“Join the Director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Glenn Lowry, and world-renowned photographer, Thomas Struth, for a rare public dialogue. Contemporaries and longtime friends, Lowry and Struth will discuss the role of museums in Struth’s work and in our changing globalized world.

Save your ticket stub for a special opportunity to view works by Thomas Struth following this program. This program is $10 for Members; $15 for non-members; and $5 for students with valid ID, seating is limited. Tickets are available through the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office at 404-733-5000. This program is made possible by Presenting Sponsor, The Coca-Cola Company, with additional support provided by the Wish Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Jane and Clayton Jackson, and Art Partners, the dynamic volunteer and social organization of the Museum.”

Tom Zarrilli’s photography exhibition at Callanwolde was featured on PBA’s “City Cafe” this morning. Zarrilli’s exhibition has an opening reception on Friday, from 7-9pm. Have a listen here.

“Thomas Struth
October 29, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Organized by the High Museum of Art, this installation will feature works from three distinct projects, including Struth’s “Museum Photographs” series, in which he focused on museum visitors’ interactions with artwork, his “Paradise” series, which depicts the inner depths of jungles around the world, and his most recent work documenting the structural intricacies of techno-industrial spaces that takes the viewer deep into normally inaccessible scientific territory. The 5-piece installation will include works from the High’s collection and on loan from Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein.

Quartet: Photographs by Ralph Gibson
November 12, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Organized by the High Museum of Art, with gifts from the Kuniansky family, this installation of photographs from the museum’s collection will feature works by photographer Ralph Gibson that survey his prolific career, presenting both iconic and lesser known work together within the thematic context of their original creation. Twelve suites of photographs gathered together will reconstitute the conceptual kernels around which his series have been structured and will demonstrate the coherence of Gibson’s distinct approach to the world over the course of more than fifty years.”

© John Mariana

Roswell Photographic Society’s Best of North Fulton went on display on Monday, and will be up for an entire year at the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce. On Wednesday, Perry Julien’s It Doesn’t Need Sound will be on view at Aurora Coffee in Little 5 Points, with a reception planned for October 7th.

© Laura Noel

On Thursday, Laura Noel’s Subject Matters will be opening at Spruill Gallery. Larry Winslett’s exhibition of photographs of Stone Mountain will be on view at the park starting Thursday. And Friday is the opening of the upstart photo-festival in Pike County, the fantastically rural Slow Exposures which will be having exhibitions, juror’s talks, an artist’s lecture from Sylvia Plachy, and an exhibition at A Novel Experience from David Simonton.

© Xiuwen Cu

Friday night brings a reception at KIANG PROJECTS for Xiuwen Cui’s latest exhibition, Existential Emptiness. Jerry Siegel will be opening his exhibition of photographs of Geraldine on Friday as well at Barbara Archer Gallery. And Tom Zarrilli’s photographs of local yard sale sellers will be on view at Callanwolde.

© Michael M. Koehler

On the Westside, Michael M. Koehler will be opening at Get This! Gallery, and in Buckhead, there are three openings at Mason Murer; Liesa Cole and Tony Rodio, Women in Focus will launch an exhibition curated by Brett Abbott, and Abstraction Medium from Marcia Vaitsman, Margaret Hiden and Rachel Speed.

NANCY FLOYD
Competition Shooters

Please save the date:
Friday, September 16, 2011
Reception / 7-9 PM
Artist Talk / 7:30

Quickshot Shooting Range
1199 Zonolite Road
Atlanta, GA 30306
(located off Briarcliff Road, near Emory campus)

You don’t need to be a card-carrying member of the NRA to join us Friday, September 16th at Quickshot Shooting Range! We hope you will plan to come hear Atlanta-based artist Nancy Floyd speak about her ongoing series Competition Shooters – women competing for the honor of representing USA at the Olympic Games. Floyd will discuss her experiences photographing past Olympic trials, and her upcoming plans to shoot the women competing for a berth in London 2012. This is the first time this series has been shown in its entirety – many thanks to Quickshot for generously providing exhibition space!

Refreshments, snacks, great conversation and an opportunity to try your hand at marks(wo)manship! Quickshot will be donating firearm rentals to those who want to give it a try. We will be sending more information soon about this exciting evening at Quickshot!

For more information, contact Solomon Projects at info@solomonprojects.com or 404.875.7100.

From APG:

SPEAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
“A Conversation between Chip Simone and Louis Corrigan”
Wednesday, July 20th, 7:30PM
Atlanta Photography Group
75 Bennett St, B-1
Atlanta, GA 30309

Louis Corrigan is among the most prominent supporters of the visual arts in Atlanta, and was the most recent winner of the Nexus Award, presented by the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Corrigan is the founder and president of the arts organization, Flux Projects. “Flux Projects is the only organization presenting a year-round public art program throughout Atlanta. Our goal is to bring innovative, fun, and thought-provoking projects to the places where Atlantans spend their daily lives: where they work, travel, and play. We are funding artists to do more ambitious projects and providing them greater exposure to the Atlanta community. ” –fluxprojects.org

Corrigan is also the founder of the private, non-profit operating platform, Possible Futures. “The foundation provides grants to individual artists and writers, other non-profit arts organizations, and other associations or for-profit entities that write about, present or otherwise support a variety of artistic endeavors in the Atlanta area. ” –possiblefuturesatl.org

In addition to his work with Flux Projects and Possible Futures, Corrigan is also a board member of Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialog. “Artadia’s mission is to encourage innovative artistic practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support.” –artadia.org

Come meet Louis Corrigan next Wednesday to learn more about his arts organizations and how they can benefit you as an artist.

Jason Florio opens at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery on Saturday, July 9th at 6pm, as part of National Black Arts Festival. The show will run with Mike Schreiber’s “True Hip-Hop“. Both exhibitions will run through August 27th.

On Saturday, July 9th
5:00 pm Panel Discussion on the visual culture around hip-hop and its influence on young black consciousness
Rodney Carmichael, Critic, Creative Loafing
Fahamu Pecou, Pop culture artist
Mike Schreiber, Photographer
Dr. Joyce Wilson, HipHop Archive Fellow, WEB DuBois Institute, Harvard University

6:30 – 9:00 pm Meet the artist and “True Hip-Hop” Book Signing

Vicki Hunt sent word of the 2nd Annual “Visions of Glory” show opening in Zebulon at A Novel Experience yesterday. The reception is this Saturday, the 9th, and the show’s on view until the 30th!

Vanessa M. Prestage’s exhibition “Resilience” opens at Carroll St. Cafe in Cabbagetown on Tues, July 5th, 8:30-10:30pm, with “music, cocktails, and celebration!”

More info at www.jacksonfineart.com

Great news for Atlanta-based photographer Oraien Catledge, who recently won a 2011 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for his latest book. The award was judged by Mary Ellen Mark. Congratulations, Oraien!

Photos: Constance Lewis

The High Museum has a section of their site dedicated to the upcoming show from Atlanta photographer Chip Simone. Chip’s show, “The Resonant Image” opens June 18th.

From Mark Hogancamp dolls up misfortune in Marwencol:

“Currently, the Westside gallery {Poem 88} offers a small sliver of Hogancamp’s world in photographs with the exhibit Marwencol, brought to Atlanta in part through the passionate interest of Atlanta native David Naugle. Naugle is an Atlanta College of Art-schooled photographer, whose avocation has been documenting the lives and work of people one might describe as “characters.” When Naugle relocated to Kingston in 2003, he struck up a friendship with Hogancamp and one day found a package of photographs in his mailbox inscribed with the words “this is my world.” “He started photographing these just to prove to his friends and people he worked with that these things were so real,” says Naugle, who now lives in Decatur with his wife and two children.

More info at poem88.

PDF Press Release

Amy Landesberg, who created “Urban Reverb” for the ACP Public Art project in 2005, is giving an artist’s talk at Solomon Projects on Thursday.

Amy Landesberg – Rosewood Swag – Viewing + Artist Talk
Thursday, April 20th
6:00 PM / Viewing
6:30 PM / Artist Talk

We hope you will plan to join us next week on Thursday, April 20th at 6 PM to hear Amy Landesberg speak about her work, including the ambitious Veneers art wall project currently under fabrication for the expansion at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The late afternoon/early evening light provides the optimal time of day to view her vibrant photographic film on plastic laminate (PET) installation entitled Rosewood Swag cascading from the front gallery windows, spilling colors onto to the walls and concrete floor. Please note: in case of inclement weather, we will move the talk to Thursday, April 21st at the same time.

Vee Speers “Immortal”, Carolyn Carr’s photographs, and “Iconic Photographs” from Henri Cartier-Bresson will be on view at Jackson Fine Art on April 15th. Opening reception is from 6-8pm, and there will be an artist’s talk from Carolyn Carr with Carol Thompson (curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art) on Thursday, April 20th at 6:30pm.