Morgan Lugo: When the World Feels Weightless

June 2–July 9, 2022

Opening reception: Thursday, June 2, 7–10pm

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

Day & Night Projects is proud to present When the World Feels Weightless, a solo exhibition by emerging artist and Atlanta sculptor Morgan Lugo. Morgan’s intricate castings in bronze and aluminum of real fruit, vegetables,  seafood, molecular polygons, fingers, and mouths heap against each other in sumptuous detail—each sculpture is a feast that consumes itself in an orgy of pleasure. Lugo’s cultural identities—Sicilian, Puerto Rican, and Southern—are expressed through these cuisines of a peoples’ memory. The sculptures’ references to constellations of stars and the neurochemistry of our bodies serve as further indexes of collective and personal memory, endowing real weight on something so ephemeral.

When the World Feels Weightless will open with a socially-distanced reception on Thursday, June 2, 7–10pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment. The exhibition will also be available for view as photos on our website, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: Visitors must be vaccinated. Masks will be required indoors. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Refreshments will be served outside. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Morgan Lugo is a Sicilian/Puerto Rican post-surrealist sculptor based in Atlanta, GA. Lugo’s practice is informed by a deep knowledge of mold making and metal casting from working as a professional foundry craftswoman for 6 years. After living through a severe head injury and losing her memory for a short period of time, Lugo became fascinated with what the physical representation of an idea or memory would look like. As she used her art practice to heal from the long-lasting side effects of brain trauma, much of her symbolism represents the reality in which she lives. Within the cosmology of her work, multiple faces, molecular structures, swirling visuals, and dream-like compositions take hold. She describes the experience of vertigo as extremely similar to the moment right before we fall asleep. The moment when the world feels weightless, time moves slowly and everything seems to be floating together. Her work is a combination between the real, the ephemeral, what we see, and where it goes in our mind. Visit http://www.morganlugosculpture.com for more information.

Allen Peterson: Collective Action

April 14–May 7, 2022

Opening reception: Thursday, April 14, 7–10pm

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

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Collective Action, a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist and educator, Allen Peterson. Peterson’s immersive installation in the gallery looks at the social systems of honeybees to provoke questions about our own human systems. Peterson uses a wide range of media and materials—from wall painting and stenciling, sound recordings, welded steel, paper sculpture, to honey itself, glowing amber in plexi-encased lightboxes.

The pursuit of the apiarian metaphors of collective organization and consciousness puts Peterson’s voice squarely within the American culture wars. The crisis of the pandemic has led to rise of mutual aid groups and free fridges, as well as a renewed demonization of anything that may appear to be Socialism. But are insects political? Or is the drive towards cooperation an ancient evolutionary tendency in any species? Questions like these encountered in Collective Action could threaten to blow the whole debate wide open.

Collective Action will open with a socially-distanced reception on Thursday, April 14, 7–10pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment. The exhibition will also be available for view as photos on our website, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: Visitors must be vaccinated. Masks will be required indoors. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Refreshments will be served outside. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Allen Peterson is an artist and educator in Atlanta, GA. He works in various media, including welded steel, iron that is melted and shaped during performance art, hand-cast paper and iron oxide printing, laser-cut paper and glue, and even sometimes raw beeswax that is placed on his sculptural work by live honeybees. He became an amateur beekeeper over a decade ago in order to learn about honeybees in a hands-on way, because his work about bees was leading him to become more specific to the current moment and less abstract. He is currently part of a beekeeping collective at South River Art Studios in Atlanta.

Peterson has taught sculpture at several colleges and universities, including Atlanta College of Art, and currently Kennesaw State University. He balances roles such as beekeeper, musician, friend, husband, and father with those of metal fabricator, educator, and artist. Visit allenpeterson.com.

Dreamsicle: Rachel K. Garceau, Gracelee Lawrence, and Stacie Rose

Contemporary On-Site, February 11–March 27, 2022 at

535 Means St. NW, Atlanta, GA, 30318

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Dreamsicle, as part of the Contemporary On-Site program at the Atlanta Contemporary. Dreamsicle brings together three artists with Atlanta ties: Rachel K. Garceau, Gracelee Lawrence, and Stacie Rose. Garceau’s installation resembles a cascade of river stones, yet the light weight of these massed shapes is revealed through the translucency of slip-cast porcelain. Lawrence’s “digitally-skewed” fruits and vegetables slowly spin on their pedestals, displaying a shiny, colorful glaze and ambivalence to their IRL existence. Rose’s improvised wall painting incorporates screen printing and other methods of mark-making, reacting to the color and resonances of her colleague’s artworks.

