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By Clint Zeagler -- February 24, 2010 at 2:43 am · Filed under Art, Design, Event, Music
LoveNests will showcase the lives of a colorful collective of Atlanta locals through design. The exhibition is a collaborative effort between Portfolio Center photography and Georgia Tech industrial design students. Through interviews, storytelling, and photography, the curators will delve into the personalities and histories of popular Atlantans and discover what objects define, inspire, and capture the essence of their individuality. Once this process is complete, the photographers and designers will work together to translate and engineer each person’s symbolic spirit, so to speak, into a three-dimensional representation. Structural, abstract, graphic and diverse, each Atlantan is tangibly personified at MODA through designed environments. LoveNests serves as an engaging, illustrative biography of our Atlanta favorites.
By Clint Zeagler -- September 28, 2009 at 7:49 pm · Filed under Art, Design
Its been awhile since the last post but my friend Joni started this little graphic business called Chocolate Butterbean that I had to tell yall about. Me and Joni go way back to ID studio at GT as evidenced by this photo:
Joni was so good at handwriting letters for her sorority in college that her handwriting became known as “Joni Font” in studio. She is doing what she loves and you can tell! I have to find someone to get married to just so I can get her to make my invitations!
By Clint Zeagler -- March 2, 2009 at 12:11 am · Filed under Architecture, Art, Design, Event, Southernisms
Don’t miss out on Clint Zeagler’s Lecture at Pecha Kucha on March 8 at Octane. Dali : Dolly :: Surrealism : Tacky. Are surrealism and tacky really the same thing? Why does one seem so fancy and the other seem so uneducated? Dolly and Dali will help us answer this question.
By Clint Zeagler -- August 29, 2008 at 2:33 am · Filed under Art, Fashion
Early Jewelry ( WEBSITE ) line from Kansas was by far my favorite find at the Las Vegas Pool Tradeshow ( WEBSITE ) inside Magic ( WEBSITE ).
Biography from website:
Kylie Earlene Grater’s farm beginnings in Riley, Kansas lend a unique aesthetic to her original pieces. Growing up in the rural Midwest, she was able to look out onto the Plains, their vast horizons, and crops that rotated with the seasons.
The simplicity of rural life, the changing of the weather, and the cycles of planting, and harvesting have all influenced Grater’s approach to creating jewelry. Her close contact with these organic influences, in part, determines her materials: feather, cow bone, and leather, to name a few.
Grater’s later influences stem from substantial time spent studying and working abroad. She studied the professional side of craftmaking in England during college for a year and spent time in Africa, working with an HIV/AIDS project. These cultures, combined with her own upbringing in small-town America, have helped to determine the way that Grater builds her designs.
In addition to creating jewelry out of new materials, Grater invents pieces by reconstructing cast-outs and vintage jewelry. Inspiration for this line of jewelry comes from a dictate out of her rural past: one must make use of every little thing! This reuse results in unique and eclectic pieces that are expressive of both the old and the new.
Grater resides in Lawrence, Kansas where all the pieces are handmade.
Early Jewelry also has a wonderful blog ( WEBSITE )
Here she tells us how she goes about making vintage cuff link rings through pictures…
By Clint Zeagler -- July 16, 2008 at 9:42 pm · Filed under Art, Feature Stories
Sister Louisa’s biography from her Website:
Sister Louisa was a nun in a convent near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She left in disgrace: having fallen in love with “Lucious†Lamar Thibideau, the convent’s janitor, in June, 1978.
“Lucious†liberates various items of trash for Sister Louisa to transform into art.
Sister Louisa wants you to know that even though she has fallen from “the church proper†down into her studio out side her Airstream trailer, she is no less connected to God – maybe even more.
Sister Louisa says “God bless you†to all who see her art and feel the power of God’s true love.
Clint: How are you feeling today Sister, thanks for letting us do this little interview?
Sister Louisa:
Life is good.
I continue to be The Happiest Man Alive!
My kid is balanced,
I have all my material needs met,
I have great friends and family.
Lucious Lamar continues to please me.
What more could a Sister ask for?
SINCE I GAVE UP HOPE,
I FEEL MUCH BETTER.
Clint: Tell about a day in the life of Sister Louisa
Sister Louisa:
I enjoy my alone time,
going through menopause
and all is tough!
Seriously,
I live in the moment,
in order to feel
the current of the wind.
I like living
as a cork on the ocean.
I KNOW THERE IS A BALANCE,
I SEE IT WHEN I SWING PAST.
Clint: What currently inspires you to do your artwork?
Sister Louisa:
The comedy and tragedy of life
is my inspiration.
I am moved equally by both ends of the spectrum,
and don’t take either of them too seriously.
Life is a balance,
and I’m thankful that mine
has been revealed to me.
Having grown up in the Church
and now the Sister of my own Church:
Sister Louisa’s Art Gallery
in the Church of the Living Room
and Ping Pong Emporium
…Come On In, Precious!”
I have seen it all!
I love to play with the symbols
that we humans take
as representation of one’s faith…
…love delving deeply into
the humanity of Christ,
the Divinity of humans.
NOTHING HARDER THAN A PREACHER’S DICK.
Clint:
How do you like Atlanta compared to Louisiana? And where are your haunt’s around town, I’m mean where might we run into you?
Sister Louisa:
Atlanta is my home here in America.
Isla Mujeres, Mexico is my home in Mexico.
