Flournoy Holmes is either a yogi or the next best thing. He certainly looks the part in his long gray beard, wild hair and woven Indian garments. And unearthly events seem to hover around him, even when he’s just sitting drinking coffee in a Virginia-Highland restaurant.
Someone should make a list of all the talented artists who live, all too often under the radar, in our city. Here are a couple of names: Flournoy Holmes and Susan Archie. Crack designers and Grammy winners both, they get a well-deserved shout-out in “Run for Cover,” a really fun and aesthetically illuminating exhibition of 432 new and vintage albums at Spruill Gallery.
You can check out the full review here.
"Simply put, Susan Archie is responsible for some of the most memorable cover art of the last decade. Working as a freelance graphic designer with a number of loyal record labels, Atlanta’s Dust-to-Digital and Table of the Elements among them, Archie’s work has been repeatedly nominated for Box Set Packaging Grammy awards (four in the past six years) and praised by the New York Times. As anyone who has picked up a copy of Goodbye, Babylon or Screamin’ & Hollerin’ the Blues can tell you, Archie brings a true artist’s attention to detail in her designs. These multilayered, ornate packages work to evoke the obsessive, nostalgic moods associated with record collecting and archiving. Some of her work can be seen at Spruill Gallery’s current exhibition, Run for Cover."
