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January 27 - March 24, 2007:
Martin Emanuel
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MOCA GA Midtown
1447 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
Artist Talk:
Wednesday, February 21, 2007; 6:30 - 8:30pm
Martin
Emanuel, Sang-Wook Lee, Martha Whittington: Installations
For this exhibition MOCA GA has
invited 3 Georgia artists to create major installations. The Museum will be
divided into distinct spaces for each artist to explore the conceptual use of a
singular medium. Atlanta sculptor Martin Emanuel, whose exhibition Sculpture
opened MOCA GA in February 2002, returns with work that will employ projected
light as its main visual component. Sang-Wook Lee, a Korean native and
professor of Sculpture at Georgia College and State University, will use the
architectural ruins of Native American cultures as his inspiration for a
construction of Ramen noodles that references his interest in cross-cultural
architectural history. Atlanta-born Martha Whittington will create a sculptural
composition using twine, shadow and mechanized motion, drawing the viewer
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Saturday, April 14, 2007
6:30 - 10pm
MOCA GALA Art
Auction 2006
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MOCA GALA
Art Auction 2007
at the offices of Mack Scogin and Merrill
Elam, Architects
111 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE
(corner of John
Wesley Dobbs and Courtland-valet parking entrance on Courtland)
MOCA GA’s largest annual
fundraiser, MOCA GALA Art Auction returns again this year with silent and
live auction offerings of affordable, high quality works of art by an
invitation-only, select group of Georgia’s best artists. Honorary Co-chairs
for the event are Elliott Goldstein and his lovely daughter, Lily
Friedlander. Host Committee Co-chairs are Betsy and David Baker and the
Event Co-chairs are Tina and Scott Sorrels. Dan Carithers returns again
this year as event designer, as does the auctioneer for the evening, the
ever humorous Jim Landon. Our patrons and participating artists will be
honored at a Patrons Party hosted by the Powell Goldstein law firm. Also
scheduled is a Preview Party for collectors, patrons and artists. Last year
was a blast – every piece of art was sold and everyone had a glorious time.
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April 21 - June 23, 2007:
Genevieve Arnold
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MOCA GA Midtown
1447 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
Opening
Reception, Friday, April 20, 2007
6:30 - 8:30pm
Free to members, $5 for
non-members, $1 for students
Genevieve
Georgia artist Genevieve Arnold was a major figure in
Georgia’s arts community, not only as an artist, but as a curator, arts
administrator, a dedicated supporter of contemporary arts, and a champion of the
artists that reside throughout the state. In its first foray into a major
retrospective, MOCA GA seeks to pay tribute to the significant contribution of
the life and work of this Georgia artist by mounting a major retrospective of
her 55-year career. This exhibition will coincide with the 20th anniversary of
the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. (NMWA). In
celebration of this anniversary, the National Museum’s Georgia Committee will
make a donation of a major piece of Arnold’s work to the National Museum’s
permanent collection, commemorating the significance of Arnold as one of
Georgia’s major contemporary artists of the second half of the last century.
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July 7 - September 15, 2007:
Benny Andrews
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MOCA GA
Midtown
1447 Peachtree Street,
Atlanta, GA 30309
Opening Reception, Friday, July 6, 2007
6:30 - 8:30pm
Free to members, $5 for non-members, $1 for students
Benny
Andrews (from Atlanta collections)
MOCA GA pays tribute to the significant contributions of one of
Georgia’s leading African-American artists with this solo exhibition. Guest
curated by Louisa McIntosh, this exhibition will feature major works by
Georgia artist Benny Andrews from public and private collections around
Atlanta. In celebration of this important artist, MOCA GA will curate two
shows of his work, one in Atlanta, and one at the Madison Morgan Cultural
Center, located in Andrews’ hometown. This collaboration will enable MOCA
GA to provide access to its exhibitions and programming for a broader and
more diverse audience beyond Atlanta. Nationally recognized as an artist,
teacher, author, activist, and advocate of the arts, Andrews passed away in
December of 2006, as this exhibition was in development. The artist was a
vivid storyteller, using memories of his childhood in the segregated South
to create narrative-based works that addressed human suffering and
injustice. He explored American life in his collages, prints, paintings,
and drawings by fusing memory and imagination. The guest curator, Louisa
McIntosh, was the owner and Director of the McIntosh Gallery in Atlanta for
20 years, and represented Andrews for many years. She is recognized for her
early support of diverse and under-represented artists, both locally and
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75 Bennett Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
404.367.4542
Museum
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday and Monday, closed
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75 Bennett Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30309
tel: (404) 367-4542, email: info@mocaga.org
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