Dear Friends and Supporters:
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| We hope you are proud of The Museum as well and will make a donation to MOCA GA Annual Fund. Happy Holidays! Annette Cone-Skelton President/CEO/Director |
MOCA GA's Annual Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show + Sale was held on Friday night, November 19th and it was a HUGE success! We had a great turn out and some fabulous art! 100% of the proceeds from the art sales went directly to artists!
2010 FAVORITE PICKS:
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Robert Sherer
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Terry Monaghan & Rocío Rodríguez
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Philip Carpenter
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Kemp Mooney, Katherine Taylor, & Ilia Varcev
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John Bohannon, Joe Camoosa, Corrine Colarusso, Bethany Collins, Jaynie Crimmins, Mariana Depetris, Jean C. Glenn, Rebecca Hanna, Esin Saglam, Ann Stewart, Lieze Truter, & Christian Bradley West
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Meg Aubrey, Susan Duncan, Richie Gunn, Jacob Gunter, Jennifer Hightower, Janine Joffe, Karl Gustav Kroeppler, Carl Linstrum, Arthur "Theo" Matthews, Daniel Yuto Melcher, David C. Mendoza, Patty Nelson Merrifield, Lynne Moody, Neil Patel, Samuel Parker, Seana Reilly, Nell Ruby, Philip Short, Michelle Slifeak, Stephen Sweny, Stephanie Urbas, & Devin Wells
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Katherine Allen, Jo Baskerville, Eileen Braun, Barbara Brenner, Jonathan K. Callicutt, Lance Carlson, Claire Chapman, Brandon Crawford, Eilis Crean, Ramona Creel, Katherine Hartwig Dahl, B. Evan Davis, Terri Dilling, Nancy Floyd, Dolores French, Jerushia Graham, Jes Griffin, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Henley, Judie Jacobs, Joe S. Lerner III, Robert Matre, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Rob Milam, Allison Miller, Mike Nalley, Segun Olowofoyeku, Heath Patterson, Noelle Peterson, Kristina Ramos, Donald Robson, Theo Rudnak, Seyed "Mo" Safavynia, Kevin Sandy, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Edward Smucygz, Erin K. Spangler, Erwin Spinner, Terry Stephens, John Sumner, Kate Turner, Lisa Tuttle, Gena Spivey VanDerKloot, Michael West, & Matthew White
To see more photos from the event please visit our website Pin-Up page or visit the MOCA GA Facebook page.
| "Memory, Sound, Performance" Artist Talk with Andy Ditzler of John Q Thursday, Dec. 9th, 6:30pm Reception, 7pm Discussion @ MOCA GA in the Education/Resource Center |
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| ANDY DITZLER of JOHN Q Memory, Sound, Performance A multimedia lecture and performance at MOCA GA Thursday, December 9th, 6:30pm Reception, 7pm Talk/Performance In the MOCA GA Education Resource Center In April 2010, Atlanta art collective John Q presented Memory Flash - a four-part series of installations and interventions exploring the archives of queer Atlanta through the use of public space. The time-based components of Memory Flash performance, sound, film, and memory itself encircled each other in unexpected ways during (and after) the event. And each of these time-based components revealed relations to the idea of space.
Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, will be open through January 8, 2011 |
exhibition dates: Oct. 2, 2010 - Jan. 8, 2011
opening reception: Sat., Oct. 2, 6:30 - 8:30pm
(artist talks & topics listed below)
ABOUT Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue
This project is a catalogue. Earlier this year, John Q proposed that memorials could be public happenings. Presented on April 3, 2010, Memory Flash consisted of four installations in different public spaces, each addressing a specific event in
Discursive Documents includes artifacts and sound recordings from Memory Flash, as well as works and ephemera produced by others in response: murals, photographs, documentations, course syllabi, and other texts. A resource table includes these items as well as references and books used in our research. After expanding the archives into the public space for Memory Flash, we are now attempting to expand the catalogue for the event into the space of the museum (and specifically into this museum’s dedicated archival/research space – so, in a sense, Memory Flashreturns to the archives).
This catalogue process still has written components. Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in
Finally, our individual essays for this catalogue take the form of programming. We hope you will be able to join us and participate in them.
Artist Talks - 6:30pm Receptions, 7pm Talks
''The Place of Archives in Theory and Practice"
Artist Talk: Wesley Chenault
Wednesday, October 20
"Art in Research, Research in Art"
Panel Discussion: Moderated by Joey Orr
Panelists: Joey Orr, Teresa Bramlette-Reeves, Anna Grimshaw, and Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier
Thursday, November 4
"Memory, Sound, Performance"
Artist Talk: Andy Ditzler
Thursday, December 9
ABOUT John Q
John Q is an artist collective whose name references “John Q. Public.” The “public” is left understood, though the work is considered a kind of public scholarship, and the “Q” is left hanging to reference the group’s interest in queer history and politics.
