Weekend Workshop is sure to be fun for all!!

Terri Dilling, Warm Little Pond, acrylic,
screenprint and mixed media on panel
image courtesy of Terri Dilling

Connecting the Dots Workshop starts
this Saturday, April 21 at 2 pm, following a gallery lecture

Participants get to experience printmaking as well as drawing and painting, to create a grouping of molecule-inspired designs. They will then cut and assemble these elements into a movable, molecule-like structure, and take home their creation.

Join us at noon for a mini reception then stick around for a science and art talk at 1 pm
and the workshop at 2.

This will be a great day and fun for all ages.

Review and Upcoming Events

Connecting the Dots between
Science and Art at Spruill Gallery

Written By Lilly Lampe on April 4, 2012

Terri Dilling, Little Worlds 2, intaglio on paper.
Photo courtesy of Terri Dilling

In Connecting the Dots’s statement, Dilling compares the artist’s mission to that of the scientist in that both question the world around them, what it is made of, and how it works. She writes, “Chemistry has caused me to look at my art in a new way, seeing atoms and molecules in the work, reacting with each other and bonding to form more complex shapes and clusters.” The resulting work begins with her Little Worlds print series, which uses imagery from microscope slides of molecules. Black and white representations of molecules streaked with what seem like synapses and blood vessels are printed in exact circles and ovals, like a tissue sample on a slide or perhaps a porthole view into an interior world. The works are a somewhat literal translation of molecular forms into art and seem as sterile as slides in a lab, though perhaps that was Dilling’s intent.

Check out Lilly Lampe's entire review of Connecting the Dots on BURNAWAY

Join us at Spruill Gallery this Saturday, April 21 from 12 - 3 PM

"Connecting the Dots" at Spruill Gallery

Gallery Talk and Workshop

Please join us for any or all three parts, suitable for both adults and children.

• Mini-Reception from 12-1pm

Just Added! This is an informal reception with artists Terri Dilling and Leisa Rich, and time for viewing the exhibit.

• Gallery Talk at 1pm

Tour the exhibit with the artists, and learn more about the science behind it from David Lynn, Chair of Chemistry at Emory University.

• Hands-on Workshop

Following the talk, Terri Dilling and Leisa Rich will present a free workshop that is a combination of printmaking, painting and assembly to create your own interconnecting molecules. Fun and educational for ALL ages!

Tonight's Nexus Press lecture is sure to be Enlightening

This blog is often informative, but rarely personal. Today I have decided to share my beginnings in the world of contemporary art.

This is me, Jennifer Price, with a few of my favorite Nexus books.

Fresh out of college, I landed a great opportunity as an intern at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. I worked closely with this organization for nearly a year and I learned many things about the Atlanta art scene, art administration, and non profits in general, but one of my favorite indulgences of working at the Contemporary was discovering the books of Nexus Press.

As an intern, you are asked to do things that no one else wants to do and you do it gladly. You do it for the experience, the foot in the door, the recommendations. I have to admit, when I was assigned to inventory the Nexus books, this was my initial reaction. I remember thinking, "Counting books? Is this what I studied for?" Once I began the task, my attitude made a complete 180 degree turn. The books of Nexus opened my eyes to the art of printing and the beauty of artist's made books. It also fueled my passion for the arts and planted a seed of interest in Atlanta's art organizations, past and present.

Since that summer, I have moved on to another great institution, Spruill Center for the Arts, but I have not forgotten my humble beginnings and the spark that lit my fire. This is why I am tingling with excitement over JoAnne's lecture tonight. This talk will be personal insight into an organization that was loved nationwide, and is still influencing artists and art historians today.

If you need one more reason to attend the Nexus Press lecture next Wednesday...

Nexus books at Spruill Gallery tell stories with lessons for the present

May 4, 2011

By Jerry Cullum

Scott McCarney, In Case of Emergency, 1984. Image courtesy Spruill Gallery.

In a megalopolitan area that remythologizes its self-image every six months or so, it requires only four or five years for things, people, and institutions to be utterly forgotten. This is not intrinsically bad, since history moves onward and Atlanta has been even more obsessed with newness than the rest of America. The problem comes when the reasons and motivations are forgotten; these tend to be overlooked even when the people and institutions behind them are remembered.

Nexus Press is one such institution, and, while it is unfortunate that it was allowed to go out of existence, it is even more unfortunate that the details of the place’s DIY spirit have slipped into our largely unrecollected history.


Read Jerry Cullum's entire article on BurnAway

Nexus Press Lecture In One Week!

The Books of Nexus Press
with JoAnne Paschall
FREE Lecture
Wednesday, May 11
6:30 – 8:30 pm

On May 11 at 6:30 PM, visit Spruill Gallery and view this wonderful collection of Nexus Press Books. The Nexus Press was a national leader in artist made books and an important element in printmaking art history. Learn more about this local icon and the evolution of Nexus Press from its co-founder, JoAnne Paschall. Special introduction by Louise E. Shaw, Executive Director of Nexus Contemporary Art Center from 1983 - 1998.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: Tonight's Lecture is Postponed

Due to the severe weather forecast for this evening, the Nexus Press Book Lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 11 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM.

Excerpts from Cathy Fox's article "Spruill Exhibit Celebrates Printmaking"

Jim McLean, Urban Fragment III, 1973, Collagraph

Now, we can revisit the work of Nexus Press, the nationally known and respected book art press that flourished here between 1976 and 2003.

A display of artist books published by the press is the heart of “Out of Print,” a group show centered on printmaking, at Spruill Gallery.

The exhibition is also a timeline of sorts, as it surveys printmakers and acknowledges printmaking organizations from the ’70s to the present. Included are Nexus Press, Rolling Stone Press and the newest, the Atlanta Printmakers Studio, as well as college programs at the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, Savannah School of Art and Design and the University of Georgia.

That this is a living tradition is announced right when you walk in the door.

Read the entire article in today's AJC and be sure to join us for next Wednesday's free lecture of the Books of Nexus Press featuring JoAnne Paschall.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: Upcoming Event Rescheduled

The Books of Nexus Press
with JoAnne Paschall
FREE Lecture
RESCHEDULED for Wednesday, May 11
6:30 – 8:30 pm

The Nexus Press was a national leader in artist made books and an important element in printmaking art history. Learn more about this local icon and the evolution of Nexus Press from its co-founder, JoAnne Paschall. Special introduction by Louise E. Shaw, Executive Director of Nexus Contemporary Art Center from 1983 - 1998.