Creative Loafing Atlanta: Visual Arts

Artist Chakaia Booker treads the environment

atlonline@cln.com (Deanna Sirlin) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:30:00 -0400

Discarded rubber works and photogravures examine artist Chakaia Booker's process and place by Deanna Sirlin Sustain, Chakaia Booker's solo show at the ACA Gallery of SCAD, features the artist's trademark wall reliefs and freestanding sculptures, all made of recycled tires, alongside six new photogravures. The overall effect is of dramatic black-on-black compositions.…

Daniel Finch resurrects the TV star in Pipeline

atlonline@cln.com (Cinque Hicks) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0400

Solo show at Twin Kittens examines the psychology of the watcher by Cinque Hicks Iconoclasm is easy in the age of digital photography. It happens almost by accident: Mel Gibson loses his marbles with his ex and just like that, every amateur cell phone snapshot of Mel going apeshit ends up on E!…

Photographer Peter Sekaer finds a home at the High

atlonline@cln.com (Deanna Sirlin) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:00:00 -0400

The High has amassed the largest collection of the artist's work in the United States by Deanna Sirlin The High Museum's Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer is the sleeper photographic exhibition of the summer. A contemporary of Walker Evans and a student of Berenice Abbott, Sekaer was well-known in the 1930s and '40s but slipped through the cracks after his death in 1950, only to be rediscovered in the last few decades.…

This is Shana Robbins. Be careful.

atlonline@cln.com (Wyatt Williams) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:00:00 -0400

Artist readies for the biggest exhibition of her career by Wyatt Williams Shana Robbins works in a small studio to the back of her Telephone Factory loft. The kitchen, the living room, and all the other rooms are neatly organized and clean, but her studio is, well, a mess.…

Artists exchanges ideas, techniques in Seepages

atlonline@cln.com (Deanna Sirlin) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0400

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, curator and participating artist for Seepages, is joined by six artist friends and colleagues from Atlanta and Philadelphia by Deanna Sirlin Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, curator and participating artist for Seepages, invited six artist friends and colleagues from both Atlanta, where she used to live, and her present hometown of Philadelphia to join her in the exhibition at Whitespace Gallery. As the title suggests, ideas pass back and forth between artists, and techniques seep into one artist's work through connections with others.…

John Belingheri and Pam Longobardi display their fixations at Sandler Hudson Gallery

atlonline@cln.com (Deanna Sirlin) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0400

Collections explore different types of obsession by Deanna Sirlin Two artists explore their personal obsessions in simultaneous shows at Sandler Hudson Gallery. In the front gallery, Bay Area abstract painter John Belingheri offers endless compositional changes on elliptical forms, while Atlanta-based artist Pam Longobardi celebrates the publication of her book Drifters with installations in the project space and on the rooftop.…