Art Relish

On September 2, Atlanta’s newest fine art and design gallery run by a mother-daughter art-business duo, 2 Rules Fine Art, will open its doors in historic Marietta, Ga.

Unlike many Atlanta-area art galleries with a fine art focus, 2 Rules Fine Art will also feature great design. The brainchild of mother and sculptor Lois Rule and daughter and graphic designer/educator Becky Rule, 2 Rules Fine Art gallery bridges the gap between what is considered fine art and great design by showcasing creative works that utilize or reference commercial processes and themes. The September 2 gallery grand opening also serves as the opening for the gallery’s premiere group art show, “Function: Repurposed.”

“It’s rare these days to see a new gallery opening its doors, especially one that focuses on great design,” said Lois Rule, co-creator and co-owner of 2 Rules Fine Art. “We saw a need that matched our joint art, design and business expertise and are thrilled to give Atlanta’s art aficionados a gallery tailored to something a bit out of the gallery norm.”

Artists participating in the group show, “Function: Repurposed,” include:

- Stanford Ashcraft, a painter from Marietta, Ga., will be showcasing pieces from his Garden Series in the gallery. Ashcraft also has a window installation in place in the gallery prior to opening.

- Anne Forman, a printmaker from Chicago, Ill., will be showcasing two textile design pieces. For more information, please visit her Chicago street fashion blog, El-No Chicago, and her stationary design company, Anink Design.

- Dennis Ichiyama, a letterpress artist and visual communications design professor from West Lafayette, Ind., will be showcasing pieces from his Wood & Type collection.

- Kang Joo Lee, a painter/printmaker from New York, N.Y., will be showcasing her piece, “Blue City,” as well as five other etchings and paintings.

- Stephanie Rond, a painter from Columbus, Ohio, will be showcasing her piece, “Up in the Sky,” as well as five other paintings.

- Hannah Skoonberg, a printmaker from Marietta, Ga., will be showcasing six relief prints.

- Kay Vinson, a painter from Birmingham, Ala., will be showcasing her piece, “Lost in Translation,” as well as six other paintings.

2 Rules Fine Art
85 Church St.
Marietta, Ga. 30060

Co-author and creative director Cinqué Hicks will discuss Atlanta Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), highlighting the book’s planned collaborations in Brazil and China.

In his talk, Hicks will outline plans that include:

· a roundtable discussion at Paço das Artes in São Paulo, Brazil
· responses to Atlanta art by São Paulo art critic Hugo Fortes + Shanghai-based Bing Bu
· national and international distribution of the book

The talk will also include a sneak peek of Hicks’s upcoming presentation to the International Association of Art Critics in Asunción, Paraguay.

Free and open to the public.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
75 Bennett St.
Atlanta, GA 30309

Solomon Projects presents “Study of Strange Things” – a body of new work by Atlanta-based artist Marcia Vaitsman. The exhibition will include camera-based photography, photograms, an installation of lightboxes, and three videos for which the artist has co-composed the soundtrack.

Study of Strange Things was created from what Vaitsman calls proto-images, images that are ephemeral or “thin” because they do not exist in her mind as full-frame photographs but as fragments of information, doubtful memories, or obscure sensations. To preserve this ephemeral condition, she uses such domestic materials as ice, chocolate, eggs, meat, wax, salt, milk, or starch; or such biological by-products as hair or wool. Study of Strange Things is related to the tradition of grouping images, as in the Tarot, the Stations of the Cross, stamp collections, photo albums, and even cinematography, which articulate fragments of meaning in order to describe complex situations. This series shows a private, ancestral imagery and therefore describes parts of Vaitsman’s mind that sometimes seem foreign, even to her.

Marcia Vaitsman, born in Brazil, studied media science, art and photography at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Kunsthochschule fuer Medien KHM, Germany; and SCAD, Atlanta. Vaitsman who is currently part of the studio artist program at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center has projects awarded and/or sponsored by the Sao Paulo Biennial Foundation; UNESCO-Ashberg, France; Ministry of Culture, Brazil; IAMAS, Japan; Prince Claus Fund, The Netherlands, among others. Her work has been shown in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Through Sept. 24.

Solomon Projects
1037 Monroe Drive Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30306-3664
(404) 875-7100
info@solomonprojects.com