Laurie Nye & Karl Erickson: Time for Something Else

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 20, 7–10pm
Exhibition Dates: June 20–July 27, 2019

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present two artists with works in dialogue, Laurie Nye and Karl Erickson. Their exhibition Time for Something Else features paintings, videos, and drawings which posit a visionary science- fiction existence. The artworks depict ecstatic realms for the future, and take an outsider’s view of environments of color whorls, abstracted forms, and mutating patterns.

Nye’s “Earth Flowers” paintings view our natural flora through the eyes of imagined feminist explorers from the Andromeda Galaxy, seeking to reconcile the natural beauty and harmony of Earth’s ecology with the destructive history of the human race. Similarly, Erickson’s videos of aliens, flora, fauna, and UFO cults form a narrative of extraterrestrial life reaching out to contact other non-human intelligences.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Laurie Nye and Karl Erickson met as classmates at California Institute of the Arts in 2001, and also share a connection to the South. Nye grew up in Memphis, TN, is a graduate of the Memphis College of Art, and now lives in Los Angeles. Erickson, originally from Michigan, recently re-located to Memphis to teach Digital Art at Rhodes College.

Laurie Nye was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1972 and lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned a BFA from the Memphis College of Art in 1995 and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002. Her work has been featured in solo and thematic exhibitions at The Pit, Five Car Garage, Lowell Ryan Projects, and 0-0 LA in Los Angeles; Blake and Vargas in Berlin; Open House in Brooklyn; The Dot Project in London; and Monya Rowe in St. Augustine, Florida. In 2018, Nye presented her solo exhibition Venu- sian Weather at The Pit, and her curatorial project The Airtight Garage at Big Pictures LA, both which received praise in lengthy reviews in the Los Angeles Times Arts and Culture section. She is a member of the collective Binder of Women, whose initiative is to take action to grow the number of works by female-identifying artists in contemporary art collections.

Karl Erickson makes videos, performances and collages centering on abstract narrative themes of transformative experiences, non-human intelligences, and environmentalism. Recent exhibitions include We Could Be Tran- scendent Apes at Field Projects Gallery in New York City, look to the future-past, at isthisit?, Betwixt & Between at Muncie Makes Lab, and at The Performing Media Festival. Recent video screenings and performances were included in the Kansas City Performing Media Festival, That One Film Festival, and at Blacklight Film and Video. He has been an artist in residence at The Arctic Circle, Plyspace, and Signal Culture. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and his BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

Emerge: An Intercollegiate Art Student Exhibition

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 7–10pm
Exhibition Dates: April 4–27, 2019
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects and the Art Student Union at Georgia State University present EMERGE: An Intercollegiate Art Student Exhibition. This fourth annual, juried exhibition is organized by students for students. The multimedia exhibition showcases a diverse selection of works by current undergraduate and graduate students Atlanta-area colleges and universities.

This year’s juror is Day & Night Projects: Co-Directors Steven L. Anderson, William Downs, and Mark Leibert; and Program Director Megan Castro. Choosing from a pool of 107 entries by 40 artists, the jury has selected the finalists:

Dimelza Broche (University of Georgia)
Alexis Childress (Georgia State University)
Rachel Clink (University of West Georgia)
Sydney Daniel (University of Georgia)
Benjamin Hunsinger (Georgia State University)
Jackson Markovic (Georgia State University)
Ana Meza (Georgia State University)
Jess Self (Georgia State University)
Hannah Surace (Savannah College of Art and Design—Atlanta)
Parker Thornton (Georgia State University)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Dimelza Broche is an Athens based Cuban artist. She attended the Leopoldo Romanach Academy of Art in Santa Clara, Cuba. She studied for two years at Florida State College of Jacksonville before transferring to the University of North Florida where she graduated with a BFA. She is currently an MFA candidate at University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art. Broche has exhibited her work at Roberts Gallery, the Women’s Center of Jacksonville, the Wilson Center Gallery, The Cummer Museum of Arts & Gardens, and at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC. In 2011 she was the Grand Prize recipient of Momentum: a National Juried Exhibit for Emerging Artists with Disabilities.

Alexis Childress is a photographer currently based in Atlanta, GA where she is an anticipated BFA graduate at Georgia State University.

Rachel Clink is a senior at the University of West Georgia about to graduate with a BFA in photography.

Sydney Daniel is originally from Alpha–retta, Georgia and received her BFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking in 2013 from Georgia State University. She has worked extensively in event management and curatorial projects. She will receive her MFA from the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art in May 2019.

Benjamin Hunsinger is a BFA Painting major at Georgia State University.

Jackson Markovic is an artist and educator based in Atlanta Georgia. He currently is a teaching artist at the High Museum of Art. He plans to graduate from Georgia State University in 2023 with a Masters in Art Education.

Ana Meza is a sculpture artist born in Barranquilla, Colombia. She received an associate degree in Design Technology from Ivy Tech Community College in 2011, and a Bachelor of Science degree for Interior Design as well as a Bachelor of fine art degree for Sculpture in 2016. Ana is currently an MFA candidate at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Jess Self is a contemporary artist from Black Mountain, NC who works primarily with wool as her sculptural medium. She received her BFA from Warren Wilson College and is currently working on her MFA at Georgia State University. Along with making exhibition work she loves running her craft fair business, Heart Felt Designs, attending residencies, and teaching workshops.

Hannah Surace was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a candidate for an MFA in Sculpture at Savannah College of Art and Design and received a BFA in Fine Art at Moore College of Art and Design. Surace has exhibited nationally and plans to exhibit internationally at the CICA Museum in South Korea this spring. She was awarded honorable mention in the 2016 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards and was listed in the 2016 October issue of Sculpture Magazine for the honor.