Contemporary On-Site shines a light on exceptional artist-run spaces operating in the South. Since 1973, Atlanta Contemporary has provided an alternative to the art and cultural hierarchy in the contemporary art scene. Founded by artists, Atlanta Contemporary was built upon the principles of engaging experimentation and risk-taking through exhibitions, programming, and support of working artists. Contemporary On-Site exhibitions reflect, expand, and update the ethos of those early days. Dreamsicle will be on view at Atlanta Contemporary (535 Means St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30318) from Friday, Feb. 11–March 27, 2022. Visit atlantacontemporary.org/visit#planning-your-visit for visiting hours and guidelines. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Rachel K. Garceau is a studio artist living and working in the Atlanta, GA area, and has been recognized as a 2015 Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and one of 2017’s Women to Watch by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Rachel received a BA in Fine Arts from Franklin Pierce College in 2003. In 2013, Rachel completed the two-year Core Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts (NC). She has received residencies at Vendsyssel Kuntsmuseum (DK), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), All Is Leaf (MA), and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA). Her work has been shown at GreenHill Center for NC Art (NC), Lillstreet Gallery (IL), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (GA), and has been published in Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, and NCECA Journal, and also appears in CAST: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process.

Gracelee Lawrence has attended twenty residencies in the US and abroad and opened her first solo show in New York at Thierry Goldberg in May 2019. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University at Albany, SUNY. Recent exhibitions include the University Art Museum at SUNY Albany, Marinaro Gallery (New York, NY), Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY), Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (New York, NY), HEADLINE Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), and more. She has installed large-scale outdoor sculptures at the Upstate Immersive (Poughkeepsie, NY), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Museum of Museums (Seattle, WA), Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN), Mary Sky (Hancock, VT), and others. Lawrence taught at Chiang Mai University (Thailand) on a Luce Scholars Fellowship. She is a member of the collective MATERIAL GIRLS, a recipient of the 2021-22 Individual Artist DEC Grant, a 2019 Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park, a 2016-17 Luce Scholars Fellow, a recipient of the 2015 UMLAUF Prize, 2013 Eyes Got It Prize, and the 2011-12 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant. She is an enthusiastic dancer, a lifelong horsewoman, and an aspiring indoor gardener.

Stacie Rose has lived and worked in Atlanta since 2008. She has shown in Atlanta at Poem88 Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCAGA), Swan Coach House Gallery, Kibbee Gallery, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Barbara Archer Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Marcia Wood Gallery, Mason- Scharfenstein Museum of Art, and Lamar Dodd School of Art (UGA). Her work is included in numerous corporate and private collections around the country. Projects include large scale paintings in CODA Tech Square, and the MARTA’s Arts Center Station. Stacie earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Science. 

For more information on Dreamsicle, the artists, or sales inquiries, please contact Steven L. Anderson at info@daynightprojects.art or call 404-623-7289. Or contact Atlanta Contemporary at support@atlantacontemporary.org or call 404-688-1970.

Jym Davis: Shame Faces

Nov. 11–Dec. 18, 2021 

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Shame Faces, a solo exhibition by North Georgia artist and Reinhardt University professor Jym Davis. The artist’s elaborate papier-mâché masks, with their play on the colors of the American flag, and design motifs from diagrams of prisons and border detention centers, evoke the political and social caricatures of carnival masquerades from around the world. But Davis links these to a different tradition and purpose—the medieval European practice of schandmaskes—where “shame masks” were imposed on the wearer as a social punishment. Davis’s purpose here is not to humiliate the village glutton, but to point out a distorted pride, to check an American exceptionalism that justifies all sins in its name. 

While Davis’s mask-making precedes our global pandemic by nearly a decade, these artworks confirm the power of the mask as a device for protection, insecurity, obfuscation, and revelation.

Shame Faces will open with a socially-distanced reception on Thursday, Nov. 11, 6–9pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment. The exhibition will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: Visitors must be vaccinated. Masks will be required indoors. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Refreshments will be served outside. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Jym Davis is an Associate Professor of Art at Reinhardt University. His recent exhibitions include Feinkunst-Krueger gallery in Germany, Treat Gallery in NYC, and a solo show in Nashville. His work has been featured by The National Endowment for the Arts, Hi-Fructose Magazine, and Juxtapoz Magazine. Since 2016, Davis has been an official National Park Artist-In-Resident five times: Big Cypress Preserve in Florida, Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, Craters of the Moon Monument in Idaho, and Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. He spent the summer of 2021 in the Nevada desert, living and creating work at The Mystery Ranch outside of Las Vegas. Davis is also known for his inspirational art Instagram account FALSE FACE which has 170 thousand followers. Visit jymdavis.com for more information.

For more information on Shame Faces, the artist, or sales inquiries, please contact Steven L. Anderson at info@daynightprojects.art or call 404-623-7289.

Leia Genis: Time-Dye

September 9–October 2, 2021

Artist Talk: Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Time-Dye, a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist Leia Genis. Time-Dye is the third in a trilogy of recent solo projects for Genis, presenting a progression of photographic and chemical-based processes. Canvases stretched with layers of loose-weave cotton fabric are the ground for cyanotypes, a method of exposing chemicals to light that leaves behind an intense blue color. 

A crowd of human figures veil the illumination of the studio spotlights, becoming visible as the unexposed chemicals are rinsed away. Certain areas are masked with wax, and then the fabric is dyed. As the fixative for the dyes is the same chemical that erases the cyanotype, Genis performs an alchemical balancing act to develop the image into existence. What parts of the image can be preserved, and what is destroyed?

