SCAD-Atlanta presents gallery hop tonight
February 19, 2009 at 3:00 pm by Jeremy Abernathy in A&E, Events
SENSE OF DRAMA: Artist Deborah Poynton
The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta presents its February gallery hop tonight from 6-8 p.m., featuring new exhibitions at all three SCAD-Atlanta galleries (ACA Gallery of SCAD, Trois Gallery, and Gallery See).
Deborah Poynton’s solo exhibition at ACA Gallery, Everything Matters, headlines the event. Poynton typically paints on a grand scale, and her style is a curious synthesis of classical influences: One senses the drama of El Greco’s religious painting and hints of the 19th-century grotesque, each counterbalanced with a modern sobriety. Her recent paintings focus on realistic nude and semi-nude figures in an examination of the “physical and relational connections within her complex tableaux.” Poynton will appear at the gallery in person to deliver an artist’s talk starting at 5 p.m. . Everything Matters continues through March 29.
The other two exhibitions shouldn’t disappoint, either: The Slipper Tongue and Other Works, featuring new works by art history professor Jonathan Field (Trois Gallery), and the annual SCADDY Awards Exhibition, a juried show of top SCAD student finalists in 25 advertising-related categories, including brand identity, posters, advertising campaigns, animation, photography and illustration.
Free shuttles serving each gallery will be available beginning at 5:45 p.m. from 1600 Peachtree St., on the south side of SCAD’s main academic building. Participants may join the gallery hop at any one of the three locations. The event is free and open to the public, and includes light refreshments and complimentary onsite parking at the main campus.
(Photo courtesy of DeborahPoynton.com)
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