Sharon Moody

No Comments

Visit Her Website

Sharon Moody was born in Florida and grew up in North Carolina, where she received a B.A. in Fine Art from Appalachian State University, studying printmaking and drawing with Bill Dunlap and Noyes Long. After relocating to New Jersey she executed a series of photorealistic paintings of cities and towns of that state; exhibiting her drawings and paintings in N.J. and N.Y. led to a Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey Council of the Arts.

She resumed her studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C, studying painting with William Woodward and drawing with Frank Wright. She was awarded the Morris Louis Fellowship and received an M.F.A. in Painting. Her technical training included studying the methods and materials of painting throughout the history of art and a stint copying masterworks at the National Gallery, an experience which subsequently informed her work.

She has exhibited her work for three decades and has been employed as a graphic designer and teacher. She has taught at Georgetown University since 1998, including courses in drawing, painting, design, and technical art history. Recent works are still life and trompe l’oeilcompositions.

Why You Should STILL Visit Castleberry Hill

No Comments

The reason Castleberry Hill once had a nice handful of art galleries is Marcia Wood. This is now about the only reason to spend your gas money to venture this far south in Atlanta in your quest for good art. You will find great art in Marci’s gallery.  She is currently showing Kate Javens’ “For the Wolves, the Lambs and the Rev” series.

Marcia Wood and Tim McDowell sponsor a print making camp. See some images and info…

Kai Lin Art Gallery

No Comments

Galleries come and galleries go. The good ones stay year after year. But then there are the galleries I visit that I hope will stay year after year. One of those is the Kai Lin art Gallery on the same block as The Buckhead Theatre. A very good location considering the foot traffic generated by the Theatre. Free parking is limited, but their is sufficient paid lots nearby.

The artist being displayed, Wyatt Graff caught my attention as does all bright beautiful colorful well crafted art.

Emily Amy Gallery

No Comments

The west side of Atlanta has changed radically in the last 10 years. What was starting at Castleberry Hill area seems to have shifted to the west side in terms of hip galleries.  Emily Amy gallery is a very good example of this new hip gallery. Someone at the gallery is really on the publicity project. Their recent press coverage.

MARILYN BORGLUM and Jane Filer at the Matre Gallery

No Comments

Imagery exists everywhere, but art is a manifestation of the spirit, a profound experience that can hardly be explained.

The artist who is driven by passion, by necessity, and ultimately by God’s voice, makes art.

And once again we note that it is the process, and not the outcome, which is the art itself.

-Marilyn Borglum

My paintings are evolved from historical and prehistoric observations. They are my response to clues I have gathered from the most ancient to the most modern visual references available.  Blending this with the relationship I have with my own existence I create a fantastical story. The sense of story is used to provoke exciting aspects of being and existing in this amazing world.

I am in love with color and sensual surface textures on my canvases and I am in love with life.

-Jane Filer

Alan Avery Art Company will celebrate their 30th anniversary

No Comments

Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, Kara Walker

You must see Kara Walker’s art. Rarely do you see such quality art that is supercharged with accurate depictions of our country’s racial past.

Alan Avery Art Company will celebrate their 30th anniversary with the exhibition The Glass Ceiling Shattered, 30 Years - 3 Great American Women Artists, featuring work from Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler and Kara Walker. A VIP Preview will be held Friday, December 2, 2011 from 7-9 PM and an Opening After Party from 9 PM until midnight. The Preview and After Party are by invitation only. The exhibition opens to the public Saturday, December 3, 2011. The exhibition continues through Friday, February 10, 2012.  http://www.alanaveryartcompany.com

Warhol Quotes

No Comments

I really don’t care that much about “Beauties.” What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It’s not “talkies.” Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something. Which isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just that I don’t know what it is they’re being. It’s more fun to be with people who are doing things.

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warhol

Banksy Quotes

No Comments

We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist….. I don’t do that any more.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.

People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.

Some people become cocks because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. ‘We the people’ affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires…

I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said “that’s a clever anagram of art” and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.

People who enjoy waving flags don’t deserve to have one.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

‘I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I’d had an epiphany that night [about using stencils] and she told me to stop taking that drug ‘cos it’s bad for your heart.’

I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that’s only if it’s done properly.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Conversations don’t get any better as you get older.

“There’s no way you’re going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover” - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ban
ksy

No Comments


At last – a game that introduces children to modern art! Children become confident art experts just by playing their favorite card games over and over. Get to know 8 great artists and read about the genius and fun behind each work of art in the companion
fact book.

Ages 7+

Birdcage Press

Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms (Latitude 20 Books)

No Comments

This is at once a compendium for designers and an entertaining essay on the architecture of Asia’s most glamorous tropical island by one of its foremost admirers. Landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his extensive photographic archives, compiled over the past 30 years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations, and vagaries.

Univ of Hawaii Pr