October 3-6, 2024
Pullman Yards, Porter Hall 225 Rogers St NE Atlanta, GA 30317
Booth D17
Day & Night Projects' booth at the the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair will feature Timothy Short, Jane Foley, and Jackson Markovic—three award-winning Atlanta Metro artists that work with light. Light in this sense as representation (a fiery evening sky), or a medium (radiating through photographic transparencies), or some combination of the two (glowing neon tubes). How these artists purpose light illuminates different relations to our city and its suburbs.
Day & Night projects is proud to present Light Gets in Your Eyes, an exhibition of artworks by Timothy Short, Jackson Markovic, and Jane Foley. These three award-winning Atlanta Metro artists work with light in distinct, remarkable ways—as representation (a painting of a fiery evening sky), or a medium (radiating through photographic transparencies), or some combination of the two (glowing neon tubes).
Each artists’ approach illuminates their relation to our city and suburbs. Timothy Short’s figurative oil paintings capture relatives, friends, and everyday people in his Stone Mountain community. The figures step out of the ordinary under a sudden glow—worldly or unworldly. An auntie assumes mythic proportions in the glow of a celestial event, a neighbor floats in the sky like a god, as sunset’s splendor tints the scene in hot tones and deep shadows. Even a phone call is transformed into a moment of significance in the artist’s rendered radiance.
Jackson Markovic’s large scale lightbox collages collect a variety of ephemera, both from clubs and photographic processes, to illuminate the fantasy and reality of his immersion into Atlanta’s red-light districts and underground strip club scenes. The ephemera of flyers, slides, dust, and decay are shot through with an energetic, searching light, suggesting that the party is over (and the party is never over).
Jane Foley focuses on creating gestures of care and destruction in direct contact with her materials. Concrete molded in pool inflatables, ropes of hardened gray clay, and salvaged neon lettering nestle, penetrate, and support each other. The soft glow from brittle glass onto heavy puffiness and rigid sinew works to queer our perception of these urban textures.
For more information on Light Gets in Your Eyes, the artists, or sales inquiries, please contact Steven L. Anderson at info@daynightprojects.art or call 404-623-7289.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Jane Foley
(they/them b. 1985, New Orleans) is a sound, sculpture, and new media artist living in Atlanta, Georgia (US). Foley has created sound sculptures for the Architecture Triennale in Lisbon, Portugal and La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France with Zurich-based Sound Development City, as well as composed sounds that played in taxicabs throughout the 5th Marrakech Biennale in Morocco. In Atlanta, they have created public works for the High Museum, Dashboard, Flux Projects, Atlanta Contemporary, and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, among others. Foley currently teaches sculpture and digital media at Emory University, after completing an MFA in interdisciplinary sculpture, video, and sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Timothy Short
Tim is a narrative painter who focuses on building imaginative, atmospheric works centering the Black figure. He was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1993 where he developed an early passion and practice in visual world-building and constructing narrative. Upon moving to Atlanta in 2011, Timothy pursued painting and drawing at Georgia State University. He obtained a BFA in Visual Art and Design and a minor degree in African American Studies in 2015. He currently resides in Stone Mountain, GA, working out of his studio space at Echo Contemporary Gallery in Atlanta.
Timothy hopes to contribute to the long tradition of Black figurative artistry and painting by centering the lives of people close to him within his work. Predominantly as an oil painter, Timothy venerates those people by detailing and embellishing their experiences within spaces familiar to them and thus familiar to Black folks everywhere. He employs methods of dramatically grandiose color, lighting, and imaginative imagery to produce vividly epic narratives. Amongst Timothy’s inspirations are Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Naudline Pierre as well as many other painters, a host of manga and comics, and great Black music.
Jackson Markovic
Jackson (he/him, b. 2000) is an artist and writer based in Atlanta GA. His work is curious about how images inform gay male identity, including documents of both advertising and counterculture. Markovic received his BFA from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design in 2022. Solo exhibitions include “Is It All Over My Face?” at Day & Night Projects and “Show Me Love” at Hawkins HQ, both located in Atlanta. He is a contributing writer for Burnaway. More info on his work can be found at jacksonmarkovic.com
