i45 and ACP present Videos from the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play Project



MEDIA CONTACT: Amy Miller Amy@ACPinfo.org

I45 and Atlanta Celebrates Photography present an Evening of Award Winning Videos

October 11, 2011: Atlanta, Georgia – i45 and Atlanta Celebrates Photography are pleased to present videos from the Guggenheim’s recent YouTube Play project. The screening will take place October 29, 2011 from 6:30 – 8:30pm in Grant Park as part of ACP’s Public Art Project, “Volley” a sound-activated, interactive animation by Monica Cook.

YouTube Play is a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum. The inaugural biennial, held in October 2010 at the Guggenheim in New York, showcased the most remarkable online videos from around the world. It included videos from Germany,
Australia, Canada, the UK, Brazil, Netherlands, South Africa and the U.S. The Guggenheim curators selected the short list of videos from over 23,300 submissions. 



I45 is a collective of Atlanta galleries in Inman Park (i), the Old Fourth Ward (4) and Little Five Points (5) working together to promote this community’s rich, creative identity. Through shared events and common interests, i45 seeks wider visibility for artists and the vibrant arts community.

For more information about i45, recent projects and member galleries, please visit the following links:

Convergent Frequencies

http://www.burnaway.org/2010/09/convergent-frequencies-highlights-urban-geography-this-weekend

Skies Over Atlanta http://www.burnaway.org/2010/04/4-secrets-to-be-revealed-this-saturday-and-sunday-at-850-euclid

i45 Blog http://i45art.wordpress.com

For more information about “Volley” by Monica Cook or about ACP, please visit the following links:

“Volley” http://festivalguide.acpinfo.org/listings/view/909

Atlanta Celebrates Photography http://www.ACPinfo.org

ACP’s blog “ACP Now!”: http://www.acpinfo.org/blog



i45 and ACP present an Evening of Award Winning Videos

i45 and Atlanta Celebrates Photography are pleased to present videos from the Guggenheim’s recent YouTube Play project. The screening will take place October 29, 2011 from 6:30 – 8:30pm in Grant Park as part of ACP’s Public Art Project, “Volley” a sound-activated, interactive animation by Monica Cook.

YouTube Play is a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum. The inaugural biennial, held in October 2010 at the Guggenheim in New York, showcased the most remarkable online videos from around the world. It included videos from Germany,
Australia, Canada, the UK, Brazil, Netherlands, South Africa and the U.S. The Guggenheim curators selected the short list of videos from over 23,300 submissions.

For more information about “Volley” by Monica Cook or about ACP, please visit the following links:

“Volley” http://festivalguide.acpinfo.org/listings/view/909

Atlanta Celebrates Photography http://www.ACPinfo.org

ACP’s blog “ACP Now!”: http://www.acpinfo.org/blog

whitespace presents “Metronome” new works by Michele Schuff

"Perfect Attendance", encaustic on wood, 18 x 22

June 10 – July 23, 2011

Opening Exhibition: Friday, June 10 | 7 – 10 pm

In Michele Schuff’s exhibition, Metronome, she explores the perception of time and how we measure life’s passing. Michele uses the metronome as a metaphor for keeping time as well as a meditative device. This body of work examines the space that is created when one is fully focused on any creative endeavor. Metronome features a series of encaustic paintings on wood panel created by layer over layer of repetitive brush strokes fused together with heat.

whitespace | 814 Edgewood Ave | Atlanta, GA 30307 | 404.688.1892

Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm

Francis Pavy: OPEN ROADS at Barbara Archer Gallery / Reception June 10, 7-9pm

 

Francis Pavy, a distinctive, southern visual narrator, will be exhibiting a collection of his works, titled NEW ROADS at Barbara Archer Gallery. One of the most significant artists of his region, Pavy’s NEW ROADS is the premiere solo exhibition of his work in Atlanta.

In this new series of works, Pavy makes use of his past iconic imagery layered in transparent color saturated fields to make narrative works. The lexicon of his work includes musicians, animals, food, carnival, urban and rural imagery firmly grounded in the vernacular of the American South. These images have been transferred to linoleum blocks and used to print on paper and most recently canvas.

These narrative works are part of two series: ”The Seaside Suite,” which deals with fortunes, good and bad; and, “Borderlands” which explores subtleties of perceptions, real and imagined, Pavy says  “I call these works non-linear narratives because the interpretation of the storyline can be approached at any point as opposed to literature or music where one thing follows another.”

Francis Pavy graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1976. He originally worked as a sculptor, opening his Lafayette studio in 1981 and experimenting with glass, drawing and painting. Over time, painting became Pavy’s major focus. His work stems from the southern storytelling tradition; common subjects are folklife and folklore of local people juxtaposed with contemporary American life. Pavy is particularly interested in the music and the musical traditions of Louisiana.

