Magic Realism Exhibition To Open At Georgia Museum of Art
ATHENS, Georgia
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Brian Connelly (American, 1926 â 1963), âA Night Garden,â 1955. Oil and casein on panel, 18 Ã 30 inches. The Schoen Collection: Magic Realism. Image courtesy of Debra Force Fine Art.
Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realismâs reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition âExtra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realismâ from February 27 to June 13, 2021, seeking to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category.Â
Head First (2006). Photo by Becket Logan, courtesy of Ryan Lee Gallery, New York.
The artist Emma Amos died in May, at age 83, from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. But even as her illness progressed, the painter, printmaker, and weaver was sustained by the knowledge that her seven-decade career was finally on the brink of her first retrospective, “Color Odyssey” at the Georgia Museum of Art.
“Emma always knew that she was going to have a show with me she might not have remembered my name at the last, but she knew that I was organizing an exhibition,” Shawnya Harris, the museum’s curator of African American and African diasporic art, told Artnet News. “That really touched me.”
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow now through February 28. The historical exhibition
explores the African American struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years after the Civil War while highlighting the ways African Americans advocated for full inclusion in American democracy from 1865 through World War I.
Created by the New-York Historical Society in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture,
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow is enhanced by Atlanta History Center with locally relevant materials from the collections of the History Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, High Museum of Art, and Georgia Museum of Art.
Morris Museum of Art Debuts New Jackson Cheatham Exhibit
Jack Cheatham, Untitled from The Perfect Ditch series, 2004. Etching/aquatint. Courtesy of the artist.
By Jennifer McKee
“The Perfect Ditch Series: Prints by Jackson Cheatham” is now on display at the Morris Museum of Art.
The exhibition, which features 11 pristinely crafted etchings, is on view through April 25.
Born in Columbia, Tennessee in 1945, Cheatham studied with Keith Rasmussen and Norman Wagner at the Atlanta College of Art, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Afterward, he attended the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, earning his Master’s degree.