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Gallery Shows
Coming in July - Introductions[06]
July 14
Atlanta Gallery Association presents its third annual enjoyable summer event "Introductions[06]" Citywide Openings on Friday, July 14 from 6 to 9:30 p.m.
For one night, AGA member galleries across the city will open their doors to create an evening of gallery hopping like no other! In keeping with the theme of "Introductions," most of the exhibitions will feature artists who are new and emerging in the Atlanta market.
All openings at participating AGA galleries are complimentary and open to the public, as AGA endeavors to bring more people into the arts and more attention to Atlanta's dynamic arts community.
Several of the Introductions[06] exhibitions are included below. Don't miss it!
Aliya Linstrum Gallery
 April 27 - May 19
"H3," new works by Duy Huynh, Susan Hall & Howard Hersh
Duy Huynh's symbolic and contemplative acrylic paintings reflect the experience of geographic and cultural displacement.In her latest works Susan Hall is exploring contrasts. This series examines the tension between the need for private reflection and the desire for acceptance and affirmation.Howard Hersh, from San Francisco, creates mixed-media abstract paintings that he likens to Zen Koans, which are parables and sayings that are pared down to their essence.June 8 - July 1From Nature: Gerard Erley, Eleanor Miller"From Nature" is an exploration of the artist's inspiration derived from nature and the landscape around us. Two artists have been selected who both have found profound inspiration from the natural world, yet the resulting paintings are dramatically different. Gerard Erley's landscapes appear to be realist depictions of rural landscapes in the vein of 19th century greats such as George Inness. Eleanor Miller produces painting that represent the polar opposite of the optical reality represented in Gerard Erley's work. Growing up in rural Connecticut on a family farm, Ms. Miller developed a direct connection to the land around her. Combining elements of a primordial landscape, the content and colors of Renaissance painting, and a sense of spirituality inherent in both, Miller's paintings evoke more of an inner landscape, one of the heart and the mind.
July 14 - August 4"Introducing ..." Megan Lightell
For Nashville artist Megan Lightell, painting is a natural response to land. Raised in a rural community, she sought out the fast-paced life of New York but found it lacking in something she could not describe. Returning to the country, she began to relate to the comfort, mystery, and silence embodied in the landscape. She says of her work, "There is an eternity present in the land that was here before we were, and will continue in its cycles long after we are gone. There is almost a necessary spiritual connection that we have with the land that sustains our very lives, and in the increasingly urban lifestyles that many have adopted, that connection becomes faint and distant. My hope is that through painting I can show appreciation for my environment, in all its starkness and softness, warmth and loneliness."Aliya Linstrum Gallery 2833 Peachtree Rd. NE Atlanta, GA 30305 Tel: 404.892.2835 www.aliyagallery.com
Barbara Archer Gallery
June 14 - July 29
BARBARA ARCHER GALLERY / Atlanta presents Ashlynn Browning, Sarah Dixon, Troy Dugas, Leslie Giuliani and Tom Stanley. An opening reception will be held Friday, July 14, 6 - 9:30 pm. Barbara Archer Gallery represents the best of American contemporary and self-taught art, as well as European outsider art. Barbara Archer Gallery
280 Elizabeth St./Suite #A012
Atlanta, GA 30307
Tel: 404.523.1845
www.barbaraarcher.com
Frances Aronson Fine Art
Frances Aronson Fine Art
425 Peachtree Hills Ave. #12A
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.949.9975
www.francesaronsonfineart.com
Atlanta Art Gallery
Spring Group Show 2006
Featuring works by Bert Beirne, Pris Buttler, Wen Ze Chen, Linda Hanks, Joan Milligan, John Van Der Sterren and others
Atlanta Art Gallery, Inc.
75 Bennett Street
Tula Art Center, Space D2
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404.355.0341
www.atlantaartgallery.com
Bennett Street Gallery
April 21-May 26
Susie Pryor: Recent Paintings
Susie Pryor has been represented by Bennett Street Gallery since its beginning and continues to surprise her clients with new subjects and experimentation with new mediums. For the upcoming show, she explore the properties of wax and how that affects her palette knife work.
