2008 Exhibitions

2008 Exhibition Calendar

Legacy: The Paintings of Sedrick Huckaby
Jan 27th - April 6th 2008:
Sedrick Huckaby was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975.  In 1995 Sedrick Huckaby began his formal art studies at Texas Weslyan University but transferred to Boston University, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Later he received his Master of Fine Art degree from Yale University.    The African-American family and its heritage has been the content of his painterly world for the last few years. Through portraiture he has been depicting the African-American Family and has chosen to paint quilts as an element of our heritage. In large-scale portraits of family and friends Huckaby tries to aggrandize ordinary people by painting them on a   monumental scale. Although he has used various references while painting, Huckaby's most enthusiastic about painting from a live sitter. Huckaby's hopes these paintings not only celebrate the sitter's beautiful facial features but also sends the message that ordinary people, who may not be great in society's eyes, should be of paramount importance to us.

April 2008:  Art Auction

Praise Songs the Art of Danny Campbell, Malaika Favorite, and William Buchanan
May 11th - July 13th 2008:  
Danny Campbell, Malaika Favorite, William Buchanan; This three person show features three regionally based artists who are on the verge of wider national recognition. Danny Campbell is an Atlanta based artist whose work extends from his memory and interaction with the rural south's paper tattered walls and framed shacks. By combining various materials such as metals, wood, fabric, plastic and other raw materials to give association and content to my artistic journey.  Malaika Favorite is an artist originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana now living in Georgia. In an ongoing series of paintings on wash boards Malaika Favorite uses the wash board as a backdrop to illustrate the struggles of Black people in America and women in particular. This series also includes works related to the theme of washing and ironing and uses various implements from that trade. William Buchanan is a regionally based artist whose work is inspired by the southern landscape and man's interaction and integration with the southern landscape.

Tellin' it like it is: The Art of Curlee Raven Holton and Selections from The Experimental Printmaking Institute
July 20th -September 9th 2008:

Experimental Printmaking Institute is one of the up and coming premier printmaking establishment in the country. The mission of the EPI is to provide a creative environment where artist can create work and investigate new and experimental approaches to the print medium. Many major artists within the African American art world have created works at the E.P.I and this exhibit will be an overview of the prints from this powerful and critically acclaimed collection.   This show will be curated by the E.P.I's founding director, master printmaker, Curley Holton.

Eric Waters: Second line 35 Years of New Orleans Photographer
September 21st- November 9th 2008
Eric Waters: New Orleans Photographer Eric Waters who now makes his home between Atlanta and New Orleans has documented his native city's African American culture for almost 35 years and continues to do so Post Katrina.  Covering everything from second line street parades to the Mardi Gras Indians as well as more contemplative works detailing the architecture and natural elements of his environment; Eric Waters gives the viewer a complete portrait of New Orleans Pre and Post Katrina.

Visit Eric Waters' website at http://www.ericwatersphotography.com.
 


Tomas Esson: EL BICHO a retrospective

November 23rd 2008- January 18th 2009:
Tomas Esson is a Miami based artist originally from Cuba whose work combines social critiques of contemporary Cuban culture and international politics in a manner that is at once scathing, tongue in cheek, and scatological.  Tomas Esson was born in Marianao, Havana, Cuba.  In 1963, Tomas relocated from Cuba to The United States due to continuing pressures by the Cuban Authorities in regards to his often controversial art. Living and working in Miami, Tomas continues to create works of art that deal with issues of modernity, freedom, displacement and dismemberment.

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Wendy Phillips - Ephemeral Musings:Work from and Inspired by the Afrromestizo Communities of LaCosta Chica, Mexico.  Sept. 20 - Nov. 15, 2009

Wendy Phillips conceptual work is informed and inspired by the ethnographic research project she has been doing with women of African and North American indigenous descent in the communities of the coastal states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, Mexico.
 
La Limpia Project was inspired by what she learned about Afromestizo women's conceptualization of illness and their rituals related to healing. In this series, her body is the location of the rituals, and her photographs include the ritual objects and symbols the women use in their traditional practices.
 
