Art Relish

Third Saturday Art Walks are held every month from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Atlanta’s Westside Arts District. Art talks, tours, and other events are scheduled to encourage public inquiry into the process, intention, and inspirations of the artwork and/or curatorial vision of the exhibitions.

For a detailed schedule of events and district map, please visit the Westside Arts District site.

Eleven venues participate in the monthly Miami Circle Art Stroll, held every third Saturday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. See art spanning more than three centuries, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and photography, in one of Atlanta’s premier art districts.

Participants: Anne Hathaway, Anne Irwin Fine Art, Antonio Raimo Galleries, Artists’ Atelier of Atlanta, J.Tribble Collection, Judie Jacobs Fine Art, Madison Gallery at Foxglove Antiques My French Chateau, Pryor Fine Art, Reinike Gallery, and Thomas Deans Fine Art.

Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhäuser” and Ridley Scott’s film “Blade Runner” are ageless myths deconstructed in Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces.” This is the legend of a hero’s journey, or monomyth, from the physical world’s limitations to absolute awareness of the Jungian “Self,” the totality of the conscious and unconscious mind.

Referencing both the film and the opera, P. Seth Thompson‘s “The Tannhauser Gate” examines the image, commencing with the 1986 televised explosion of the Challenger shuttle, as the catalyst in an ontological search of the Self. By highlighting the slowly vanishing boundary between images and our reality this exhibition will uncover the fundamental consequences of image consumption, which results in a compromised identity and a distorted reality.

“The Tannhauser Gate” will represent a personal path to enlightenment from the hero’s initial call to adventure from the ordinary world of reality to the supernatural/mythological world of the image and back again.

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Ontologic (former Solomon Projects Gallery)
1037 Monroe Drive
Atlanta, GA 30306