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One of our favorite architectural photographers and bloggers, Blayne Beacham of This Photographer’s Life, also happens to be a very talented fine artist, and she’s putting on a super show with The Artist Trifecta gallery next week on Thursday, July 29. We think of it as an incredible opportunity to see an artful new perspective from former photojournalist—and current member of the Beacham & Company Realtors team—Beacham, who is now represented at The Artist Trifecta after winning top honors in a stiff competition against other photographers earlier this month: a 12-hour scavenger hunt challenging creativity, dexterity and technical ability.

A featured photograph from the artist's Wonderland series.

The opening reception on Thursday will represent her first private show and display the “Dress Up” series, comprising black-and-white photos of full-length dresses, crumpled and drifting elegantly through black water, that have been a year in the making. Works from “Wonderland,” the series that won her the title at The Artist Trifecta’s July 9 event, will also be on display through August 14. Be on the lookout for how ingeniously these works meld together. Books and prints of the featured works will be available for purchase, as well.

"Air," a work from Beacham's Dress Up series

If that’s not enough of a draw, a dozen rare and priceless works by Salvador Dalí will also be on display during this private preview. Interested guests must e-mail art@artisttrifecta.com or call the gallery at (404) 388-8757 to R.S.V.P.

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It is always fun to come across a new artist that you fall in love with! I first saw Whitney Wood Bailey’s art a few weeks ago and have not stopped thinking about it. Her work is a beautiful balance of fluid, organic shapes with controlled manifold ticking marks. I had a hard time narrowing it down to a few pieces to post, but you can see more on www.whitneywoodbailey.com. I personally love her works on paper, but my husband Michael likes the large-scale canvases.

Here’s a little about Whitney:
She received a BFA in Painting from Auburn University in 2005. While earning her undergraduate degree, Whitney studied with the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy. Following graduation from Auburn, she studied with Rhode Island School of Design in Pont-Aven, France. Moving back to the states, she interned with Paul Kasmin Gallery and studied under painter Larry Poons in New York City. In 2008, Whitney received her MFA in painting at Savannah College of Art and Design. Whitney states, “Using both organic and highly controlled painting techniques, the resulting composition is a compromise between excess and restraint, impulse and logic.”


Whitney’s studio, available by appointment only, is located in the L2 studio at the TULA Art Center. You can also see select pieces at TEW Galleries, Hotel Palomar and the Rymer Gallery in Nashville.

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Last evening, a small group gathered at the Midtown home of artists Richard Mafong and Jon Eric Riis to unveil the magnificent woven metallic silk and black fresh water pearl tapestry that Riis is generously donating to the High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction on March 27. The piece is called “Tiger Banner” and (we’re just showing a snippet here) hangs vertically as a 12″ x 66″ museum-quality masterpiece. We were all invited to the basement studio where the most amazing and unique  tapestries, coats and other pieces are created. I can’t even fathom the amount of hours it takes for just one piece. 

Tiger Banner 

This art is genius. No wonder his pieces are all over the world in private collections, traveling exhibits and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, New York Museum of Arts and Design, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Renwick Gallery, and countless others, including the High Museum of Art, of course. Jon and Richard are world-renowned artists, and world-class gentlemen. How lucky we are to have them in Atlanta.

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Gallery Hops at SCAD Atlanta are free and open to the public, allowing you to view many of SCAD’s groundbreaking exhibits at no cost–even a free shuttle to the galleries and parking services are available at the SCAD Atlanta campus. Fortunately, one of these seasonal events lined up for this evening—with refreshments served at select galleries. Details below:
The ACA Gallery of SCAD Atlanta welcomes the work of Cao Fei (a Chinese artist currently shortlisted for the Guggenheim Foundation’s Hugo Boss Prise) presents “NO LAB on Tour” in partnership with Map Office, a Hong Kong-based husband-and-wife duo, who show dynamic and politically charged films and line drawings depicting a Katrina-battered New Orleans. Joining the exhibit is a carnival cart with computers linked to another of this artist’s projects, Second Life. Viewers can use the software to create their own avatar and navigate the virtual world created by this digital architect. The exhibits continue through February 7 but are on view for free tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St.
Swing by Trois Gallery for Erick Swenson’s moving “Caught Captive” exhibition of naturalistic cast resin sculptures depicting allegorical, hybrid creatures frozen in dramatic moments of tension. His Whitney Museum-exhibited “Carpet Piece”—an intricatedly painted fiberglass sculpture desined to look like a woven carpet–is also on view. This exhibit continues through January 24 but is on view for free tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.
Head to Gallery See at 3:30 p.m. for a gallery talk by the creators of “Horsepower”—a two-person painting exhibition by SCAD Savannah professor Gregory Eltringham and SCAD’s 2009 Visiting Artist Matt Blackwell. From cruiser cars to equine imagery, the works play off the double meaning of the title word and pay homage to a nostalgic American past. This exhibit continues through February 26 but is on view for free tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. Visit at 3:30 p.m. for the artists’ talk. SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.


Gallery Hops at SCAD Atlanta are free and open to the public, allowing you to view many of SCAD’s groundbreaking exhibits at no cost—even a free shuttle to the galleries and parking services are available at the SCAD Atlanta campus. Fortunately, one of these seasonal events is lined up for this evening—with refreshments served at select galleries. Details below:

The ACA Gallery of SCAD Atlanta welcomes the work of Cao Fei (a Chinese artist currently shortlisted for the Guggenheim Foundation’s Hugo Boss Prize), who presents “NO LAB on Tour”—a range of dynamic and politically charged films and line drawings depicting a Katrina-battered New Orleans. Joining the exhibit is a carnival cart with computers linked to another of this artist’s projects, Second Life. Viewers can use the software to create their own avatar and navigate the virtual world created by this digital architect. The exhibits continue through February 7 but are on view for free tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St.

Swing by Trois Gallery for Erick Swenson’s moving “Caught Captive” exhibition (shown above) of naturalistic cast resin sculptures depicting allegorical, hybrid creatures frozen in dramatic moments of tension. His Whitney Museum-exhibited “Carpet Piece”—an intricatedly painted fiberglass sculpture designed to look like a woven carpet—is also on view. This exhibit continues through January 24 but is on view for free tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.

Head to Gallery See at 3:30 p.m. for a gallery talk by the creators of “Horsepower”—a two-person painting exhibition by SCAD Savannah professor Gregory Eltringham and SCAD’s 2009 Visiting Artist, Matt Blackwell. From cruiser cars to equine imagery, the works play off the double meaning of the title word and pay homage to a nostalgic American past. This exhibit continues through February 26 but is on view for free tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. Visit at 3:30 p.m. for the artists’ talk. SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.

Visit SCAD Atlanta’s Events calendar for more info.

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Art work from the 2007 Pin-Up event

Art work from the 2007 Pin-Up event

Here’s an art show you won’t want to miss! The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s 8th Annual “Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show and Sale” will take place Thursday, November 19, 6-9 p.m, at the TULA Art Center at 75 Bennett Street. Pin-Up 2009 remains a premier non-curated, casual, yet exciting event. All pieces are unframed, unmated, not larger than 12x16x5 inches, able to be mounted by four push pins and priced under $500. The show and sale is open for the general public to come enjoy work from seasoned and emerging Georgia artists as well as enjoy a DJ and refreshments alongside Atlanta’s vibrant artistic community.

 
Now, for some specifics: Admission is a MOCA GA membership, which for non-members starts at $20 for artists and $35 for non-artists. For more information, call (404) 367-4542, visit www.mocaga.org or email info@mocaga.org.

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