The resulting mass of silhouetted bodies breaks out in a riot of bright purples, pinks, cream, and indigo. The evolution of Genis’s cyanotypes from erasures of lone persons on blue fields, to a flock of fractured figures may prompt viewers to ask: how are self and identity constructed? Who is visible and who is erased? And what is the nature of individuals and groups? 

Time-Dye will open with a socially-distanced reception on Thursday, Sept. 9, 6–9pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment. The artist will give an informal talk with Q&A on Saturday, Sept. 25, time TBA. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: Visitors must be vaccinated. Masks will be required indoors. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Refreshments will be served outside. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Leia Genis is an artist and editor currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with degrees in painting and sculpture, her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as MINT Gallery and The End project space in Atlanta, and the Ipswich Biennale (Ipswich, UK).

For more information on Time-Dye; the artist; press or sales inquiries, please contact Steven L. Anderson at info@daynightprojects.art or call 404-623-7289.

Kelly O’Brien: Unprecedented

Exhibition Dates: June 3–26, 2021 

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Unprecedented, a ferocious baring of fangs in painting and hybrid sculpture. Minneapolis-based artist Kelly O’Brien, a graduate of GSU’s Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, returns for her first solo show in Atlanta since 2012. 

The snapping teeth of junkyard dogs, growling lions, and chomping zebras create a silent cacophony with loud hot colors, as their images migrate from the flat plane of the canvas to Oldenburg-ish soft sculpture. These powerful gestures, generated from the anxiety of America 2020, carry no words—do these mouths spew vitriol, or warnings to back off?

Unprecedented will open with a socially-distanced reception on Thursday, June 3, 6–9pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment. The exhibition will also be available below, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Refreshments will be served outside. Masks will be required for all visitors in the lobby and gallery. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Kelly O’Brien is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Sculptural Practices at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, WI, and is an MFA Mentor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in MN. O’Brien has her MFA in Sculpture from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA; as well as a BFA in sculpture, BFA painting and BA in philosophy from Buffalo State College, NY.

Recent accomplishments include a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship; nomination for a Joan Mitchell award; a solo show review in ARTFORUM.com; and a feature in New American Paintings, Midwest. Solo shows include Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, SooVAC in Minneapolis; Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; and The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI. Commissions include a mixed media installation at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, an educational installation for The Alliance Theater at the Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta; and a stage installation for TEDxTalk, at TEDxPeachtree. For more information, visit kosculpture.com.

Felistas Varaidzo Mhute: Handle with Care

Exhibition Dates: April 29–May 22, 2021 

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Handle with Care, an exploration of rhythm, pattern, and movement through textile and performance by Atlanta-based artist Felistas Varaidzo Mhute. Setting the scene, thickly-embroidered fabric panels hang form the ceiling, draping the gallery with thread, yarn, hair, dried flowers, and natural fibers. The artist has twisted, bound, and stitched these filaments to create a network of tissues and membranes.

In this environment, Mhute will enact her first public performance of dance and movement—dressing in and shedding these fabric skins, transforming her appearance with each sheath and husk. Mhute’s attention to physical movement, and the masking and revealing of her “emotional body” opens a conversation between who we are and who we appear to be. Which skins fit us, and which do we wear to fit others?

Handle with Care opens with the live performance (free) on Thursday, April 29, at 5:55pm. Subsequent gallery hours are Fridays & Saturdays 12–5pm, through May 22. Due to COVID- 19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

The exhibition Handle with Care will be documented below, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Felistas Varaidzo Mhute (b.1993) is a fiber artist and hair designer who was born in Zimbabwe and is currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated with a BFA in textiles from Georgia State University in 2018 and has been exploring and creating since. Her love for fiber was cultivated at a young age: she spent summers watching her grandmother who was a doily maker and her aunts who were seamstresses. Her current work seeks to highlight how collective knowledge—both emotional and physical—builds up in our bodies and informs how we react and change as we navigate life. Handle with Care is her first performance and installation that highlights these cycles of transformation and demands us to pay attention to the spaces in between. Visit mamoyo.squarespace.com for more information.

Maggie Hayes: A Ringing Glass that Shatters As it Rings

Exhibition Dates: April 15–24, 2021

• Opening reception: Thursday, April 15, 6–9pm 

• 7-day live performance: April 16 through April 23, viewing hours 12–5pm 

• Meet the artist and Q&A: Saturday, April 24, 2pm 

• Performance will be live-streamed on Twitch— details TBA on social media 

Day & Night Projects is proud to present A Ringing Glass that Shatters As it Rings by Savannah, GA -based artist Maggie Hayes. The artist’s explorations of creative and spiritual growth are expressed through painting, video, writings, and a performance of endurance and perseverance. 

Hayes will spend Friday through Friday in the gallery with her artworks. Audiences are invited to insert themselves into this environment of intentionality from 12–5pm every day. On view are tandem videos, intimate scenes in which the artist bucks and tangles against a tattooed male arm with only her head and neck. Is this what it feels like to wrestle with the mystery of the universe? Hayes follows the snake shedding its skin and honors those who have channeled big, divine energy in oil and acrylic paintings. Fiber-based banners and paper scrolls with inspirational writings hang from the ceiling, creating an all-encompassing atmosphere of solemnity and encouragement. 