Parker Thornton is currently a photography MFA candidate at Georgia State University. In 2014 Thronton co-founded Callosum Collective, an Atlanta-based creative collective that applies collaborative methods across media to explore the intersections between art, technology, and the senses.

Katerina Lanfranco: Talk to the Moon

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 21, 7–10pm
Artist Talk and Poetry Reading at 9pm

Exhibition Dates: Feb. 21–March 16, 2019
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Brooklyn, NY artist Katerina Lanfranco’s latest exhibition, Talk to the Moon.

Layered, dense, and introspective, Talk to the Moon will guide the viewer through site-specific, mixed-media wall drawings, illustrated poetry, and intimate portraits on canvas and paper.

In this exhibition, Lanfranco focuses on the nature of the body, exploring our biological and emotional systems, subconscious, and shadow sides. By recognizing the deeper patterns and connections in our lives, the artist asks, can we have more agency understanding and forming our reality? Through the use of decorative patterning, geometric designs and portraiture, Lanfranco hopes to reveal the complexity and power of the human experience, especially the feminine principle that exists in all people, men and women. Talk to the Moon celebrates the natural phenomena that exist inside our beings and connect us to one another.

Talk to the Moon will be on view at Day & Night Projects from February 21 through March 16. Gallery Hours are 11am–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Katerina Lanfranco is a Brooklyn-based artist who teaches studio art at Parsons, The New School, and Hunter College City University of New York. She developed and taught “Experimenting with Collage,” an online studio course for MoMA, and has taught studio workshops at the American Folk Art Museum, MoMA, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Lanfranco’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Her work has been reviewed in ARTnews, ARTinfo, and The New York Times. She earned her BA in Art, as well as Visual Theory and Museum Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and her MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College. Lanfranco is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City.

For more information, visit katerinalanfranco.com.

Jane Foley: Life Saving and Water Safety

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 1, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: Nov. 1–24, 2018
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Life Saving and Water Safety, a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist Jane Foley. Through a large video projection and series of sculptures, Foley explores the dynamics of support in gestures of holding, weight, and embrace.

Inspired by black-and-white photographs in a 1950s manual on ocean swimming and rescue, Foley has created a choreographic framework for two performers in a pool. These movements are expanded into video, concrete sculpture, and translucent images on silk. The artist’s work looks toward the ungainly and the triumphant—the pool floatie full of concrete, bending past its tiny lifespan; two men in the water reaching, reaching, reaching for each other, until they’re both afloat.

Life Saving and Water Safety will be on view November 1st through 24th. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Jane Foley (b. 1985, New Orleans) is a sculptor, performer, and sound artist living in Atlanta, GA. Her sound works explore isolation versus connectivity in public spaces, beginning with subtle repeated experiments in deep listening and reciprocity. She uses sculpture and performance as frameworks for interaction, favoring communication, experimentation, and process. Jane 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 produced a sound composition that played in taxicabs throughout the 5th Marrakech Biennale in Morocco. Following a 2017 residency at Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, Austria, she has been composing from field recordings, and chasing images of transitional sounds in built spaces. In Atlanta, she has created public works for Flux Projects, the High Museum, the Atlanta Beltline, WonderRoot, and the Goat Farm, among others. Foley currently teaches sculpture at Georgia State University while attending graduate school at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information, visit Jane's website.

Steven L. Anderson: Grass Roots

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 4, 7–10pm

Exhibition dates: Oct. 4–27, 2018
Artist Talk and Family Drawing Workshop: Saturday, Oct. 20, 12–3pm
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Grass Roots, a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist and Day & Night Co-Director Steven L. Anderson. On view will be a collection of new drawings and paintings on paper, based on the forms and systems of plant roots.

The artist isolates normally unseen root structures and imagines them as dynamic flows of color and line with brush and pen, custom rubber stamps, air-blown ink and acrylic, and collage. These artworks depict a perspective of nature that is always on the move—wandering freely, integrating and absorbing forms, working with and against the architecture of the modernist grid.

Day & Night’s programming features a free, public opening reception on October 4th. On October 20th, the artist will lead a walk-though discussion of the exhibition, followed by a drawing workshop for children and adults. Grass Roots will be on view from October 4 through 27. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Steven L. Anderson is an exhibiting artist and Co-Director of Day & Night Projects—an artist-run gallery that he helped initiate in 2016. Anderson is a recipient of a 2018–19 Artist Project Grant from the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and a 2018 Fulton County Fine Art Acquisition Program finalist. Anderson was part of the first annual TAR Project Therapeutic Artist Residency in 2016–17. He has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013–16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014–15 WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellow. Anderson’s notebooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.

Steven is a graduate of the University of Michigan and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States for the last twenty years. Visit StevenLAnderson.com for more information.

Anderson is a graphic designer at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Liz, daughter Agnes, and cat Cosmos Dandelion.

Ellie Dent: Subject & Subjected

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: Sept. 6–29, 2018

Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.
Day & Night Projects: 585 Wells St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30312

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Atlanta artist Ellie Dent’s latest exhibition, Subject & Subjected.

Subject & Subjected focuses on the relationship between doctor and patient, engaging viewers with painting, sculpture, and participatory installation.

Dent’s embroidery and beadwork on gently used hospital gowns pinpoints and comforts evidence of trauma. Lush miniature paintings of endoscopies are viewable though a magnifying device of the artist’s design. These and other artworks impart a simultaneous presence and absence of the human body, raising conversations about mortality, trauma, and control.

Subject & Subjected will be on view at Day & Night Projects from September 6 through 29. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Ellie Dent (b. 1991, Baltimore, MD) is an artist working in the mediums of painting and sculpture. By working with appropriated materials from hospitals, her work explores the themes of the body, the abject, pain, confession, and trauma. Dent received a BFA in painting, drawing, and printmaking from Towson University in 2013; and an MFA from the University of Georgia in 2017. Dent’s artworks have been exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art, with Marcia Wood Gallery, and Satellite Projects during Art Basel Miami 2015. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, ArtsATL and SciArt Magazine. Visit elliedent.com.

Lucia Riffel: Interspaced With

Lucia Riffel: Interspaced With

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 9, 7–10pm

Exhibition dates: Aug. 9–Sept. 1, 2018
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.
Day & Night Projects: 585 Wells St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30312

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Tallahassee-based artist Lucia Riffel’s latest exhibition, Interspaced With.

Interspaced With focuses on the gap between spatial sensation and physical reality—the intangible and infinite space that light, color, and perception travel through to fill its surroundings. Growing from the floor, this installation’s miniature landscapes and light-bending materials are bathed with projected video of an endless, eternal space. The animated light reflects and refracts from within the miniatures filling the air of the space, cast with shadows onto the walls and ceiling. The collapsing and expanding nature of the overlaying environments may displace viewers from their physical reality and into the meditative realm of the “in-between.”

Interspaced With will be on view at Day & Night Projects from August 9 through September 1. Gallery hours are 11am–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Lucia Riffel was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. She earned her B.A. in studio art and art history from the University of Minnesota-Morris, graduating with high honors in 2015. Following undergraduate school, Riffel received a full-tuition scholarship to the Florida State University M.F.A. program in Tallahassee, Florida. Within her time at FSU, Riffel has exhibited work across the Southeast; played an essential role in the founding, co-directing, and management of contemporary art space SOUP experimental; and taught college-level digital art courses through Florida State University. Since her graduation in May 2018, she has continued to live and work in Tallahassee while exhibiting across the Southeast. Riffel works across many mediums in her interdisciplinary practice, but predominantly utilizes digital animation and sculptural installation to navigate the space between physical, psychological, and digital realms. Visit luciariffel.com for more information.

Tummy Kisses

Neil Bender, Ben Galaday, Jenn Ryann Miller, Gary Schmitt, Chasity Williams, and Matthew Drennan Wicks

Curated by Tempus Projects of Tampa, Florida

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 31, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: May 31–June 23, 2018

Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.

Tummy Kisses is a new group exhibition featuring the work of artists Neil Bender, Ben Galaday, Jenn Ryann Miller, Gary Schmitt, Chasity Williams, and Matthew Drennan Wicks.

Curated by the nonprofit arts organization Tempus Projects, these artists in the Tampa, Florida scene all work with decadent, rich, seductive palettes and materials. On view will be new works in sculpture, drawing, and painting that invite our eyes to caress; like lips to flesh.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Neil Bender has looked to image-making as a way of negotiating biological drives and urges with culture’s beautifully decorative facades, social norms, and stilted morality. Bender was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and currently lives and works in Florida. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, at the Front in New Orleans, the Boston Center for the Arts, the CUE Art Foundation in New York, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, the Boston Center for the Arts, Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, Palazzo Casali in Cortona, Italy, and many other venues. His work was represented by Bleu Acier Gallery in the Bridge Art Fair during Art Basel Miami 2006–8 and Art Chicago 2007, and shown in San Juan at Circa PR in 2010. He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2002 after graduating from the University of Georgia, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004, and the “Painting’s Edge” program in Idyllwild, CA in 2006 and 2008. Visit pheromonewave.com for more on Neil.

Ben Galaday (b. 1980 - Portland, Or.) uses a formal language of children’s fable, personal myth, ’70s porn and low-budget sci- lm, Galaday addresses the idiosyncratic mechanisms of cognition and the anxiety of an exis- tential hypochondriac. Galaday received his MFA in May 2018 from University of South Florida, and graduated from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2011 with a BFA in Ceramics.

Jenn Ryann Miller explores materiality and aesthetics through abstract sculpture and painting. With a back- ground in functional ceramics, her work subverts tradition and process through the experimentation with oblique materials and forms. Miller has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Florida and the United States. Originally from Connecticut, she received a BFA from the University of Connecticut and MFA from the University of South Florida. Miller currently teaches ceramics and foundations at the University of South Florida, University of Tampa, and Hillsborough Community College. Visit jrmiller.net for more on Jenn.

Gary Schmitt completed his MFA in Sculpture at the University of South Florida in 2016 and works as a production assistant at USF Graphicstudio. In the past several years, he has exhibited his work throughout Florida and the US. Schmitt lives and works in Tampa, FL. Visit garyschmitt.com for more on Gary.

Chasity Williams is a Tampa-based artist who works in a wide range of mediums including sculpture, painting, and installation. She creates vivid and dense assemblages using pattern and decorative tendencies. Meticulously handcrafted, her work examines ideas of beauty, excess and decadence simultaneously. Visit chasitywilliams.com for more on Chasity.

Matthew Drennan Wicks has been both nationally and internationally recognized for his ceramic and non-ceramic based sculpture. His work discusses a process-based exploration of traditional craft in a contemporary context that highlights specific domestic materials and the intrinsic properties of clay. His work has been showcased throughout the United States as well as Europe and Russia and has been included in permanent collections in Massachusetts, Montana and Denmark. Matthew Drennan Wicks holds a B.F.A. from The University of Montana and a post-baccalaureate degree in Craft from Oregon College of Art and Craft. He is currently living in Tampa, Florida where he is an M.F.A. candidate at University of South Florida. Visit matthewdrennanwicks.com for more on Matthew.

ABOUT TEMPUS PROJECTS:

Tempus Projects is dedicated to nurturing established and emerging local, national and international artists through exhibitions and events. The non-pro t organization promotes artists working in all media and originates, organizes, and hosts exhibitions that engage the Tampa Bay community through the visual arts. Established in 2009, Tempus Projects has presented numerous exhibitions and art-related programs featuring the work of dynamic and engaging artists and collaborators. Tempus also hosts visiting artists and holds quarterly artist residencies. Visit tempus-projects.com for more on Tempus Projects.

