Westside Arts District

New exhibitions at both Jennifer Schwartz Gallery and {Poem88}: don’t miss the fun activities!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Event: Lecture: Aaron Levy: Resisting the Future-less City
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids free
Lecture: Aaron Levy: Resisting the Future-less City
Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, discusses urban planning, activism, social responsibility, and projects and questions that coalesce around one basic query: How will we live with others? Presented in partnership with WonderRoot.
Exhibitions on view:
Day Job: Georgia, curated by Nina Katchadourian of The Drawing Center and Stuart Horodner of ACAC, brings together 15 artists whose various modes of employment have a clear link to the art that they produce. Selected from a statewide call for submissions that yielded hundreds of applicants, those chosen work in the food, architecture, gardening, sales, security, customer service, home improvement, and childcare industries.
100,000 Cubicle Hours, curated by Beth Malone and Courtney Hammond, of Dashboard Co-Op. Having recently started “real jobs” themselves, the four artists in this exhibition have created an office environment to give viewers a sense of what it’s like for creative types to bumble around under fluorescent lighting, secretly playing within the gray space in an effort to keep their spirits intact.

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*1pm Musical Performance: Pedro R. Rivadeneira in conjunction with Phillip Buntin: phenomena
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03
White Provision Building
www.poem88.net, tel 404.735.1000, hrs: Wed-Sat, noon to 6pm and by appointment
Local composer and musician Pedro R. Rivadeneira will perform improvised music in response to Phillip Buntin’s paintings at {Poem 88}. Dr. Rivadeneira works with processed sound and live instruments, laptop and SuperCollider software to explore “the relationship between dualities such as order and disorder, perfection and imperfection, the beautiful and the ugly, the sacred and the profane etc., in a kind of open, unresolved dialectic.” Pedro R. Rivadeneira is composer and professor of music.
about Phillip Buntin: phenomena:
In this new body of work for {Poem 88}, Buntin explores the experiential aspects of incompletion. In two dozen enamel paintings on plexiglass, Buntin puts forward a kind of riddle:  how or whether absence can be expressed through presence and how they might be intertwined. His curiosity about seemingly oppositional states has persisted over many years involving explorations of complex and chaotic visual manifestations. Repetitive patterns are especially appealing: from rain drops on a window to the carpet pages of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts. This exhibition runs through Feb 28.

SANDLER HUSDON GALLERY
* 2pm Artist: Elizabeth Lide and Marshall Davis present at 2pm to answer questions.
1009-A Marietta Street NW
www.sandlerhudson.com, tel 404.817.3300, hrs: Tuesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 12-5
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce recent works by Atlanta artists, Elizabeth Lide and Elizabeth Sheppell. Atlanta artist, Marshall Davis will exhibit a recent work on the roof. Elizabeth Lide’s work explores elements of nature. An avid gardener, Lide’s work is heavily guided by what she sees around her. Lide’s new body of work titled, “Recordings”, was created from her experience at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. Elizabeth Sheppell’s new body of work, “Surfaces” is an exploration of structures, color and layering. Sheppell’s abstracted works on panel are about finding new shapes and surfaces.
(image: Elizabeth Lide, Swimming Pool, 2011, mixed media on paper, 17″x20″)

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery/Fall Line Press
*3PM Artist Talk and Book Signing
1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com, www.falllinepress.com, tel. 404.885.1080, hrs 11AM-5PM
Photographer Jeff Rich will discuss his solo exhibition at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. His series, Watershed, is a long-term documentary project of the Mississippi watershed, highlighting the relationship between the land, water and man. In 2010, this series received the Critical Mass Book Award, and Fall Line Press is happy to be the first place you can publicly buy the monograph. Jeff will be available to sign copies, and discuss the process of making the book with Photolucida. The exhibition will continue at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery until March 17.

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING

EMILY AMY GALLERY
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208
www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5
The gallery is between shows, but will be open for viewing.

GET THIS! GALLERY
662 11th St. NW
www.getthisgallery.com / 678-596-4451
Open 12-5pm
Get This! Gallery is pleased to present Atlanta-based artist Heather Mcpherson’s solo exhibition, “shack, shanty, flat”. The exhibition features works that look at houses and the possibility of knowing something about their occupants through exterior clues. This being a continual focus in Mcpherson’s work. She writes of the work, “Each house has an attribute that becomes the focus and gives us clues about the houses’ inhabitants; sheets hanging on a porch, a pile of logs, a boarded up window, an old car parked in front. In these drawings, as in life, everything is not perfect. Time passes, erodes the paint on a wall, rots the wood on a porch, but there’s beauty and truth in these imperfections. These drawing are of the everyday, the beauty of the passage of time and of people living.”

KIANG PROJECTS
*ART SUPPLY SALE and work by Ben Steele
1011 A Marietta Street
www.kiang-gallery.com, tel.404.892.5477, hours: Friday 11-5, Saturday 12-5
*Selected work from Ben Steele’s exhibition ’16 Sided Crystal’ up for viewing at Kiang Gallery for the month of February during Art supplies sale.  Frames, Museum glass, Matts, Portfolios, Plexi, Books, Catalogs, and much MUCH MORE!  Discounted wholesale prices on gallery quality material.

SALTWORKS
664 11th Street NW
www.saltworksgallery.com, tel 404.881.0411, hrs 12 – 5pm
Artist Craig Drennen discusses his solo exhibition, [Dramatis Personæ], featuring new paintings and works on paper. Continuing his exploration of overlooked and unknown cultural contributions, Drennen’s latest subject is Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Sustained viewing of Drennen’s work reveals subtle differences in composition and palette spread across a broad spectrum of painterly effects. This verisimilitude alludes to an actor’s craft and the use of trompe l’oeil, gestural marks, and hard-edge abstraction is less about pastiche and more about allowing the physical material of paint to perform as many tasks as possible. This exhibition continues until March 3.

ABOUT THE WESTSIDE ART WALK

The Westside Art Walk is a presentation of the Westside Arts District and occurs on the third Saturday of every month from Noon to 5pm, unless otherwise noted. This art-centric event is intended to encourage public interaction and education of visual art in the emerging art district in Atlanta’s Westside neighborhood. There is plenty of free parking at each venue. Information can be found on the group’s website www.wadatlanta.org. To join our email list please send an email to wadatlanta@gmail.com

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Artist Craig Drennen as Timon of Athens (2011) courtesy SALTWORKS GALLERY

Be sure to catch several new exhibitions up during January’s Westside Art Walk!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Event: Panel Discussion
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids free
*Event: Panel Discussion:
Creative Lives & Careers: On Ambition. Artists Craig Drennen and Nikita Gale, Gallerist Jennifer Schwartz, and Artistic Director Stuart Horodner discuss ambition as evinced by Atlanta’s artists, galleries, and collectors.
Exhibitions on view:
Day Job: Georgia, curated by Nina Katchadourian of The Drawing Center and Stuart Horodner of ACAC, brings together 15 artists whose various modes of employment have a clear link to the art that they produce. Selected from a statewide call for submissions that yielded hundreds of applicants, those chosen work in the food, architecture, gardening, sales, security, customer service, home improvement, and childcare industries.
100,000 Cubicle Hours, curated by Beth Malone and Courtney Hammond, of Dashboard Co-Op. Having recently started “real jobs” themselves, the four artists in this exhibition have created an office environment to give viewers a sense of what it’s like for creative types to bumble around under fluorescent lighting, secretly playing within the gray space in an effort to keep their spirits intact.

GET THIS! GALLERY
*new exhibition
Meet and great with the artist between 12:30-3pm
662 11th St. NW
www.getthisgallery.com / 678-596-4451
Open 12-5pm
Get This! Gallery is pleased to present Atlanta-based artist Heather Mcpherson’s solo exhibition, “shack, shanty, flat”. The exhibition features works that look at houses and the possibility of knowing something about their occupants through exterior clues. This being a continual focus in Mcpherson’s work. She writes of the work, “Each house has an attribute that becomes the focus and gives us clues about the houses’ inhabitants; sheets hanging on a porch, a pile of logs, a boarded up window, an old car parked in front. In these drawings, as in life, everything is not perfect. Time passes, erodes the paint on a wall, rots the wood on a porch, but there’s beauty and truth in these imperfections. These drawing are of the everyday, the beauty of the passage of time and of people living.”

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*12pm Artist Talk with Kristin Gorell
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03
White Provision Building
www.poem88.net, tel 404.735.1000, hrs: Wed-Sat, noon to 6pm and by appointment
Kristin Gorell: abstractions. For the last day of her exhibition, Gorell will speak about her two creative careers– one as a screenwriter and the other as a visual artist and how and where these two disciplines coalesce and inform each other. Kristin Gorell’s abstract paintings present her particular distillation of her experience traveling between two very different worlds: her life here in Atlanta Georgia where she is an artist and screenwriter comfortably ensconced with her two children in a Midtown bungalow and her life traveling with her husband, Eran, an Israeli writer and film director. While in Israel, Kristin has observed the strange fragility of life in a war zone as well as the transcendent energy of ancient holy sites from the various faiths uniquely present there; it’s a state of tension and wonder all at the same time. Her paintings embrace those dichotomies: dark and light passages coexist with layers of delicate, glittering color. They are experiments — an on-going working out of the push and pull of color, shape and gesture that resists and wants some kind of resolution.

