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2007 Exhibitions
January 6 - February 24, 2007
Daniel Bozhkov, Greta Pratt, Camille Norment |
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Main and Left Galleries
Daniel Bozhkov: A Survey
Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian artist whose extreme conceptual
acts incorporate performance, painting, photography and research;
creating complex meditations on culture, politics, and consumerism.
This exhibition is developed with curator Regine Basha and ArtHouse
in Austin, Texas.
In conjunction with this exhibition, Bozhkov will create an Atlanta
version of his Fastest Guided Tours of Unfamiliar Places, an ongoing
work begun in 2003.
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Gallery Four
Greta Pratt: Nineteen Lincolns
In her monumental work Nineteen Lincolns, Pratt documents men who
belong to The Association of Lincoln Presenters. While they each
started this unusual occupation for a different reason, the men
have all become completely immersed in the ideals of Abraham Lincoln
and speak passionately about their relationship to him.
Historian Howard Zinn has written that Pratt’s “extraordinary
photographs give us glimpses of people and places that stimulate
us to think about our history... Her point of view is delightfully
antic and provocative.” |
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Round Gallery
Camille Norment
Driftglass and Apparition
For her installation at the Contemporary, Camille Norment responds
to the unique special elements of the Round gallery to create a
new version of Driftglass, a work that examines issues of self-consciousness
and the politics of the gaze. Norment’s Apparition is a wallpaper
installation that pictures a verdant landscape of trees reflected
in water. The symmetry of the image projects various kinds of doubling,
from top to bottom and side to side, connecting to the artist’s
use of mirrors, and her inquiry into states of reflection and obfuscation. |
March 23 - May 12, 2007
Kevin Landers, Devendra Banhart, Recordings, Nina Bovasso
Artists' reception March 23, 6 - 9 pm |
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main gallery
Kevin Landers
Kevin Landers is a New York based sculptor and photographer who records
everyday objects and environments. Using common construction materials
(plastic, metal, fabric, foil), he reproduces a rack of potato chip
bags and a bicycle wheel and frame from memory. These acts of poetic
realism are accompanied by his keenly observed photos taken in restaurants,
laundromats, and on city streets.
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Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is a San Francisco-based artist and musician whose
drawings combine repeated human and animal figures, ornamental framing
devices, and bits of language. Intimate and hypnotic, these works
share affinities to Tantric diagrams, Plains Indian narratives,
and fantastic private worlds. This exhibition is the first comprehensive
examination of Banhart's visual art.
“Devendra Banhart’s small, fine-grained ink drawings,
in tight, doodle-like strokes and flourishes, offer a menagerie
of beasts with horned and haloed heads, lots of eyes, and bodies
covered with feathers that end in fingers. Echoes of Paul Klee,
Indian painting and children’s drawings chime together here.
Like the psychedelic-folk music for which Mr. Banhart has become
well known, the effect has a spooky sweetness.” The
New York Times |
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Recordings
Recordings is a group exhibition that examines the intersection
of nature, experimental modes of documentary, and time. Included
in the show are video and photography by Monica Duncan & Lara
Odell, David Moreno, and Sharon Harper. |
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round gallery
Nina Bovasso springcleanforthemayqueen
Nina Bovasso is internationally recognized for her patterned paintings,
drawings, and sculptures that incorporate floral and cartoon imagery
to exuberant effect. For her installation at the Contemporary, Bovasso
has constructed a large ball that transforms her two dimensional
work into an outsized three dimensional object. |
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June 8 - August 11,
2007
Talent Show, the 2007 Atlanta Biennial |
Suellen Parker, Well Done, 2006 |
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Talent Show is
a large scale exhibition that brings together varied artistic achievements
of numerous Atlantans. Modeled on the traditional talent show that
honors audacity as well as skill, this exhibition attempts to find
and promote the creative work of trained and un-trained artists.
Diverse mediums, documentation, and live events will animate this
wildly democratic installation.
