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Hollis Hildebrand-Mills’ fifth solo exhibition, “Collage: Projected, Moving, and Still,” is at Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta. Hildebrand-Mills is an Atlanta-based artist working in paint and collage-based mediums.

This show takes her work further with the creation of a digital video using computer-extracted pieces of the collages on view at this exhibition. The sixteen minute video’s hypnotic music by Peter Gabriel provides a backdrop for the cut-outs to swirl and dance forming a unique enchanting narrative.

Look at these collages and discover parts of them in the video presentation. The video and collages act as a unified installation.

Hildebrand-Mills has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Atlanta and Texas. One of her paintings was chosen by Anne Umland, Curator, Painting & Sculpture Department, Museum of Modern Art, NY, for inclusion in a juried exhibition at Pleiades Gallery in NYC. Hildebrand-Mills has received many awards and accolades for her collage and collage-inspired work.

Through Dec. 5.

Composition Gallery, in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography 11, is proud to present Communion: A Found Photo Show, featuring photographs from the gallery’s found photography collection, and the collection of Atlanta-based freelance writer Emily Capps, as well as original artwork by Adam Farrington, Aubrey Pope, and Christian Bradley West. We will host an opening reception on Saturday October 17th, from 7 to 10 pm and the exhibition will continue through Sunday, November 29th.

The secular definition of the word communion is simply an act or instance of intimate communication; and there is certainly an intimacy involved when viewing other people’s personal photographs. Novelist Jonathan Franzen has written about a moment of “recognition” in fiction, of the writer’s potential for connecting his feelings and emotions directly to those of the reader. I like to think that photographic imagery possesses a similar potential. Of course, not every image in the collection will spark such a connection, and some veer more toward documentary or photojournalism. However, it is my hope that it will be impossible to come away from this exhibit without having felt a connection to at least a few of these people and places.