🖼️ Art That Remembers

This is the work July Specific moments are about beginnings others are about holding the line In in contemporary times s newsletter we walk alongside artist Vivian Chavez and curator Paula Cuevas former colleagues and first-time gallery show collaborators as they step into their own with The Love I Have to Give Before I Die a deeply personal exhibition at Swan Coach House Gallery that honors Chavez s late father and the behind-the-scenes creative bond between both women Then we take a look at MOCA GA at and how a museum that started in a Midtown pool house became one of the Southeast s most of vital cultural institutions We revisit milestones spotlight artists and preview what s ahead including a birthday celebration this Sunday and a new home in the works From debut exhibitions to legacy institutions these stories remind us how much art owes to trust vision and showing up for the long haul Trust the process Sherri Courtesy of Swan House Coach Gallery A Debut Etched in Trust Atlanta artist Vivian Chavez measures into the spotlight with The Love I Have to Give Before I Die a solo exhibition of salvaged sculpture quiet power and inherited technique with longtime friend and first-time curator Paula Cuevas by her side On view Aug -Sept at Swan Coach House Gallery Learn how friendship and form came together for the exhibition Final weeks Facts meets art at the High Museum SPONSORED BY THE HIGH MUSEUM Don t miss your chance to immerse yourself in the data-verse Get ready for a mind-bending experience Ryoji Ikeda s captivating light and sound installations are a must-see On view through Aug Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia MOCA GA MOCA GA at From its humble pool-house beginnings to a purpose-built campus near the Goat Farm MOCA GA has shaped the state s creative ecosystem one artist at a time As the museum prepares to expand again we trace five milestones that define its history and hint at what s next Get the story behind MOCA GA s silver anniversary Photo via High Museum of Art Art Happenings Toddler Saturday a m - p m Aug High Museum of Art Artist Talk Jamaal Barber Chloe Alexander - p m Aug Emma Darnell Aviation Museum The Movement of Fiber and Texture - p m Aug Gallery Chimera Midsummer Exchange - p m Aug The Dunwoody Farmhouse Cheek-Spruill House Post of the Week Art dealer art muse jacksonfineart s annawalkerskillman brought the ATL lens to intersectartanddesign in Aspen CO keithpepper intersectaspen See more from the fair In contemporary times s Sketchbook was edited by Julie E Bloemeke The post Art That Remembers appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta