Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Physic Garden’ March 14 2014
Plates. Plates as far as the eye can see.
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- Photo by Mike Jensen.
- Molly Hatch, “Physic Garden,” 2013-2014, earthenware and glaze, 240 ¼x203 ½ in., 456 plates, each 9.5 inches in diameter.
It’s your first weekend to see Molly Hatch’s “Physic Garden,” a “two-story tall, hand-painted ‘plate painting’” comprised of 456 plates, commissioned by the High and installed in its Margaretta Taylor Lobby earlier this week. “Physic Garden” is the largest such work Hatch has ever produced - inspired by two 18th century Chelsea Factory plates from the Frances and Emory Cocke Collection of English Ceramics; the source plates “depict realistic flora and fauna” whose stylistic roots likely sprout from the Chelsea Physic Garden in London. “I am thrilled to work with such a talented contemporary artist as Molly and to have the outcome be such a dynamic and monumental acquisition for the High,” says Sarah Schleuning, curator of decorative arts and design, in a release. Saturday is also the High’s “Culture Shock” night, featuring live music and inspired by the photographer Abelardo Morell. More on that here.
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FRIDAY
- Courtesy the artists
- Sabre Esler, “Supplication”
Something Else, which opened this Tuesday at the adjoining Further Art and Paradis, closes tonight. The exhibit features works from 10 MFA students at SCAD: Sabre Esler, Laila Kouri, Macey Ley, Jessica Locklar, Steve Morrison, Lynx Nguyen, Heather Phillips, Kevin Rhodes, Jaeyoun Shin and Allison Shockley. The name is a theme and that theme “speaks of the collective hunger for otherness. Each artist’s work investigates the longing for what is unreachable and the rare pauses of deep connection in the present moment,” according to a release.
SATURDAY
- Courtesy Get This! Gallery
- Stephanie Dowda, “Sense of Awakening,” 24x20 in., silver gelatin print
Get This Gallery is opening dual (not dueling) photography exhibits: Tommy Nease’s Nevermore and Stephanie Dowda’s Topophilia. The former is “a series of images that continue Nease’s themes of the phantasmical ... an exploration into time and a homage to all that fades with its passing”; Dowda’s exhibit is inspired by the same-named Yi-Fu Tuan theory. “It’s known that all living things have energy, thus, light and traditional photographic methods that use film and silver gelatin paper which are specifically sensitive to light, I wanted to see if I could capture the energy of the place, not just represent the location,” Dowda told me. “And I can.” With an opening reception from 7-10 p.m.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
- Courtesy American Craft Council
- From left: James Edwards Barnes, Robin Gottlieb, Michael Boyd and David Bryce.
The American Craft Council Show is turning 25. So of course this year will include all manner of things, including a special Charm collection pop-up shop, a whisky tasting, “decorated Harley by zany Augusta artist Paul Pearman,” and more - plus two on-site exhibits: Make Room, Modern Design Meets Craft - Let’s Entertain and American Craft Charm Collection. The show goes all weekend, with more than 240 “of the country’s top contemporary craft artists” participating. Tickets at the door start at $13. You can buy in advance here.