Category Archive: ART

Heartbeat_ATL: Bringing Back the Love

In times like today, where people are more and more disconnected from each other due to the ongoing pandemic, it’s important to take a step back and reconnect, even if we can't physically do so. Heartbeat ATL is an immersive, free interactive experience located in the Downtown Atlanta area, that allows visitors to reconnect through art. It gives people a chance to share and receive love without physical interaction. 

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Jane Hammond: A Verbal and Visual Artist

All artists have different ways of interpreting the spaces around them. Often, there is a dichotomy between visual and verbal artists, with visual artists relying on the abstract and composition of objects to translate their thoughts to a medium. Verbal artists, authors, composers, and poets are more focused on an expository approach to their translations. However, there are those unique people that are able to cohesively blend both sides, and Artist Jane Hammond is one of them. Her paintings, prints, and photographs successfully borrow from the works of verbal artists to create a fusion of the abstract and analytical.

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Robin Damore: A Leap of Faith

It’s never too late to take a leap of faith, change your mind and pursue a different hobby, start a new career and embrace a fresh start in life. Our greatest blessings often lie on the other side of fear, and Artist Robin Damore can firmly attest to this aphorism. She has lept, landed, and conquered, but her success would still be just a figment of her imagination without that first, faithful decision. "I held my nose, jumped into the deep end of the pool, found out I could swim well enough not to drown, and I’ve never looked back," she wrote on her website.

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Sophie De Oliveira Barata: The Alternative Limb Project

When I first saw the prosthetic limbs created by Sophie De Oliveira Barata, I was taken aback by arms and legs that looked far different from the standard, mechanical look of artificial body parts. However, my shock instantly morphed into a fascination for her out-of-the-ordinary designs, one being of an arm that was made into a vibrant, blooming flower vine and a leg made of cherry wood with a fully-functional cuckoo clock in the knee. Barata beautifully illustrates a side of prosthetic limbs many of us didn't even know existed, a side that is artistic and completely expressive of the individual wearing it.

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MINT ATL: It’s MINT To Be

Atlanta has been one of the most thriving cities in America for quite some time. It’s the spot for go-getters;  entrepreneurs, musicians, real estate gurus, and the list goes on and on. Having already been a major player in the music and literary art scene, the city also completes the trifecta by being a major player in visual art as well. The MINT Gallery is one of the staples of their visual art scene. 

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Chris Sollars: Experimental Commentary

A soccer ball is kicked through San Francisco, Calif. A beard touches a surface. Trash on San Francisco’s streets is picked up, cleaned, then carefully placed right back where it once lay. 

Through these actions Chris Sollars expresses himself. He creates experimental art that leads to as much commentary as it creates.

“The street and the immediate space around me influences my ideas directly,” Sollars told Juxtapoz.

The Indianapolis, Indiana-born artist moved to Rhode Island where he received his BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. He later got his MFA in Sculpture from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School. Now, San Francisco is his playground and he finds the vast differences between the coasts inspiring. 

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