 June 8-July 5
Kenson: Rituals
Kenson has been represented by Bennett Street Gallery for several years and continues to change and grow as an artist all while experimenting with new subjects and broadening the mediums she uses. For the upcoming show, Kenson has taken much from her recent life experiences, all of which are revealed on her emotive canvases. Working in mostly mixed media, Kenson marks on her canvas deliberately yet spontaneously. She puts her entire body and soul into each piece, evidenced through the care taken to perfect each painting by marking out what she does not wish to appear and highlighting that that she does. Words, symbols, shapes, and lines converge on her canvases to create paintings that are alive with vivid color and evocative emotion.  July 14-August 11Emerging Artists and Mid-Career Artists: Introductions[06]
Featuring new paintings by Christy Kinard, Suzanne Crocker, Craig Mooney and James Leonard.
Bennett Street Gallery
22-F Bennett Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404.352.8775
www.bennettstgallery.com
Thomas Deans Fine Art:
Thomas Deans Fine Art
75 Bennett Street
Tula Art Center, Space K2
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404.352.3778
www.thomasdeans.com
Skot Foreman Fine Art
Skot Foreman Fine Art
315 Peters Street
Atlanta, GA 30313
Tel: 404.222.0440
www.skotforeman.com
Gardner Gallery:
Gardner Gallery
Gallery Row in the Heart of Buckhead
at the corner of Fulton Drive
309 E. Paces Ferry, Suite 110
Tel: 404.233.9686
www.gardnergalleryusa.com
Anne Irwin Fine Art
 May 12 - 26 Anne Irwin Fine Art presents new work by Diane Ainsworth. The body of work includes still life, landscape and figurative oil paintings
June 16 - 23
Recent still life and landscape paintings by Christel Minotti
 July 14 - 28
New Georgia landscapes by Noah Desmond
Anne Irwin Fine Art 25-D Bennett Street Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: 404.352.1855 www.anneirwinfineart.com
Gertsev Gallery:
Gertsev Gallery
1929 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404.352-2660
www.gertsevgallery.ru
Fay Gold Gallery
May 17 - June 17
MARLENE ROSE
"Glass Relics"
Fay Gold is pleased to present a new body of work by Florida artist Marlene Rose. This extensive first solo exhibition in Atlanta will include Rose's recent series of hand cast glass Buddha's, Ceremonial Shields and abstractions. Using a diverse array of found objects and metal armatures, she approaches the demands of glass sculpting with an experimental eye and an innovative hand. For Rose, glass is an endlessly intriguing material - fragile, yet timeless, preserving the spontaneity of the creative moment.
Fay Gold Gallery
764 Miami Circle
Atlanta, GA 30324
Tel: 404.233.3843
www.faygoldgallery.com
Galerie MC:
Galerie MC
845 Spring Street
Atlanta, GA 30308
Tel: 404.876.1444
Fax: 404.881.0056
www.galeriemc.com
Jackson Fine Art
Larry Sultan, The Valley
Mitch Epstein, Recreation
May 19 - July 1
 The America photographer Mitch Epstein presents in his series Recreation is equally foreign and familiar. Taken from 1973 to 1988 on several different traveling expeditions across the United States in order to capture American forms of leisure, Epstein's photographs arouse both a sense of nostalgia and tenderness, not unlike how one often feels when looking through old family photo albums.  Alongside Mitch Epstein, Jackson Fine Art is delighted to exhibit a selection of work from photographer Larry Sultan's series The Valley. Sultan reveals the side of the adult film industry to which one is rarely exposed, that which happens between takes and beyond the scope of the movie camera. These large-scale photographs were taken in San Fernando Valley, where Sultan grew up, in houses rented out by their owners to companies who make porno movies. Amazingly, The Valley is not about sex, but simply has sex in it.
Anderson and Low, "Athlete and Warrior"
July 14 - August 27
Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.233.3739
www.jacksonfineart.com
Kiang Gallery
Kiang Gallery
1545 Peachtree Street
One Peachtree Pointe, Suite 225
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.892.5477
www.kiang-gallery.com
Lagerquist Gallery
 June 1 - August 31
Annual Summer Show of New Talent
Featuring the work of the following artists:
Julia Klimova is a Russian-born impressionist who employs a bold use of layered color using a palette knife and creating rich landscapes, figurative work and still lifes.
Shahla Moghaddam was born and raised in Tehran and currently resides in Atlanta. Her years of experience enhance her eye for detail and color. Dramatic brush strokes and unique compositions create her personal analysis of landscapes, forms and figures.
Wendeline Matson paints in acrylic on canvas. She uses bold color and skewed naïve perspectives that exhibit an experienced eye and subtle sophistication in simple compositions.