Hayes herself will be performing a silent meditation and water-only fast for a full 7 days. Viewers are welcome join her in meditation, to engage with the artworks, and to respect the artist’s silence. What arises from Hayes’s efforts, in various methods, is the artist’s effort as a metaphysical activist, putting in “the work” to gain clarity of sight and feeling, to hone her sense of compassion, to vibrate with such frequency, to break though it all. 

A Ringing Glass that Shatters As it Rings will open with a socially-distanced reception on Thursday, April 15, 6–9pm. Viewing hours are each day April 15–24, from 12–5pm. Hayes will be present for a Q&A on Saturday, April 24, starting at 2pm. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. 

Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

The exhibition A Ringing Glass that Shatters As it Rings will be live-cast on Twitch—details will be released on Day & Night’s Instagram and Facebook channels (both @daynightprojects). The exhibition will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

Kaleigh Marie Fitzgerald & Carl “Robbie” Callens: Passing By

Exhibition Dates: March 19–April 10, 2021 

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Passing By, an exhibition of sculpture, painting, and photography by Atlanta artists Kaleigh Marie Fitzgerald & Carl “Robbie” Callens. Fitzgerald and Callens met as interns at Day & Night Projects, and found that they share an interest in how exponential growth is affecting our city’s homes and architecture. Callens’ documentation of neighborhoods crumbling and rebuilding reveals the desperation and desire that fuels gentrification. Fitzgerald echoes with sculptures and paintings, capturing the gritty textures of construction materials and boarded-up windows.

Passing By will be on view March 19–April 10, 2021. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

The exhibition Passing By will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Kaleigh Marie Fitzgerald is a Canadian-born, Atlanta-based artist who graduated from Georgia State University in May of 2018 with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a Minor in Spanish. While still in university, Kaleigh studied art and language internationally, receiving her Spanish minor while studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain, and attending an artist residency in Greece lead by Craig Dongoski. Fitzgerald combines drawing, painting, and sculptural installations to examine the powerful symbolic and symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment and to subsequently bring to life the allegorical spaces existing within the subconscious mind. Kaleigh has shown her artwork in various group exhibitions around Atlanta and in Greece at galleries such as MINT, Mammal, The Bakery, Day & Night Projects, and the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture. Kaleigh also spends her free time working and volunteering for local art institutions and is one of the current interns at Day & Night Projects. Visit kaleighfitzgerald.art for more information.

Carl “Robbie” Callens was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and graduated from Georgia State University in the spring of 2020 with a BFA in studio art photography. His local background and experiences influence his work in themes of the urban and natural landscape of Atlanta. He has interned with local galleries (including Day & Night Projects) and assisted contemporary artists over the years and recently started his business, Robbie ATL Media, LLC in October 2020. Robbie documents his environments with detail to color, composition, and curiosity. Visit robbieatl.myportfolio.com for more information.

Susan Klein & Mark Brosseau: Land of Vines

Exhibition Dates: February 12–March 6, 2021

Day & Night Projects is proud to present Land of Vines, an exhibition of ceramics and painting by South Carolina-based artists Susan Klein and Mark Brosseau. A mutual admiration of Klein’s glazed ceramic stoneware and Brosseau’s paintings with acrylic, enamel, and flashe led these two artists to start a dialogue over abstraction as well as the interplay between painting and sculpture. Together they helped start a branch of Tiger Strikes Asteroid gallery in Greenville, SC., and have continued to investigate connections between their work, culminating in this exhibition.

The artists see their work as a response to the world that is tethered to place. Yet both approach their work through improvisation, reacting in the moment to form and color. The exhibition’s title Land of Vines refers to the novel Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. Cosimo, the protagonist, creates a life in the trees. He must improvise to survive; creativity is his lifeline. Vines help him move through the trees, creating connections from point to point. Klein’s and Brosseau’s call and response between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional can be read similarly—pictorial vines that map out the space of their minds.

Land of Vines will be on view Feb. 12–March 6. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

The exhibition Land of Vines will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Susan Klein is an artist and curator living in Charleston, SC. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her most recent exhibition was “Elsewhere Is A Negative Mirror”, a two-person show at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, curated by Will Hutnick. Curatorial projects include the 2018 exhibition “Nighttime for Strangers” at NARS Foundation (Brooklyn) and upcoming exhibitions through Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. Klein is a 2020-2021 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Other awards include a Hambidge Center Residency, Wassaic Project Residency (NY) and residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (Brooklyn), a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and an Ox-bow Artist-in-Residence Summer Fellowship. She teaches painting at the College of Charleston.