I go to
Danneman’s Coffee ( WEBSITE ) in the Old 4th Ward
in the morning,
lunch alone at Whole Foods,
or lunch with friends at Eats,
Thumbs Up ( WEBSITE ) , Fontaines ( WEBSITE ),
somewhere…
Mostly I’m on my knees
in The Church of the Living Room (schedule a visit).
GOD BLESS MY CRACKHOUSE PLEASE!
Clint:
Are you for Obama or McCain?
Sister Louisa:
Clint, that’s a stupid question!
The Soul of America
is in need of healing in order
to continue to be a positive part
of our goal towards World Peace.
Did anybody answer McCain?
JESUS LOVES GAYS, AND ATHEISTS, AND CRACKWHORES!
Clint:
How do you feel about your growing fame? Does this get in the way of your spiritual enlightenment?
Sister Louisa:
I am committed to staying whole
and I do that by
walking into the light
no matter what bent journey
that takes me on,
and….
no matter
what the Bitch ( THE BITCH ) says
about me!!!
FUCK FEAR!
Clint:
Thanks for doing this short little interview; is there anything you need to tell the masses? Anything you need to get off your chest? Confess maybe?
Sister Louisa:
Sin ISN’T cussing,
or sucking cock,
or having fun with your faith.
Sin IS not telling the truth at all cost.
Blasphemy ISN’T
saying “goddamnit”
or playing with
the stuff of God.
Blasphemy IS
seeing the light
and to not walking,
running,
or dancing
towards it
with haste!
God’s Love for Us,
and Acceptance for Us,
is Greater than
anything we can say
or do
to fuck it up!
WE ARE FREE TO FLY>>>
so…
GRIEVE IT AND GO!
By Clint Zeagler -- July 14, 2008 at 1:52 pm · Filed under Art, Design
First, Tonight July 14th 2008 is the first MODA Monday.
MODA Mondays are hosted by MODA’s Professional Board, to promote its new Avant Guard Membership. As part of the next generation of working professionals, MODA ( WEBSITE ) needs your fresh thinking, innovative charisma and modern currency to keep our creative juices flowing. When you become a member of the Avant Guard, you’re part of something special, where the exhibitions are more relevant, groundbreaking and thought provoking. You’ll meet other young professionals in Atlanta and access exclusive benefits from cool restaurants, other museums, retail stores and boutiques throughout the Atlanta area. Visit MODA’s Avant Guard ( WEBSITE )
Second, Tomorrow Night July 15th 2008 as part of the National Black Arts Festival SCAD has commissioned a work of Carrie Mae Weems.
Contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems explores the human rights movement in the United States and abroad in an upcoming multimedia installation titled, “Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment.” The exhibition, commissioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Black Arts Festival, will be on display July 1-Aug. 31 at the ACA Gallery of SCAD ( WEBSITE ), 1280 Peachtree St. The artist’s reception will be held July 15, 6-8 p.m.
I hear promptly at 6PM there will be a live performance of monks, a horn and a didgeridoo.
By Clint Zeagler -- June 20, 2008 at 3:59 pm · Filed under Art, Fashion, Travel
Yes to Viktor and Rolf. I am in London on business and holiday and recently went to a new exhibition by Viktor and Rolf and the Barbican. Which is quite amazing. There is a huge doll house filled with dolls meticulously hand crafted to represent exact pieces from V&R fashion shows.
VIDEO of Exhibition
In conjunction with the exhibit there was a lecture / discussion I attended entitled Exhibitionism: Does Fashion Belong in an Gallery?
Does fashion belong in a gallery? Join the debate on this hot topic with Professor Christopher Breward, Deputy Head of Research, V&A, Lou Taylor, Professor of Dress and Textile History, University of Brighton and José Teunissen, Professor Fashion Theory at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem . Chaired by Penny Martin , SHOWstudio and the BBC2 Culture Show.
Well after all the discussion the answer was YES! On the condition that it was curated well and the show in question had a purpose other than to promote a brand.
Also while here in merry ole England, I have had the opportunity to see an exhibition entitled Skin and Bones at Somerset House. The exhibition was quite interesting and compares Fashion and Architecture. I was excited to see many of the pieces, which I lecture on at Georgia Tech up close and in person.
Discover the synergies between fashion and architecture from the 1980s to the present day. The exhibition explores how over 50 internationally-renowned architects and designers including Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Future Systems, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid ‘fashion’ buildings and ‘construct’ garments.
After huge success in Los Angeles and Tokyo, Somerset House brings this exhibition to Europe to open the new riverside Embankment Galleries. Specially selected new exhibits for London include work by Boudicca, Eley Kishimoto, Martin Margiela and Hussein Chalayan.
The exhibition was designed for Somerset House by architect Eva Jiricna and features over 200 works including iconic garments, 3D architectural models and film footage.
By Clint Zeagler -- June 10, 2008 at 12:10 am · Filed under Art
Fahamu Pecou is not your wilting flower of an artist who doesn’t enjoy the spotlight. Mr. Pecou revels in it. In fact we can assume that someone gave him a copy of The Secret and he understands that he must own his fame before others do. Most all of his work is self portrait in the style of a magazine cover, and guess what, now there is a magazine FAHAMENON. That’s not to say that his talents aren’t a little mesmerizing. He seems to have his finger on the ribbons of both popular hip hop culture and the art world just in time to wrap his fame up in a bow. Working in multiple mediums Fahamu has videos on Youtube, and websites that help to round out a universe where Fahamu is our sun, shining a bright, straightforward, yet happy light on all us satellites.
Check out his current exhibition in Vaknin Gallery, and at Fahamu’s website.
