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I, We, and the Space Between
at the JCLRC Gallery at Perimeter College, Clarkston
Douglas Pierre Baulos’ “Night’s Hand on your Shoulder”
https://dougbaulos.com https://www.instagram.com/doug_baulos
Curated by Lisa Alembik
Swan Coach House Gallery http://www.swangallery.org
August 4-September 8, 2022
Opening 8/4 6-9 p.m.
Artist Talk 8/20 3 p.m.
CURATOR’S STATEMENT
Nature is primary. We are always becoming her, and she is us. This fluid relationship is something that those of us living in metropolitan areas don’t necessarily tend to in our everydays. As we continue to evolve into a global culture that resides more outside of the body and in the webisphere, many of us neglect our connection to the natural world. Sometimes, with blinders or virtual reality on, we cease recognizing that she is us, one big old globe whose atmosphere we all depend on for our well-being. As our earth begins to melt around our feet, we cannot overlook how important it is to remain grounded and, with vigilance, strengthen our bond with the planet. Sometimes artwork offers a prompt to take action, providing a way to engage the environment with both body and mind. Night’s Hand on Your Shoulder, a solo exhibition of works by Douglas Baulos, can be that compassionate push.
Douglas Baulos’ art and life Baulos’ profound connection to nature. Their handmade books and extraordinarily crafted installations are imbued with the breadth of their experience, from cultivating dye gardens and working the land, to spending time in ancient sites studying the skies. Baulos observes, seeking out what is hidden, making visible what only the quiet, patient eye may find. Baulos’ queer identity, with consideration for how they perceive the world from growing up in rural Illinois, and the influence of their travels with meaningful time spent in places like the western United States, Mexico, and Japan—these all flow through their artwork, and the artwork is them.
Baulos’ installations can be mindful spaces that shift the viewer from the world of hard, inflexible thinking into soft, open intuition. Gathered natural materials along with their observations of plant and animal life are woven into their art, with additions of lost-now-found objects that through context are imbued with complex meaning. Baulos transforms and transmogrifies their materials into altars, wall pieces, and transcendent spaces with their devotional creative energy. Their works are raw and vulnerable, still often holding a sense of joy—a looseness and fluidity of thought that allows the viewer to symbolically slip into the artwork.
A perennial storyteller, Baulos utilizes the language of nature and their lived history to develop their sincere narratives. Night’s Hand on Your Shoulder acts as a palimpsest, recording gradual transitions and shifts that overlap and disappear. The artist pays attention to signs that express the essence of time, observing as light morphs into shadow only to cycle back again. As time moves and nature flows so can our sense of self and our relationship to the immensity of nature. Baulos remind us of our corporeality and inextricable link to the earth, how we are connected to the shifts in seasons, the rotations of the planet, and the pull of the moon and stars.
–Lisa Alembik, curator
_____ The World
CURATORS Lisa Alembik & Martha Whittington
Opening June 3, 7-9 p.m.
June 3- 24, 2022
Gallery 378 378 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
404 530 9277 378artgallery@gmail.com
Hours Fri and Sat from 1-6pm
The exhibition _____ The World is an expression of our times, in which artists are inspired by the too-real-not-fiction happenings of the last two years. Artists were invited to offer up small works, sacrifices that are deceivingly quiet in their smallness, abstract or narrative, a balm, may be a wake-up-call. Curators Lisa Alembik and Martha Whittington, both artists and educators, felt the need to gather artists to respond to the absurdities and the beauties of this time. _____ The World is an opening, not a prescriptive theme—not necessarily negative or celebratory. Its premise shifts and renews from artist-to-artist. The artists in _____ The World may not necessarily fall in line with this disagreeable statement, but they have agreed to be a part of this happening.
Artists are doing what they normally do, listening, thinking, and creating. Alejandro Aguilera works in a broad range of media. In this exhibition has carefully crafted an orange-face fiend from mango pits, along with drawings that wryly comment on the brutality of the abuse of power. Amandine Drouet mysteriously weaves everyday items and detritus together with sharks, butterflies, and other beasts, imbuing them with a vitality only restrained by the edges of form. Craig Dongoski’s hallucinatory images disintegrate to reform into vibrations and an exquisite confusion of hands.
Barbara Schreiber anthropomorphizes the animals who haunt our concrete jungles, posing the dangers at play in every day interactions. Schreiber is the sole artist in the exhibition who no longer lives in the Atlanta area, residing in Charlotte NC. Sarah Emerson brazenly belies the chord of melancholy that sounds through her work with her intense palette and extreme-pop language that is surprisingly blended with the natural world. Doyle Trankina toys with idioms in bronze, and his ceramic decomposing fruit shows how even that which is nourishing can rot. Coorain Devin’s sensibility twists domestic symbols into challenging knots so that they may never, ever, be seen the same again.