Lagerquist Gallery
3235 Paces Ferry Place
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.261.8273
www.lagerquistgallery.net
The Lowe Gallery
April 14 - May 19
THE LOWE GALLERY ATLANTA PROUDLY PRESENTS WORLD CLASS SCULPTOR & PAINTER LEIKO IKEMURAIN HER FIRST MAJOR AMERICAN EXHIBITION Also featuring John Martini & Ethel LebenkoffLeiko Ikemura is both an accomplished painter and sculptor who has attained international recognition for her hauntingly poignant works of art. Her hazy translucent paintings are a direct complement to her emotive crudely modeled sculptures in ceramic and bronze. In both visual interpretations the subjects are the same - delicate metaphorical figures in the form of little girls or small anthropomorphic creatures. The forms serve to blur boundaries and tighten the gap between differing states of consciousness. Ultimately, Ikemura is on a quest for resolution.  July 14 - September 15IN CELEBRATION OF ITS 17TH ANNIVERSARY, THE LOWE GALLERY ATLANTA PROUDLY PRESENTS THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF AMERICAN GLASSMAKER DALE CHIHULY IN A SPECIAL SOLO EXHIBITION Dale Chihuly is known for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement, working in teams to develop highly complex, multipart pieces of work. Chihuly has created many well-known series of works, among them the Baskets, Persians and Seaforms, but he is also celebrated for large architectural installations.
Lowe Gallery
75 Bennett Street
Tula Art Center, Space A2
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404.352.8114
www.lowegallery.com
Matre Gallery
Matre Gallery
75 Bennett Street
Tula Art Center, Space G2
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404.350.8399
www.matregallery.com
Mason Murer
Mason Murer Fine Art
Armour Drive
April 21 - May 20
Chad Awalt - New Sculputres, Ihor Prokofiev - Paintings and Etchings and
Spelman/Morehouse Senior Exhibition
May 26 - June 10
Kim Karelson - New Paintings
Suzy Schultz - New Watercolors and Paintings
Paul Chojnowski - New Pyrographs
AB Lovell - New Works
Tom Brady - New Paintings
July 13 - 16
embrace: the fine art fair of the national black arts festival
www.embraceatl.com
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Mason Murer Projects
325 E. Paces Ferry Road
April 27 - June 3
Prima Vera - A Group Exhibition featuring works by:
Dennis Campay and James Way
July 14 - Introductions[06]
Paul Abbott
Mason Murer
199 Armour Drive
Atlanta, GA 30324
Tel: 404.879.1500
www.masonmurer.com
Reinike Gallery
 May 21 - June 10
"Pathways"
New works from the Arch Series by Charles H. Reinike III
Reinike Gallery
789 Miami Circle
Atlanta, GA 30324
Tel: 404.364.0490
www.reinikegallery.com
Saltworks Gallery
Saltworks Gallery
635 Angier Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
Tel: 404-876-8000
www.saltworksgallery.com
Sandler Hudson Gallery
 May 19 - June 24
Freddie Style
Hope Cohn
Tania Becker
Mark Leibert [roof installation]
June 30 - September 2
"In Celebration of the Black Woman"
This exhibition explores the image of the African American female figure in variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, and mixed media.
Artists included are: Amalia Amaki, Wendy Phillips, Lillian Blades,
Michael Harris, Maliaka Favorite, Yanique Norman, Mario Petrirena,
Tom Judd, Angelbert Metoyer, Freddie Styles, and more to follow.
