Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Live Amateurs’ January 10 2014
There are 55 of these amateurs and they are “most exciting.”
- Courtesy the artist
- Ally White, “Brown-Banged,” 2013
I’m going to be honest here, y’all: Friends of mine are exhibiting at MINT’s first annual Live Amateurs, which opens with a reception Saturday night. Good news! These friends are really talented. But ignore them. Juried by Craig Drennen, the exhibit collects “the work of 55 of the most exciting emerging artists currently living and working in the Southeast” (from a submission pile of more than 200). This includes Ally White, whose recombinant aesthetic, as she described it to me, crosses domesticity and exoticism. There’s a further element at work in Live Amateurs: one of the exhibiting artists will be chosen for a six-week solo show this summer. White doesn’t yet know how that final selection will be made, “but I can’t imagine choosing just one of 55 great artists to be easy,” she says. Reception is from 7-11 p.m.
Three more picks, plus or minus some dish, below.
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FRIDAY-SUNDAY
- Courtesy Hagedorn Foundation Gallery
- Liz Linden, “exotic domestic no. 3,” 2013, paper on denril, 17x14 in.?
Liz Linden’s I wasn’t lying; you didn’t ask the correct questions. opened with a reception last night at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery. This weekend is your first chance to take a look at her pieces, whose simplicity masks (and then invites discovery of) the multiplicity of the every day. As preparation, thumb through her collection Cartoons, which paired New York Times photos with lines from the stories they originally enhanced.
PSA: Jeffrey Hyde’s burning midnight oil has an artist reception at the Stan McCollum Gallery on Friday from 7-9 p.m.
SATURDAY
- Courtesy {Pome88} and the artist
- Brendan Carroll, “Windows Walls and Screens (Aye Davanita),” 2012, oil on canvas, 48x48 in.
Do you ever consider the brushstroke? Consider this: Brendan Carroll’s Paintings, opening at {Poem88}, is full of strokes - big, bold, thick ones, creating collages of color whose palette is more startling for its apparent ease. Also, officially, Carroll tackles challenges with “great gusto.” Paintings opens with a reception from 7-9:30 p.m.