Chip Simone’s “The Silence and The Dance“
Opening: Friday, May 14, 7:30 – 10:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 22 11 a.m.

Emerging Visions
May 14th – June 25th, 2010
Opening: Friday, May 14, 7:30 – 10 p.m.
Juror Talk: Saturday, May 15th, 10:30 am
Juror: Elizabeth F. Spungen
Executive Director The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

More info on apgphoto.org

“Trees Atlanta invites Georgia photographers to enter the “My Favorite Tree” Photography Contest. The contest will culminate in a show that will exhibit at the Trees Atlanta Kendeda Center from October 8th, 2010 through November 6th, 2010. This show is sponsored by the Georgia Forestry Commission (view disclaimer) in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography. All entries will be accepted and displayed in the show.”

News from Nicole Akstein about an upcoming show from her students at the Center for Pan-Asian Community Services.

“The students that I’ve been helping teach photography to these past three months are finally finished and we are having a show at Eyedrum showcasing the kids’ work! The photographs are all for sale and purchases go toward the non-profit, Center for Pan-Asian Community Services (CPACS) that is responsible for this amazing photography program!”

This Week’s ACP 10 Events
(Please note: this is a list of this week’s events only. For a comprehensive guide to all current exhibitions, please see the Festival Guide.

Atlanta Artists Center and Gallery
Seeing the Light, A Juried Exhibition Opens
Tue., Oct 7, 2008 10am – 4pm

Gallery Walk at Terminus
Opening Reception for “Serial Concerns”
Wed., Oct. 8, 2008 6 – 8pm

Water Tower @ Auburn & Irwin
ACP 10 Public Art: “Within Our Gates“
Thur., Oct. 9, 2008 11am – 5pm

Chamblee Arts Alliance Gallery
Opening Reception for Chamblee Celebrates Photography
Thu., Oct. 9, 2008 6 – 9 pm

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
ACP Spotlight on Local Talent, Featuring Suellen Parker
Thu., Oct. 9, 2008 7 – 8:30 pm

Charis Books
Book Signing and Slide Presentation by Nancy Floyd
Thu., Oct. 9, 2008 7:30 – 9 pm

Water Tower @ Auburn & Irwin
ACP 10 Public Art: “Within Our Gates“
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 11am – 5pm

Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus
Opening Reception for Contemporary Chinese Photographers
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Fay Gold Gallery
Opening Reception for Sheila Pree Bright
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 6 – 8 pm

The Showcase School of Photography
Opening Reception for SHOTS 08
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 6 – 9 pm

J. Tribble Antiques
Opening Reception for David Knox
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 6 – 9 pm

Mary Stanley Studio at Castleberry Hill
Opening Reception for Mary Stanley Studio’s Fashion Statement
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 6 – 10 pm

Naomi Silva Gallery
Opening Reception for IRevelar Competition Winners
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 7 – 9 pm

Roswell Photographic Society
Opening Reception for RPS Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 7 – 9 pm

Marcia Wood Gallery
Opening Reception for Jan von Holleben & Peter Bahouth
Fri., Oct. 10, 7 – 9 pm

Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Closing Reception for Martha Rosler
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 7 – 9 pm

Clay’s Gallery
Opening Reception for Terrell Clark
Fri., Oct. 10, 7 – 10 pm

Grady High School
ACP 10 Portfolio Review
Sat., Oct. 11, 2008 8:30 – 4 pm

Worthmore
Artist Talk with Bobi Dimond
Sat., Oct. 11, 2008 11am

Water Tower @ Auburn & Irwin
ACP 10 Public Art: “Within Our Gates“
Sat., Oct. 11, 2008 11am – 7pm

Grady High School
Portfolio Review Lecture by Brooks Jensen
Sat., Oct. 11, 2008 5 – 6 pm

Grady High School
Portfolio Walk
Sat., Oct. 11, 2008 6 – 8 pm

My Atlanta
Piedmont Park Community Center
Sat., Oct. 11, 2008 9 am – 1 pm

Water Tower @ Auburn & Irwin
ACP 10 Public Art: “Within Our Gates“
Sun., Oct. 12, 2008 11am – 3pm

New Arts Exchange Gallery
Opening Reception for Sistagraphy Presents “Good Vibrations”
Sun., Oct. 12, 2008 3:30 – 5 pm

Sistagraphy opens “Good Vibrations” at New Arts Exchange Gallery this Sunday, Oct. 12th, from 3:30 – 5pm. There’s also an online gallery which should be launching soon on Sistagraphy.org.

Links:
Sistagraphy.org
Sistagraphy on ACP Now!

A conversation with Andrea Barnwell, curator for the Maria Magdalena Campos Pons exhibition, will be speaking about the work this Thursday, Sept. 18th, at 6:30.

Jonathan Bouknight’s latest photographic installation “Catch as Catch Can” will open at Eyedrum on Saturday, Sept. 20th, from 6-9pm.

© Jonathan Bouknight, from “Catch as Catch Can”

The first event of ACP’s programming is this Thursday: Christopher Bucklow, ACP 10 Lecture Series, at Rich Theater, Woodruff Arts Center.

Christopher Bucklow is widely known for the photographic silhouettes he makes using a pinhole camera. In Europe, Bucklow is also known for the ongoing series of paintings that stem from those photographs. Currently working in both media, Bucklow is exhibiting new photographs at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and recent paintings at Riflemaker gallery in London.

