Atlanta Art Week from September 30 to October 6, 2024, celebrates visual arts in one of the fastest-growing art hubs in the United States. Founded by Art Advisor Kendra Walker in 2022, AAW aims to create a dynamic environment for galleries, artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts. The event promotes cultural exchange, education, and economic development, highlighting contemporary art. The addition of new gallery spaces to Atlanta, such as UTA Artist Space (from Beverly Hills), contributes to the city's cultural growth. UTA is controversial in the art community as its primarily known for its involvement in entertainment, music, and sports, but also has a gallery and has presented notable shows with interdisciplinary artists and creatives, including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Larry Clark, Petra Cortright, The Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, The Haas Brothers, and Ai Weiwei, among others.
ATLANTA GALLERIES TO WATCH:
UTA Artist Space
Early in 2023, United Talent Agency, announced that it would open a three-story exhibition space in Atlanta. The move is not UTA’s first in the art industry. In 2015, the mega-agency founded a fine-arts division and built an exhibition space in Beverly Hills the following year. In addition to spearheading entertainment deals for artists looking to branch out, the agency now mounts shows for leading contemporary artists, a mix of ones they represent and ones they don’t. Among the artists to have shown there are Derrick Adams, Ai Weiwei, Petra Cortright, Ferrari Sheppard, and Mandy El-Sayegh.UTA’s Atlanta project, however, may signal an evolution in the complexity of such partnerships. In addition to being a major film-television hub due to its generous tax incentives, Atlanta is also home to major offices for Microsoft and Google and to the Atlanta University Center, a consortium of HBCUs that includes Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, which have long supported, studied, and collected Black art.image below:
View of UTA Artist Space (Atlanta) in Pullman Yards
whitespace
Whitespace is a contemporary gallery active in Atlanta and across the southeast that seeks to foster an immersive environment of free-expression, intimacy, and dialogue. Under the direction of owner Susan Bridges, the gallery has housed numerous exhibitions across all mediums promoting artistic innovation and inquiries into the relationships that define who we are, both collectively and as individuals. As a respected institution in Atlanta’s art community, whitespace and the artists it houses continue to inspire all who attend through thoughtful examinations of the world around us, allowing viewers a new mode of seeing beyond meaning.
Ironically 'whitespace' is fair from your typical white cube, the gallery is located in an old house on a tree line street in the Inman Park neighborhood on the Eastside of Atlanta.
image below: View of Whitespace (Atlanta)
POP-UP Galleries during Atlanta Art Week
OCHI Gallery
LA-based gallery will present Hana Ward from Sept 9- Oct 6, 2024
image below: Hana Ward (courtesy: Ochi Gallery)
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Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (Chicago, Paris, CDMX) will present a conversation with Atlanta-based artist Patrick Eugène on Wednesday, October 2nd at 6:30 pm
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image below: Patrick Eugène, Solitude, 2024.
Installation view in Mariane Ibrahim Paris. Photo by Aurélien Mole.
Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City)
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THE TEMPORARY ART CENTER
...an Atlanta Biennial...
contact TAC for details:
Location: Old Fourth Ward- Atlanta
Date: Oct. 3rd (public opening) through Nov. 3rd, 2024
participating artists: Paul Stephen Benjamin, Fredrik Brauer, Shawn Campbell, Krista Clark, Alfred Conteh, Antonio Darden, William Downs, Craig Drennen, Jane Foley, John Folsom, Jill Frank, Myra Greene, Lonnie Holley, Scott Ingram, Sonya Yong James, Wihro Kim, Maria Korol, Lynx, Jackson Markovic, Michi Meko, Curtis Patterson, Fahamu Pecou, Joe Peragine, Visakha Jane Phillips, Sheila Pree Bright, Hasani Sahlehe, Micah & Whitney Stansell, Sergio Suarez, Adana Tillman, Tori Tinsley, Aineki Traverso, and Mark Wentzel
image below: The Temporary Art Center
This year also marks the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair, organized by AMP Events, which also manages fairs in NYC, SF, and Seattle, further validating Atlanta’s art scene. AMP Events has a proven track record of successful art fairs, raising high expectations for Atlanta's debut event. AAF recently announced the list of particiapting galleries with an interesting mix of new and emerging spaces in Atlanta and in the region, including galleries from Memphis, Nashville and Birmingham. This region has already had some important museums and private collections but building a community of local contemporary art galleries is often a slow process.
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