Equally drawn to color, science, math, and emotion, Mark Brosseau discovered art by way of chemistry and architecture. After graduating from high school in Lyndon, VT, where he was born in 1976, he entered Dartmouth College with the intention of pursuing studies in chemistry. His interest soon shifted to architecture, a curriculum that required a drawing class. That drawing class changed not only his college major but also his life, introducing him to the world of creative exploration that fuels his passion and intellectual curiosity today. Mark graduated with honors from Dartmouth in 1998 and then earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. He followed that with a year of painting and printmaking in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. He has had fourteen solo exhibitions, the most recent being “Far-fetched “at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, KS. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including New American Paintings, and reviewed by ArtForum, Philadelphia Inquirer, Two Coats of Paint, Artblog, and others. Mark currently lives with his wife and two dogs in Greer, SC. He is a Co-Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. He is a 2019 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

Jarrett Christian: Looks Like Rain, Feels Like Rain

Exhibition Dates: January 15–February 6, 2021

Circumnavigating the Capital of the New Southwest Territory

An award winning portrait photographer, Christian’s plans in 2020 to document the faces and places around the American South were scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pivoting to a studio practice, the artist began to develop a way of making objects and images that blur the distinctions between photography, painting, and sculpture. Framed photographs float above painted portraits; magazine images are collaged in with tape, vinyl, and painted cardboard jumbles; jagged paper strips make a shaggy frame. As materials are shuffled and reconstructed, so too is meaning. We hunt for clues in Landscape Data’s large-scale word search game, just as we dig for contexts or relationships between the mash-up of street photos and vintage pictures in the mural-sized Circumnavigating The Capital Of The New Southwest Territory.

Looks Like Rain, Feels Like Rain will be on view Jan. 15–Feb. 6. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

The exhibition Looks Like Rain, Feels Like Rain will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jarrett Christian (b.1982) received his MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2016 and a BA in Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University in 2005. His work is currently traveling with the exhibition “Enduring Ideals” organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum. Christian is a 2018 Idea Capital grant recipient and has exhibited work at The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The New York Historical Society and at the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum in Washington, DC. Christian’s interdisciplinary practice includes photography, painting, drawing, printmaking and college. Jarrett is currently working toward completing his first monograph “We Are Not These Hands.”

The Inside of My Eyelids, curated by QUAID Artist Collective

Exhibition Dates: Nov. 20–Dec. 31, 2020 

Day & Night Projects is proud to present an exhibition of artists curated by QUAID Artist Collective of Tampa,
Florida. Featured are artists Neil Bender, Taylor Finke, Jenn Ryann Miller, Justin Nelson, Sam Newton, Anthony
Record, Gary Schmitt, and Emiliano Settecasi.

The Inside of My Eyelids explores the genre of “landscape” and the ways it can function as relief during a time of restricted travel and a way of evoking public and private spaces in increased isolation. The darkness and projection that happens with eyes closed reveals a swimmingly bizarre world of imagined interior worlds, dreaming of being someplace else, and the abstraction of fluttering images. Again, “landscape” is a loose framework on which the QUAID artists will show a variety of work exploring the possibility of images, both fantastic and concrete.

Neil Bender’s late-night fever dreams become misremembered and misrepresented as he brings them into the physical form of drawings in ink, acrylic, and collage. Anthony Record’s ambiguous, shadowy forms in acrylic paint echo call forth the haunted history of the Southern landscape. Sam Newton’s apocalyptic horses stampede through this year in oil on canvas. Justin Nelson’s meticulous moth calls out from (or to?) a dystopian future. Taylor Finke’s photo of a quiet moment shimmers like phosphenes. Jenn Ryann Miller’s painted steel artwork evokes memories of the epic road trip.

The Inside of My Eyelids will be on view Nov. 20–Dec. 31. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays,
or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

The exhibition The Inside of My Eyelids will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

ABOUT THE CURATORS:
QUAID is an artist collective and gallery space located in Tampa, FL. The Collective was founded in 2014 by members of the Tampa Drawers Sketch Gang, a group of Tampa artists who met weekly at various locations to collaborate and draw. The project has since expanded to a permanent location with a focus on contemporary artists creating mixed media exhibitions. In addition to monthly curatorial projects, QUAID hosts a variety of events including first Fridays, literature readings, drawing nights, and film screenings. Its current members include: Neil Bender, Justin Nelson, Sam Newton, Anthony Record, Gary Schmitt, Jenn Ryann Miller, Warren Cockerham, Taylor Finke, and Emiliano Settecasi. Visit quaidgallery.com.

Left to right: Justin Nelson, Long Distance Caller, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12in. x 9in.; Neil Bender, Muzzle of Wrecking Balls (Cream series), 2018, ink, acrylic on paper, 30in. x 22in.; Jenn Ryann Miller, Hi, From the Grand Canyon, 2020, steel, silver, glass, decal, enamel paint, 12in. x 6in. x 3in.; Sam Newton, June, July, August, September (but not four more years), 2020 oil on canvas, 18in. x 24in.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Neil Bender was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and currently lives and works in Tampa, Florida. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, at the Boston Center for the Arts, the CUE Art Foundation and Gasser/Grunert in New York, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Boston Center for the Arts, Palazzo Casali in Cortona, Italy, The Front in New Orleans, Circa PR in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, and many other venues. He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant after getting his degree from the University of Georgia, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is co-founder and member of the cooperative gallery QUAID. He has shown recently in Denver at Hardly Soft and Yes Ma’am Projects, and has an upcoming two-person show at the Sarasota Art Center.