In 2004 Blindspot, New York, published a monograph on his photographs entitled “Guest”, and that same year, The British Museum published a monograph on his paintings (“Christopher Bucklow: If This Be Not I”). Bucklow also exhibits with Artereal gallery in Australia, and Mssohkan Gallery in Japan. He has recently written a book on the iconography of Philip Guston’s late paintings. His work is included in the collections of many museums across the United States.

This event is free and open to the public. Christopher Bucklow’s lecture coincides with an exhibition of his work at Jackson Fine Art. Presented with the High Museum of Art and Jackson Fine Art.

Rich Theater @ Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta GA 30309
W: www.woodruffcenter.org
T: 404.733.4200

The 3rd Annual ACP Photography Auction will be held at King Plow Arts Center on Friday, September 26th, and invitations have been mailed. We’ve updated our site to reflect this year’s info, and there’s a downloadable pdf of the catalog available.

Denise Bethel from Sotheby’s will be presiding again this year, and we’re pleased and thankful for these artists and their galleries, who have kindly donated pieces for the auction: Roger Ballen, Bruce Davidson, Mario Digirolamo, Jan Gauthier, Tierney Gearon, John Gutmann, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Jay Leviton, Todd Murphy, Brian Oglesbee, Michael Oliveri, Sylvia Plachy, Steve Schapiro, Masato Seto, Alec Soth, and Neil Winokur.

In addition to the ACP 10 exhibition Sheila Pree Bright will be having at Fay Gold Gallery, Sheila has three other shows, up and down the East Coast.

Young Americans
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART HARTFORD
SEPTEMEBER 19, 2008 – JANUARY 19, 2009
Gallery Talk: September 19, 2008 12:00 PM

Suburbia
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND
William D. Ginn Gallery
SEPTEMBER 12 – DECEMBER 28, 2008

BODY IMAGE: BEYOND APPEARANCE
August 25 – October 4, 2008
Brenau University
500 Washington Street SE
Gainesville, GA 30501
Simmons Visual Arts Center Sellars Gallery
Panel Discussion: September 25, 2008 6-8:30 PM

The photography of John Clemmer, Damien A. Guarnieri, Mark W. Hutchison, & Mike Nalley will be on display this Friday night in historic, downtown Acworth. This is the first event on this year’s calendar, and we’re excited that it’s a new venue, Gallery4463. The show runs through the 28th of September.

While we’re putting the finishing touches on the calendar and waiting for the printed Festival Guide to return from the printer, we wanted to let you know what was happening this Friday in Acworth!

Portfolio Review attendees will be receiving their schedule tomorrow, Sept. 2nd, by email.  Thanks!

Alec Soth, interviewed here during his visit to Atlanta for the ACP Lecture Series last October, answered a few questions from Rob Haggart about Soth’s blog’s silence. Congrats to Mr. Soth for becoming a full member of Magnum Photos last week.

Hey, you read ACP Now! so why not vote for it as "best local visual arts blog" in Creative Loafing’s "Best of Atlanta” here!

(The url for ACP Now! is: acpinfo.org/blog)

And while you’re at it, vote for “Atlanta Celebrates Photography” as Best Art Event!

Carrie Mae Weems has a new installation up at the ACA Gallery @ SCAD, via the National Black Arts Festival, and here’s the press release:

Contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems explores the human rights movement in the United States and abroad in an upcoming multimedia installation titled, “Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment.” The exhibition, commissioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Black Arts Festival, will be on display July 1 – Aug. 31 at the ACA Gallery of SCAD, 1280 Peachtree St. The artist’s reception will be held July 15, 6-8 p.m.

In a Feb. 29 New York Times review, art critic Roberta Smith wrote of Weems, “No American photographer of the last quarter-century … has turned out a more probing, varied and moving body of work. None has made more adventurous use of the photographic medium, adding performance, film and installation to the serial print format.”

In Winter 2008, Weems taught an innovative special topics course at SCAD-Atlanta as a Distinguished Visiting Faculty member. She and her students conceptualized, planned and created the commissioned “Constructing History” film and a related series of photographs. The human rights-focused project was inspired by the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Drawing on archival films and media, Weems worked with SCAD students, the National Black Arts Festival and other volunteers to reenact significant historical moments. Participants created props and costumes, designed sets, coordinated production, and acted in vignettes, which were captured on film and serve as the basis for the installation.

Weems said, “Through the act of performance, with our own bodies, we are allowed to experience and to connect the historical past to the present—to the now, to the moment. By inhabiting the moment, we live the experience; we stand in the shoes of others and come to know first-hand what is often only imagined, lost, forgotten.”

The civil rights movement in the United States helped spawn global concern for human rights. Race and gender issues continue to resonate in the American political arena as, for the first time, a woman and a black man vie for the Democratic nomination for president. The international spotlight on their campaigns, as well as ongoing human rights violations throughout the world, makes Weems’ installation particularly timely.

Weems, who received the 2008 Skowhegan Medal for photography, earned a Bachelor of Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She studied folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, with the late Alan Dundes, and has been an artist in residence at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Fabric Workshop and the Rhode Island School of Design. Weems’ work is included in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Modern Art and the Williams College Museum of Art. She lives and works in New York.

The “Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment” commission was made possible by the Savannah College of Art and Design with the National Black Arts Festival.