Photo Awesome

From what felt like a frenzied weekend of parties and cookouts, I found some time to shoot at Jason Kofke’s “Everything Will Be OK” at Arthouse and PhotoAwesome at Blue Tower. It’s not a bunch of photos but enough to laugh. Beware, I’m all over the pictures. Yes… Check them out before everyone graduates. Who’s gonna do the PhotoAwesome upkeep now?

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Per Rebecca’s suggestion, we will be meeting at the 5th Floor (building C) computer lab tonight at 7:30pm to head to several openings, including those at Castleberry Hill. It is strongly suggested that new students ride with (or at least follow) old students.

Dinner to follow.

This Friday is the monthly Castleberry Hill Art Stroll!  There are openings at Romo Gallery, Garage Projects and Gallery Stokes as well as every other gallery in the area, so we should go out and enjoy!

Here’s some stuff to do this weekend (just in case you’re caught up with your final projects):

FRIDAY

Soloman Projects, 6-8pm
Nancy Floyd: Shes Got a Gun

Jackson Fine Art, 6-8pm
Sally Mann: What Remains and Self-Portraits

Studioplex, 5-9pm
Extracted, Examined
Featuring the work of Scott Carter, Scott Raffield, Jason Tullos, Autumn Lohrman, Christine Hogg, Katrina Franzen, Caroline Powers, Richard Robbins, Jay Fox, Marilyn Chen, John Coulter, Eden Fay Rice, Chadwick Noellert, Seasant Chen, Martha Whittington, and Brenda Jane Bawa

Loading Dock, 1280 West Peachtree St, 6-12pm
Denise Lira-Ratinoff: At First Sight II

Here’s a bus schedule for Denise’s show:

Be sure to show some support for Denise at her show!

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Awesome. That’s what Schizophrenia means. Now, come to the show at City of Ink. It’s called Schizophrenia and I’m in the show.

Here is the address:
City of Ink
323 Walker Street
Atlanta, GA 30313

Click here to view the flyer. It’s too big to put in here.

This Friday, we’ll be attending the openings at both Solomon Projects and Gallery Stokes. Meet at SCAD at 7pm, and head straight to Solomon Projects. Then to Castleberry Hill for the art walk and Gallery Stokes opening.

Beep Beep gallery on Saturday, too. Dunno what time yet.

We’re meeting at the school at 7:00pm, and will head to Saltworks from there. After that, we’ll go to Eyedrum for Travis’ show, and then probably grab a bite to eat afterward. If you need a ride, be at the school on time. Consult the gallery map if you need directions and plan to meet us at either location.

PhotoAwesome covers local Atlanta galleries (Jackson Fine Art, SALTWORKS and Romo Gallery) exhibiting work in Miami Florida during Art Basel 2007.

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Robert Gill is in talks with the guys over at Get This! Gallery in Castleberry Hill, so we want to show him a little support by going out to the opening tonight. Anyone else down for it? Meet at Castleberry Hill at 7:00pm. Werd.

If anyone still in town is looking for a Friday night activity, Stacy, Eric and I will be at Castleberry Hill around 8pm tonight for the openings. Afterwards we’ll head to eat as usual, but Denise just alerted me about something at the High tonight, which I believe I might be part of as well:

I would like to invite you tonight to the High Museum. It will be a films projection until 2 in the morning. The films start at 11pm ( I will be at 10PM) and Audrey Ward and I have films. I know more SCAD students too. So please if you can come to support us.

I’m in… anyone else?

For those of you still in town, we’re going to Jackson Fine Art’s opening of Joel Meyerowitz’s old and new(ish) work. We are meeting at Jackson around 7pm (the opening is from 6-8pm). We cannot meet at the school because it will be closed by that time.

Yo people meet up on the 5th at 7:00pm to catch a ride down to Castleberry hill.  Be there or be square.

Friday, 6-8pm, Joe Peragine - Forever And Ever, Solomon Projects

Meet on the fifth floor computer lab at 6pm. If you are meeting us at the gallery, please get in touch with someone so you don’t miss us. This opening is mandatory for ALL PhotoAwesome members. This is one of our favorite galleries and a big show, so we definitely want to show our support.

Saturday, 6-7pm, ACP Talk - Kira Pollack, NY Times Magazine, Grady High School, followed directly by…
Saturday, 7-9pm, ACP Portfolio Walk, Grady High School

Meet on the fifth floor computer lab at 5:15pm. For those meeting at Grady High School or already there for the portfolio review, plan to be there early as seating might be limited.

Sunday, 1:15pm, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Photography Collection Viewing, 171 17th St NW, 2100, ATL

We will meet in the lobby of AGG at 1:15pm, so don’t be late. Click the link above for directions. Unfortunately, this event is only for those in Photo Arts unless you have arranged something with Steve or Susan.

Thursday Evening (tonight) is the MOCA GA ACP Opening Event.  It starts at 6:30pm (with free food), so we will meet either at school or at moca ga (just down the street walking distance).

Friday Evening: Castleberry Hill Art Stroll.  Meet at school at 7pm to carpool.  Liz Darlington has an opening at Krause that we will be going to first.

Tonight, we meet at the school, 5th floor computer lab, at 6:30pm. Here is the tentative schedule for the evening:

• Jackson Fine Art - Sam Taylor-Wood & David Hilliard. Could there be a better photography show in Atlanta for ACP??
• Mason Murer Fine Art - “That 70s Atlanta Show”. Keep in mind this is NOT the buckhead location.
• Bill Lowe Gallery - “Photo-based” paintings? Really? Whatever… we’ll go there last.

And just in case you’ve never been to these places or you just need a visual, here’s our route map for the evening. If, for some reason, you are going to be late, please call me (Walker) at (512) 576-7460 and I will tell you where we are for sure.

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Whitespace gallery is having a group exhibition celebrating the 100th Birthday of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The opening is Friday at 7pm. Who’s in town that wants to go?

Update: We shot a video at the opening. Check it out.

To avoid confusion and answering 5 million questions, walker and I have decided to post a schedule for everyone to follow:

FRIDAY:
1:45pm- Meet at High Museum.
5:45pm- Meet at school to go to Jackson Fine Arts Opening.
7:00pm- APG Opening.

SATURDAY:
10:00am- APG Juror Talk by Elizabeth Turk. (Go early if you want FOOD)
Lunch
1:00pm- Jackson Fine Art Book Signing!!!

These events are all basically Mandatory, so be there.

Castleberry Hill Walk this Friday 7-11

6pm: Meet at SCAD-Atlanta Parking Garage. Leave within a few minutes after 6.

First we’re going tto TEW Galleries, where it has been confirmed that Whitney Stansell is showing work tonight. Her opening is from 6-9pm, which is why we’re going there first.

Second, we can head straight to APG for the Push Pin Show. Make sure you have cash for putting up work. The doors open at 7:30pm and it’s first come first serve, so we should try to be as early as possible to this. Rebecca and Valentina are going up there between 6:30 and 7pm to get in line. I’m sure they will be able to gauge the line for us.

Following APG we can either go to Fay Gold Gallery (however, the opening ends at 8pm for some odd reason) or go straight to eat. We are doing something besides Mexican food tonight. Also, El Azteca has been making me sick lately… literally.