September 8 - October 14
Pat Courtney, New Work (mixed media)
Susan Loftin, New Work (mixed media)
Sandler Hudson Gallery
1009-A Marietta St., NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
404.817.3300
www.sandlerhudson.com
The Signature Shop & Gallery:
Signature Shop and Gallery
3267 Roswell Road
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.237.4426
www.thesignatureshop.com
Naomi Silva Gallery
 April 28 - May 27Group Show. Mixed media paintings and works on paper by Alfred DeCredico, mixed media paintings by John LaHuis, paintings by Sergio Payares and Cecilia Rivera.  June 2 - July 1
Group Show. Mixed Media paintings and sculpture by urban landscape painter Ernesto Berra; iconographic mixed media paintings by Sergio Garcia; abstract oil paintings by Ruth Gonzales and magical realism paintings by Paul Sierra.  July 14 - August 12"Elemental"
Three one person shows each dealing with the artist's personal expression around the theme of elements. Luciana Abait, mixed media photography. The intention is to create the sensation in viewers of witnessing a new visual nature through artificial landscapes, as well as the significance of every single being in relationship to the masses and elements. Larry Leach's paintings deal with the first strong light of dawn and the last strong rays of sunset that rake across the landscape, drawing on the sky, ocean and beach as subject. Lily Smernou, photography (Windows on the Sky series) A panorama of allegorical scenes about transcendence, personal identifications with land and people, lost and new-found connections. Naomi Silva Gallery 75 Bennett Street Tula Art Center, Space M2 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: 404.350.8890 www.naomisilvagallery.com
Solomon Projects:
Solomon Projects
1037 Monroe Drive
Atlanta, GA 30306
Tel: 404.875.7100
www.solomonprojects.com
The Sportsman's Gallery
 The Summer Show June 8 - July 6An exhibition of paintings and sculptures that will depict the summer season in landscapes and sporting art scenes. While some of the more noted artists in the show include Eldridge Hardie, Lesley Humphrey, David Hadaway, Richard Lithgow, and Al Barnes, we will also display an extensive range of the finest nineteenth- to twenty-first-century sporting art.
 A Tribute to Regionalism July 14 - August 11An exhibition of paintings and sculptures that will portray the landscapes and wildlife of the Southeastern United States. Some of the more celebrated artists that will be featured in the show include Bucky Bowles, Jack Whitaker, Greg Rice, Arthur Shilstone and Brett Smith. A fantastic display of the finest nineteenth- and twenty-fist-century sporting art, this exhibition will be a wonderful opportunity for those who wish to begin a new collection or breathe fresh life into an existing one.
The Sportsman's Gallery's Finest August 24 - September 21An exhibition of paintings, etchings, and sculptures rendered by our thorough assemblage of living artists and collection of deceased masters. The show will feature subjects such as hunting, fishing, landscapes, equestrian, waterfowl, African, and Western scenes that will fit any budget. The Sportsman's Gallery 309 East Paces Ferry Road, Suite 120 Atlanta, GA 30305 Tel: 404.841.0133 www.sportsmansgallery.com
Spalding Nix Fine Art
Spalding Nix Fine Art specializes in 17th & 18th century Old Master
Paintings and important 18th century French Furniture.
Spalding Nix Fine Art
425 Peachtree Hills Ave. #30A
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.841.7777
www.spaldingnixfineart.com
TEW Galleries
 May 18 - June 13
Tew Galleries will have a group show including Lou Schneiderman, Deedra Ludwig, Elizabeth Sheppell and Melissa Sims. Each of these artists makes wonderful use of color in expressive ways.  June 23 - July 8 New works by Ukranian painter Olena Zviagintseva, newly released Otto Neumann monotypes and landscapes by Greg Gustafsen and Sarah WolfeOlena Zviagintseva: Zviagintseva, from Kiev, Ukraine, has been showing with the TEW Galleries for six years. Her elegant and poetic oil paintings depict subjects ranging from mysterious abstracted figures in richly patterned garments shown with giant red horses, to more traditional still life. Otto Neumann: Monotypes by the German born artist Otto Neumann (1895 - 1975) have been newly released for sale by the Rothschild Family Estate. This body of work illustrates Neumann's almost total preoccupation with the human figure from the 1950s onward. Significant of this period is his adaptation of the glass plate monotype as the major vehicle for his artistic expression. Greg Gustafsen: Worked as plein air landscapes, and finished off in the studio, Gustafsen's masterful oil paintings use light as the predominant subject - the landscape itself becomes a minimalist abstract stage on which the theatre of atmosphere is played out.  July 21 - August 12"Introductions, New and Emerging Artists"
TEW Galleries features works from Monica Cook, Sebastian Spreng, Justin Baldwin and Alekxey Sabido.
TEW Galleries
425 Peachtree Hills Avenue No. 24
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.869.0511
www.timothytew.com
Twinhouse Gallery
 Summer Whites
July 14 - August 31
Jackie Brethen, Jeff Cohen, Gail Wegodsky and Anthony Pessler
This show will exhibit new work with the primary focus on shades of WHITE.