Emiliano Settecasi is a Tampa-based artist, currently a Gallery Assistant at Gallery221@HCC and a member of the cooperative gallery QUAID. He has studied at the Pratt Institute and the University of South Florida, and earned his BFA from the latter in 2016. Settecasi has exhibited work in a number of establishments throughout the Tampa Bay area including MIZE Gallery, Tempus Projects, and Gallery 501, and participated in the Emerging Artist Program at the 2018 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts.

Taylor Finke received a BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida, where she also studied photography. Her work has been exhibited nationally in venues such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, among others.

Sam Newton graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in painting and is a member of QUAID.

Anthony Record is an artist and educator, and he has been the Studio Programs Coordinator at the Tampa Museum of Art since 2018. From 2009–18 he was a professor of art and art history, and his art has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Kanazawa, Vancouver, and elsewhere. Record is a co-founder and co-director of QUAID.

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.

Jenn Ryann 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.

Justin Nelson was born in 1985 in Astoria, Oregon. He currently lives and works in Tampa, Florida.

Sergio Suárez: To be accompanied by the sound of water

Exhibition Dates: Sept. 25–Oct. 17, 2020 

Prisma

Day & Night Projects is proud to present a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist Sergio Suárez. To be accompanied by the sound of water uses the language of printmaking, sculpture, and installation in a dreamy pursuit of the Spanish word debrayar. This word has no textual translation to English, but it approaches the process where one loses the sense of time. With chalk and oil pastels, Suárez rubs over Japanese mulberry paper to pick up textures from his large woodcut blocks, pulling details from the unseen print works. These elements float and knock around, forgetting their origins as they trace out new arrangements, new translations of words that don’t quite match up. The atmosphere of the rubbings is transformed in two sculptural installations—stone, mirror, and wood feel both earth-grounded and cosmic at the same time. 

To be accompanied by the sound of water will be on view September 25–October 17. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible. 

The exhibition To be accompanied by the sound of water will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store. 

The Pool of Narcissus

2020, drainage stone, mirror and oil on carved hydrocal, dimensions vary (not for sale)

Prisma

2019, chalk pastel drawing on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame

Zeit

2019, woodcut rubbing and chalk pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame, courtesy of Oped Space, Tokyo

When It Rains…

2020, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel and oil pastel on mulberry, 40in. x 27in., custom frame

At the Doorstep

2020, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel, oil pastel and acrylic on mulberry, 27in. x 20.5in., custom frame

Primordial Dissonance

2019, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel and oil pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame

…It Pours.

2020, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel and oil pastel on mulberry, 40in. x 27in., custom frame

Below the Surface

2020, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel and oil pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame

!!conclusion!!origin!!

2020, chalk pastel and India ink on carved wood, aerosol paint, gold leaf, dimensions vary (not for sale)

Deposition (Phase changes)

2020, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel, oil pastel and acrylic on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame

Steppingstone

2020, woodcut rubbing, chalk pastel and oil pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame

Bruma

2020, woodcut rubbing and chalk pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame (not for sale)

Water Cycles

2019, woodcut rubbing and chalk pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame, courtesy of Oped Space, Tokyo

Sublimation (Phase Changes)

2019, oil and rubbing on mulberry and panel, 30in. x 19in.

Cornerstone

2020, woodcut rubbing and chalk pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame, courtesy of Oped Space, Tokyo

Tlaloc

Tlaloc, 2019, woodcut rubbing and chalk pastel on mulberry, 26in. x 19.5in., custom frame, SOLD

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2020, chalk pastel and India ink on carved wood, aerosol paint, gold leaf, dimensions vary (not for sale)

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Sergio Suárez (B.1995) is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based visual artist and printmaker. He uses the mediums of printmaking, painting and sculpture, to explore language and the structure of materiality in relation to narrative and contradiction. Suárez’s work has been shown around Atlanta, more recently in ShowerHaus gallery, the Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Contemporary. Internationally he’s shown at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London, the Haugesund International Relief Festival in Norway, OPED Space in Tokyo, and the Ionian Arts Center in Greece; where he was an artist in residency in 2017 and 18. His work is also included in the SGCI archives of the Zuckerman Museum. Currently on view exhibitions include !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at The End Project Space until September 29, and Georgia Artists of Hispanic/Latinx Origin at MOCA GA until October 17.

Tikva Lantigua: Motherlode

Exhibition Sept. 10–19, 2020 

Day & Night Projects is excited to present Motherlode, a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist Tikva Lantigua. Imagining the gallery walls as open pages, Lantigua’s layered silkscreen and monotype prints bring marks, cartoon clouds, aphorisms, and dream logic into a soup of interior testimony. In Motherlode, this mining of inner worlds extracts a less-than-official history; a grab bag of cultural, familial, personal-mythological, hidden histories. Type as repetitious poetry floats over and through fields of color and scribbled strokes to reach back through memory, desire, the unsettled and eternal, to find evidence of the unseen life that connects us and drives us apart; we viewers are caught in the act, reaching to place our selves within each other.