SALTWORKS
*1pm Artist Talk, New Exhibition
664 11th Street NW
www.saltworksgallery.com, tel 404.881.0411, hrs 12 – 5pm
Artist Craig Drennen discusses his solo exhibition, [Dramatis Personæ], featuring new paintings and works on paper.  Continuing his exploration of overlooked and unknown cultural contributions, Drennen’s latest subject is Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.  Sustained viewing of Drennen’s work reveals subtle differences in composition and palette spread across a broad spectrum of painterly effects.  This verisimilitude alludes to an actor’s craft and the use of trompe l’oeil, gestural marks, and hard-edge abstraction is less about pastiche and more about allowing the physical material of paint to perform as many tasks as possible.  This exhibition continues until March 3.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
*Scott Ingram will be present for an artist talk at 2 pm
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208
www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Cusp, its first-ever exhibition of work by Atlanta-based artist, Scott Ingram. This solo show and 3rd exhibition of the nail polish drawings takes a broader look at the modern art world. Inspired by the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland, Ingram’s work also has a strong focus on line. Ingram explains, “For me the works are ultimately based in line and drawing. The lines that make up the pieces reflect ideas of human life for me. They all start the same and end the same, but it is the path that each unique line takes that creates the composition.”

KIANG PROJECTS
*3pm: Artist talk with Ben Steele and special guest curator Karen Tauches.
New Exhibition by Ben Steele
16 Sided Crystal
1011-A Marietta Street, 404.892.5477
www.kiang-gallery.com *open 12-5pm
Open to the public
*Ben Steele’s paintings are both transcendental and technological. Sixteen artworks are constructed and refer to the natural physical world, yet also feel digitally produced. In reality, however, there is no digital component to the work. Aiming to simulate a digital vocabulary through physical form, the paintings are based on straight photographs taken, through crystals and prisms, of actual physical constructions.

SANDLER HUSDON GALLERY
* 3pm Elizabeth Lide, Elizabeth Sheppell and Marshall Davis present at 3pm to answer questions.
*new exhibition
1009-A Marietta Street NW
www.sandlerhudson.com, tel 404.817.3300, hrs: Tuesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 12-5
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce recent works by Atlanta artists, Elizabeth Lide and Elizabeth Sheppell.  Atlanta artist, Marshall Davis will exhibit a recent work on the roof.  Elizabeth Lide’s work explores elements of nature. An avid gardener, Lide’s work is heavily guided by what she sees around her. Lide’s new body of work titled, “Recordings”, was created from her experience at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. Elizabeth Sheppell’s new body of work, “Surfaces” is an exploration of structures, color and layering. Sheppell’s abstracted works on panel are about finding new shapes and surfaces.
(image: Elizabeth Lide, Swimming Pool, 2011, mixed media on paper, 17″x20″)

Fall Line Press
*Bookstore Launch Party 5-8PM
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 112
www.falllinepress.com, phone (404) 885-1080
Join us from 5-8PM, to kick off the Fall Line Bookstore! For the launch party, we will be featuring books from four independent publishing companies of photobooks. Publisher Bill Boling intends to make Fall Line a resource and a community for artists. We hope you come by and see what we’re all about!

ADDITIONAL GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
Southern Comfort: Photographs and Installation by Lori Vrba
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 112
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com, phone (404) 885-1080, open Tuesday – Saturday 11-5.
Take in some southern comfort in the form of photographs and installation work by Lori Vrba. Most days you can find her elbow deep in chemistry or chasing the next picture with enthusiasm, die-hard determination and a trustworthy Hasselblad. The exhibition closes on January 28th.

ABOUT THE WESTSIDE ART WALK

The Westside Art Walk is a presentation of the Westside Arts District and occurs on the third Saturday of every month from Noon to 5pm, unless otherwise noted.  This art-centric event is intended to encourage public interaction and education of visual art in the emerging art district in Atlanta’s Westside neighborhood.  There is plenty of free parking at each venue.  Information can be found on the group’s website www.wadatlanta.org.  To join our email list please send an email to wadatlanta@gmail.com

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Kristin Gorell, Groucho in all of us, oil on canvas, courtesy of {Poem88}

This Saturday’s Westside Art Walk presents great ideas for holiday gifts: art of all varieties!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Book Launch
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids free
*Creative Lives & Careers Book Launch: The Art Life: On Creativity and Career. Our new book brings together words of wisdom about the philosophical and practical issues that affect art-making and the marketplace. Many of the contributors have taken part in exhibitions and programs at ACAC from 2007 to the present.
Exhibitions on view: Sex Drive, and Mike Howard: Good Ole Boy. Sex Drive brings together artworks that address sexuality in a variety of way, with artists exploring issues of identity and gender, romance and lust, religious and legal strictures, and public scandals. The survey of paintings by Mike Howard examines some of the artist’s consistent themes, including hunting and fishing, food, art, and popular culture.

