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By Joe Nolan Atlanta-based painter Eric Mack’s Alpha Numerics is showing at Channel to Channel in Nashville through October 20. These works offer compelling studies in abstraction where the grids of maps and satellite photos, and the angles and lines on blueprints become geometric elements in the artist’s expansive, palimpsestic surfaces. This show comments…
by Lisa M. Williamson Joseph Beuys, Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977 (1980), detail. Staaliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Marx, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, SMB. Photo by Thomas Bruns. Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1970) invites us to experience Red in-and-of itself, while Joseph Beuys’ Das Kapital exemplifies Rothko’s worst fear, that “black will eat the red.” Red…
by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani Yvette Cummings, The Voyeur Series, 2015-2017, 45 14” x 14” panels, acrylic and cut paper on canvas, installation view at APSU. Image courtesy of the artist and Michael Dickins, curator of The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. As a weary, young graduate student in the final months…
by Jasmine Amussen Leila Yavari, Lolita in Atlanta Book Club. Photo courtesy of leilayavarimedia.org. Yesterday, my friend Elizabeth texted me from a party in Athens, Georgia, where she is attending law school. “Baby. Just had to defend Lolita at a party. She walked away saying she wouldn’t read it because pedophiles use it to justify…
by Michi Meko Remember the first time you saw it. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Cadmium), 1984 at the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta Coming out of the Matisse exhibition, you turn the corner and it appears. By itself, alone. The pigment is pure as if it was just ripped in its mineral form from the…
By Matt Christy Judy Chicago, Red Flag, 1971, 20”x 24”, photolithograph In 2012 a public relations scandal erupted around Starbucks when a group of vegans revealed that the red dye in then-new Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino was made from the bodies of crushed cochineal insects. The story was picked up by major networks like CNN…
By Carol Sams Expectation…More to Consider I suppose one enters any display area with expectation; indeed, the rebirth of Sears Crosstown Building as Crosstown Concourse gives much reason for the assumption. Anchored on the ground floor, a red stairway of generously spaced platform steps spirals upward one turn. Visitors, aware of its significant…
From the Editor: Regarding editing errors in No: 94, p.12 of the print issue, Interview: Erica Scoggins Number apologizes profusely to Jac Kuntz, an art critic, journalist and editor based in Atlanta, GA for not crediting her authorship of this article. We likewise regret and apologize to Sherry Lucas for erroneously listing her…
By M Hill No. 94 Walter Sutin’s Low Five: The Banality of Contemporary Trauma Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA February 2 – 25, 2018 Low Five is a queered evaluation of the violence and pleasure derived from a fantasized culture that has forsaken postmodernity; revived slain deities; but cannot withdraw from the…
By Sarrita Hunn In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional or psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon…