September 6-28
Linda Hall will exhibit drawings, paintings,
and sculpture.
October 4-26
Allison Petty and Andrea Laxton, each
doing one side of a diptych-based on
words they've chosen.
Right Image: Allison Petty, Untitled
Kiang Gallery Midtown West,1011-A Marietta Street, Atlanta,
Georgia 30318
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The Power Wrap is a translucent screen that employs a specifically designed
fluctuating pattern to filter or sharpen views into the station. It is 500 feet long
with regular 20 foot bays that vary in height from 20 to 24 feet by stepping at
grade to keep the top horizontal. It is composed of 75 individually designed 7 to
8 by 20 foot panels of 1 by 4 inch steel bars rotated in varying degrees about
their vertical axis without a gap anywhere greater than 3 inches in any direction.
The panels were field erected after receiving factory applied elastomeric
coating.
Amy Landesberg is represented by the Kiang Gallery in Atlanta.
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LEDs For Those Unsightly (?) Power Stations
Power Wrap - enclosure for an electrical substation
The “Power Wrap,” is an art installation created for The Georgia Institute of
Technology, by Amy Landesberg Architects with students from the Power Wrap
Workshop, College of Architecture and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
An enclosure for an electrical substation is something of an oxymoron: A
several acre station for transforming 230,000 kv from 150 foot tall overhead
transmission lines is not something that can be practically contained. Nor
necessarily should it be. This massive node is a visible part of the grid system
that we rely upon completely and so far, anyway, can’t live without. Some small
switching stations hide behind facades, but usually these ‘eyesores’ hide in
plain sight by virtue of our becoming inured to them. Furthermore, this
enclosure, or Power Wrap as it is called, is situated at the industrial edge of a
dense urban environment being transformed to institutional use by a
technology institute that sees no reason to hide its equipment, quite the
contrary.

SLOGANS is a continuation of “AK-47”, keenly observing the reality of
contemporary society, reflected by an acknowledgement of the obvious
influence of these omnipresent government slogans and mottos reproduced
in public spaces, i.e. walls, streets and alleys. In these paintings, Zhang Dali
combines the slogan and the face, creating an intriguing metaphor for the
familiarity of these ubiquitous directives. In the exhibition space, viewers,
surrounded by SLOGANS, the faces and the directives, briefly experience the
profound impact of the party line and the power of the paintings to convey the
artist’s message.
Zhang Dali says “these slogans are meant to teach us what we have to do,
just like parents teaching a young pupil --- the “parents of the people” teach
the immature and thoughtless people. Even though people have largely
become deaf and blind to these teaching slogans, the subliminal messages
deeply influence the content of lives and our attitudes. People’s experiences
and thoughts are formed by the world they live in and the SLOGANS series
draws attention to the influence external forces exerts on society and the
circumstances of people subjected to those forces.”
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Leibert is an artist with many
means of expression: In his
transgenic series, plant shapes
replicate themselves in
divergent landscapes of small
urban spaces or pastoral
scenes creating a creepy
uniforminty. In Bloom, the work
is presented as a billboard for
the consumption of passersby
in cars or on foot.
Mark Leibert, Perch
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All Things Considered at Solomon Projects
This is a thought-provoking and politically engaged project by young
Georgia-based conceptual artist, Kathryn Refi. This exhibition presents Refi's
most recent body of work: twelve, large-scale works on paper that map
coverage of global news over the course of the year 2007. All Things
Considered will be on view September 5 - October 11, 2008.
This is the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery following Color
Recordings in 2006.
Broadening Perceptions: A solo exhibition of new
works by Danny McCaw at the Anne Irwin
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Danny McCaw is the youngest son of
the highly regarded American
expressionist Dan McCaw and the
brother of abstract painter John
McCaw. An abstractionist with an
uncanny ability to capture and paint
light in an Impressionistic way, Danny
began drawing and painting at an
early age. His youthful images soon
developed into mature sensitive
individual statements. Danny’s
admiration for traditional art and its
disciplines have been the foundation
for his own art. His appreciation for
the freedom, exploration and
discovery of the Expressionists has
showed him the importance of
individuality and creativity.
