Great to see a series of photographs from strobe-master Harold Edgerton this morning at the preview for the High Museum’s new “Art of Golf” exhibition. Also included are a series of photos from aerial photographer Patricia Macdonald, and panoramas from John Yang.

Cathy Fox of ArtsCriticAtl assesses Vivian Maier, whose vintage, black-and-white street work is now viewable at Jackson Fine Art, Lumiere Gallery, and soon, at Serenbe Photography Center. Creative Loafing takes a look, too.

“On the face of it, Vivian Maier led an ordinary, if solitary, existence. A single woman, she worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago and kept to herself. But Maier, who died in 2009 at the age of 83, had a secret passion: photography. A Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex, her constant companion, was the vehicle through which she participated in the multifarious experiences of the two great cities in which she spent most of her life.

And she was good. Damn good.”

The
Atlanta Photography Group has the following exhibits and events coming up:

Current – Feb 18 – The Airport Show Gallery Exhibition
Feb 15 – 7:30PM – Monthly “Speaking of Photography” discussion
Feb 18 – 6:30PM-8PM – The Airport Show Silent Auction Fund Raiser (flyer attached)

All events are held at the APG Gallery – Tula Art Center – 75 Bennett Street, NW, Space B-1, Atlanta, GA, 30309 404-605-0605

Photography as Propaganda
Street Talk – Upcoming Exhibition
January 21, 2012 – March 31, 2012
Opening January 21: 10 AM – 4 PM
Gallery Talk: Vivian Maier – 11 AM
Lumière – 425 Peachtree Hills Avenue, Building 5

This final exhibition in the trilogy illustrates photographers’ keen observation of streets, walls, windows and billboards to send messages using words and symbols. Other images, more in the tradition of “street photography”, are included for perspective on an artist’s work. Including the photography of: Wolf Suschitzky, Aaron Siskind, Peter Sekaer, Arnold Newman, Thomas Neff, John Gutmann, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Jules Aaron. It features the newly discovered work of Vivian Maier. She will also be the topic of discussion for a gallery talk at 11 AM January 21st.

Jackson Fine Art has an opening reception for Chip Simone, Todd Murphy & Todd Maier on Friday, January 27th. Please see the embedded press release, below:

Simone Murphy Maier PR

The Portfolio Show at Atlanta Photography Group will be hosting a juror’s talk from Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and Chief Curator at the de Young Museum. The talk is on Saturday at 11am, with coffee and bagels at 10:30!

January 13 – February 18, 2012 – Opening reception: Friday, January 13 | 7 PM – 10 PM

Morning Sun is an evolution in Benita Carr’s work that explores the mother/child relationship and the meaning of self within the domestic social structure of home and family. Constructed as narrative tableaus, the photographs depict women and their children in scenes that evoke emotions of desire, doubt and anxiety.

Carr’s photographs and videos are informed by the ways in which womanhood and motherhood have been seen, understood and lived across time, especially their representation in art, religion, advertising and family pictures. These themes coupled with the style and symbolism of Mid-Victorian images of interiors and feminine subjects inspire her body of work. Moving into video and sound challenges the form of traditional portraiture and allows other layers of meaning and complexity to surface.

photo © Benita Carr, Untitled 1, Digital C-print, 30 x 40 inches

“MARY ANNE MITCHELL PHOTO EXHIBIT “POETIC TRANSLATION” OPENS AT ATLANTA’S MASON MURER FINE ART GALLERY FEBRUARY 17 THRU APRIL 1

Photographer Mary Anne Mitchell will exhibit her new series of photographs entitled “Poetic Translation” at the Mason Murer Fine Art gallery in Atlanta beginning Friday, February 17, with a reception for the artist from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. The exhibition, Mitchell’s third at the gallery, runs through Saturday, March 31.

With the “Poetic Translation” exhibition, Mitchell explores the artistic juxtaposition of visual and written expression. In this series, Mitchell was inspired by the writings of 19th and 20th Century poets and writers, including, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot and Edwin Muir, among others.”

Mary Anne Mitchell on Zenfolio
Mary Anne Mitchell on Burn Magazine

“Fourth Biennial Art History Symposium
Feb 10, 2012 – Feb 11, 2012
Barthes’ “madness of photography” is both poetically and ontologically central to the medium, and is discernible from its very origins. This symposium will explore new perspectives on the many implications of madness in photography’s history, theory, and practice. The symposium will explore a wide range of topics: the historiography of the medium, including writings on photography and madness, death, time, or memory; photo-manias; new modes of dissemination; the place of photography in social networking; artists or movements interested in achieving or documenting states of madness; photography’s participation in the definition and construction of madness; the medium’s connections to scientific and pseudo-scientific fields; and photography and madness outside of the Western tradition.”

For more information, contact arthsymposium@scad.edu.

Arnika Dawkins has opened a new photography gallery in Southwest Atlanta. Her first show, currently on view, opened during this year’s ACP Festival, and includes Builder Levy, Marlene Hawthrone Thomas, Allen Cooley, Titus Heagins, and highlights from the gallery’s collection, including Elliott Erwitt.

“Arnika Dawkins Gallery is devoted to presenting fine art from both emerging and established photographers, specializing in images by African Americans and of African Americans. The gallerist is passionate about connecting collectors to artwork that is significant, inspiring and provocative. As a fine art photographer and avid collector herself, she is a valuable resource to collectors and artists alike. The gallery’s objective is to provide an educational platform that supports this burgeoning community of talented artists.”

On January 5th, Jeremy Chandler and Kristine Potter’s “Camouflage” opens at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery. Jeremy was an attendee at this year’s ACP Portfolio Review where his work came to the attention of Lauren Hughes and Brenda Massie from Hagedorn.

We’re always pleased to hear stories about successes from the Portfolio Review – email us and share yours!