La Sombra Series refers to the traditional Afromestizo belief that illnesses and instances of spiritual disharmony and disequilibrium occur when an aspect of an individual called La Sombra, (also known as the soul, or shadow) becomes lost or endangered. The images also represent her musings about the symbols that represent the feminine archetype.
 
La Costa Chica Series includes images made in the Afromestizo community of Juchitan, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico.
 
Lillian Blades: Eye Sea Reflections - November 22 - Jan. 31, 2010
Lillian Blades was born in Nassau, Bahamas.  She received a BFA in Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from Georgia State University.  She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and Caversham in KwaZulu Natal South Africa.  Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, The Bahamas, Trinidad, Germany, and South Africa.  Her work has been commissioned for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and The East Atlanta Library and is in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.

Past Exhibitions

 

Doris Derby

Doris Derby is an educator and artist who was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement.  She was a founding member of the New York branch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.  She then traveled to Mississippi to organize an adult literacy program at Tougaloo College.  While in Mississippi, she co-founded the Free Southern Theater, which aimed to educate southern African Americans about their history and about the civil rights movement.  When the FST moved to New Orleans in 1965, Derby remained in Mississippi, working as an educator, organizer and artist until 1972.  Dr. Derby's photographic works were recently featured in the photography exhibition Road to Freedom at the High Museum of Art.

 

Sue Ross

Sue Ross refers to herself as a Griot of the
African American community. In the African tradition, the griot is the oral historian holding the essence of African history and culture through the word.  Sue Ross, the photo-griot, uses photographs to tell the stories of the African American community.  "I am primarily a people photographer, finding grace and dignity in the faces of our people."  Sue is a founding member of Sistagraphy™: the collective of African American women photographers, and served for many years on the boards of directors of the National Black Arts Festival, the Atlanta African Film Society and the Metro Atlanta Coalition of 100 Black Women.

African Americans for the Arts - From Songhai to Symphony Hall: A Visual Journey to Music to Music of the African Diaspora - May 3rd - July 5, 2009

Jim Alexander
Art Eubanks
Al Harmon
Aaron Hendrson
R. Sidney Henderson
Debra Renee Jeter
Linc Bennett
Michael Morgan
Marcella Muhammad
Jose Pena
Lee Ransaw
Vernon Robinson
Derrick Roach
Delores Surry-Smith
Terumi Todd
Ric Washington
Eric Waters

Steve Prince
Feb. 8 - April 12, 2009.
Steve Prince was born and raised within the rich cultural milieu of New Orleans Louisiana. He received his BA in Fine Arts from Xavier University of Louisiana and an M.F.A. in printmaking and sculpture from Michigan State University. Steve works primarily in the art forms of printmaking and drawing. He uses their black and white language with a remarkably original and innovative vision. The many rhythms of New Orleans cross-fertilized culture reflect themselves throughout Steve's art. The rich traditions of art, music, and religion pulsate through Steve's woodcuts and drawings. They rise up as metaphors and messages that guide the viewer into the depths of his expressive imagination. Steve's art becomes windows that lead you into new and unseen worlds. His work has been characterized by the New Orleans art critic, D. Eric Bookhardt, as "startling in its ability to elucidate inexplicable worlds within worlds, in what amounts to an almost unearthly scrimshaw effect."

Tomas Esson
2008 through Jan 18, 2009
Cuban artist Tomas Esson came of age in post revolutionary Castro's Cuba as part of generation of exceptionally gifted art practitioners. Born of Cubans of Jamaican descent, Tomas's art has dealt with his response to his formal academic art training and issues surrounding coming of age in a Cuban culture romanticized and demonized by the outside world. His scatological critique of the human condition in general and of Castro's Cuba has been a constant theme in much of his work. His artistic and political response to his migration to the United States also shows that his keen eye for satire and necessary political witnessing has not been diminished but only grows in the power of its scope.

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