Get This! Gallery
*1pm Artist Talk
662 11th Street NW, 678-596-4451
www.getthisgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
Artist Ben “Bean” Worley will discuss his current solo exhibition SYNTHESIZ, currently on view in the gallery. The video on view is an experimental video which focuses on Worley’s interpretations of notable minimalist and post-abstract expressionist works. Show runs through January 7th, 2012.

{ Poem88}
*New Exhibition, 1pm Artist Talk
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03
White Provision Building, (404)735-1000
www.poem88.net, Hours: Wed-Sat, noon to 6pm and by appointment
Kristin Gorell: abstractions presents the artist’s particular distillation of her experience traveling between two very different worlds: her life here in Atlanta Georgia where she is an artist and screenwriter comfortably ensconced with her two children in a Midtown bungalow and her life traveling with her husband, Eran, an Israeli writer and film director.  While in Israel, Kristin has observed the strange fragility of life in a war zone as well as the transcendent energy of ancient holy sites from the various faiths uniquely present there; it’s a state of tension and wonder all at the same time. It is not surprising that her paintings embrace those dichotomies: dark and light passages co-exist with layers of delicate, glittering color. Her paintings have a gusto in gesture reminiscent of Philip Guston simultaneous with a transparency and luminous quality that conjures Odilon Redon.  They are experiments — an on-going working out of the push and pull of color, shape and gesture that resists and wants some kind of resolution. This exhibition continues until January 21.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
*New Exhibition
1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208
www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Cusp, its first-ever exhibition of work by Atlanta-based artist, Scott Ingram. This solo show and 3rd exhibition of the nail polish drawings takes a broader look at the modern art world. Inspired by the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland, Ingram’s work also has a strong focus on line. Ingram explains, “For me the works are ultimately based in line and drawing. The lines that make up the pieces reflect ideas of human life for me. They all start the same and end the same, but it is the path that each unique line takes that creates the composition.”

*New Exhibition
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112, Atlanta, GA 30318
www.jenniferschwartzgallery.com. (404) 885-1080. open Tuesday-Saturday 11-5.
Take in some southern comfort in the form of photographs and installation work by Lori Vrba. Most days you can find her elbow deep in chemistry or chasing the next picture with enthusiasm, die-hard determination and a trustworthy Hasselblad. The show runs through January 28th.

Kiang Projects
*New Exhibition
1011 A Marietta Street
info@kiang-gallery.com // tel. 404.892.5477
Gallery Hours: W-F 11-5 pm, Saturday 12-5 pm
16- Sided- Crystal: sixteen paintings by Ben Steele. Ben Steele’s paintings are both transcendental and technological. Sixteen artworks are constructed and refer to the natural physical world, yet also feel digitally produced. In reality, however, there is no digital component to the work. Aiming to simulate a digital vocabulary through physical form, the paintings are based on straight photographs taken, through crystals and prisms, of actual physical constructions. Curated by Karen Tauches. On view through January 28.

SALTWORKS
664 11th Street NW, (404) 881-0411
www.saltworksgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
*Solo exhibition: Glexis Novoa. Continuing a search for parallels in social phenomena, Novoa’s latest works present historical narratives of a dystopic society. The large mixed media works on paper, use metaphor to show the decaying centralizing force of past political icons and technology as the new dehumanizing enchantment. Novoa draws a dystopian world where identity is absent and the individual is displaced by technology. This is Novoa’s first solo exhibition at SALTWORKS.

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This Saturday’s Westside Art Walk presents a good mixture of photography, video and mixed media works.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Guest Lecture
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids Free
*Guest Lecture: Atlanta social worker and therapist Bill Herring discusses compulsive sexual behavior and other sex-related conditions affecting people today. Exhibitions on view: Sex Drive, and Mike Howard: Good Ole Boy. Sex Drive brings together artworks that address sexuality in a variety of way, with artists exploring issues of identity and gender, romance and lust, religious and legal strictures, and public scandals. The survey of paintings by Mike Howard examines some of the artist’s consistent themes, including hunting and fishing, food, art, and popular culture. Sat evening 8-10pm, don’t miss a special Karaoke night with Fahamu Pecou(aka, Sex-Choc-If Ya Nasty).