Candice Greathouse: light as a feather

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present light as a feather: a 72-hour installation by artist Candice Greathouse. Sealed in the gallery, an installation of wind and feathers will be viewable only through our wall of windows.

light as a feather is a nostalgic exploration of a playful childhood game—interpreted literally and in all seriousness. This is the newest work in a series of performative and experiential installations exploring desire, fantasy, and reality. Through her interdisciplinary practice, Greathouse creates atmospheric environments anchored in personal and collective experience. Exploiting the memories and emotions of fleeting pinnacle events—parties, celebrations, holidays—she reinterprets and manifests the “magic of the moment” outside of its original context.

This will be the last solo exhibition of Candice Greathouse’s work in Atlanta before she moves to Los Angeles, where she has recently accepted an Assistant Professor of Photography position at California State University, Northridge.

light as a feather will be on view at Day & Night Projects for ONLY 72 HOURS: from Thursday, May 17th at 7pm through 7pm on Sunday, May 20th. Walk-in gallery hours are 12–5pm daily—or call to set up an appointment: 404-623-7289.

The opening reception coincides with Day & Night Projects’ first-ever fundraiser, and will feature a karaoke battle after 9pm.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Candice Greathouse (b.1984) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. She received an MFA in photography in 2012 and an MA degree in art history in 2014, both from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Her photography, video, and installation work has been shown throughout the Southeast, including at Eyedrum, Whitespace, and Hathaway Contemporary Gallery in Atlanta GA, and at AQUA Art Miami in South Beach FL.

Greathouse also has a collaborative practice, including site-specific installations at the High Museum of Art and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and commissions for public art projects by Hotel Indigo and Comcast Xfinity. Her editorial work and writing have been featured in several regional print and online publications, such as Number: Inc Arts Journal and fLoromancy. Greathouse has curated exhibitions at Gallery 72—City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs—and the Hambidge Center, the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, and Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, among others. At Georgia State, Greathouse is a visiting lecturer, teaching courses in photography, foundations, and art history. More information can be found at candicegreathouse.com.

Marc Brotherton: Insert Coin to Continue

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 12, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: April 12–May 5, 2018
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 11am–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Atlanta artist Marc Brotherton’s latest exhibition, Insert Coin to Continue.

Brotherton’s Killskreen paintings use the cast-off shapes and spaces from `80s video games as points of depar- ture into abstraction. 8-bit players who were good could blast through enough levels to exceed the arcade game’s memory, resulting in a frozen, glitched “kill screen.” This tableau, so charged, becomes the zone for Brotherton to push the limits of oil and acrylic paint, glitter and terrycloth.

These paintings present viewers with images as bright and playful as video games. But the contrasting geometries and varying textures, the hybrid of analog and digital gestures, and the remixed artifacts of a virtual past allow us to pause the game and take a look around.

Insert Coin to Continue will be on view at Day & Night Projects from April 12 through May 5. Gallery hours are 11am–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Marc Brotherton regularly exhibits his work in solo and group exhibitions, museums, art centers, and art fairs; nationally and locally. He has been reviewed in The New York Times, Creative Loafing, The Albuquerque Jour- nal, BURNAWAY, ArtsATL, dArt International Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, and Flash Art Magazine. Brother- ton received his MFA in painting and drawing from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College, and his BFA from the University of New Mexico. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA, and is represented by Causey Contemporary Fine Art in New York City.

Trevor Reese: And yet.* the squid and the whale

Two concurrent exhibitions::::::::::::::::

And yet.*

the squid and the whale

January 18–February 17, 2018

Visitors often ask why the sperm whale and giant squid diorama is so dark and why, unlike all other dioramas, there is no glass on the front. The darkness is deliberate—to approximate the pitch-black conditions of the deep ocean where no sunlight penetrates.

Each spider and each type of silk has a set of mechanical properties optimised for their biological function.

When you find yourself using the phrase and yet, consider whether any meaning would be lost if and were dropped.

There are ways to keep things we feel we need, and ways to leave things we do not.

Scott Silvey: deep time inhabitants

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 2, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: November 2–25, 2017
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 11am–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present deep time inhabitants, an exhibition by Atlanta artist Scott Silvey. In his latest solo exhibition, deep time inhabitants, Scott Silvey references those experiences which reveal the fundamental and collective nature of humanity. According to the psychologist Carl Jung, “from the unconscious there emanates determining influences which, independently of tradition, guarantee in every single individual a similarity and even a sameness of experience....” Through painting, objects, and installation, Silvey creates an atmosphere which works to pull aside the veil of culture and subjective perception to reveal an underlying psychological/spiritual foundation. Concepts of offering, sacrifice, the accumulation of knowledge, health, and the perception of reality are all woven into a potent and thought-provoking tableau.

deep time inhabitants will be on view at Day & Night Projects from November 2–25, 2017. Gallery hours are 11am–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment (special hours may be announced for Thanksgiving week—stay tuned to our instagram: @daynightprojects).

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Scott Silvey was raised in the fields and woodlands of central Indiana. After receiving a degree in psychology from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, he went on to earn an MFA in sculpture from Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has presented his work in both solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. In the Atlanta area, he has shown his work at Whitespace Gallery, Get This! Gallery, Vaknin-Schwartz Gallery, City Gallery Chastain, City Gallery East, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Spruill Center Gallery and The Swan Coach House Gallery. Abroad, Scott was the first non-Japanese artist to be sponsored by All Nippon Airways to hold a solo exhibition at Haneda Airport in Japan. He also held two other solo shows and participated in several group shows in the eight years he lived there. In addition to earning multiple honors and awards, magazines such as Sculpture, Art Papers, and Antennae have featured his work. Scott has been a 2015–17 Studio Resident at The Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta through The Creatives Project. He currently lives and works in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Visit www.scottsilvey.net.

Amelia Carley: Forever and a Day

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 28, 7–10pm 
Exhibition dates: September 28–October 21, 2017 
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 11am–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Forever and a Day, an exhibition by Amelia Carley. Presented will be a selection of new paintings, drawings, and immersive installation of new works by the artist, her rst solo exhibition in Atlanta.

Through our memories we reimagine and reform our sense of the past, these stories become our personal and collective histories. Forever and a Day is an exhibition of art works which reinterpret specific memories of travel to spectacular natural places and sandy destinations of escape. The paintings and drawings describe fantastical and bizarre landscapes imagined through fabricated sculptures and saturated canvases of fictitious places. An immersive installation distills the elements of those memories down into essential, sensory parts; light, geological material, form, and color. These components are then reconstituted and collaged together creating a new experiential space. This retelling and abbreviated aesthetic interpretation of memory and place conjure historical debates around conceived beauty and the sublime, the uncanny within nature, and of a personal invented manifest destiny. Forever and a Day investigates the theoretical and philosophical basis of our sense of time and reality around an ever elusive present and constantly rewritten notion of the past.

Forever and a Day will be on view at Day & Night Projects from September 28–October 21, 2017. Gallery hours are 11–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Amelia Carley was born and raised in Colorado. Carley attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Univer- sity of Colorado at Boulder where she graduated with honors receiving a BFA in Painting and Drawing along with BA in both Psychology and Italian. She has participated in several Artist-in-Resident programs including Vermont Studio Center and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Carley has exhibited at such venues as SOMArts in San Francisco, CA; Hyperlink Gallery in Chicago, IL; Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, CO; DATELINE Gallery in Denver, CO; Curfman Gallery at Colorado State University in Fort Collins CO, Galleries of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; SOUP Experimental in Tallahassee, FL; Hathaway Gallery in Atlanta, GA; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, CO, amongst others. Carley was recently awarded an Artist Project Grant through the Major’s Office of Cultural Affairs through the City of Atlanta. She is currently a Masters of Fine Arts candidate at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University where she is a Dean’s Fellow and recipient of the Andrew M. West Memorial Scholarship. Carley currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.

This exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the City of Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Artists Project Grant.

SOUP experimental: Fantasy

FANTASY
A collective from SOUP experimental, Tallahassee FL:
Featuring artists Ashton Bird, Sierra Kramer,
Matthew Lawrence, Chelsea Raflo, and Lucia Riffel

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 24, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: Aug. 24–September 16, 2017
Viewing hours: Weds., Fri., Sat. 11am–5pm, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present FANTASY: a collective of artists who utilize various modes of painting, installation, and sculpture to depict delusions within perspectives and interpreting reality.
Matthew Lawrence’s physically imposing paintings flash, goop, and tear as they dissect representations of abstracted celebrity archetypes as well as reveal what might be choreographed moments in domestic spaces.

Sierra Kramer’s otherworldly installations proposes you role-play as deity ubiquitously spying on imaginary environments inside of cardboard boxes.

Chelsea Raflo’s oil paintings use both invented landscapes and expressionless beings to externalize subconscious space where floating objects and their apparent lightness form the composition. Raflo questions heavier themes related to human existence comparing intra and external perspectives of oneself.

Lucia Riffel uses oddly recognizable globule-like forms that act as portals allowing the viewer to hide within, seek refuge and peek through holes to witness the outside world. These are safe-spaces of existence.

Ashton Bird’s objects reference memories that have been manipulated by time and age, where both the original object and its meaning fade into ambiguity as it is marked and deconstructed, allowing new unintended content to emerge.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ashton Bird is an installation artist and mixed media printmaker that was raised outside of Vermillion, South Dakota. While he was a kid, he passed most of his time nailing or whittling strange objects out of wood and thrown out tractor equipment. An odd hobby, but probably an obvious foreshadowing of his future artistic pursuit. Much of these creations can still be found around his family’s farm. In high school, he received several creative awards, graduated and enrolled at Minnesota State University Mankato where he obtained his BFA in Studio Art with concentrations in ceramics and printmaking. As an exhibiting artist, Bird has shown work in Minnesota, South Dakota, Ohio, Florida, Washington D.C. and Seoul, South Korea. In 2015, he was awarded the Artist Career Development Grant from the South Dakota Arts Council and a full-tuition scholarship from Florida State University Master of Fine Arts program located in Tallahassee. In February of 2016, Ashton founded the contemporary arts gallery SOUP experimental and continues to expand his personal definition as a creator and artist. After graduating in 2018, Ashton will further push himself in his creative endeavors as both a working artist and gallery director.

Lucia Riffel was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. She earned her BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Minnesota Morris, graduating with high honors in 2015. Following undergraduate, Riffel received a full-tuition scholarship to the Florida State University MFA program in Tallahassee, Florida where she currently resides. She has recently exhibited work in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Riffel works across many mediums in her interdisciplinary practice, but currently utilizes installation, digital animation, and projection to navigate the space between physical, psychological, and digital realms.

Sierra Kramer is an installation artist from Columbia, South Carolina. She received her BFA from Clemson University in 2013 and a MFA from Florida State University in 2017. Sierra currently resides and works in Tallahassee, Florida.

Matthew Lawrence is a New England-based artist who received his degree from The Rhode Island School of Design. Lawrence’s work tries to focus and spotlight the visually chaotic quagmire we all face through the use of abstract icons and social signifiers to create attainable experiences of the ephemeral. Alongside his custom design studio, Sterling & Lawrence, his paintings and sculptures have been showcased at Metro 250 Gallery, Woods Gerry House, Expose Gallery, Metcalf Gallery and SOUP experimental.