Show Dates: September 18–October 2. Image above: Danny McCaw, Open Table
oil on board 24x18
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New York, New York: Photographs by Sylvia Plachy
September 20-November 2, 2008
Photographer Sylvia Plachy has been photographing the dynamic creative
energy of New York City for over 30 years. This exhibition features vintage silver
gelatin prints as well as more recent images from Plachy's time as New
Yorker magazine's first "Goings On About Town" photographer.
Plachy lives in New York City and is the mother of César and Academy
Award-winning actor Adrien Brody (The Pianist).
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Ian Teh, Featured Artist at The Kiang Gallery
Ian Teh is an award winning photojournalist whose recent xhibit at the
Kiang, Dark Clouds, explored man’s impact on his environment. The artist
focused on coal related industries in China, exploring the dark side of
China's economic rise and the environmental costs suffered due to the
developing nation's increasing need for energy.
Ian Teh is a British citizen of Malaysian Chinese decent. He has worked in
China for the last six years photographing for many of the worlds leading
magazine and was recently included in the December 31, 2007 - January 7,
2008 Singapore edition of Newsweek Magazine’s “The Year in Photos” as
one of the worlds best photographers.
Coking Plant Benxi, China, 2007
Kiang Gallery Midtown West,1011-A Marietta Street, Atlanta,
Georgia 30318
New Works by John LaHuis
John LaHuis was born in 1962 in Lemon City, the area of Miami now known as
Little Haiti. He continues to live and work in the heart of this vital district. LaHuis
has exhibited all over the world, including Barcelona, Rome, Miami, New York
City, and New Orleans.
He also has several public art installations in Miami; Montreal, Canada; and
Bogota, Colombia.
September 12 - October 4 2008 Artist Reception 6-9PM, September 12
Image below: The Dream 2006 68 x 112 inches mixed media; dry pigment with acrylic
oil base, asphalt-um on wood panel with steel frame.
Gallery Notes September-October 2008
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News of the Visual Arts
Atlanta edition
Grand Opening of "Linstrum +
Matre Artworks" (the merge of
Aliya Linstrum Gallery and Matre
Gallery as one)
featuring new works by Jonathan Fenske,
Duy Huynh, Cara Ober
September 12 - October 18 2008
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Cara Obe
Duy Huynh
Jonathan Fenske
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Bill Lowe Gallery Makes Debut at Two Peachtree
Pointe in Midtown
Premier Exhibition Features Thrush Holmes, Jimmy O’Neal, Dusty
Griffith and the late Sam Glankoff
Bill Lowe Gallery will host the grand
opening of its new gallery on
September 12, 2008. The gallery’s
grand opening and inaugural
exhibition will christen its much
touted new space with featured solo
shows by three of North America’s
most prominent young painters –
Thrush Holmes, Jimmy O‘Neal, and
Dusty Griffith. The opening exhibition
will also include a special viewing of
select works by the late Sam
Glankoff.
The reception is Friday, September
12th from 6-9pm. Guests will be
given a grand tour of the new
exhibition facility, which gallery owner
Bill Lowe describes as “part-
museum, part-temple, and part-
music video.”
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Designed by the internationally renowned architecture firm Gensler &
Associates, the new multilevel facility is defined by its architecturally-
provocative interiors. The gallery features soaring 22 foot ceilings, a grand
salon with a wrap-around mezzanine, a cat-walk bridge, connecting
promenade salons, and a number of smaller, more intimate galleries. The
design of the space encourages guests to explore its interiors, and ultimately,
engage its art.
Bill Lowe Gallery’s inaugural exhibition will be on view through October 24,
2008.
The gallery is noted for the visceral emotional quality and physicality of its
work. These qualities lend a highly theatrical flavor to the gallery's offering.
Thematically, the gallery's aesthetic is characterized by a metaphysical
yearning articulated by process and imagery which is strongly psycho-spiritual
and psycho-sexual in nature.
Committed to a standard of excellence amplified by great visual drama, the
gallery's ability to mount exhibitions that resonate powerfully with critics and
viewers alike has become legendary.
Thrush Holmes portrait
Coming Into Focus: Photography
September 2 – October 24, 2008
This is a pin-up exhibition; photographic artwork by artists with disabilities
and/or living with low income, on the theme "coming into focus". The project
is presented in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the
celebrated annual city-wide event.
Turner First Thursday receptions, September 4 & October 2, 2008, 5 - 8 PM
both evenings.
APG Presents: Contemporary Southern
Photographers
September 12- October 24
Juror Britt Salvesen:
Director and Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of
Arizona
This is a regional exhibition. The show will feature three to five photographers
residing in the Southeastern US.