 Twinhouse Gallery 2815 Peachtree Road Atlanta, GA 30305 Tel: 404.233.3433 www.twinhouse.com
Trinity Gallery
 April 27 - June 10
ROBERT MARX
Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture
Trinity Gallery opens a one-man exhibition for the multi-talented Robert Marx. A painter, sculptor and printmaker, this Rochester artist has been widely exhibited across the United States for over 45 years. Marx's work is in numerous museum, public and private collections, including; The National Gallery, Washington D.C., Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Seattle Art Museum. After retiring from a long and distinguished career in academia, Marx finds immense pleasure in being able to devote himself to his artwork full time. He is being recognized as one of the most important painters of our time.
June 8 - July 7
CHUCK CLOSE
Trinity Gallery's Chuck Close exhibition will feature a variety of the artist's portraits, including popular images such as "James" and "Emma." Much of Close's work is based on the use of a grid as an underlying basis for the representation of an image. This simple but surprisingly versatile structure provides the means for "a creative process that could be interrupted repeatedly without ... damaging the final product, in which the segmented structure was never intended to be disguised." It is important to note that none of Close's images are created digitally or photo-mechanically. While it is tempting to read his gridded details as digital integers, all his work is made the old-fashioned way-by hand.
Trinity Gallery
315 East Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.237.0370
www.trinitygallery.com
Vespermann Gallery
Vespermann Glass Gallery
309 East Paces Ferry Road
Number 130
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404.266.0102
www.vespermann.com
Vinson Gallery
 July 14 - 29
Vinson Gallery is pleased to introduce Anne Desmet, an award winning British printmaker from London. Born in Liverpool in 1964, Desmet joins the Vinson Gallery stable of first-rate British artists who may be as talented as, yet slightly lesser known than, the highly publicized Young British Artists (YBA's) of the same generation.
Vinson Gallery
119 East Court Square
Suite 100
Decatur, GA 30030
Tel: 404.370.1720
www.vinsongallery.com
Wertz | Contemporary
April 21 - May 27
Lester Merriweather Too Much Like Right June 2 - September 9
NBAF Presents: Fabricated Harmony
Sue Williamson
Pat Ward Williams
September 15 - October 21
NAABAS - Traditional Chiefs of Burkina Faso
Photographs by Jean-Dominique Burton
Wertz | Contemporary
264 Peters Street
Atlanta 30313
404.420.4342
www.wertzcontemporary.com
Marcia Wood Gallery
 April 20 - May 27
Joanne Mattera: Pure Color
In her third solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, New York artist Joanne Mattera shows paintings from her new series, Silk Road, and the most recent paintings from her longtime series, Uttar. Both series are united by pure color - a palette of radiant and translucent hues - and an abiding reference to the grid.
 June 1 - July 8
Golden Blizzard: A Retrospective (Late 2005 - Mid 2006)
solo exhibition of 8-member artist collective
Golden Blizzard is an Atlanta-based art collective currently made up of eight artists who work in a variety of disciplines. Golden Blizzard presented their debut solo exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA) in December of 2005 and quickly followed with solo shows at Eyedrum and Young Blood Gallery. They have a solo exhibition of prints scheduled with Screen Arts in St. Augustine, FL, later this year, and have been chosen by Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Curator Stuart Horodner as the Contemporary's entry in the "Affair at the Jupiter Hotel" art fair in Portland, OR, in September. For their upcoming exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, the collective further explores the innovative mash-up of mediums such as wall painting, soft sculpture, digital projection, and seemingly anything else they can think of to use, anchored by the collaborative drawings that make up the heart of their aesthetic.
 July 13 - August 19
Chris Scarborough: Solo photography exhibition
Chris Scarborough is a young artist who began working with photography as an already accomplished painter and draftsman. He brings his painter's eye to this body of painstakingly-manipulated photographic portraits of family and friends. Working in intricate detail, pixel by pixel, Scarborough reconstructs and distorts his subjects' faces and bodies according to the tropes of Japanese manga or anime as an exploration of the cultural concepts and impositions of cuteness, beauty and perfection. Eyes and heads sometimes grossly enlarged and swelled rest on thinned, elongated necks and disproportionately-shrunken shoulders and torsos. Scarborough's method is maintained by a remarkable subtlety, however. Guided by a painter's sense of volume and proportion, he is able to maintain a measure of realism in these malformed figures. For the most part, these portraits are not monstrous; instead, the people in the photographs come off as sickly, perhaps, or in some hard-to-pinpoint other way, off-kilter somehow.
Marcia Wood Gallery
263 Walker Street
Atlanta, GA 30313
Tel: 404.827.0030
www.marciawoodgallery.com
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