Chelsea Raflo is a visual artist from Atlanta working in sculpture, drawing, and animation. She is interested in ways of visualizing what we cannot physically see: psychosomatiscapes (a made-up word to describe landscapes of the interior world), possible futures, gut feelings, and stacked odds. She likes to play with language and cultivate a sense of the poetic within her work.

ABOUT SOUP EXPERIMENTAL
SOUP experimental showcases high-quality artworks made by the emerging artists from the surrounding area as well as provides a location to bring awareness of the contemporary creativity that Tallahassee emits. Within our city, many artists explore a variety of different genre by blending beautiful concepts with physical medium. This hybrid way of thinking cultivates our curiosities and continuously pushes our standard of exposition. SOUP experimental wants to share the definition of contemporary art with the community by offering rotating fine art exhibitions, artist performances, artists’ lectures, an online artist archive, and a yearly hard-copy review containing a documentation of the exhibiting artists from that year. It is our objective to become distinct and transform Tallahassee into a noticeable new phenomenon.

Art’s definition is continuously changing—art is malleable and dynamic. SOUP experimental seeks to become a platform for as much as possible and is fortunate enough to be a part of the unique, creative mind that exists solely in our neighborhood.

For more information on FANTASY, the artists, or to arrange a private viewing of the exhibition, please contact Steven L. Anderson at steve@stevenlanderson.com or call 404-623-7289.

TAR Project: Parallels: Unfolding Space

The second in a two-part series, Parallels: Unfolding Space is a collaboration by the artists and facilitator of the inaugural season of TAR Project (therapeutic artist residency). This group effort has been shaped by the residency’s year of intense reflection, transition, personal growth, and empowered empathy. These concepts find their way into Unfolding Space, bringing audiences in as part of the exhibition.

Viewers will experience installations and participatory performances over three nights that reflect TAR’s process:

Connect / Unfold / Release. Over the course of these events, the gallery space will be unfolded, altered, and revealed as a place of healing for the artists and audience. Visitors are encouraged to be daring collaborators with the artists in shared rituals of the artists’ design.

Connect: Thurs. July 27, 7–10pm. In a starlit room, the residents of TAR will lead a series of check-ins inspired by the tradition of their own group process. Small cohorts of individuals will be invited in to become present with themselves and those around them. Participants will follow this up with a short exercise in creation/destruction.

“Connections” will occur in 5–20 minute intervals throughout the night.

Unfold: Thurs. Aug. 3, 7–10pm. The gallery will enter into a process of shape-shifting. Viewers will observe through the gallery’s windows as the artists engage in performative actions to set the energetic container for the next stage.

Release: Thurs. Aug. 10, 7–10pm. An invitation to let go. Viewers will witness and honor the release of the artist’s one-year journey with breast cancer. This evening will hold the artist as sacred practitioner, art as method towards healing, and solidify intention toward a path of beginning
again. Artists and audience members alike will be invited to wash away their troubles in a
large tank of saltwater. Visitors are urged to bring bathing suits and towels.

Steven L. Anderson is a founding member of Day & Night Projects, an artist-run gallery in Atlanta. Anderson has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013–16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014–15 Walthall Artist Fellow. Anderson’s notebooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He has exhibited in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago. More information at http://www.StevenLAnderson.com.

“It had never occurred to me that therapy was something I wanted or needed. But the opportunity to work with Orion and these other artists excited me, and it has turned out to be a valuable experience. TAR has helped me continue to grow and explore as an artist, a husband, a father, a worker, and a leader.”
—Steven L. Anderson, artist and Co-founder of Day & Night Projects

Orion Crook, LPC: In the West End of Atlanta, Orion Psychotherapy’s studio office holds space for adolescents and adults who are seeking to engage in a therapeutic-relationship-ritual with a Licensed Professional Counselor. Grounded in his Humanistic foundation from the University of West Georgia, he often encounters the lived struggles of trauma, gender, sexuality, and loss with compassion, an ear for metaphors, and an interest in Expressive Therapies. Orion’s work with living sculptures brings to the forefront what is living and dead in the realm of art, and offers that the art-making process and product is a living and breathing entity. At the intersection where art meets therapy, Orion founded and runs the Therapeutic Artists Residency.

“Three years a ago I had a vision to offer artists something deeper than money, gallery space, and professional development; from this Atlanta’s TAR Project was born. Not only has it been a privilege to work with these artists in between their healing and their art, they helped me develop an approach to working with artists in residency and allowed the vision to become a reality.” —Orion Crook, LPC

Julie L. Sims lives in the Atlanta area and graduated summa cum laude from Georgia State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and locally, and has been written about in Creative Loafing, ArtsATL.com, and in publications including Possible Futures’ Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape. She is a 2016–15 TAR Project resident, and was a 2014 WonderRoot CSA artist, a 2013–14 Walthall Fellow, was selected by the New York Times to attend the New York Portfolio Review (2013), and was nominated for the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2012). See more at http://www.lensideout.com.

“I applied to TAR because I was already making work about mental health as a vehicle for trying to understand my own struggles with anxiety and depression, and the program seemed like it offered a way to take that work further. My life experiences had left me with conflicting narratives about my value as a person, and I wanted an outside perspective to help me navigate these and be able to discard beliefs that did not serve my growth. Instead, shortly after being accepted into the program, I got to relearn everything about who I am by having it stripped from me piece by piece after I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and in having to fight to hold on to the person I had been while occupying my new role as a cancer patient. Serious illness is both consuming and isolating. Being in the TAR during that time kept me grounded in who Ihad been before cancer took over. It required that I stay engaged with my art, and that provided a sense of normalcy in the midst of chaos, during a time when so many other parts of my life slipped from my control. The TAR program felt as though it had been made with me in mind when I first read about it, and I believe now it was in fact where I was meant to be, exactly when I needed it.” —Julie L. Sims, artist

Xenia Simos is an installation artist with a background in sculpture and design. A graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design, her work explores space and our relationship to it. Through a conceptual and process-based approach, Simos translates the human experience into a spatial composition, manifesting mental structures into physical ones. Her works are often site-specific, and interdisciplinary in medium.

