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Maria Korol Artist Talk
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Steven Charles Artist Talk
First Light | November 3 - December 20, 2022 On the occasion of his Atlanta debut, artist Steven Charles talks about the work in his show First Light, up... Read more -
Robert Sagerman Artist Talk
Noplace Place | November 3 - December 30, 2022 Video. On the occassion of his sixth exhibition with Marcia Wood Gallery, Robert Sagerman gives an artist talk on November 5, 2022. In Sagerman’s process oriented paintings brilliantly colored masses of assembled dabs of oil paint form the conceptual foundation of the artist's contemplative process. Read more
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Deborah Dancy: Body of Evidence
artist conversation with Karen Comer Lowe and Melissa Messina On the opening occasion of her second solo exhibition with the gallery, artist Deborah Dancy speaks with Karen Comer Lowe and Melissa Messina. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Karen Hennessee and James Farmer August 19, 2020 Karen Hennessee and husband James Farmer are Atlanta artists currently living and working between la Charité-sur-Loire, France and Atlanta. Their visa required they return home in the spring but have been unable to leave. They are sending a postcard from their charming village. Karen has shown 2 beautiful bodies of work with the gallery, in 2009 and 2016. Karen and James founded the storied Blue Rat Gallery in 1983 along with artists Stepanie Ayers, Clark Brown and Chick Lockerman, in a vacant apartment in the Pershing Point Apartments in 1983. Blue Rat Gallery became the center of a vibrant Midtown scene for local artists and musicians until disbanding in 1987. The Blue Rat Archives are housed at Emory University in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Karen graduated from Georgia Southern University with a BFA degree in art and a minor degree in literature. She then attended Parsons and The Art Sudents League in NYC. After returning to Atlanta she and James, along with several other local artists, created and directed Blue Rat Gallery. Karen and James then moved to Paris. While living there she worked on her painting, as well as wrote and illustrated three “story” books. Her work has been shown locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. James is a self taught photographer and digital video artist. He creates new methods to produce experimental 2D photographs, 3D stereo imagery and digital animations. James received a degree in Psychology from Georgia Southern University. His viewer participation/installation pieces, which have been shown at local and regional galleries, were heavily influenced by his studies in behavioral psychology. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Mary Addison Hackett August 7, 2020 Mary Addison Hackett is a visual artist whose work is grounded in the aesthetics of everyday life. She has a diaristic practice and uses her day-to-day life as a means of ongoing critical investigation. Her practice includes painting, photography, video, writing, and other time-based projects. Since the early 90s, Hackett has exhibited and screened her work in museums, galleries, and film festivals, throughout the United States and abroad, including the Joshua Treenial at BoxoPROJECTS in Joshua Tree, California; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California; ACME., PØST, Serious Topics, and Kristi Engle Gallery, all in Los Angeles; Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta; John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York; and Tinney Contemporary and David Lusk Gallery, in Nashville, Tennessee. Screenings include the Aurora Picture Show (Houston, TX); Plexus Projects (Brooklyn, NY); and The New York Underground Film Festival, among others. She is the recipient of several professional grants and awards and has participated in residencies in the US and abroad. Her work is represented in public collections including the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, and the Music City Center Public Collection. Her work has been reviewed by Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times and featured in numerous other publications. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Hackett grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her MFA in Studio Art/Video from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA in Painting from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is currently based in Joshua Tree, California. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more
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Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Carl Janes June 3, 2020 From a childhood living in different cultures and in different parts of the World, Carl Janes has developed with a global eye and an acute understanding of our human connection. His work is not limited by medium or style but rather follows recurring interests that then spawn his concepts. This enables constant exploration in to new ways of communicating within a continued development. His work digs in to the discussion of our contemporary human condition and concentrates on manifesting a positive reality. Constantly identifying restrictions and limitations in order to move beyond them, Janes seeks to affect our collective consciousness by creating structures that enable self-realization and encourage a dynamic being. Janes’ formal education was consciously spent in different contexts and broadened by extensive personal travels. Explorations of The Self have been enriched by friendships that cross cultural divides and experiences that vary from transformation in sacred spaces to bearing witness to active war zones. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Alan Loehle May 23, 2020 Alan Loehle's consistent and overriding concern as an artist is to address the human condition in work that aims to be both a visual reflection of visceral anxiety and an embrace of beauty and harmony. His intention "to make sense of experience, to capture the bigness of being alive in the world, to somehow tickle the back corners of the viewer's mind and spirit" is the unbroken thread of his body of work. Loehle weaves together disparate images- 1950’s illustrations, chimpanzees, ancient art references, graffiti, cave drawings, dogs, flora and fauna - to create a cacophony of visual representation. Paradoxically, these paintings also include moments of grace and calm as a counterpoint to chaos and warning. Alan Loehle received an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Arizona in 1979. He has received grants for painting from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, a Fellowship in Painting from The National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting. Loehle lives and works in Atlanta and is Professor of Art and Division Chair at Oglethorpe University. His work is in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art, MOCA GA, the Reading Public Museum, and the Arkansas Arts Center, among others. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Mery Lynn McCorkle May 22, 2020 “I’ve always been intrigued by layers which reveal and hide details since nothing in life is simple or straightforward. In grad school, I created reduction linoleum cuts using 50 to 75 colors. In California, I did paintings on the back and front of transparent vellum with layers of rice paper, saturated with acrylic, plucked with eyebrow tweezers, suspended on wires above it. Here in Georgia, I’ve settled on making collages with painted rag paper and then crusting them mostly with translucent glitter, both hiding and revealing the textures and colors underneath. The mantra of the conceptual art world has been anorexic – less is more. And while that can be as structurally illuminating as prairies and deserts, I’m Southern and like lushness, decay and shiny things, awkward, vibrant visuals. Glitter manages to be both ticky-tacky and elegant, a fitting description for how I see our world.” Mery Lynn McCorkle was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her BA from the University of Georgia; her MFA from the University of Oregon. She has lived in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and in 2010 returned to Atlanta. Also a curator and a writer of novels about the art world, McCorkle has been exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally since 1990. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more
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Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Kim Anno May 14, 2020 Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video artist whose work encompasses evocative abstract paintings that imagine the landscape as a result of a changing climate and photography and videos that wrestle with adaptation in disaster, and occupy an arena of irony, empathy and loss. Anno looks at the heart of Western idealism in nature and tinkers with it. Her brushwork is both tender and adoring, and it is dystopic. Viewers are left with the blushing dilemma of desire and regret. Anno is an environmental activist and is also passionately devoted to expanding the function of art in society. She founded a non-profit named Wild Projects with the mission statement "Wild Projects collaborates with communities world wide through fearless art, film, and performance productions to inspire resiliency in the face of adversity.” Anno intends to sponsor and incubate projects that agree with this mission statement in their work, and to be mutually supportive of artistic production in a variety of fields. Her recent interests and expertise has been in the intersection of art and science, particularly in aesthetic issues surrounding climate change, water, and adaptation. She is currently at work on “¡Quba!”, her first feature documentary film, as well as “90 Miles From Paradise” film about adaptation to sea level rise for both southern Florida and Havana, Cuba. In 2018, she is also making “Water City, Ipswich” a short film in her on-going series: Men and Women in Water Cities. The influence of abstraction and abstracting something remains prominent in Anno’s practice, with resulting work that remains “open, playful, and engaged with a difficult ephemeral beauty.” Anno collaborates with other artists and musicians, integrating video, sculpture, sound, and interactivity in performative installations. Kim Anno exhibits internationally and her work is in numerous museum collections including SFMOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Honolulu Academy of Fine Art Museum, Walker Museum and The Getty Research Institute among others. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Deborah Dancy May 11, 2020 Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously. Deborah Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art and The Kempner Museum. Dancy retired in 2018 as Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Connecticut. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Mary Engle May 9, 2020 Mary Engel’s lifelong love and respect for animals and the connection she feels with them has been her artistic inspiration for over thirty years. In 2002, Engel expanded her oeuvre from predominantly sculptures of dogs to include the wider animal kingdom. Her most recent work has focused on endangered species such as an orangutan, a blue whale, a cheetah, and a pangolin. The orangutan is named after Sandra, an orangutan who was granted “human-like” rights in 2014 but was kept in a dismal cell in Buenos Aires for 20 years. In 2019 she was finally liberated and is in her new home in Florida at the Center for Great Apes. While the bear and the wolf are not officially endangered, Engel was moved to create a palpably alive and threatened pregnant bear in hibernation after the Trump administration revoked an Obama administration protection against killing wolves and bears while they are hibernating. Engel’s goal is to speak to the danger animals are in, and bring awareness to their endangerment, as well to honor and celebrate their beauty and presence. Many of the endangered animals depicted in recent sculptures have been covered with ammo to reveal the animal’s beauty and grace as well as draw attention to the atrocities perpetrated against them for their horns, tusks, heads and internal organs. Sculptures embellished with precious objects as well as everyday items often reminds the viewer of a different time or place. Engel's grandmothers button collection, dogs’ tags, broken watches, farm tools and porcelain animal collection were early intriguing items. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more
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Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Chris Verene May 6, 2020 In 1986, at age sixteen, Verene began photographing his family's hometown of Galesburg, Illinois, and has since documented the lives of its people through a factual yet sympathetic lens for over thirty years. In 2009, Verene began video- recording the same characters he had photographed since the late 1980s. Of these videos and photographs, all shown under the blanket title, "Home Movies," the New York Times wrote: “Made with low-budget cameras, it’s a riveting, sad and sometimes comical series of short, documentary portraits of poor, white working- class people getting by...”. There has always been something intensely unguarded and personal about Chris Verene’s work, as though we have been let farther inside these lives than is altogether comfortable. His new videos take this empathetic intensity to a new level, revealing hard realities with supportive tenderness, making the unfathomable abstractions of widespread economic meltdown very specific and tangible; lives that were already at risk in more ways than one have been toppled over. Verene’s art lies in gently telling us these layered stories, allowing us to feel all the conflicted emotions that come from fighting through such tough situations as though we were living them ourselves. Born in Galesburg, he went to high school and college in Atlanta. Verene is an accomplished musician, recording and touring with artists such as The Indigo Girls, The Rock*A*Teens, and Ani Cordero. Verene also works under the pseudonym Cheri Nevers, a performative alter-ego who takes glamorous photographs of ordinary people as part of a “Self-Esteem Salon.” Artnet wrote “These elements of Verene’s practice give his down-home photographs a distinctly avant-garde dimension. ...takes its peculiarities from the native undercurrents of the U.S. heartland.” Verene’s documentary photographs are in major museum collections including The Whitney, The Met, The Jewish Museum, The Walker Art Center, The LA MOCA, The SF MoMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
William Steiger May 5, 2020 Steiger's signature oil on canvas paintings of the American landscape and it's familiar icons such as ferris wheels, grain elevators and trains, are minimalist meditations on line and negative space. He begins with the familiar: icons of the American landscape including grain elevators, tramways, trains, machines, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. The recognizable subject matter is then transformed, often more by what is omitted than by what is left in. Imagery becomes abstract and reductive yet the seemingly simpler compositions ultimately communicate more through their sparing directness. Limitless space implies endless narrative wherein forms rise from, and meld into, the landscape. "William Steiger’s paintings allow his imagination and our collective memory to merge to shape “reality.” Steiger’s subjects are bridges, towering structures, and flying machines from the first half of the 20th century. He often paints these magnificent constructions that once epitomized progress and technology, as well as landscapes from an aerial perspective."- Hitomi Iwasaki, Associate Curator Queens Museum of Art, May 2002. William Steiger studied art at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was a 1989 graduate of the MFA program at Yale University. He is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships and awards and his work is included in countless private, public and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art. Beginning in 2004, he added printmaker to his resume, working with Pace Prints and the Dieu Donné Papermill. Over 35 solo shows have been mounted internationally, and in 2011 Hudson Hills Press published a monograph of his work, featuring more than 200 images and essays by 13 contributing writers. Steiger currently lives and works in New York City. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
