Friday, April 17, 2009

Westside Art Walk information - April 18, 2009

Schedule of Events for the WAD 3rd Saturday Art Walk - Saturday April 18th, 2009

*Please note there will not be a 5pm art reflection meeting at Octane this month*

Scheduled programming:

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER--event at 11 am
535 Means Street, NW
**General admission, $5; Students/Seniors, $3; 12 and under/members, Free.
Exhibiting artist Rae Goodwin discusses her recent works.
Mark Wentzel: Morale Hazard; Rae Goodwin: Relativity; Tamy Ben-Tor: Videos; Nancy Popp: Untitled (Street Performances). Mark Wentzel's installation involves the acquisition and presentation of a 1965 Ford Mustang, altered in symbolic ways and combined with site-specific wall works. Rae Goodwin’s installation examines aspects of her family history and constructions of identity, as well as gender-based fears of the unknown and of nature. Israeli performance and video artist Tamy Ben-Tor’s hilarious and unsettling work is presented in her first solo video exhibition in the South, including Normal, 2006; The End of Art, 2006; and Gewald, 2007. Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Popp has produced various installations and performances that examine psychological conditions of isolation, caution, risk, and exhilaration.

THE ROBERT C. WILLIAMS PAPER MUSEUM AT GEORGIA TECH - art talk 1:00pm.
500 Tenth Street, NW
Atlanta-based contemporary artists Nate Moore and SALTWORKS Director Brian Holcombe will discuss the current exhibition at The Paper Museum. Nate Moore’s Origami jets rely upon rigorous geometry and give dimension, depth and sometimes movement to found object paper. Mr. Moore is represented by Get This! Gallery (www.getthisgallery.com). Brian Holcombe will present the works of artist Jiha Moon. Ms. Moon creates beautiful, dream-like landscapes on Japanese hanji paper inspired by the opposing social norms and cultural references experienced throughout her travels in the East and West. Mrs. Moon is represented by SALTWORKS (www.saltworksgallery.com). The gallery will be open from 11 am -3 pm.

Additional galleries open for viewing:

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY--open 11 am - 5 pm
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108
The gallery will be open for viewing.

EMILY AMY GALLERY--open from 11 am - 5 pm
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208
Paint as Subject: new works Dorothy Goode, James Leonard, Melanie Parke and Carl Plansky. Paint is not often thought of as the subject matter or genre of a painting. Quite the contrary, subjects usually include landscapes, figures, or still lives, but for these four talented artists, paint takes center state in their vibrant and colorful compositions. By studying their application, manipulation, and removal of paint from the canvas with brushes, trowels, palette knives and other tools, it is clear that each of the artists featured in this upcoming show value the importance of paint.

GET THIS! GALLERY--open 11 am - 5 pm
662 11th St. NW
Final day of the exhibition “_______ is not always a bad thing.”
_______ is not always a bad thing. is Ben Roosevelt’s first solo exhibition with Get This! The exhibit will feature new works including large mixed media installations. Ben Roosevelt is an Atlanta based artist and was the recipient of the 2007-2008 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award.

KIANG GALLERY--open 11 am - 5 pm
1011-A Marietta Street, NW
Meng Jin: Every Room is Illuminated
Beijing based artist Meng Jin, photographs chandeliers in meeting rooms in the People’s Parliament House in Beijing, and other power boardrooms with similar institutional context. The artist is deliberately inviting a conversation about the ambiguity between reality and perception, perhaps about the impact on political or corporate power on society.

OCTANE COFFEE BAR & LOUNGE-- open 8am - 1 pm
1009-B Marietta Street NW
Open all day for drinks and discussion.

SALTWORKS-- CLOSED FOR INSTALLATION
664 11th St NW
Upcoming exhibition: Elsewhere curated by Shinique Smith opens April 25 from 7-10 pm.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY-- open from 11 am - 5 pm
1009-A Marietta Street, NW
Carol Mode: Kaleidoscapes-Abstract paintings. Nashville native, Carol Mode explores the properties of space in nature to create abstracted topographies that reference personal time and space. Her work intertwines art, architecture and nature in a luminous and tactile fashion. Caroline Lathan-Stiefel: Flux- Installations and drawings. This exhibition will feature large-scale mixed-media installations and intricate, abstract system drawings from Atlanta native, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel.

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