“After art school I became artistically paralyzed, unable to create. I came to this residency with the intention of healing my creative process and with gentle hopes of making art again. Not only did TAR play an invaluable role in helping me face my process and create new work, it has guided me to delve deeper,
and strengthen my own healing and growth through art.” —Xenia Simos, artist

ABOUT THE TAR PROJECT:

The TAR Project is a Therapeutic Artist Residency new to Atlanta, that is in its inaugural year of offering four artists a year-long residency at the intersection of art and therapy. Accepted residents receive monthly individual and group therapy sessions. The residency culminates in a group showcase featuring individual and group work, along with discussion panels. A main focus of the residency is analyzing the artist’s process and looking at how art parallels other life processes, and vice versa. Year two will focus on marginalized youth and begin with open applications shortly after the Inaugural year comes to an end.

Karen Tauches: FLA 4-EVER

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 15, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: June 15—July 8, 2017

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present FLA 4-EVER, a solo exhibition by Karen Tauches. Presented are commemorative graphics for a changing state of FLORIDA.

The title of the show is taken from a custom Florida license plate the artist saw while traveling. It boldly declared: “FLA 4-EVER!” This is a funny contradiction, since the limestone shelf which makes up Florida emerges out of the ocean only temporarily in geologic time. The Sunshine State is therefore quite fluid and ephemeral (like so many of the most beautiful things in life).

A plurality of identities linger online and in advertising. Tauches works from the collective memory of Florida, as opposed to the real thing. She makes ceramics, photography and video installations which commemorate a changing state of FLORIDA, inspired by: tourist postcards & graphics, landscape paintings, highway signage, an early 20th century botanist, Miccosukee Indian skirt patterns, and the looming threat of hurricanes.

The only actual artifact in the exhibition is video footage which documents the ocean at Alligator Point, where rising sea levels are causing erosion and flooding.

About the Artist:

Karen Tauches is an artist, curator, and designer. She received her BA in communications and creative writing from Loyola University, New Orleans and then moved to Atlanta in the ‘90s. For 20 years, she has produced small and large scale exhibitions with many local galleries and art institutions in addition to organizing artist- initiated projects. She has served on the boards of ARTPAPERS magazine, BURNAWAY.org, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, and the Hudgens Award. Presently she is the Creative Director at the Forward Arts Foundation/ Swan Coach House Gallery and continues working as a freelance artist and designer.

Day & Night Projects is the project space for Day & Night Studios, where artists Steven L. Anderson, William Downs, Mark Leibert, and Tori Tinsley make magic.
For more info, please contact info@dayandnightprojects.com or studio@ktauches.com.

Christopher Hutchinson & Jason Sweet: In Tandem

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 15, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: June 15—July 8, 2017

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present In Tandem, an exhibition by Atlanta artists Christopher Hutchinson and Jason Sweet.

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present In Tandem, an exhibition by Atlanta artists Christopher Hutchinson and Jason Sweet.

In Tandem reflects on home and community as the artists use sculpture and installation to dream in the face of socio-economic forces that are changing neighborhoods in Atlanta and cities across America.

Christopher Hutchinson’s swarms of black paper airplanes that so frequently represent the migration of African American communities here come into a defensive formation, as composite suits of armor. These arrangements, so highly organized, suggest that a close-knit neighborhood can take a stand.

Jason Sweet’s totems of remembrance and potential balance traditional artists’ materials with salvaged pieces of the his previous residences—homes where he has lived and had to leave. Assembling together “what was” and “what could have been,” the artist’s wall sculptures present a patinaed minimalism.

About the Artists:

Jason Sweet is a practicing artist and Department Chair and Professor of Humanities & Fine Arts at Atlanta Metropolitan State College. He earned his MFA in Sculpture from the University of Illinois in Urbana Cham- paign, and his BA in Sculpture from the University of Northern Iowa. He has also worked as an apprentice to renowned sculptors Tom Stancliffe and Preston Jackson. Sweet has produced a number of public art commissions such as for The University of Northern Iowa, The Waterloo Grout Museum in Waterloo, IA, and for Utoy Creek Water Reclamation Center for the city of Atlanta. He has exhibited his work with the American Craft Council, and has performed at the annual international performance art series Vertigo. Visit creativethresholds.com/ 2014/02/27/works-by-jason-sweet.

Christopher Hutchinson is an Atlanta-based artist and professor at West Georgia Technical College. He has an MFA from SCAD Atlanta, and BFA from Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville. Hutchinson is founder of Smoke School of Art Collective, and owner of Archetype Art Gallery in Atlanta. He has written on post-colonial perspectives on art for Creative Thresholds, BURNAWAY, and other publications. Hutchinson’s artwork has been exhibited in Atlanta, New York, Miami, and other places across America. Visit black ight144.com.

Day & Night Projects is the project space for Day & Night Studios, where artists Steven L. Anderson, William Downs, Mark Leibert, and Tori Tinsley make magic.
For more info, please contact info@dayandnightprojects.com or studio@ktauches.com.

Mirror, Mirror/ In Time of Silver Rain

Mirror, Mirror:

Nicholas Steindorf and Raul Valverde

curated by MOUNTAIN

In Time of Silver Rain:

Michi Meko and Saige Rowe

curated by Selena

Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 17, 7–10pm
Exhibition dates: Feb. 17–Mar. 12, 2017

Day & Night Projects is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions in their Atlanta gallery, curated by MOUNTAIN and Selena, both artist-run spaces in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

MOUNTAIN introduces Atlanta viewers to New York-based artists Nicholas Steindorf and Raul Valverde in Mirror, Mirror. This exhibition is about simulated realities, intangible form, and the reflective nature of abstraction.

