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Today - 6/8/2012

Opening Reception: Friday, April 20 from 6 to 8 p.m. This exhibit features works by William Christenberry. In the works, Christenberry revisits rural Hale County in Alabama - where he spent much of his childhood - as well as the surrounding counties to document the ever-changing face of the South. He makes yearly trips that serve as a means to resurrect emotions from the places ...
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Crossing Lines
Today - 5/26/2012

Artist Talk: Saturday, April 21 at 1 p.m. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21 at 7 p.m. This exhibit is a collaborative endeavor by William Downs and Brooke Pickett that merges lines, landscapes and visions into one cohesive body of work. The artists, who met in New Orleans during the summer of 2011, embarked on this journey hoping to synthesize their distinct approaches to dr...
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Mimic
Today - 6/9/2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. This exhibit features new works by George Long, whose works consider the nature of human behavior with delicately executed, nuanced images of children. The drawings in graphite, oil and venetian plaster on paper are derived through a series of re-translations. Long makes original drawings and then manipulates the original drawings t...
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Rimi Yang: Perpetual Wisdom
Today - 5/25/2012

Opening Reception: Friday, April 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. This exhibit features new works by Rimi Yang, who was born in South Korea, grew up in Japan and has spent most of her adult years in California. As a result Yang has a world view that encompasses several heritages and vastly different cultures. She is not afraid to borrow cultural imagery or social icons and morph them into the ...
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Contrapunto: Six Contemporary Latin American Artists
Today - 5/31/2012

Artist Talk: Saturday, May 19 from 3 to 5 p.m. This exhibition - the title of which means having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together - brings together a group of artists associated in a loose creative and cultural alliance to promote Latin American art. The six artists are natives of Venezuela, Peru, Cuba and the Dominican Republic and curren...
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Homes and Heroes of the Civil War
Today - 9/9/2012

This exhibit features 27 photographs of local Civil War homes by photographer Jim Divitale, along with Civil War photographs on loan from collector David Wynn Vaughan.
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As the City Sleeps
Today - 6/3/2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12 from 7 to 11 p.m. This group show, curated by Atlanta artists Brandi Supra and Sean Fahie, features works by up-and-coming artists Emily Pidgeon, Estela Semeco, Jane Garver, Nikita Gale and Will Mitchell. The show focuses on the artists’ interpretations of what night and life during this time represents to them in a series of different media, in...
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Southeastern Pastel Society Exhibit
5/17/2012 - 6/24/2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. This group exhibit, held bi-annually, features 70 works selected specially for the show. This year a total of 138 artists submitted 362 paintings for consideration from as far away as Ireland and Australia, which were narrowed down because of space limitations. The works will be judged by Fred Somers, who has put a great deal of ...
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Friday Jazz
5/18/2012 - 6/15/2012

Make plans this Friday for live music and cocktails to kick off the weekend at the High Museum!
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Moving Pictures
5/26/2012 - 5/30/2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 26 from 6 to 10 p.m. This thesis exhibition features works by SCAD Atlanta MFA candidate Lauren Adams. The exhibit showcases a body of work that uses abstracted forms distilled from nature in order to blur the line between real and unreal, attraction and re...
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