Marcia Wood Gallery
April 20 - May 27
Joanne Mattera: Pure Color
In her third solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, New York artist Joanne Mattera shows paintings from her new series, Silk Road, and the most recent paintings from her longtime series, Uttar. Both series are united by pure color - a palette of radiant and translucent hues - and an abiding reference to the grid.
In her third solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, New York artist Joanne Mattera shows paintings from her new series, Silk Road, and the most recent paintings from her longtime series, Uttar. Both series are united by pure color - a palette of radiant and translucent hues - and an abiding reference to the grid.
June 1 - July 8
Golden Blizzard: A Retrospective (Late 2005 - Mid 2006)
solo exhibition of 8-member artist collective
Golden Blizzard is an Atlanta-based art collective currently made up of eight artists who work in a variety of disciplines. Golden Blizzard presented their debut solo exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA) in December of 2005 and quickly followed with solo shows at Eyedrum and Young Blood Gallery. They have a solo exhibition of prints scheduled with Screen Arts in St. Augustine, FL, later this year, and have been chosen by Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Curator Stuart Horodner as the Contemporary's entry in the "Affair at the Jupiter Hotel" art fair in Portland, OR, in September. For their upcoming exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, the collective further explores the innovative mash-up of mediums such as wall painting, soft sculpture, digital projection, and seemingly anything else they can think of to use, anchored by the collaborative drawings that make up the heart of their aesthetic.
solo exhibition of 8-member artist collective
Golden Blizzard is an Atlanta-based art collective currently made up of eight artists who work in a variety of disciplines. Golden Blizzard presented their debut solo exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA) in December of 2005 and quickly followed with solo shows at Eyedrum and Young Blood Gallery. They have a solo exhibition of prints scheduled with Screen Arts in St. Augustine, FL, later this year, and have been chosen by Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Curator Stuart Horodner as the Contemporary's entry in the "Affair at the Jupiter Hotel" art fair in Portland, OR, in September. For their upcoming exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, the collective further explores the innovative mash-up of mediums such as wall painting, soft sculpture, digital projection, and seemingly anything else they can think of to use, anchored by the collaborative drawings that make up the heart of their aesthetic.
July 13 - August 19
Chris Scarborough: Solo photography exhibition
Chris Scarborough is a young artist who began working with photography as an already accomplished painter and draftsman. He brings his painter's eye to this body of painstakingly-manipulated photographic portraits of family and friends. Working in intricate detail, pixel by pixel, Scarborough reconstructs and distorts his subjects' faces and bodies according to the tropes of Japanese manga or anime as an exploration of the cultural concepts and impositions of cuteness, beauty and perfection. Eyes and heads sometimes grossly enlarged and swelled rest on thinned, elongated necks and disproportionately-shrunken shoulders and torsos. Scarborough's method is maintained by a remarkable subtlety, however. Guided by a painter's sense of volume and proportion, he is able to maintain a measure of realism in these malformed figures. For the most part, these portraits are not monstrous; instead, the people in the photographs come off as sickly, perhaps, or in some hard-to-pinpoint other way, off-kilter somehow.
Chris Scarborough: Solo photography exhibition
Chris Scarborough is a young artist who began working with photography as an already accomplished painter and draftsman. He brings his painter's eye to this body of painstakingly-manipulated photographic portraits of family and friends. Working in intricate detail, pixel by pixel, Scarborough reconstructs and distorts his subjects' faces and bodies according to the tropes of Japanese manga or anime as an exploration of the cultural concepts and impositions of cuteness, beauty and perfection. Eyes and heads sometimes grossly enlarged and swelled rest on thinned, elongated necks and disproportionately-shrunken shoulders and torsos. Scarborough's method is maintained by a remarkable subtlety, however. Guided by a painter's sense of volume and proportion, he is able to maintain a measure of realism in these malformed figures. For the most part, these portraits are not monstrous; instead, the people in the photographs come off as sickly, perhaps, or in some hard-to-pinpoint other way, off-kilter somehow.
Marcia Wood Gallery
263 Walker Street
Atlanta, GA 30313
Tel: 404.827.0030
www.marciawoodgallery.com
263 Walker Street
Atlanta, GA 30313
Tel: 404.827.0030
www.marciawoodgallery.com
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