Motherlode will be on view September 10–19. Gallery hours are 12–5pm: Thursday, Sept. 10, Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible. Motherlode will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

Nothing to Lose, Nothing to Gain, Nothing Personal

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 26in. x 40in. 1/1

Nothing is Permanent

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 22in. x 30in. 1/4 variable edition

Invasion Sensation (Operative Word)

2020, seven-layer silkscreen, 18in. x 24in. 1/1 A.P., edition of 3

Shook, Lose, Gain

2020, silkscreen, monotype, 22in. x 30in. 1/1

Where There’s Smoke #1

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 22in. x 30 in. 1/1

Stillness and Its Shadow #1

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media 18in. x 24in. 2/2 A.P. + variable edition of 10

Between Us, Out There

2020, silkscreen, mixed media, 14in. x 10in., 1/5 A.P.

Where There’s Smoke #2

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 18in. x 24in. 1/1

Stillness and Its Shadow #2

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media 18in. x 24in. 1/2 A.P. + variable edition of 10

All it took (Give it your all), it took everything

2020, silkscreen, monotype, 30in. x 44in. 1/1

How to Tumble

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 18in. x 24in. 1/2 variable edition

Untitled

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 24in. x 18in. 1/1

Our last Day before Tomorrow (every parent’s dream to be able to look outside)

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media, 10in. x 14in. 1/2 Variable Edition

Best for Last, Last but not Least

2020, silkscreen, monotype, mixed media 22in. x 30in. 1/1

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Tikva Lantigua is a visual artist with a writing practice, interpreting cultural and relational, familial and societal dissonance through an auto/biographical lens. She grew up in no place in particular, stateside and Germany, in a vaguely itinerant fashion, from army base to army base. Tikva thinks this has influenced her emphasis on the instability of identity, the slipperiness of communication, and the intricacies of what it means to be “I” in a “we” that keeps changing. Lantigua earned a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Printmaking, and an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. She has experience in things adjacent to art production which inform her practice: fine bookbinding, teaching art at the college level, exhibition install, commercial and fine art screen printing, and collections and archive work. Tikva is currently starting a small business of printed apparel and home goods, and doing a lot of learning. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Hundreds of Thousands at The Dude Ranch, Austin TX, performance and iInstallation at Penland School of Crafts, and Impossible Biology for the new media curatorial series Her Environment, NY. Screenings include WonderRoot’s Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Festival, Atlanta, and Lyric Theater Screening for the Carrizozo AIR program, Carrizozo, NM. Her writing has been published by Inbtwn. Magazine, Yes Ma’am Press, and Fall Line Press in Atlanta. Tikva enjoys residencies and has been to several across the country including Haystack Mountain School of Craft, ME and Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA.

Wilay Méndez Paez: Collision, Curated by Daricia Mia DeMarr & Lauren Jackson Harris

Exhibition Dates: August 15–September 5, 2020 
12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

Day & Night Projects is excited to announce our first in-person exhibition of 2020, Collision by Afro-Cuban painter and sculptor Wilay Méndez Páez. Visiting as an artist-in-residence in conjunction with the Atlanta University Center, Méndez Páez contemplates Atlanta’s commuter culture with metal and plastic sculptures recycled from wrecked automobiles. The dynamically re-formed debris from car crashes spring from the artist’s observations of the way people move in our car-centric American city, and its contrast to Cuba, where walking is the primary mode of transportation. With scuffed original paint, crumpled steel, and torch marks, these sculptures weld the perception of the artist and the remnants of a moment, for an extraordinary collision.

Collision will be on view August 15–September 5. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.

Collision will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.

PRESS:
BURNAWAY

Escribano

2020, plastic and metal recycled car pieces, 61h x 45w x 32d inches, $12,000

Forma Continua 2

2020, plastic and metal recycled car pieces, 19h x 19w x 6d inches, $4,000

Concepto Centrífugo

2020, metal recycled car pieces,19h x 16w x 12d inches, $4,000

Internacion de los Cuerpos

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Danzante Espacial

2020, metal recycled car pieces,19h x 15w x 12d

inches, $5,000

Yelmo o Macao

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 14h x 12w x 12d

inches, $4,500

Cuerpos Equilibrados

2020, plastic and metal recycled car pieces, 23h x 20w x 6d inches, $3,500

Tratado del Murciélago

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 24h x 18w x 2d inches, $3,000

Guerrero 2

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 12h x 14w x 9d inches, $4,000

Ave en Picada

2020, metal recycled car pieces,17h x 9w x 7d inches, $3,000

Reunión en la Avenida

2020, metal recycled car pieces,20h x 21w x 7d inches, $3,400

Rostro Relativo

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Animal del Bosque

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 16h 18w x 2d inches, $3,000

Forma Equivalente

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 8h. x 8w x 7d inches, $3,400

Cuerpo de Cigarra

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Rostro Gruezo

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Esfera Dinámica

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 9h x 8w x 7d inches, $3,200

Elemento Danzante

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 7h x 13w x 7d inches, $2,700

Vuelo de la Crisálida

2020, metal recycled car pieces, 13h x 7w x 8d inches, $3,400

Viceral

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Entre Sombras y Murmuryo

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Turbación

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

Pintura de la Sere Conexiones

2020, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20h x 16w x 1d inches, $XX