Through collage, found image and ceramics, Mario Petrirena’s contemplative sculptures cut to the heart with their intimacy, tugging at the arteries of emotion and strangely, patriotism. Selena Lillo, who seems to extract body parts in her work, here comments sans judgement on what we put into our bodies to make us feel more whole and less isolated from our surroundings. Andy Moon Wilson rapaciously draws small works, many of which feel like intersecting universes slicing at and through each other with high key colors and complex patterns, infinitely hemorrhaging. Storyteller Raphael Bahindwa calls on his Congolese identity for symbolism, using arrows and masks in his dense drawings to act upon the powers of the warrior. Stephanie Kolpy’s gorgeously layered prints with brilliant, devastating surfaces underlie the constant terror of warfare—and by the way, “Russian warship, go f*** yourself.” Terry S. Hardy, drew the mask he wore to work each day during the early days of the Pandemic, poignantly coinciding with the dates of this exhibit, two years ago. These drawings helped him stay grounded during the speed of Covid’s devastation.
In his work in this exhibition, Steven L. Anderson articulates that “He’ll never stop making art.” If there is something that the last two years has shown us, it is that artists do not stop. Artmaking is a calling in addition to an occupation. One does not go on strike from one’s inner boss or seek out a union to identify healthy boundaries. _____ The World is a rallying cry to get engaged, to find passion, to “LOVE ALL THE F***ING WAY,” as Anderson writes.
_____ The World is inspired by a hopeful pessimism, by truths rolled up and deep fried with sarcasm, dipped into a heavy sauce of disillusion, swallowed while holding one’s nose. _____ The World invites visitors to check in with themselves and then consider what they’ll have for dinner and what will they do after the show? May be, we can all sing as the late great Patty Lee did–“If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing.” (Recorded first in 1969, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and always relevant.)
Artist Talks at Gallery 378 in Atlanta for “FLOWER”
Sunday April 25, 2021 4pm
Artist Talks at Gallery 378 in Atlanta for “FLOWER” curated by Terry Hardy
378 Gallery presents the April exhibition, Flower, beginning Friday, April 2, running through Sunday, April 25. Flower features botanical inspired works by seven well established artists based in Georgia: Lisa Alembik, Terry S. Hardy, Pepe Paban, Jeffery Wilcox Paclipan, Mario Petrirena, Debra Baker Steinmann and Cindy Zarrilli .
The April exhibition, Flower, at 378 Gallery will follow public health safety and protocols advised due to the worldwide Corona virus pandemic. There will be an opening outside the gallery on Friday, April 2 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibition can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Saturdays and Sundays in April from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and by appointment by calling gallery director Tom Zarrilli at 404-530 9277. Attendance is limited to six people at a time inside the gallery. Social distance of six feet between patrons inside the gallery and waiting in a queue outside is required. Masks are required without exception for anyone outside the gallery at the opening, inside the gallery and waiting to enter.
Flower is a colorful spring exhibition celebrating the flower in various mediums from beautifully layered textiles to paintings to body-part botanicals. Flowers symbolize the emergence of new life after the deep horticultural slumber of winter. They evoke vanity, fertility and the mortal coil, and in today’s culture the tending and gifting of flowers is heady with meaning: solace, support, sharing, sympathy, love and appreciation. The April Flower exhibition at 378, in turn, symbolizes the emergence of new connections after the inactivity, isolation and uncertainty of the ongoing quarantine from the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. The artists comprising the show create a riot of vibrant color exploding onto the skies of fabric, canvas and paper, capturing in reprieve the fleeting nature of the fragile beauty of flowers.
An artist, educator and curator, Lisa Alembik has exhibited her work extensively in solo and group exhibitions, curated exhibitions and spoken on numerous topics concerning fine art for the past three decades. She received an MFA and BA in fine art from Georgia State University and George Washington University, respectively. She is currently a faculty member in fine arts at Georgia State University.
Terry S. Hardy addresses themes of identity, human rights, sexuality and religion, examining social concerns through painting, sculpture, performance and installations. His most recent work focuses on the intimacy of loss and memorializing those who are forgotten. He received his formal arts education from the School of Visual Arts, New York City, the Art Institute of Atlanta, and Bevill State Community College, Fayette, Alabama.