Last week, a selection of Vivian Maier’s photographic archive went on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Maier’s story has been well-documented since John Maloof discovered her work in a storage locker in Chicago, and opened the conversation about what he’d found on flickr. In fact, there were two auction hunters who “snapped-up” Maier’s work, and you can read more about that here.

Maier’s photography is now available in Atlanta at Lumiere Gallery, coinciding with the November publication of Vivian Maier – Street Photographer, edited by John Maloof, and Howard Greenberg Gallery’s exhibition.

“Attempt to correlate social class with elevation above main harbor channel, San Pedro, July 1975″ via artnet.com

Photographer, writer, artist & critic Allan Sekula will be in Atlanta for ART PAPERS LIVE!, Dec. 6th-8th. For background, here’s a interview with Sekula from BOMB Magazine in 2005. More info here.

SCREENING / The Forgotten Space
Tuesday, December 6, 7 pm
co-directed by Noel Burch and Allan Sekula
W Atlanta-Downtown, 45 Ivan Allen Boulevard, Atlanta

ARTIST’S TALK / Critical Realism in a Time of Lies
Wednesday, December 7, 7 pm
Georgia Tech, College of Architecture Auditorium

Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA) Colloquium
Thursday, December 8, 1-2 pm
Emory University, ILA Seminar Room, S423 Callaway Center

These events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.
For more info, including interviews, video, directions + maps, visit: artpapers.org

A video introduction to Philip Hyde’s work, who’s a participating artist in the current group show “Messages from the Wilderness” at Lumière.

As part of the “Conversations with Contemporary Artists“, Ralph Gibson will be speaking at the High Museum of Art on Thursday, Nov. 10th, at 6:30pm in the Rich Theater. Not to be missed! The conversation will precede the opening (on Nov. 12th) of Gibson’s show at the High, entitled “Quartet“.

Mason Murer is having an artist’s talk on Sunday, Oct. 23rd at 1:30pm. Panel includes Lucinda Bunnen, Kathryn Kolb, Corinne Adams, Gittel Price, Val Gruner, Margaret Hiden, Marcia Vaitsman, Rachel Speed, and Liesa Cole.

If you’re interested in FLUX 2011 on Friday night (and really, why wouldn’t you be?) here’s word from former ACP board president Louis Corrigan about what you can expect:

“Please join us for FLUX 2011, a night of art + experimentation, this Friday, September 30th, from 8pm to midnight in Castleberry Hill. I recommend that you arrive early. Like last year, part of Walker Street will be closed to traffic. There will also be moving closures of Peters Street throughout the night to accommodate parades and dancers.

The evening begins at 8pm with a bicycle lantern parade led by the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons. gloATL’s hour-long migratory piece “Livers” launches immediately thereafter at 8:30 from the Peters St. bridge (second performance at 10:30.)

There are another 30+ projects to see during the main part of the night, including wonderful projection pieces, some of which are interactive. There’s puppetry, light and sound installations, roving theatre, dance, a beatboxing contest, street preaching, and other multimedia projects throughout the neighborhood. Between the food trucks and local bars and restaurants, you should find plenty of places to grab food and drinks.

All projects will end by midnight so that everyone can join us outside the Elliott Street Pub for spectacular molten iron throw fireworks. Practitioners of this ancient Chinese art say it’s easy to do as long as you don’t mind dying. Thankfully, the fire department is next to the pub.

This year’s 34 projects involve 224 artists, which speaks to the ambitious, collaborative nature of these projects. We also have a broad constituency of Atlanta artists, including current faculty and either current students or recent grads from GSU, SCAD, Georgia Tech and Kennesaw St.

Several artists this year present innovative projections dealing with something like post-apocalyptic visions of nature: Eric Corriel (NY), Kim Anno (CA), and Jeff Demetriou/Fake Love (Atlanta/NY).

Other artists consider the animal aspects of human nature. SCAD grad Monica Cook, one of my personal favorite artists, returns from NYC and her Guggenheim/YouTube Play video award triumph with her first interactive stop motion animation, a work that explores the uninhibited behavior of primates. This bold project is supported by Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

“Livers” will present gloATL as you’ve never seen them before, revealing the animal qualities of migration as also deeply human. This may be the first time that art inspired by Guy Debord ended up on all-fours and literally on the pavement (“Under the paving stones, the beach”).

FLUX’s dance card is particularly appealing, with Zoetic Dance returning from last year’s amazing performance to animate the point at Castleberry Point and with wonderful aerial dance by D’Air behind Marcia Wood Gallery.

Craig Drennen, hot off a glowing Artforum review, promises an “Awful” performance as he continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens in a piece that would make Courtney Love turn over in her grave — if she weren’t still alive.

Nancy Floyd, one of the few contemporary artists featured in this year’s major historical survey Heroines at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, offers a raw personal examination of time rapidly passing in a video projection that compresses the last 29 years of her life.

FLUX also features a number of promising young Atlanta artists. Jane Garver, recent recipient of a Leap Year award from MINT, returns to Castleberry with a multi-part sound exploration of Atlanta that will be installed at points along Walker Street. I’m also looking forward to being surprised by interactive, roaming works by Dodekapus and The Collective Project, two exciting young collectives.

And that’s just a taste. For more on the featured artists and recommendations for getting to or parking at FLUX 2011, please check out our website: http://www.fluxprojects.org/flux/index.html. Hope to see you all there. And please tell your friends. FLUX 2011 is totally free.

Louis Corrigan

Another ACP Video Preview, this one, of Ryan Flynn’s “No Posers” exhibition at Young Blood Gallery, which opens Oct. 1st.

And if you haven’t already, check out the last preview, too!
Dorothy O’Connor’s “Tornado”

Thanks again to artrelish for video production!