Raul Valverde has created a 3D rendered “virtual sculpture” that exists solely as a computer-generated simulation, but draws from source images of the physical gallery space of Day & Night Projects. Nicholas Steindorf will present a series of video works incorporating digital animation and moving image “still lifes” of both real and simulated objects.

Selena pairs Georgia artists Michi Meko and Saige Rowe in a unique dialogue with In Time of Silver Rain. The exhibition shares the same title as Langston Hughes’ poem from 1947, which speaks to a time of change when winter is ending and spring is beginning.

Michi Meko’s practice weaves Southern culture and contemporary street culture, enmeshing the personal and historical. Within these themes he employs assemblage, implemented through sculpture, painting, and video. Through nautical references, Meko speaks to Black Navigation as a means of understanding Blackness. Omitting an aura, these talismanic works imbue discarded objects with a mixture of spirituality and personal identity. Utilizing diverse materials including gold leaf, Georgia clay, bare wood, boxing gloves, found objects, charcoal, acrylic and spray paint, these hybridizations of time and material explore ideas of the self-tethered to history, but on a continual navigation towards re-imagined futures.

Saige Rowe’s colorful, performative, videos utilize the artist’s body exploring everyday objects. The performer, never shown entirely in frame, cuts into enclosed settings, often backyards and small rooms, creating disjointed compositional effects. The play of restrictive color and perspective creates a flirtatious space between personal femininity and the depth of the body as a vessel. A collapse of photography into video and vice versa is essential to the artist’s practice; Rowe’s assembled sculpture pushes further this collapse as screens can be incorporated in numberless ways.

About the Artists:

Raul Valverde (b. 1980, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at 300 Morgan, NY, and Ogami Press, Madrid; and a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program. He has an MFA from School of Visual Arts; an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London; and a BFA from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Visit valverderaul.com.

Nicholas Steindorf (b. 1987, Milwaukee, WI) lives and works in Brooklyn. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Exo Exo, Paris and the launch of the 2nd download for the Virtual Dream Center, quarterly online exhibition platform. He has an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Columbia College, Chicago.
Visit nicholassteindorf.com.

Michi Meko (b. 1974, Florence, AL) lives and works in Atlanta. He has a BA from Univ. of North Alabama. Recent projects include solo exhibitions at Univ. of Georgia Lamar Dodd Galleries, Athens GA, and Univ. of North Georgia. Meko is represented by Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta.
Visit michimeko.com.

Saige Rowe (b. 1993) lives and works in Conyers, GA. She has a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Recent projects include exhibitions at Bodega, New York, NY and at Species, Atlanta, GA in collaboration with Linda Moncada.
Visit saigerowe.info.

About the Galleries:

MOUNTAIN is an artist-run apartment gallery in Bushwick presenting exhibitions and projects by emerging artists, founded by Michael Fleming in 2016.
Visit mountain.xhbtr.com.

Selena is an artist run space co-founded by Anjuli Rathod and Olivia Swider located in Brooklyn, New York.
Visit selenagallery.co.

Day & Night Projects Founders: The Voice Never Sleeps

The Voice Never Sleeps:
Steven L. Anderson, William Downs, Mark Leibert, and Tori Tinsley

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 17, 7-10pm
Exhibition dates: Nov. 17–Dec. 4, 2016

Day & Night Projects presents The Voice Never Sleeps, a group exhibition of its founding members: Steven L. Anderson, William Downs, Mark Leibert, and Tori Tinsley.

“The Voice Never Sleeps” describes an attitude and drive that these artists share: we make it happen, we work it through, we strive to understand, we listen to that inner voice, and we let our flags fly.

Steven L. Anderson’s works come out of a calamitous event in his studio, the accidental destruc-tion of a large Tree Ring drawing. The immediate, fist-shaking protest flag of “I’ll Never Stop Making Art,” and the longer-term picking up of the pieces in “Ten Thousand Years of Painting in Georgia” offer timely strategies of moving forward after a devastating loss.

Mark Leibert’s “Gather” captures a portrait of a colleague in the moment of developing. Painting with spray paint and hand-mixed oils & pigments on canvas, Leibert catches his tentative subject somewhere between vanishing and appearing.

Tori Tinsley’s acrylic paintings explore the changing relationship between the artist with her mother as she succumbs to a brain disease called fronto-temporal degeneration. “Cave Hug” and “Eye Poke” show us bright colors and dark spaces, as we care for and occasionally hurt the ones we love.

William Downs uses the figure as a foundation to build bodies and landscapes. In “Just stand on my head please” and a suite of nine ink washes on paper, Downs’ manipulated and layered lines allow for a mix of formal and surreal elements, uniting on the surface of the drawings.

“The Voice Never Sleeps” is on view Fridays 11am–4pm, Saturdays 11am–5pm, and by appointment. Contact steve@stevenlanderson.com or call 404-623-7289 for more information.

Creature of What You Are

Creature of What You Are is a photography group exhibition focused on artists currently exploring the theme of connection, specifically within the familial unit. The philosophies behind a family come from the connections that people share with each other. Connections of shared relationships, shared experiences, or a shared home; emotional ties between individuals that are unbreakable. Observation of the intimacy between people who are connected on multidimensional levels will present a complexity that is strong yet familiar. The investigation into this bond helps people understand themselves; identity can be found by looking backwards and inward.

Artists represented:
Ben B. Lee
Kelli Couch
Alicia Collins

Curated by Morgan Byrd and Maggie Callahan