NEW EXHIBIT: Did you see that?! Stories of Urban Oddities

The Spruill Gallery will open Did you see that?! Stories of Urban Oddities featuring photographs from Atlanta-based artist, Steve Steinman, on August 21st. The opening reception will be held Thursday, August 21 from 6-9pm and will run until October 25^th at the Spruill Gallery.

The exhibit, held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, dictates a subtle commentary on the anomalies often missed in everyday life. From the odd attraction on the side of a highway to street performers; from public art to the delicate beauty found in architecture, Steinman captures evolving lifestyles present in the unnoticed and overlooked people, places and things that have become a part of our lives.

Spruill Gallery will host an Artist Talk with Steve Steinman on Saturday, September 27 at 1pm. Steve Steinman will share what inspires him in the creation of his pictorial urban tales, including his use of contemporary technologies to create photographs that serve as both historical evidence and conveyers of art and passion.

Atlanta Celebrates Photography aims to make Atlanta a leading center for the world's fastest growing art form. By producing the largest annual community-oriented photo festival in the United States, ACP provides experiences that engage and educate diverse audiences through lens-based media.

Upcoming Exhibit

2nd Annual 

Spruill Arts 

Student and Faculty Juried Exhibition

Jurors

Lauren Bernazza 

Program Director of Abernathy Art Center

Independent Curator

Patrick Dennis

Founder and President of the AFFPS
Central figure in ATL's Art Market scene

Gallery owner, artist

Opening Reception and Awards Presentation

Thursday, June 5, 6-9pm

Best in Show: $1000

Best Faculty: $500

Best Student: $500

People's Choice: $200 Gift Certificate to Spruill Arts

 

 Installation view from the 2013 Juried Exhibit 

    

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Reception Postponed

Due to weather conditions the opening reception of Looks Good on Paper that was set for tonight, Thursday, February 13 from 6-9pm has been rescheduled to next Thursday February 20 from 6-9pm.

Please stay warm and safe!

Congrats!

Congratulations to the selected artists in the upcoming Spruill Gallery exhibition, Looks Good on Paper.  Join us Thursday, February 13 from 6-9pm for an opening reception.

Paige Adair ▪ Lauren Adams ▪ Adrianne Anderson ▪ Cece Bailey ▪ Jo Baskerville ▪ John Beadles ▪ Ryan Benefield ▪ Clarissa Berlioz ▪ Vicki Bethel ▪ Lindy Joy Blosser ▪ Nancy Blum ▪ Evelyn M. Breit ▪ Philip Carpenter ▪ William Cash ▪ Lydia Day ▪ Jillian Del Valle  ▪ Michael Del Valle  ▪  Linda Demars ▪ Terri Dilling ▪ Don Dougan ▪ Maggie Dunn ▪ Sally Eppstein ▪ Sally Evans ▪ Deanna Fleenor ▪ Barbara S. Flexner ▪ Mary Golding ▪ Lih-Shiew Guo ▪  Harriet Harris ▪ Karen Hennessee ▪ Ross Horrocks ▪ Devin Hunter ▪ Elena Ivanova ▪ Aidah Johnson ▪ Jane Kerr ▪ Daniel Lai ▪ Tina Lawrence ▪ Megan Levacy ▪ Macy Ley ▪ Carl A. Linstrum ▪ Kathy Meliopoulos ▪ Janice L. Metzel ▪ Mike Monteleagre ▪ Kyle Petersen ▪ Rainey Rawles ▪ Georgia Rousseau ▪ Ashley L. Schick ▪ Hannah Sheppard ▪ Robert Sherer ▪ Olga Sidilkovskaya ▪ Corey Singletary ▪ Steve Steinman ▪ Jeff Taylor ▪ Kelly Thames ▪ Arthur D. Thayer ▪ Daryl White ▪ Yvonne Wilhelmi ▪ Cynthia Zarrilli  ▪  

NEW GALLERY EXHIBIT

Spruill Gallery Presents

Spruill Arts Student and Faculty 

Juried Exhibition

June 14 - August 17, 2013

Opening Reception and Awards Presentation

Thursday June 13, 6 – 9 PM
Spruill Gallery invites you to attend a summer exhibition of student and instructor art. Juried by Michael Rooks, the Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art Atlanta, this exhibition will showcase work in all mediums currently being produced at the Spruill Center for the Arts.  Please join us at the Opening Reception for an opportunity to vote for your favorite.

Also Showing: Special Selections from Norm Citron
A special exhibition has been organized in recognition of Norm Citron.  This collection of paintings was created during his many years as a student. Norm has been cherished by many in his years at Spruill, inspiring fellow students, instructors and staff along the way.

 

Artist Highlight: Mona Waterhouse

Mona Waterhouse, Unfolding: Women's Work detail,
 reconstructed dolies, sprayed abaca pulp, fabric, wax and colored thread
Image courtesy of the artist

In my art work I combine hand made paper with wax, pigment, and mixed media to create encaustic paintings, sculptures, photo based art, and installations. I started to use wax and pigment in my work over twenty years ago, when there was little information on how to work with it. It still fascinates me and most of my work incorporates wax and pigment in some form.

As a native of Sweden, a large part of my childhood was spent in the forests, and among the many lakes scattered throughout the landscape. It is there that my love and concern for nature began, and it is not surprising that I use it as subject matter in my work, and that paper made from plants, wax and pigment are my foundation.

Mona Waterhouse

Artist Highlight: Helen DeRamus

Helen DeRmus, Strolling Deeper, encaustic and silk on cradled panel
Image courtesy of the artist

Appreciating the power of silence during a Hambidge Residency, my current series includes drawings, monotypes and paintings. The paintings and monotypes are created using encaustic paint while the drawings are India ink, lith crayon and watercolor on paper, with encaustic medium as well. While immersed in the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I started the series with a hundred drawings and innumerable photographs now the impetus for the present ongoing series of images and video.

With an admiration for the dignity of the landscape, this series is a journey and renewal of the spirit. The inspiration derives from a close observation not only of the physical landscape but also of the intangibles. This journey is now encompassing layers of memory as well.

The color palette began with the almost watery blue tint I observe in the birch bark along the paths in the mountain forests along with the rusty siennas and grays, and the greens of the pines pierced with a scattering of golds. As the series continues from my first observations in the winter, new textures and hues are beginning to appear encompassing each season of the year. The temporal quality of the images are important to me, often using line and compositional elements to portray that quality.  I like to think that the images are a meditation on the passage of time.

A strong component of these paintings is my continuing interest in the alternating themes of strength and fragility and to convey that theme with the imbedding of organza photographic prints as well as monotypes on rice paper. 

Helen DeRamus

Artist Highlight: Kate Colpitts

Kate Colpitts, Sun and Black Moon, ink, graphite, pastel, and conté
Image courtesy of the artist

When I am making art I am considering shape, space and line, very
traditional concerns.  I am making these marks with thoughts of quantum 
physics in mind, the idea that all things are a part of all other things.   
That my subject matter comes from my life, what I actually 
see and think, is important to me.  This makes it more likely that I may 
actually have knowledge of what I am talking (making art) about and makes 
the art viable.  

Sometimes I manipulate objects and shapes into a composition that looks
right and reflects what I see as their appropriate though transient relationships.  
But I am also interested in drawing and painting what I call random 
compositions, taking things the way I find them.  I like to think about how far 
you can go into visual chaos and still keep the composition in 
tact or viewable.  

I want to express movement, physically as well as intellectually.....the idea 
that there is more than one way to resolve any artistic problem.

The organic versus the designed in nature as well as in life is often a thought
in my mind as well.  

Ideally my works are the result of collaboration between the intuitive and 
the intellect.

Kate Colpitts

Artist Highlight: Gerry Sattele

Gerry Sattele, Snare, Wire

I am in the stream of self-indulgent artists who are trying to explore existence, searching for little truths, moments of feeling, to communicate.

I consider the forms I make using wire as three-dimensional drawings.  With these wire drawings, my intention is to make images that express how I feel, particularly from a feminine point of view.

-Gerry Sattele

Artist Highlight: Jeannine Cook

Jeannine Cook, Rings of Time

Image courtesy of the artist

Tanzanian by birth, European by heritage, British-American by nationality, Jeannine Cook is one of a small number of artists worldwide who specialize in silverpoint drawing. Cook's work is in many public collections in the United States and Europe.

Artist Highlight: Barb Rehg

Barb Rehg, Scratch II, watercolor and charcoal
Image courtesy of the artist

Barb Rehg

Barbara Rehg is a mixed-media artist. Her abstract expressionist work is characterized by a lyrical use of line, color and composition, fusing forms that plays with the viewer’s perceptions.