Exhibiting artists include Lana Adams, Rose Barron, Amber Boardman,
Sarah Emerson, Jennifer Hartley, Patrick Holbrook, Carol John, Jennifer
Kornder, George Long & Mario Schambon, Louise Merlyn, Jiha Moon,
Charles Huntley Nelson, Open Studio Art Group, Suellen Parker, Fahamu
Pecou, Shana Robbins, Ben Roosevelt, Ronnog & Steve Seaberg,
Ruth Stanford, Constance Thalken, Bean Worley, Harry Zmijewski.
Thursday, June 21 - Talent Talk & Tour, 6 pm
Join exhibiting artists Sarah Emerson, Jiha Moon, Ben Roosevelt,
and Charles Huntley Nelson as they discuss creativity, community,
and commerce with the show's curator, Stuart Horodner.
FREE admission
Thursday, July 5, 6 - 8 pm
Quilting Bee
Exhibiting artist, artist Amber Boardman, invites everyone,
novices and experts alike to join her for a "new fashioned"
quilting bee. Bring old clothes. Notions will be supplied—no
sewing experience necessary.
FREE admission
Saturday, July 21 - Performances & Awards, 2 - 5 pm
Live events by Patrick Holbrook, George Long & Mario Schambon,
Shana Robbins, Ronnog & Steve Seaberg, and Bean Worley
Awards will be presented in various categories, voting by gallery
visitors
FREE admission |
Talent Show is sponsored through the generous support of SunTrust
and Marcia Weber Gardens to Love. |
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Harrell Fletcher, The American War,
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Main Gallery
Harrell Fletcher, The American War
This photo installation examines the Vietnam War from the point-of-view
of the Vietnamese people, incorporating documentary images and
texts from The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. Artist
Harrell Fletcher visited the museum in 2005, and appropriated
its content for distribution at venues throughout the United States.
He states: “In June 2005 I was in Vietnam for a month as
part of an international artists retreat. While I was there I
visited The War Remnants Museum, which is a memorial museum for
what is referred to in Vietnam as The American War. I was so affected
by what I saw at the museum that I went back several times and
eventually re-photographed all of the images and text descriptions
from the main museum--over two hundred photos. I used my digital
camera and took the shots hand held at off angles to avoid reflections,
so the images have an oddly casual quality but are still accurate
representations of the material depicted at the museum, with a
similarly horrifying quality.”
This exhibition has been presented to great acclaim at venues
including White Columns in NYC, The Vera List Center at MIT, Massachusetts,
and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Oregon. Art
critic Michael Kimmelman writing about this exhibition in The
New York Times in 2006 suggests: "Fletcher's bootlegged museum,
partly reassembled, has been traveling the United States. It is
an ingenious little show; heartbreaking, too. It would be a pity
to miss."
Harrell Fletcher - www.harrellfletcher.com
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Nubar Alexanian, S.O.P. Lynndie England,
2007
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Gallery Four
Nubar Alexanian, S.O.P.
Photographer Nubar Alexanian has been granted unprecedented access
to the film sets of director Errol Morris for many years. He has
recently been documenting the making of S.O.P., Morris’
exploration of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which includes interviews
with military participants and re-creations of torture based on
the widely seen photographs taken by participants. These photographs
have never been shown before, and the exhibition will coincide
with the release of Morris' film.
Nubar Alexanian - www.nubar.com |
Drum (relic), Erik Levine
Francois Morelli, Belthead, 1998
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Left Gallery & Round Gallery
Finding Form
This group exhibition was inspired by a sculpture by Erik Levine
that was discovered on the Contemporary’s premises. What
was once a finely crafted object in laminated wood has now become
a split and cracked relic from having been left outside for several
years. The ways in which forms are established is the subject
of this diverse group show, focusing on aspects of making and
unmaking, plans and deviations, decay and destruction. Artists
include Droog Design, Jason Fulford, Philip Guston, Jim Lee, Erik
Levine, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Francois Morelli,
and Hannah Wilke.
Droog Design - www.droogdesign.nl
Jason Fulford - www.jasonfulford.com
Erik
Levine - www.eriklevine.com
Francois Morelli - morf.concordia.ca
Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry - www.mccallumtarry.com
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