ATLANTA, September 16, 2010 – The High Museum of Art recently transferred 21 works by 14 Georgia artists from its collection to The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). In addition, the High has transferred more than 700 duplicate publications from its archives to a new reference library currently under development by MOCA GA. The publications focus on modern and contemporary art and art from around the world. Scholars, curators, art historians, educators, artists and the public will have access to this new library.
“The High is delighted to now include MOCA GA in our repertoire of international and regional collaborations,” said David Brenneman, the High’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions. “Through the transfer of these works to MOCA GA, whose mission celebrates the contemporary art of Georgia, we are excited that Atlanta and regional communities will have greater access to view and study these artists and their work.”
“This collaboration between MOCA GA and the High is significant and an important step for the arts,” said Annette Cone-Skelton, MOCA GA’s President/CEO/Director. “These new additions will fill in some major gaps for our collection, especially works by Lamar Dodd, Ben Shute, Gladene Tucker, Shirley Bolton and Ferdinand Warren. The donated publications from the High will be housed in the library of our Education/Resource Center and will join others donated by artists and collectors including Ruth Laxson and the Estate of Genevieve Arnold.”
All works were chosen by Annette Cone-Skelton in conjunction with High.
The transferred works are:
Highlights include work by Lamar Dodd, who trained in New York and went on to become one of the most well-known twentieth-century Southern artists. Dodd’s artistic style follows the tradition of Thomas Hart Benton, and he was a faculty member at the University of Georgia. Artist Ferdinand Warren began his career creating war bond posters during World War II. After the war he continued his career as a commercial artist and became a faculty member at Agnes Scott College. Herbert Lee Creecy, Jr. was an abstract expressionist painter. Several of his works are owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
MOCA GA was founded in 2000 out of recognition of the relative void in opportunities across Georgia to learn about and view contemporary art, and specifically contemporary art from Georgia artists. The museum opened its doors to the public in February 2002. The mission of MOCA GA is to collect and archive significant contemporary works by artists from the state of Georgia. To place our artists in a global context, the museum’s exhibitions include artists from around the world in addition to Georgia artists. The museum’s programs promote the visual arts by creating a forum for active exchange between artists and the community. MOCA GA fulfills its mission through an active exhibition schedule, a growing permanent collection and the Education/Resource Center, which houses the museum’s historical archive collection. Since its opening MOCA GA has presented 72 solo and group exhibitions focused on excellence of work, explorations of media and issues in contemporary society.
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. With more than 12,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High Museum of Art is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High’s media arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. In November 2005 the High opened three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum’s size, creating a vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in midtown Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.high.org.
presents
Convergent Frequencies
September 17, 18, 19, 2010
6pm-midnight
Free & open to the public
Intersection of Krog Street and Irwin Street/Lake Avenue
* musical performances each night at 9pm
The galleries of i45 are pleased to announce “Convergent Frequencies”, a site-specific art installation commissioned by ArtBox, a collaboration between i45 and Possible Futures. Follow three local artists, Matt Gilbert, Matt Haffner, and Nat Slaughter as they reinvent the empty lot with three large shipping containers using images, film, and sound, while simultaneously celebrating the surrounding neighborhoods.
IMAGESMatt Haffner’s contribution to “Convergent Frequencies” will be a series of narrative portraits applied to the exteriors of the three shipping containers. His silhouetted figures play out scenes with a background of urban iconography including bodegas, pawnshops, liquor stores and laundromats. Using found images, local architecture, and his personal understanding of the urban experience, Haffner relates the imagery specifically to the Inman Park, Old 4th Ward, Little 5 Points area that both he and the works inhabit.
i45 is a collective of Atlanta galleries in Inman Park (i), the Old Fourth Ward (4) and Little Five Points (5) working together to promote this neighborhood`s rich, creative identity. Member galleries include Barbara Archer Gallery, Henley Studios, Whitespace Gallery,
and Wm Turner Gallery . Through shared events and common interests, we seek wider visibility for our artists and our vision of building a vibrant arts community.
To read Jerry Cullum's review of Lucinda's exhibition on BURNAWAY.org click here.
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Labyrinth VI for Stein with Grey, 2004, Watercolor, chin-colle and graphite on paper
Katherine Mitchell is an Atlanta-based artist. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and a MFA from Georgia State University. A retired professor from the Visual Arts Department at Emory University, she has been extensively exhibited in Atlanta, across the United States and abroad. Most recently, Mitchell was featured in the Georgia Council for the Arts publication, Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia Museums.
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Installation view of "Presynaptic Potential" at MOCA GA, 2010, Video work created for Le Flash, 2009
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Mandala no. 10, 2008, Oil on Canvas