Ms Rehg received her BA in Fine Arts from Webster College in St. Louis. Over the years she continued taking watercolor classes. Deanna Sirlin and Skip Lawrence are two key figures who have influenced her.

She became a member of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Georgia chapter in 2001. In 2005 as part of the board, she assisted with the WCA National Conference program and exhibit. She went on to become Exhibit chair, Newsletter editor, secretary, VP and finally president for four years. During that time she increased the number and venues for the exhibit program, extending the opportunities beyond Georgia to South and North Carolina. Currently she continues as the Exhibit Chair for WCAGA and a Board member.

 

New Exhibit! Reception March 14, 6-9PM

Spruill Gallery Presents

FORMATIONS: Patterns in Nature

March 15 - April 13, 2013

Opening Reception

Thursday, March 14

6 - 9PM
Patterns that form in nature are captured and interpreted in the work of longtime Atlanta artists Kate Colpitts, Jeannine Cook, Helen DeRamus, Barb Rehg, Gerry Sattele and  Mona Waterhouse,  The natural world is the source of their inspiration as well as the subject in their dissected, re-composed and abstracted paintings, drawings and constructions.  Their different approaches echo how the diversity of nature avoids explanation even by the most sophisticated algorithm and is the constant source of renewal and regeneration. 


The exhibition, FORMATIONS: Patterns in Nature, examines how these artists views their world and its influences whether in the outcroppings of rock, a seed pod’s disciplined patterning or the layering of earth’s strata.  Nature is their blueprint for creating forms and patterns as beautiful, and often abstracted, works of art.

New Exhibit Opens January 24th

Opening Reception for Photography Exhibit

Spruill Gallery Presents

 

Southern Women - Southern Photography
Corinne Adams - Lucinda Bunnen - Judy Lampert
September 7 - October 27

Opening Reception September 6, 6-9 PM

This event is in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography 

With their various approaches, the work by these 3 Southern women photographers leaves us with impressions of strength, courage and endurance...

These photographs draw you inward, into a complex world of symbolism, meditation, intimacy and emotion. Each has been inspired by a greater voice for their images which speaks of their individual creative spirit. 

They focus their lenses on complex stories with imagination and skill that push the boundaries of their processes while depicting compelling stories. Adams, Bunnen and Lampert share images that allow the viewer to see them as individuals using the photographic medium as a tool to tell their stories of beauty and strength.

Corinne Adams is an Atlanta-based artist who works in fine art photography and mixed media. She is the Co Founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Her work has been exhibited nationally. 

Lucinda Bunnen is a practicing artist in Atlanta. She has traveled worldwide to find subject matter for her work and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the Southeastern United States.

Judy Lampert has participated in numerous exhibitions and her photographs have been collected throughout the South. Her subtle and personal approach to photography conveys a deep respect and honor for the individuals and places that she portrays. 

Preview the Emerging Artists 2012 exhibit

Heather Greenway, Rabbit Hole, 2011, Acrylic + vellum on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

photo courtesy of Heather Greenway

Click here for Creative Loafing's

preview of the EA12 exhibit

Opening Reception

TOMORROW

June 7 from 6-9 PM

Preview the new exhibit!

Intersteller Interactions, detail of installation by Terri Dilling and Leisa Rich

Click here for Creative Loafing's sneak peek at Connecting the Dots.

Also, join us tonight for the Opening Reception from 6 - 9 PM

We've got THE GOODS!

Spruill Gallery invites you to join us this Thursday night from 6 - 9 PM for the opening reception of a group exhibition and fundraiser. Check out this great plug by Creative Loafing.

Laura Noel: Subject Matters

Gregg Segal: Remembered

Arts 4 Alzheimer’s: Here and Now

Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Laura Noel

Thursday, September 15 6 - 9 pm

Artist Talk: 7:30 pm

Spruill Gallery is pleased to introduce the publication

of Free Fall-02.Noel.02 featuring Laura Noel.

Copies of this edition will be available at Spruill on September 15^th.

Fall Line Press is a photobook publishing and

reading library located in Atlanta.

info@falllinepress.com

Mark Your Calendars!

Sneak Peek of Emerging Artist 2011

Rex Brodie Installation (in progress)


Join us this Thursday, August 4 from 6 - 9 PM for the unveiling of Brodie's installation and the opening reception of Emerging Artists 2011.