SAT June 16: Flux Projects adds a special event to this Saturday's walk.

Saturday, June 16: Flux Projects collaborates with the Westside for a Special Art Walk. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: special event: Brad Downey / Portrait of My Father *10 am to 2 pm Aerial Project *2 to 3 pm Meet the Artist, Q & A with Debbie Michaud, Creative Loafing Arts & Culture Editor at Room & Board, 1170 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, 30318 www.fluxprojects.org/portrait Artist Brad Downey looks to the sky for his first project in Atlanta. Portrait of My Father, an aerial banner, will be visible throughout the city. The project will feature a cloud taken from an old photograph of Downey’s father piloting an airplane. As Downey explains, “even today when I think of my father I imagine him somewhere in the clouds looking at vast landscapes imagining how slow the rest of the world is moving... The portrait is not just the cloud but also the plane and the pilot.” Presented in conjunction with the Westside Art Walk. ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER *11am-12pm Event 535 Means Street NW, 404.688.1970 www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am–5pm Members free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3 *Event: Curator Tour: Stuart Horodner ACAC Artistic Director Stuart Horodner leads a tour and discussion of the current exhibition. Exhibition on view: Painters Panting draws its inspiration from Painters Painting, a 1972 documentary examining American art movements from Abstract Expressionism to Pop. This exhibition features 7 painters (David Diao, Craig Drennen, Saul Fletcher, Alex Hubbard, Judy Ledgerwood, Chris Martin, Jennifer West) addressing conditions of exhaustion and desire; using aspects of art history, music, Shakespeare, and the decorative; and making photographs, films, and videos that express the joy of studio experiments and collaborations. Final week! Closes June 24. Image: Jennifer West, Lavender Mist/Pollock Film 1 (70mm film leader rubbed with Jimson Weed Trumpet flowers, spray-painted, dripped and splattered with nail polish, sprayed with lavender mist air freshener), 2009, 70mm film leader transferred to digital video, No sound, 46 seconds, Courtesy the artist and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles {Poem88} *1pm, artists In Kyoung Chun, Ryan Coleman, and Helen Ferguson Crawford speak about their work 1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03 White Provision Building www.poem88.net, hrs: Wed-Sat, noon to 6pm; by appointment 404.735.1000 For our summer exhibition, {Poem88} presents Living Color Redux: a second look at the formal aspects of color expressed in the work of David D’Agostino, Ryan Coleman, In Kyoung 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 an organic devolution into something entirely without form or only loosely hinting at form. Each artist uses their own strategy to arrive at a unique balance between luminosity and chroma through assorted media including assemblage, camera-less photography and more straightforward painting. (image courtesy of Helen Ferguson Crawford and {Poem88}). ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING>>> Emily Amy Gallery 1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208 www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404-877-5626, hrs 11 – 5pm Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition for Massachusetts-based painter, Bernd Haussmann. The show, entitled Darwin’s Coral, will include new works in a variety of media and in an assortment of sizes, ranging from small intimate works on panel to large abstract canvases. The show’s title is a reference both to the broader concept of evolution and the natural world that is so critical to Haussmann’s work and process as well as to the more blatant patterns that often appear in this new series. In addition to the new collection of paintings that will be on view, there will also be several short films broadcast during the show that will allude to the elusive yet familiar natural world. Fall Line Press 1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112 www.falllinepress.com, tel. 404-885-1080, hrs. 11-5 The Fall Line bookstore has added several titles by local artists including Beth Lilly and Laura Noel. Stop in to see the latest titles, and look through our photo book reference library for your summer inspiration. Jennifer Schwartz Gallery Self Time[d]: Photographs by Heidi Lender 1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112 www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com, tel. 404.885.1080, Tues- Sat 11AM - 5PM Leaving behind the publishing universe, Heidi Lender picked up a DSLR and never looked back. Self Time[d] features work from three series: Once Upon, Green Dress and She Can Leap Tall Buildings. Heidi appears as the model in all three series in various dress to convey a story. Witty and beautiful, all the images in the exhibition examine wardrobes and surrounding spaces as a reflection of who we are or who we purport to be. OCTANE Glyph 1009-B Marietta St. (404) 815-9886 www.octanecoffee.com Open 8am – 11pm In Mike Germon's new body of work "Glyph", the usual state of his collages, often small and dense with religious and scientific references, is abandoned for larger, more graphic compositions. This small collection of new pieces reflects a fascination with typography and geometry that hasn't yet had the proper forum for exploration in previous work. Germon holds a BFA in Fine Art/Digital Media from The University of Georgia and is currently the gallery manager for MINT Gallery. Check out more of his work at www.MikeGermon.com Sandler Hudson Gallery 1009-A Marietta St NW Atlanta GA 30318 tel 404-817-3300, hrs Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat 12-5 http://sandlerhudson.com/ Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibit for Katie Walker entitled: If Walls Could Talk. Katie Walker describes her work as a calculatory process; where the dialectic, energy and the opposing forces are complete to her. Walker manipulates her paintings to build a language of personal imagery that is aesthetically pleasing, thought provoking and at times, humorous. She works primarily with acrylic on canvas, paper and wood. Katie Walker lives and works Greenville, SC.

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WAD: The Westside Arts District

(logo and map images courtesy of WAD)

(The Delights of Nature, Jen Bradley)

As tomorrow is the third Saturday of November, the art galleries on our side of town, including Emily Amy Gallery of the BrickWorks, are gearing up for the Westside Arts Walk.  All participating art spaces are located roughly between Howell Mill Road at 14th street, and the intersection of Means and Marietta Streets.  Just west of Midtown.

Comprised of ten different spaces, including 8 galleries, plus Octane Coffee and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, WAD offers locals and visitors alike a free opportunity to view art, meet artists, and learn more about the contemporary arts scene in the city.  The third Saturday of each month, WAD puts on an arts walk during which many of the galleries will feature a lecture by an exhibiting artist, a musician playing in the gallery space, or a film screening just to name a few past events.  As several of the participating galleries, including Get This! Gallery and SALTWORKS, have openings tomorrow evening, their new shows will be previewed during the walk.  In the case of Get This!, the artist Veronica De Jesus will be giving a talk at noon as part of the walk to the backdrop of her solo show which opens hours later.


If you plan on heading over to the Westside for the WAD walk tomorrow, be sure to stop in at the BrickWorks, as Emily Amy Gallery is located here!  EAG recently had an opening featuring two New-England based artists, (including the image found above by Jen Bradley), whose works will be up for viewing during the walk.  


All galleries are open free of charge, and the Contemporary is just $5 to enter (members free).  All sites have free parking as well.  The featured galleries include: Emily Amy Gallery, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Kiang Gallery, TWIN KITTENS, Tanner Hill Gallery, Astolfi Art, Get This! Gallery and SALTWORKS.  More complete information about tomorrow's walk and about individual shows can be found here.  Be sure to grab a beer up on the roof of 5 Seasons Brewery after finishing your tour of the Westside galleries, its supposed to be sunny and 68 degrees tomorrow.  All the more reason to get out and see some art.