Pepe Paban describes the works he presents in Flower as fine art photography using flowers and botanicals not as mere subjects but as inspiration to explore a sensual world of color, movement and abstract organic forms were lines blur between discovery and creation.
A native of the Philippines now living in Atlanta, Jeffery Wilcox Paclipan is a multidisciplinary processed based artist compelled to create objects with non-traditional materials to imbue them with greater meaning. He has shown his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally for three decades. He received his education from the International Fine Arts College in Miami, Florida
A multi-media artist based in Atlanta, Georgia, Mario Petrirena has consistently created and exhibited his work for the past four decaddes. His studio practice includes collage, ceramics, assemblage and installation. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Craftsmen and the University of Florida. His work is held in many private and public collections.
Fabrics are the artistic medium for Debra Baker Steinmann. She finds the focus required in design and execution of textile creations meditative. She rarely knows how a piece will evolve as the colors and textures come together. Her technique is ancient, and she feels a deep connection to those in the past who told their stories through their hands.
Particularly skilled with the creation of edges and dimension in her paintings, Cindy Zarrilli creates forms that spring from the canvas. She brings a refreshing approach to a variety of subjects from figures to fauna to flora. She has shown extensively in solo and group shows in the past 30 years. She has a background as a graphic artist with CNN and a courtroom sketch artist for NBC and CBS. She earned a BFA from Georgia State University.
I will be interviewing Martha Whittington about her exhibition at the GSU/PC Clarkston Library Thursday October 8. Virtually view the exhibition from 4:30-5, interview begins at 5. Join us on YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/ivnmTjtVGHg
The Georgia State University Perimeter College 4th Floor LRC Arts Gallery presents
WINNOWING’S DAUGHTER
a sculptural installation of new work by Martha Whittington
with an installation work by Serena Lillo
virtual artist talk online: October 8, 4:30-6:30 pm
Exhibit dates: September – December, 2020
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Visitors must wear face masks while on campus. For information call 678-891-3562.
GPS: 3735 Memorial College Avenue, Clarkston 30021 (entrance to parking lot 3)
Hambidge Art Auction + Virtual Performance Show
Online Event October 24 7:30-8:30
Online bidding is from 10/9-10/24
Visit www.HambidgeAuction.org for more information
Spring 2017 Hatch Presentations
I am totally psyched to present with Kacie Willis and Anthony Gary our idea for a Pop-Up Art School. I will post a link to our presentation after it happens. I believe there are still seats available–but you must contact C4 Atlanta to reserve yours. p.s. Jessyca Holland (Exec. Director) and Audrey Gamez (Edu. Manager) ROCK. Check out all of the good works that C4 does for us artists.
Spring 2017 Hatch Presentations
Saturday, May 27, 2017 – 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Fuse Arts Center, 115 Martin Luther King Jr Dr SW, STE 225, Atlanta, GA 30303
Sue Coe: The Animals Vegan Manifesto
Stop by the GSU Downtown Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery to experience Sue Coe’s latest work:
Sue Coe: The Animals Vegan Manifesto
January 17 – March 17
Reception: Friday, March 17, 5:30 – 7:30pm
77 woodcuts from a new book, The Animals Vegan Manifesto, by artist and animal rights activist Sue Coe.
January 17 – March 17
Reception: Friday, March 17, 5:30 – 7:30pm
77 woodcuts from a new book, “The Animals Vegan Manifesto,” by artist and animal rights activist Sue Coe.
SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) conference
This is where I will be next week. I cannot wait!
When: Wednesday, March 15 – Saturday, March 18, 2017
Where: Atlanta, GA
Early Bird rates: Register between now and midnight on January 15, 2017
Standard rates: Online registration ends at midnight on February 26, 2017
SGCI 2017: TERMINUS – Arrivals & Departures
Before Atlanta, there was “Terminus”. In 1837, a stake marking the founding of Terminus was driven into the ground, called the Zero Mile Post, which was the nexus of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. This became the point from which the city of Atlanta emerged. As a transportation hub, the rail lines became symbolic of paths taken or traveled and their intersections became connecting points of opportunity.
The 2017 SGCI Conference in Atlanta will showcase the rich printmaking community in our area and celebrate its long history. The conference will focus on the duality of the terminal point as a place for arrivals and departures, beginnings and endings. Our railroad history serves as a metaphor for the timeline of printmaking traditions; traversing enduring classicism and bringing us to our current location with broadly expanded practices. Terminus will nurture critical discourse on the historic and future relevance of printmaking, technical innovations, and the ability to engage with contemporary issues and social change.
For more information on the 2017 Conference in Atlanta, visit sgciatlanta.com