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Julia Kjelgaard and Mehmet Dogu: Living Color {Poem88} is pleased to present the work of artists Julia Kjelgaard and Mehmet Dogu. Trained as a printmaker and an architect respectively, both Kjelgaard and Dogu use color to communicate our relationships to space and place. Beyond the formal beauty of the work, both artists urge the viewer toward a more nuanced condition of connectedness: Kjelgaard through the layering of imagery and Dogu, perhaps, more directly, through the democratic glow of colored light encompassing the gallery and the viewer equally. more... |
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Philip Buntin:Phenomena January 28 2012 to February 28 2012 In this new body of work for {Poem 88}, Buntin explores the experiential aspects of incompletion. In two dozen enamel paintings on plexiglass, Buntin puts forward a kind of riddle: how or whether absence can be expressed through presence and how they might be intertwined. His curiosity about seemingly oppositional states has persisted over many years involving explorations of complex and chaotic visual manifestations. Repetitive patterns are especially appealing: from rain drops on a window to the carpet pages of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts. more... |
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Holly White: Cinematic Language October 15 2011 to November 19 2011 at {Poem88} In conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Poem88 presents Holly White: Cinematic Language. Atlanta photographer Holly White creates images that, despite the minimal presence of human beings, nonetheless suggest they are markedly there: in lawn chairs, or footprints on dewy grass, or the lone automobile on an otherwise empty street. Despite their simplicity, her images appear freighted with hidden meaning. For the viewer, there is, also, a natural inclination to construct a narrative even if it is only loosely bound by the remnants of people. Holly White seems to be |
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Brad Brooks, Jon Ciliberto, EK Huckaby, Kevin Osborne, Sharon Shapiro, Karen Tauches, Nancy VanDevender, Christina Price Washington 2 July 2011 to 2 August 2011 “Works On Paper” at {Poem88} offers a wide-range of conceptual strategies as well as styles of execution in this exhibition encompassing drawing, watercolor, color printing, altered paper objects and paper constructs. |
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Marwencol: photographs from Mark Hogancamp and David Naugle “Hogancamp’s project is undoubtedly a textbook example of outsider art, and enthralls for that genre’s particular reasons — aesthetic innocence, genuine otherness. But even without knowledge of the artist’s life, the photos step beyond neo-kitsch into a realm where child-like transference merges with a dramatic grandeur to create both a feeling of vintage Hollywood artifice and authentic pathos.“ -- Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice, October 6, 2010 Join us on 21 May for the opening at 7 pm, and a special screening of the documentary film Marwencol (2010), directed by Jeff Malmberg. |
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David D'Agostino
paintings & photographs Rigorous reconsiderations of landscape and of figuration predominate within the three types of images: decorative, white-outs and post-human. According to D’Agostino, he imagines these works existing across a continuum with traditional beauty at one end and a kind of post-apocalyptic vision at the other. That he focuses so intently on landscape as the vehicle for de-constructive activity is, perhaps, symbolic of human programs of degradation and renewal. [Press Release PDF] |
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paintings & photographs Shapiro’s paintings and watercolors, drawn from a range of photographic sources, address stereotypical depictions of women. In this new body of work, Shapiro lovingly reproduces these found photos into images of intense sensuality and eroticism. Embracing ideas of sex-positive feminism, Shapiro celebrates the power of female sexuality placing it front and center. Shapiro’s skill as a colorist is put to good use in exploring ideas of femininity and naturalism [Press Release PDF] |
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Christina Price Washington
{Poem88} at Tanner-Hill Gallery is pleased to present Christina Price Washington, “Studies from Home.” Pristine photographs of hearths and thresholds work side by side with gestural drawings - tracings of the nightly migrations of her and her husband’s pillows around the periphery of their bed. Stillness and activity, fastidious documentation and unsentimental precision imbue the mundane with a curious tension: furnishings, bed clothes, bread crumbs, strands of hair tell a story of domestic life with quiet purpose. Born in California of German parents and educated in both Germany and the U.S., Christina Price Washington’s images straddle two aesthetic worlds. [Press Release PDF] |
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EK Huckaby, Excursus {Poem88} at Tanner Hill Gallery will present its first exhibition “EK Huckaby: Excursus.” A long-time fixture in the Atlanta arts community, Huckaby’s work typically has explored undercurrents of mystery and the occult within a philosophical framework of his own making. Referencing a train of thought in a new direction, “Excursus” presents Huckaby’s recent explorations of light seen through his now trademark alchemical varnishes. Aspects of Southern Gothic, spiritualism, and a kind of personalized system of scientific classification continue to coalesce in Huckaby’s work and re-emerge as a kind of reverie for something lost. [Press Release PDF] |
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