Emily Amy Gallery

*New Exhibition

1000 Marietta Street NW, Suite 208

www.emilyamygallery.com, tel 404.877.5626, hrs: 11-5

Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present Cecil Touchon: New Works and Old Favorites, the artists’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will feature new collages on paper as well as works on panel and canvas. Touchon views collage as directly reflective of his personal experience. He states, “This fleeting quality of papers and messages and the images they contain seems a fitting material for the contemplation of our temporal condition – of our brief sojourn in this world.”

Get This! Gallery
*New Exhibition
662  11th Street NW, 678-596-4451
www.getthisgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
On view will be the the solo exhibition, SYNTHESIZ by Atlanta based video artist Ben “Bean” Worley. The video on view is an experimental video which focuses on Worley’s interpretations of notable minimalist and post-abstract expressionist works. Show runs through January 7th, 2012.

SALTWORKS
*New Exhibition
664 11th Street NW, (404) 881-0411
www.saltworksgallery.com, Open 12pm-5pm
*Solo exhibition: Glexis Novoa. Continuing a search for parallels in social phenomena, Novoa’s latest works present historical narratives of a dystopic society.  The large mixed media works on paper, use metaphor to show the decaying centralizing force of past political icons and technology as the new dehumanizing enchantment. Novoa draws a dystopian world where identity is absent and the individual is displaced by technology. This is Novoa’s first solo exhibition at SALTWORKS.

Kiang Projects
1011 A Marietta Street
www.kiangprojects.com. 404.892.5477. Open Wednesday – Friday 11-5pm, Saturday 12-5pm.
Join us this November art walk to view our current exhibition, Existential Emptiness by Cui Xiuwen. Cui pursues a critical inquiry into the philosophy of emptiness and the phenomena rising from the Buddha’s observation that nothing possesses an essential enduring identity and that acceptance leads to wisdom and inner peace. This narrative is re -imaged in the dynamic between the artist and her alter ego or dopplegänger. The show continues through November 18, 2011.

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 This Saturday’s Westside Art Walk features a special performance by the Atlanta Ballet at 5 Seasons Brewery.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Atlanta Ballet OFF Stage Kick-Off Party
* 12-2pm
Five Seasons Brewery-Westside
Atlanta Ballet is taking a walk on the Westside! Join us on the 5 Seasons rooftop for live music, specialty cocktails and tasty bites, a meet-and-greet with Atlanta Ballet dancers, and a chance to win some great Atlanta Ballet prizes. It’s the official kick-off party for our 11-12 season. Visit atlantaballetblog.com/off-stage for more information.

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
*11am-12pm Artist Talk
535 Means Street NW, (404) 688-1970
www.thecontemporary.org, Open 11am-5pm
Members Free, General admission $5, Students $3, Seniors $3, Kids Free
*Artist Talk: Exhibiting artists from Sex Drive join painter Mike Howard to talk about issues of sexuality, politics, advertising, and sports.On view: Sex Drive, and Mike Howard: Good Ole Boy. Sex Drive brings together artworks that address sexuality in a variety of ways. The participating artists bring their own pleasures and political dispositions to bear on issues of identity and gender, romance and lust, religious and legal strictures, and public scandals. The survey of paintings by Mike Howard examines some of the artist’s consistent themes, including hunting and fishing, food, art, and popular culture.

{ Poem88 }
*1pm Artist Talk
1100 Howell Mill Road Suite A03 (404) 735-1000
White Provisions District (behind Perrine’s and Garden)
Atlanta, Georgia 30318
www.poem88.net  Open Noon to 6PM
In conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Poem88 presents Holly White: Cinematic Language. Atlanta photographer Holly White creates images that, despite the minimal presence of human beings, nonetheless suggest they are markedly there: in lawn chairs, or footprints on dewy grass, or the lone automobile on an otherwise empty street. There is an enormous feeling of fullness in that emptiness.  And, for the viewer, there is, also, a natural inclination to construct a narrative even if it is only loosely bound by the remnants of people.  Holly White seems to be warming up as a mis-en-scene  directing the story of mystery, or of longing, or of melancholy, or of something else entirely fleeting. Agnes Varda, in her essay “On Photography and Cinema” (1984) says: “To my mind, Cinema and Photography are like a brother and sister who are enemies…. after incest.” Holly White’s photographs seem to undo such a transgression of time. She allows the flickering view to be happily stilled.