty strong and anyone down near Peachtree Center between Decatur and Gilmer should hit the gallery.  

Support the arts and all that.

The much-needed break on the weekend was the Atlanta Rollergirls season championship.  Fantastic bout, marked by the best, aggressive, fast play we had seen, lots of trips to the penalty box and a final tie that resulted in a 2 minute overtime.  Final score – Sake Tuyas 104, Apocalypstix 101.

The regular season is over which means the Atlanta league will be playing its all-star team against traveling teams The Sin City Neanderdolls (Las Vegas, Nevada) , Tragic City Rollergirls (Birmingham, Alabama) , and Dixie Derby Girls (Huntsville, Alabama).

Upcoming work is setting up/tearing down a jazz show at the Ferst Center (Earl Klugh), more weekend art installation, and a day of rest.

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Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center: Pictures of the New Exhibition

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (map) will be having its public opening of “Courting Disaster” on Friday, April 21st, 7pm – 9pm.

For those that like the visual arts, this opening is a welcome excuse to some good art in the ACAC’s great exhibition space. For those who think contemporary art is talentless crap, come to the show and I’ll try to explain why that’s not true in this case.

Hilary Wilder: Painting installation with a complete take-over of the exhibition space.

Katherine Taylor: Large and small painting detailing the aftermath of hurricane damage.

Donna Mintz: Intimate installation of submerged houses, suspended from apothecary jars.

Drugs, Work, etc…

So, I heard the score was approximately 2 lbs of meth…

“Currently, methamphetamine prices nationwide range from $6,500 to $20,000 per pound…” – DEA – Publications – Methamphetamine Situation – A Growing Domestic Threat

If my info is right, someone from Saturday is in trouble!

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Lot’s of work these last few days. Doing a gallery installation at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (map). For those culturally inclined, the ACAC will be hosting an opening of:

“Courting Disaster – Katherine Taylor, Hilary Wilder, Donna Mintz, presents the work of three accomplished artists, each delving into the themes related to natural and man-made disaster and catastrophe.”

This is a real beauty of a show, and I hope to post pictures before Friday’s opening. I’ll post more about the artists and their works, but I’m beat and I can’t do them justice right now.

And lastly….

While getting a ride to work, I saw a blogger in the wild.

Girls Gone Wild: Denim Demons vs. the Toxic Shocks

We missed all the fun at Dogwood Fest, but did see the Atlanta Rollergirls out at Stone Mountain. My sweetie won tickets from the good college station (88.5) so we got in for free. We stayed for 2 of the 3 periods, so we didn’t get to see who one the game. It was much fun, but the band that played sucked.

And that’s what we did instead.

High-Lighting The Sexy Mind: Folk Art In Atlanta and Modern Elsewhere

The nude and the erotic have been subjects of artist since the dawn of time. And while recent times have most thinking that sensual and sexual is mainly the topic of modern/urban artists working in the accepted styles of mainstream art, outsider and self-taught artists have been touching the topic as well.

(Image from Orange Hill Folk Art)

Just such artists are being shown at the Orange Hill Folk Art Gallery and Outsider Art Gallery (Google Map), on the southern tip of Freedom Parkway. We attempted to visit the gallery Tuesday, but it was not meant to be.

1) The website was broken, just kept showing server gibberish.
2) The phone number listed was the fax machine, squealed in my ear.
3) The gallery was closed despite arriving during the hours listed as open, lights off.

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Smutty folk art reminded me of the first show I worked when hired by the New Orleans Museum of Art. Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present was a huge folk/outsider art show, and most of the pieces warranted nothing but appreciation. But one work really bothered a security guard. “Adam and Eve” was a graphic sculpture of what they learned once eating the apple, with Adam behind Eve and his “snake” in between. Strangely, based on the complaint from the guard the museum changed the location of the piece from a pedestal to wall-mounted shelf above a door-way.

Our lighting-guy Greg got the last laugh and lit the piece with a very-narrow spotlight that made the Adam’s johnson the brightest thing on the wall. Nothing like a bunch of smart-assed art installers.

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(Image from Sperone Westwater Gallery)

I love this piece of Wim Delvoye’s (and this one) would look to buy them if it didn’t clash so much with what my wife likes (and doesn’t like). Search the site for more sexual x-ray images. On a much more mild style, his gothic construction equipment pieces (Dump Truck Scale Model, Cement Truck Scale Model, and Caterpillar Fullsize)

One of the best sites for historical erotica is the NSFW Rare Erotica. It covers a huge range of time, and the works are often striking for their graphic nature and very contemporary appearance. I make it a frequent visit.

Art A Go-Go: New Shows in Atl

Good intentions about writing this article days ago were ruined by a busy work schedule.

I try to be a cheerleader for the people who employ me, so let me tell you about some new gallery/museum shows that won’t cost you a dime. They aren’t that hard to get to, so think about these shows when wondering what to in town on the cheap.

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The Museum of Design Atlanta (located in the Lobby and Garden Levels of the Marquis II Office Tower) had openings Thursday, with “The Home House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing,” “Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset,” and “A City of Neighborhoods: Visions of the Beltline.”

Show one, “House/Home” is a collection of proposed projects where architects tackle the three problems of affordable housing, aesthetic design and environmental concerns.

The second MODA show, “Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset,” comes from the National Building museum and talks about the start of the affordable housing movement in the late 1900’s until the present. A collection of completed housing solutions around the country are used to illustrate principles of affordability with an eye on integrating these new projects into existing communities.

The third MODA show is also the most locally relevant. The museums education department has been going to local schools and talking to kids about the new Beltline Project. The kids in turn have been crafting models of how they see the future Beltline sites, mainly transit stations.

These exhibits are located in all of the museums three galleries, on two separate floors.

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The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Google Map) opened three paper-related art shows Friday evening…

Mail Room – Mail art from the collections of Benjamin Jones, Ruth Laxson, and Kathy Yancey
Exquisite Corpse – Collaborative drawings by Melissa Herrington, Benjamin Jones, Alex Kvares, D.E. Johnson, Ruth Laxson, and Kathy Yancey
Paper Garden – an installation comprised of recycled junk mail by Marilee Keys

Also, in conjunction with the fine arts displays, The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech is presenting “World of Watermarks” in the CAC’s gallery. I posted about the paper museum on January 14, and the CAC show is an even better opportunity to see a collection of good shows including theirs. Finally, it was with Auburn, GA artist Marilee Keys that I got to work with, aiding in her installation.

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Bridge to Nowhere, originally uploaded by Mr. Kimberly.

Deadend Bridge at the end of Bankhead Highway near the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center.

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So, go see some art.

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Inside The Perimeter (Flickr) said about the bridge…

“This is one of my favorite things in Atlanta. Every time I try to get a good picture of it I get thrown off the property by the security guard.”

I was determined not to get pissed, but I had the same thing happen to me. When asked why I was taking the picture, I just told her I worked at the arts center and she was a polite as can be. But it bugged me that I was made to feel like a criminal just for taking pictures.