Pavy works in a variety of media including painting, neon, paper and canvas printed with linocut blocks. His work vibrates with color and musical rhythm, grounding abstract dimensions in Southern motifs and playing on themes of mysticism, love, nature, humor, and friendship. Pavy’s work has been included in over 20 major exhibitions worldwide, and his paintings are in the permanent collections of the Morris Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the private collections of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Ron Howard, Lorne Michaels, and Walker Percy, among others. Pavy’s work has been published in a variety of catalogs, books and magazine articles, including: Elvis & Marilyn: 2 Times Immortal (US & Japanese Edition), The South: A Treasury Of Art and Literature, Francis X. Pavy, La Musique Zydeco, The Colors of Rhythm, and Outward Bound, American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century.

 

 

whitespec at whitespace presents (sub)Urban Ghosts

May 27 – June 25, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, May 27 | 7 – 10 pm

Whitespec at whitespace is pleased to present (sub)Urban Ghosts. In this body of work, Lowe explores the themes of rapid technology, growing urbanism and the constant alterations to our natural environment through human interaction. The installation, video and photo documentation capture the movements of the subversive animals we live amongst as we continue to develop our natural landscape. By using vintage televisions as a significant part of her installation, she implies that our outward movement as humans is not dissimilar to the movements of technology and nature. Through her work she advocates a way for the two to exist in conjunction with each other. Lowe encourages people to question the ways in which we move between technology and nature, urbanism and nature, our bodies and the land we live on.

Hailey Lowe was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended school at the University of Colorado where she received her BFA in creative advertising with a focus in art history and studio arts as well as Technology, Arts and Media Studies certificate. Lowe will graduate top of her class in June as the Excelsus Laureate with her MFA in Sculpture from Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. With a focus on installation, performance and video documentation art, her influences come from nature, history and our human relations with the environment.

 whitespace | 814 Edgewood Ave | Atlanta, GA 30307 | 404.688.1892 | Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm

“Witch’s Brew” by Adrienne Outlaw at whitespace gallery

APRIL 21 – JUNE 4, 2011

Opening Reception: April 21 | 7 pm – 10 pm

Artist Conversation: May 14 | 1 pm

 Adrienne Outlaw’s interactive exhibition “Witch’s Brew” sheds light on ethical issues created by the rapid advancement of biotechnology and in particular, the rising trend of DIYers growing biological experiments at home. The Fecund Series speaks to the human desire for progress and the possibility of Frankensteinian horrors.  Adrienne Outlaw explores the often contentious debate about science, nature and religion and how that impacts the bioethical dialogue. Working with cutting edge scientists, Outlaw selects videos showing the latest advancements in the field of biophysics and makes her own movies of intimate maternal scenes. She places the videos and objects in anthropomorphic specimen cases so that they can be seen but not touched. Some works are fun, elegant and beautiful; others are marred by the recombination process. Viewers become participants in the work when they peer inside a piece and see their reflection.

 whitespace | 814 Edgewood Ave | Atlanta, GA 30307 | 404.688.1892 | Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm

 

Rosendo Pita opening April 29, 7-9pm at Barbara Archer Gallery

Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release at whitespace gallery

Craig Dongoski, “Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release,” Mixed media, 48 x 48 inches

March 4 – April 16, 2011 

Opening Reception:  Friday, March 4 | 7 – 10 pm

Whitespace is pleased to present “Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release” featuring the works of Craig Dongoski.  For his upcoming solo exhibition, Dongoski created drawings over-drawings on a variety of substrates including wood, paper and printed materials.  He also highlights works derived from his signatures, which he used in turn for producing graphic scores or non-conventional musical notation.  In conjunction with the artwork, “Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release” features artifacts and ephemera from these processes along with a video and sound installation.

 

whitespace | 814 Edgewood Ave | Atlanta, GA 30307 | 404.688.1892

Gallery Hours | Wed – Sat | 11 am – 5 pm

Mr. Imagination at Barbara Archer Gallery

TURN YOUR BACK TO THE FOREST YOUR FRONT TO ME a photography exhibition by Wendy Given at Whitespace Gallery

January 14 – February 26, 2011  Opening Reception:  Friday, January 14 | 7 – 10 pm Conversation with the Artist: Saturday, January 15 | 4 pm Whitespace is pleased to present “Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me,” a photography exhibit by Wendy Given. Given’s photographs are constructed to introduce a contemporary narrative directed by centuries of folklore and legend-ultimately depicting the fine, delicate line between realism and imagination. Given is keenly interested in observing and documenting the otherworldly-or seemingly supernatural- in the everyday experience, realizing an ongoing fascination with myth and magic.