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Wilay Méndez Páez is an Afro-Cuban artist whose work explores everyday present life and human connections. He mainly works with sculpture and collage, and all of his pieces are made from recycled materials. Born in the province of Candelaria, and raised in Guanabo (East Havana), Méndez Páez’s work has been included in several exhibits in Havana, such as the Havana Biennale, Moderna Gallery, Centro de Artes Plasticas y Diseño, and Luz y Oficio Gallery; as well as in other cities of the island such as Santiago de Cuba at the African Cultural Center Fernando Ortiz. The artist’s work has been shown abroad in London’s Studio ExPurgamento, Munich’s Atelierhaus Dachauer Straße, and Seattle’s ArtXchange Gallery. In Atlanta, Méndez Páez’s work has been shown at GerART Gallery, AUC Woodruff Library, and Murphy Rail Studios, all in 2019. Visit wilaymendezpaez.com for more info.

ABOUT THE CURATORS:
Daricia Mia DeMarr is from Los Angeles, California. She launched her collegiate career at Clark Atlanta University but received a BA in Art History from Georgia State University and master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. DeMarr served as assistant director at the NYU Kimmel Center Galleries, organizing and curating over 100 exhibitions in 6 years. She curated, ‘Respectfully Yours,’ at the Queens Museum, Bulova Center and was a member of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Art Program public art team. She founded Pi Arts Projects and is co-founder of Black Women in Visual Art. DeMarr is currently gallery manager at Peg Alston Fine Arts in NYC and serves as an independent curator, arts administrator and consultant.

Lauren Jackson Harris is a fine art management professional, independent curator, and creative director from Atlanta, GA. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from Howard University and an MA in Creative Business Leadership from SCAD Her most recent position was Gallery Manager and Curator of ZuCot Gallery, a black-owned fine art gallery exhibiting the works of notable Black artists. Harris works with AUC Art Collective, and develops and supports Artists of the Diaspora, curating art exhibitions and experiences to further the growth of Atlanta’s arts and cultural scene.

Crystal Desai, TAR Project artist

Exhibition Dates: May 21–June 6, 2020 

Crystal Desai is an Atlanta native and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of Georgia in 2012. Primarily a mixed media painter, she intuitively allows images to emerge that represent her inner world. These take the form of animals, creatures, otherworldly beings, and the environments they live in. As she develops this personal mythology, she uses it to tell a story of self-discovery, emotional healing, and spiritual growth. Her work has been shown in Atlanta at Swan Coach House Gallery, Facet Gallery, and the Abernathy Arts Center, among others. She was awarded the Leap Year Fellowship in 2018, is a 2019 TAR Project resident, and was a 2018 Hambidge Fellow. 

Programming note: due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will be following the recommendations of the CDC and the City of Atlanta. Extra precautions will be taken to limit person-to-person transmission of the virus during our events, and all dates are subject to change accordingly.

2019 Holiday Open Studios

Thanks to everyone who came out for our end of the year holiday open studios. Was a blast! We’ll see y’all in the new year with a whole slew of exhibitions lined up for you all to fill your 2020 calendar with!

Sunday, December 15, 2019 2:00pm - 5:00 pm

Davion Alston: The Literal is Unimaginative

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 10, 7–10pm
Exhibition Dates: Oct. 10–Nov. 2, 2019
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment.

Asking the question “what makes me who I am?” is essential to forming our selfhood as individuals and as part of a community. How artists ask this question is as telling as the answers they may find. Davion Alston’s study of his identity through self-portrait photography has led further to critical observation about the methods and tools he employs. Faced with the camera’s complicity in the power plays of gaze and surveillance, Alston now calls upon other media to serve as a lens for reflecting and projecting his scrutiny of being. The Literal is Unimaginative is the first phase in a triptych of Alston’s thematic exhibitions that will appear in other venues in Atlanta over the next year.

Here, some of artist’s attempt to outlast or wear down his obstacles play out in works on paper. Alston’s multiple thwarted attempts to win a simple kid’s game are held up against the artist’s over-and-over drawing in charcoal—turning an accusational word around in space to lessen its hurtful impact. Video footage captures Alston’s repetitive efforts to distance himself from the problematic, at-first-glance comparisons to golf star Tiger Woods by whiffing and hacking away on the golf course. Yet the two men’s similarities and differences are intertwined in a cascade of images that fall to the floor from a ceiling-mounted laser printer.

The Literal is Unimaginative will be on view at Day & Night Projects from October 10 through November 2. Gallery Hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Davion Alston (b.1992) is a German-born Georgia native, where earth is his playground, and Atlanta is home. His exhibitions and education spans across a multitude of galleries, a handful of museums, and a BFA from Georgia State University. He describes himself as an organized system of complexity, with accidental accessibility. 

Alston writes, “my photographic background has proven to become more multidisciplinary, as I make work in response to photography. I am introducing different forms of conceptual outbreak through critique, works on paper, and sculpture. All relating to the constant shift within Atlanta’s city structure, questioning America’s desire towards the underdog, and approximating my relationship to an example of one. 

“I own nothing, I learn to unlearn and to constantly let go. I work intimately, quietly, and collectively.”

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.