Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Monochrome Portraits’ December 13 2013
Also: exclamatory plays!
- Courtesy Hagedorn Foundation Gallery
- Trine Søndergaard, “Monochrome Portrait #12, #30, #9” (from left), 2009 Digital C-Print, 23.62x23.63 in.
Trine Søndergaard’s Monochrome Portraits are exactly what they sound like - a simplicity that doesn’t dilute their effect. Many of the figures are posed in cliche half-turns, faces half-hidden by shoulders or hair or backs, but they seem to have been dipped in gorgeous Pantone (actually Cibachrome) shades. It’s like Warhol doing Chekov. The exhibit has been running at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery since October but Søndergaard will appear for an artist reception this Friday, from 6-8:30 p.m, and a talk and book signing on Saturday from 1-3 p.m.
Four more picks after the jump.
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FRIDAY
- Courtesy Rusty Wallace
Athens’ Rusty Wallace will present a survey of his work at Twin Kittens entitled Dialogue. Wallace explains himself in theoretical torrents; his conceptual approach is self-evident because the concept, and its embodiments in semiotics and ontology and art history, is all. As he explains in an artist statement, “I do not hold art history with white-gloved reverence, nor do I worship at a sepulchre of pristine and untouchable achievement. My work destroys the altar of catechismic rites and rote deference to the canon of the celebrated and the known.” With an opening reception from 7-10 p.m.
SATURDAY
- Courtesy Barbara Archer Gallery
- Aubrey Longley-Cook, “Cayenne Rouge”
It’s a facile comparison that everyone will make anyway: Yes, Aubrey Longley-Cook’s Serving Face is a lot like the recently closed Legendary Children in that both document Atlanta’s drag scene (and so share some of the same subjects, including Cayenne Rouge and Brigitte Bidet). But Children was lusciously photographic; Longley-Cook’s work switches modes to animation and embroidery, producing performer portraits partnered with the RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop, a collaborative event hosted by WonderRoot earlier this year. Opens with a reception from 7-10 p.m., including performances. At the Goat Farm satellite, the Erikson Clock, and Barbara Archer Gallery.
The artist, writer, and painting professor (at the Art Institute of Chicago) Michelle Grabner will be the next guest in the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center’s lecture series. Grabner is the co-founder of project space The Suburban and not-for-profit exhibition space The Poor Farm in Oak Park (Illinois) and Wisconsin, respectively. Also! She is one of three curators of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. From 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
It’s the last weekend to see the third in the Big House on Ponce’s one-act series, Oh! Fearsome Head! Developed by Shitty Bedford and based on Vel Fritt’s work, the play combines “mime, song, soliloquy, design, masks, puppets, and elaborate costumes.” It is about escaping conventional narrativity. It is also about mimes. It is also about live music. (There will be live music.) With shows Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10.