David Humphrey May 3, 2020 David Humphrey’s paintings, sculptures and drawings have been known for their "surreal sexiness, postmodern snap, and painterly discrimination". Figuration and landscape are combined with abstract forms, and diverse painting practices co-exist to hatch implied but ultimately incomprehensible narratives. "Humphrey does precisely what a painter ought to do: he makes you look hard and keeps you thinking even harder.” Jonathan Stevenson, Two Coats of Paint. "Deliberative, illustrative, tightly sexy delineations keep company with brushstrokes of sloppy-joe sensuality, as if R. B. Kitaj has been caught doodling on a de Kooning." David Cohen, Art Critical David Humphrey received a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1977 and a MA from New York University in 1980. He has shown nationally and internationally and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, purchase award, among others. His collections include the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Goetz Collection, Munich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Humphrey wrote a column for Art Issues from 1989-2002 and has written extensively on art for exhibition catalogs and art periodicals, including Art in America and Flash. An anthology of his writing, Blind Handshake, was released in 2009 by Periscope Publishing. Humphrey is an instructor at Columbia University in the MFA program. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more
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Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Marcus Kenney May 2, 2020 A native of Louisiana, Marcus Kenney has lived and worked in Savannah, GA for twenty-five years. He has created a rich body of work for which he is well known that encompass highly detailed narrative collage paintings, extraordinary taxidermy creatures and assemblage sculptures, among other mediums. One of the threads throughout all his work is that it is entirely comprised of found objects. His gritty, story-emanating compositions have been referred to in the vein of the “Southern Gothic”, while his most recent sculptures employing neon lighting with the found objects brings to mind pop in some works and others have a slightly more minimalist approach. Marcus Kenney (b. 1972) earned an M.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998. He has exhibited internationally in art fairs, galleries, institutions and museums including London, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Paris, New York and Miami among others. His bibliography includes Art in America, New American Painting, Artpapers, New York Times, Boston Globe, ArtVoices, Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Art Magazine, and Art News. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Timothy McDowell April 29, 2020 Timothy McDowell (b. 1953) grew up in Texas and received an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 1981. He exhibits nationally and internationally in galleries, museums and biennials, including the Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Casper, WY, The Museum of Modern Art of Jacksonville, FL, the Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, the 5th Cuenca Biennial of Painting, Cuenca, Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador, and the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea (Florence, Italy). Collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art Print and Drawing collection, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, The New Mexico Museum of Art, The Tucson Museum of Art, among others. Timothy McDowell resides in Noank, Connecticut, and has been an instructor at Connecticut College since 1981. Ultimately art making involves us in an ever-expanding investigation of topics, subjects, philosophies, sciences and numerous other paths of influence and especially other art. Since all things are in some way connected and interdependent, no real boundary exists to prohibit venturing from one category into another, especially if a connection across a boundary is revealed in the quest. Defying my nature or tendency of trial and exploration on creating images would be a contradiction. My obligation is to keep exploring boundaries that somehow encircle the subject and thereby define it. … recently I have shifted my attention to emblematic objects, which, decontextualized from their familiar settings, lead viewers to imagine new worlds. My work now has no boundaries for practice or process. I think either this methodology has come about because of my teaching, or it has come about because I love to teach things that cater to my passion for process. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Joseph Peragine April 26, 2020 Joe Peragine’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses painting, sculpture, animation and site-specific installations, with subject matter ranging from the animal kingdom to detective novels to tanks to wrestlers. Throughout he is exploring questions of strength and vulnerability, power and impotence. It is the natural world however that remains the abiding subject as he sees nature and it’s perils as a metaphor for our own circumstance. Subversively cartoony, absurd, bizarre or kitschy, his paintings and sculptures (think taxidermy he learned from you-tube videos) are paradoxes of unsettling dark humor. Joseph Peragine was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1961. He completed his undergraduate work in fine art at the University of Georgia, Athens, and in 1995 received his MFA in painting from Georgia State University, Atlanta, where he is currently Director of the School and a Professor in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more
