Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11 am – 5 pm
Admission Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members FREE

2007

January 5 - February 24
Daniel Bozhkov: A Survey
Greta Pratt: Nineteen Lincolns
Camille Norment

Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian artist whose extreme conceptual acts incorporate performance, painting, photography and research; creating complex meditations on culture, politics, and consumerism. Whether creating an enormous portrait of CNN talk show host Larry King as a work of land art, or becoming a greeter and fresco painter at a WalMart in Maine, Bozhkov's work is always absurd, rigorous, and humane. This exhibition is developed with curator Regine Basha and ArtHouse in Austin, Texas.

Greta Pratt is a New Jersey-based photographer whose Nineteen Lincolns installation documents men of various ages portraying the controversial and legendary President. Her book Using History chronicles how Americans try to comprehend and embody the country’s complex history.

“Greta Pratt’s extraordinary photographs give us glimpses of people and places that stimulate us to think about our history, not only the great American West, but the nation itself. Her point of view is delightfully antic and provocative. We want not only to enjoy the moment of our viewing, but also to study and ponder each photograph, challenged to find its larger meaning.” Howard Zinn, author A People’s History of the United States.

Camille Norment is an African-American artist living in Malmo, Sweden. Her installations feature manipulated mirrors that prompt conditions of confrontation and public/private awkwardness.

Lecture: Greta Pratt, Nineteen Lincolns
Thursday, February 8, 7 pm
Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art
Free with Museum admission;
Free to High Museum and Contemporary members

In conjunction with the High Museum of Art, photographer Greta Pratt will discuss her interest in historic iconography in America, in particular her monumental work Nineteen Lincolns, on view at the Contemporary through February 24. Nineteen Lincolns documents men who belong to the Association of Lincoln Presenters, a society dedicated to studying and portraying the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Artist Survival Skills
Winter - Spring 2007

Saturday, March 24, 10 am
Boot Camp
with Sara Kellner, Consultant, Houston;
Stuart Horodner, the Contemporary

Saturday, March 31, 10 am
Educating Artists: Worldwide Models
with Saul Ostrow, Dean, Cleveland Institute for Art

Saturday, April 14, 10 am
The Roles of Criticism
with Nancy Princenthal, Editor, Art in America;
Cinque Hicks, Founder, Code Z Online

Saturday, April 28, 10 am
Alternative Strategies for Artists
with Lucy Raven, Co-Founder, The Relay Project;
Larry Jens Anderson, Artist/Activist

March 23 - May 12
Kevin Landers
Devendra Banhart
Recordings
Nina Bovasso

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.

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

Recordings is a group exhibition that examines the intersection of nature, experimental modes of documentation, and time. Including video and photography by Monica Duncan & Lara Odell, David Moreno, Sharon Harper.

Nina Bovasso is based in New York. For the Contemporary she will create a site specific wall painting, using the super bright colors and natural forms she is known for.

June 8 - August 5

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.

Saturday June 9
Studio Artists' Open Studio Open House Fundraiser