Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘From the Soul to the Heart’ October 11 2013
CARE turns 20!
- Thomas Deans Fine Art
- Jason Craighead, “Of River and Blue Canoes,” mixed-media on canvas, 70x86 in.
Jason Craighead’s From the Soul to the Heart closes this weekend at Thomas Deans Fine Art. Craighead’s method incorporates drawing, painting, collage, graffiti, and process art, producing abstract works of bizarre aggregation that are never more than off-putting. The weirdness pulls you in instead of pushing you out. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
After the jump, three more picks for the weekend.
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FRIDAY
Featuring works by Alexandra Marrero, Ethereality, at The Big House Gallery, is a celebration of loss. That isn’t quite right: The exhibit celebrates what loss creates - transformation as a production of absence, which here gets reprocessed through surreal metaphoric play. Artist reception from 6-11 p.m. on Friday.
Entitled Through the Eyes of a Girl and rightfully including 100 international works from girls in Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, India, and Madagascar - CARE’s new exhibit at the Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery is a showcase of firsts. Many of the featured artists were not artists before now. As the group described its methodology, “We visited communities where we work, carrying suitcases packed with drawing paper, watercolor paints, colored pencils, and pastels.” In turn, their produced works provide attendees new perspective, too. Not just of other places but by other people from countries other than our own. The exhibit is a simultaneous celebration of CARE’s 20 years headquartered in Atlanta. From 7-10:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
What is Petty Thoughts about? The solo show by Jermaine Clark, opening 8 p.m.-midnight at dooGallery and funded out-of-pocket, is officially, “a pathfinder for those seeking the seemingly unreachable intersection of random ideas and realized greatness.” It mixes musical influences with street art and the anecdotal, with an emphasis on the eyes. It’s portraiture, but isn’t, re-mediated with acrylic on canvas and panel. Also featuring DJ Spontaneous and Gilles. Watch this video!