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Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Scott Eakin April 25, 2020 Scott Eakin works with acrylic paint on wood panel surfaces. Countless lines, bars and bands of brilliant color are stacked upon each other in a meticulous process to create the graphic, geometric impact of the paintings. At closer look one also finds countless miniature landscapes hidden within the lines. In his work Eakin investigates interactions between edges and intersections, planning and happenstance, intellect and intuition. He he writes that his paintings are “a quotation of the complexity and beauty found in the material world.” Eakins recent exhibit at Marcia Wood Gallery was coming to a close when the quarantine went into effect. Unfortunately his scheduled artist talk could not happen. Here is his statement written for that beautiful exhibit. "Like the magpie searching for the bright bits to complete his nest, I am looking for the thing in the paint that is unexpected and beckoning. I agree with Rothko that the experience of an artwork should be something that opens you up, changes you in some way, punches a hole in you. That can’t happen unless you are willing to surrender a bit of control. In the simplest terms the dilemma is, do I yield to this or not? The magpie's dilemma is really the dilemma of what we choose to pay attention to. What do we let ourselves see and what are we blind to.” Scott Eakin is an Atlanta based artist originally from Illinois. His work has been displayed in Atlanta recently in the Atlanta Gallery Collective: Ponce City Market, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles Show House, Switch Modern, MOCA GA, and Marcia Wood Gallery. Exhibitions have also been in New Jersey and throughout the Southeast. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Venske Spänle April 20, 2020 Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle, born in 1971 and 1969 respectively, live and work in Munich. They completed their Sculptor Diploma in 1995 in Laas Italy and a residency at the RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. Their solid marble sculpture and installation work has been shown in museums, galleries and art fairs on six continents. Working with classical material expertly by hand, Venske & Spänle bring each piece to life with meticulous carving and labor intensive sanding and polishing. Engaging the viewer to consider interpretations and search out metaphors, the pieces bridge a contemporary connection with modern art and classical sculpture. Subverting expectations the hard blocks of solid marble are transformed to suggest weightlessness, plasticity, liquidity in whimsical, anthropomorphic forms of purest gleaming white. Since 2016 Atlantans have enjoyed the public art piece “AUTOEATER”. Standing at a major intersection in Midtown Atlanta, the 16 ton block of Cervaiole marble paired with the iconic Fiat Panda 750, an Italian automobile introduced in 1980. Seen by pedestrians, bicyclists and from thousands of cars a day the monumental and curious AUTOEATER surprises, entertains and provokes discussion. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Mie Yim April 18, 2020 Mie Yim has had a number of solo exhibitions including Chashama space, Groundfloor Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, Michael Steinberg all in New York, and Gallery in Arco, Turin, Italy. Numerous group exhibitions include the Drawing Center, Feature, Ise Cultural Foundation, Johnson County Community College, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. She is a 2020 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant, 2018 and the New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship, 2015. Yim was born in S.Korea and is based in New York City. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Read more
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Postcards from a Pandemic Series
George Long April 16, 2020 George Long has grown his art practice in Atlanta since earning his BFA in 1995 at the Atlanta College of Art. A multi-faceted artist we have watched his work evolve across painting, drawing, performance, and sculpture. As well as being prolific in his own work Long is very active as a collaborator and facilitator assisting other artists and art organizations to fulfill their goals. His generosity and contribution to his community are impactful. Along with Mery Lynn McCorkle and Clark Derbes, Long was scheduled to exhibit in the three person show “Three-Sided Square” with the gallery in March that was postponed due to COVID19. Stay tuned for enjoying that show physically in the gallery in the future as well virtually in our upcoming online viewing rooms. If you are strolling (responsibly) along the beltline in Atlanta these days, you can see Long’s mural of “squirkles” on the wall of Paris on Ponce. The focus of his work for the past several years has been engagingly playful and complex aggregations of circles in squares into “piles”. This series of collages on paper are named “Omniumgatherums”, which is loosely defined as meaning collection of collections. Long creates what he refers to as landscapes that are from a mental space-the space is where we assemble and sort through the stuff of our lives. A starting point for his imagery is inspired by the Zen practice of Enso, a meditative practice of focus using brush and ink to create a circle in one or two brushstrokes. The universal symbol of the circle inside a square alludes to sacred geometry and it’s range of potential meanings. Congregating these references and resources into piles that are recognizable in a landscape as well as abstract brings together a community of meanings. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more -
Postcards from a Pandemic Series
Robert Chamberlin April 14, 2020 Robert Chamberlin is an artist living and working in Atlanta, GA. His practice spans photography, performance and ceramics to channel issues like surveillance, sexuality, and domesticity. Chamberlin exhibited most recently at the gallery a series of porcelain vessels adorned so opulently to the point of “Collapse”, also the show’s title. "Postcards from a Pandemic" is brought to you by Marcia Wood Gallery in the hopes of keeping people connected to the transformative and hopeful power of art and the importance of artists' work during the Covid19 Pandemic. Read more
