Diving deep into O’Connor’s Complete Stories for inspiration, these artists explore themes of racism, rural life, spirituality, unexpected beauty and more in “Southern Discomfort 2,” an art exhibit on display all this week at ThincSavannah.
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Gallery Hop: Visualizing gratitude
Throughout the exhibition flamenco dancers, gypsies and bullfighters are painted against dark backgrounds, highlighting the subjects’ beauty, grace, dignity and pride.
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Gallery Hop: The forecast called for art
Unable to hide her enthusiasm, co-owner Heather MacRae-Trulson describes the goose bumps she felt when this exhibition was installed. “These are the shows that we promised the community when we opened this gallery.”
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Warhol on JFK
‘Anytime we can connect to current culture we become more relevant, and it’s a more interesting opportunity to be a little provocative, to give people something that’s exciting as well. We want to make people think.’
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‘Strangers That We Know’ @ Sicky Nar Nar
Even those born in Savannah find sometimes they’re strangers here themselves. They too seek the magic that Savannah is said to hold and they too long to connect with the people and places that surround them.
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Gallery Hop: Tracking ‘Transient’
Days, weeks and months have already taken their toll on these structures and each piece bears the signs of the irreversibility of decay.
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Gallery Hop: ‘Transplant’ and ‘Impressions’
The masks are made from exposed concrete, peeling paint and Spanish moss taken from sculptures that Ramirez created with materials from her immediate environment.
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Gallery Hop: The tension of ‘Intent’
You know you’re there to see the paintings of Heather MacRae-Trulson, but you can’t help but notice the splatters of paint on the floor and the upside down umbrellas that hang from the ceiling, hiding the infrastructure of the building behind blue, green and yellow polka dots.
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The art also rises
Another First Friday Art March last week found the expanding underground art galleries south of Gaston brimming with bright young things and usual suspects. Much of the talk in the […]
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SCAD edition
At times solemn and at times insouciant al Hadid, Drew and von Rydingsvard offered advice on the challenges and the benefits that go along with being an artist. Through their stories it is evident that what began as a mischievous flirtation with materials became passionate love affairs with sculpture, painting, and art.
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The Lollipop kid
Demanding both reflection of the work and introspection, Lollipop is the feverish output of a man who unhesitatingly explores the ambiguity of sexuality through painting.
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Hey, hey, we’re the monks
“It’s one of the most popular and requested programs we’ve ever done,” says Harry DeLorme, senior curator of education for the Telfair Museums. “People always ask about it. The monks seem to connect with people on a number of levels.”