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Show & Tell at Watson
Gallery
Exciting array of new works created by 30
regional and nationally recognized
artists. Exhibiting artists include Wen Ze
Chen, Karen Nichols, Gay Petach, Barry
Sons, and Carey Watson. Meet the
artists at the opening reception Saturday,
September 6, 6-9p.m.
September 2 – November 22 2008
Image on right: Summer by Wen Ze Chen 24"
x 30" oil on canvas
Linda Hall: Florida; Allison Petty and Andrea Laxton:
Local Photographers Create Diptychs
They investigate a broad range of themes and motifs--from the vulnerability of
human condition expressed in fragile and meaningful memories to internal
landscapes and maps. Others address ideas about contemporary industry
vs. ancient technology, and question issues of multiplicity in a visceral and
tactile way.
“Like examples of more mainstream forms of art, each piece expresses a
unique concept and requires considerable individual attention and expertise to
execute.” explains Pollack.
Among the variety of materials and processes used to create these works are
weaving, dying, printing, felting, stitching, heat-compressing, pieced surfaces,
and digital transfers. The results are aesthetically pleasing and often
intellectually challenging.
All the artists in this exhibition live in the South. Included are: Norma Bradley,
Linda Campbell, Andrew Jackson, Bertha Jenkins, Jennifer Jenkins, Carol
LeBaron, Lee Malerich, Amelia Netto, Toya Northington, Carla Ferreira Powell,
Margaret Quiggle, Leisa Rich, Tommye Scanlin, Judith Simmons, Whitney
Stansell.

Mining the Surface: New Sensibilities in Art Textiles
August 7 - September 20, 2008. The Artists' Reception will be held:
Thursday, September 4.
This exhibition has been co-curated by
Marianne Lambert, Curator of the Swan Coach
House Gallery and Junco Pollack, Associate
Professor of Textile Art at Georgia State
University.
“Over the past 30 years, fiber has become a
legitimate medium for artists working in the
fine arts. The textile arts, like so many of the so-
called “craft arts”, have reached an impressive
level of sophistication in the use of materials,
subject matter, and style.” says Lambert.
This exhibition features the work of a new
generation of both established and emerging
artists who live in the South and work with fiber
as a medium. These artists freely explore
personal, cultural, social, and timeless
aesthetic issues, sometimes creatively mixing
fiber with other materials and art forms.
Tommye Scanlin
This exhibition reflects
the Chinese
expression of realism
and the issues
shaping the artistic
discourse informed by
the recent changes in
Chinese society due to
rapid development. In
the year 2000, Zhang
Dali began his now
famous “AK-47” series,
expressing the
violence and inequality
suffered by the
Zhang Dali, Slogans: New Paintings at Kiang Gallery
September 19 - October 25, 2008
common people in a society going through a turbulent period.
Mark Leibert at the Sandler Hudson
He is a 2002 Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, awarded an M.F.A.
in Fine Arts Studio (Painting/Digital Art). In 1995 he graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. in Studio Arts.
Plachy was born in Budapest,
Hungary. Her Jewish mother
was in hiding
in fear of Nazi persecution
during World War II.
Plachy's photo essays and
portraits have appeared in The
New York Times
Magazine, The Village Voice,
The New Yorker, Granta,
Image above: Sylvia Plachy, Camels
Artforum, Fortune, and other publications. They have been exhibited in galleries
and museums in Berlin, Budapest, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Paris and
Tokyo.
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The new Bill Lowe Gallery is located in Atlanta’s recently minted “Uptown”
district. Standing at the gateway with Buckhead to the North and Midtown to the
South, this unique location is positioned at Peachtree St., Spring St., and West
Peachtree. Atlanta’s high Southern culture and history
intersect here with its foremost institutions of media, commerce, finance,
education, and the arts, including The High Museum, Woodruff Arts Centre,
Ansley Park, Savannah College of Design, The Temple, Peachtree Christian
Church, WSB-TV and Invesco.
About Bill Lowe Gallery
Established in 1989 and
with locations in both
Atlanta and Los Angeles,
Bill Lowe Gallery is
considered at the forefront
of America’s contemporary
art scene.
The gallery represents
artists who share powerful and eloquent visions supported by a highly
advanced mastery of their media.