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, visit the Westside Arts District site.

{Poem88} presents “Living Color Redux,” a second look at the formal aspects of color expressed in the work of David D’Agostino, Ryan Coleman, InkYoung Chun, Helen Ferguson Crawford, Ryan Nabulsi, and Drew Tyndell.

In both non-objective and representational works, these artists rely on the relationships of color and form in vibrant, luscious, meditative and even mysterious ways. While many of the artists may initiate the work as an exploration of landscape, there appears to be a kind of organic devolution into something entirely without form or only loosely hinting at form.

And the opposite holds true: there seems to be a desire to attach a physical form onto works that are entirely abstract to bring them into the realm of human experience. Each artist uses their own strategy to arrive at their unique balance between luminosity and chroma through assorted media including assemblage, camera-less photography and more straightforward painting.

Through July 28.

Artist talks: Saturday, June 16 and Saturday, July 21.

{Poem88}
1170 Howell Mill Rd., Suite A03
Atlanta, GA 30318

In “ATHICA EMERGES V: The Synthetic Mind,” nine artists synthesize perception and awareness using a variety of approaches, from the neurobiological to sociological. In so doing they capture and recreate the many ways we perceive and experience the world around us, focusing our attention on the binary of eternity and instantaneity.

Featured artists:
Brian Hitselberger
Ben McKee

Participating artists:
Bob Davis
C.D. Howe
Elizabeth Kleene
Vivian Liddell
Justine Stevens
Dena Zilber
Thomas Sanders

Curator: ATHICA Interns under the guidance of Artistic Director Emerita, L.Z. Saltz
Co-Curator: E. Green Barrera, K. Clark, N. Day, M. Drury & B. Gaby

Through Sept. 9.

Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
160 Tracy St., Unit 4
Athens, Ga.