Review: Consuming Passions at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery
"As a complex visual dialogue and meditation on the idea of desire, Consuming Passions succeeds in sharpening our appetites." The post Review: Consuming Passions at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery appeared...
View ArticleAt Home in Abstraction: Interview with Rashid Johnson
"—the physical relationship that I have with the objects that I’m producing right now, and being able to use my body as a tool." The post At Home in Abstraction: Interview with Rashid Johnson appeared...
View ArticleTheory in Studio: The Art of the Document
Writing about photography, more than perhaps any other medium, tends to be stained with sourness, skepticism, and disillusionment. Theorists of photography obsessively dwell on its faults but are...
View Article200 Words: Rusty Wallace’s Dialogue at Twin Kittens
The paintings and sculptures in Rusty Wallace’s second solo show at Twin Kittens are spare but allusive. His meticulous works are organized around dialogues between opposing concepts and an ongoing...
View ArticleTheory in Studio: The Sky and the Edge of Sight
Everyday seeing has its limits. Stare hard toward the horizon and your eyes slip as they grasp at elusive details that hover just beyond their resolving power. Seeing the night sky offers similar...
View ArticleGyun Hur’s Ironic Interiority
In a famous passage from the Blue Book, Ludwig Wittgenstein cautions: “We are most strongly tempted to think that here are things hidden, something we can see from the outside but which we can’t look...
View ArticleBodies at Play, Bodies at Work: Bob Trotman and Jody Zellen
The basic challenge of life is dealing with the fact that we have—or are—bodies. Art meets this challenge in two ways. One is through representation, in which bodies can be freely idealized,...
View ArticleStudio Visit: Ben Steele
Ben Steele is an Atlanta-based painter whose works explore the imaginative construction of idealized places. Steele builds sculptures and installations in his studio and projects digital landscapes...
View ArticleIn 200 Words: Scott Ingram’s Pierced
For Pierced, an architectural intervention that embodies the pained ambivalence evoked by home, Scott Ingram and his collaborators penetrated a recently vacated, single-family house in Ormewood Park...
View ArticleBackwards, Inwards, Upwards: “Nexus, Sexus, Plexus” at Dashboard Co-op
“Nexus, Sexus, Plexus” offers three complimentary lines of sight: a glance back over the recent history of Atlanta art institutions, an inward look at the landscapes of dreams and the body, and a gaze...
View ArticleThrough Alien Eyes: P. Seth Thompson at Sandler Hudson
Children are often disturbingly unclear on exactly which aspects of the world are real. This isn’t surprising, since in a way they are aliens, arriving on earth with no knowledge of our language and...
View ArticleTheory in Studio: The Archive as Expressive Form
The records of the past accumulate, piling higher each day, and as they do, artists scour them to produce works that have the form and force of historical archives. Hal Foster, writing in 2004,...
View ArticleSquishy Minimalism: Jeff Conefry’s “Paint” at Marcia Wood
As the exhibition’s title promises, there is a lot of paint on display in Jeff Conefry’s solo show, all of it affixed to rectangular supports made of panels and fabric. But despite the fact that these...
View ArticleSeriously Funny: “Pratfall Tramps” at ACAC
Life is a series of painful and humiliating failures, and pratfall comedy thrives on this fact. Charlie Chaplin’s struggles with a world of brutal machinery and Lucille Ball’s frantic workplace mishaps...
View ArticleThe Afterlives of Animals: Constance Thalken at Whitespace
Animals are the playthings of human needs and fantasies. We use them as canvases for our own traits, and paint their characteristics onto ourselves. As Constance Thalken reminds us, this is true not...
View ArticleTheory in Studio: Model images
What doesn’t exist can’t be photographed; the limits of photography are the limits of the visible world. However cleverly one crafts the shot, the camera always records just what is in front of it....
View ArticleVik Muniz’s Photographic Alchemy, at the High Museum
In Metamorphoses, the Roman poet Ovid described a world emptied of permanent natures, a constant flux in which anything could potentially turn into anything else. Not surprisingly, Vik Muniz has...
View ArticleScraps from the King’s Table: “Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks” at the High...
In death, Jean-Michel Basquiat has the same paradoxical, conflicted relationship towards the art world that he did while alive. Mocking its institutional “BOOSH-WAH-ZEE FANTASIES,” for him, was never...
View Article“Magic and Loss” Seeks Rapture in Pixels, But Fails
Heffernans recent book extolls the virtues of the Internet as a form of art-making. Our reviewer considers it the latest iteration of our urge towards rapture, and asks whether our cocooned online...
View ArticleFragments from the Museum of Us: “Ancient Art Objects” at Whitespace
"Ancient Art Objects," curated by Katie Geha, causes the viewer to consider what we're leaving behind and how we might be remembered by future generations. The post Fragments from the Museum of Us:...
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