Black Drawing Series (Inside), 2003
Watercolor and crayon on paper
40 x 40 in. (unframed)

Alejandro Aguilera is a Cuban born, mid-career artist based in Atlanta. His works are in collections of important institutions, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts and the National Council for the Arts, both in Havana; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) in Monterrey, Mexico; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; and the Fulton County Arts Council in Atlanta, GA.

Convergence, 2020
Mixed media
48 x 20 in.

Artist Statement:
The third act of my Art-Bio Play continues-denouement. I've been lucky to have lived in very interesting art times, my life's time frame is a constant wellspring. Convergence is an attempt to engage in that experience. Maybe it's the convergence of realism versus abstraction, or of narrative modes versus the mute splendor of color in the visual games of geometric compliances and exigencies. No need to choose. Let's have it all-which we've had. The odd bit challenger in this scenario is the plate from my book of writings, drawings and paintings of our Georgia Natural World (some recently exhibited at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Atlanta). The Convergence therein is the Hare, Fox and the Owl as the Moth spirits itself upwards before the inevitable carnage begins below. But, after all, this is and always has been our world. I wish I knew the words in Latin for Eternal Divisiveness. Collections: Birgit and David McQueen, Georgia Artists, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, High Museum of Art Bunnen Collection, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper purchase by J. Rutherford Seidel, II

Yucca Plant, 2019
Oil on canvas wrapped panel
27 x 21 in.

Callie Cargo is an Atlanta-based Artist with a BFA in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking from Georgia State University. Upon graduation, she completed an editorial internship with Art Papers, worked for Mary Stanley's Young Collector's Club, and as Mark Leibert's Studio assistant. Currently, she works with Georgia Tech in partnership with Atlanta Public schools in curriculum development for Kindergarten alongside her painting practice.

Savannah, 2019
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in.

Lee Coffey is an artist based in Athens, GA. Working primarily in painting, his work has been included in group exhibitions at Hathaway Contemporary, Lyndon House Arts Center, GIFC at Atlanta Contemporary and the Pinecrest Lodge. His debut solo exhibition will open in March 2020 at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, GA.

In The Flesh, 2016
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 in.

Ariel Dannielle is a painter born and raised in Atlanta, GA. She graduated from the University of West Georgia, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Drawing directly from her life, Ariel creates paintings that depict the daily experiences of young Black women. She believes in the importance of her artwork to provide new lenses through which Black womanhood can be represented, understood, and related to. By placing herself in her paintings she opens a door to her welcomes viewers to participate in a process of introspection.

Mandala, 2016
Acrylic, ink, paper, oil pen, medium, foam core, copper thread, canvas, cyanotype, on wood panel
24 x 24 in.

Amie Esslinger is a visual artist based in Atlanta. Inspired by the movement and processes of microbial organisms, Esslinger's work reveals the allure of hidden worlds. In addition to receiving a BFA with a concentration in drawing and painting from Georgia State University, she also draws on experience with ceramics and sculpture, adding three-dimensional components to paintings and assembling distinctive paper and mixed media installations. Along with her debut two-person show at Swan Coach House Gallery titled "Systems" in 2016, Esslinger has shown at Hathaway Contemporary Gallery and most recently exhibited (and collected) by at the David J. Sencer CDC Museum's "The World Unseen: Intersections of Art and Science. She has been a fellow at Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, NY and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA and received the current Susan Antinori Visual Artist Grant from Idea Capital.

See Me More, See Me Less, 2017
Hand colored print on paper
15 x 11.5 in.

Eula's work depicts reality moving to fantasy. Or is it the opposite? The viewer must decide. Eula's work is informed by scope of experience from horrible to fantastic. She lived on the beach, places like Honolulu where she was born, and San Diego where she lived. Eula witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the invasion of Poland. On the opposite, she saw fun times again in Hawaii in large corporate celebrations the world over. Eula paints and colors prints by hand. Her work is in collections throughout the world. Eula has a BA, MA and MFA in visual fine art, including painting and printmaking.

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Inchoate Desires, 2019
Photograph
40 x 60 in.

Over the course of 11 years, Harvey has practiced photography and in the last 2 have been fortunate enough to make his works profitable through private collectors and select brands. The only constant that has remained over the past 11 years is Harvey's desire to create the most optically captivating images possible, luring his audiences with intense uses of negative space, compositions, and set goal to simply be one of the greatest fine art photographers of his generation.

Viewer (Rembrandt), 2019
Digital photograph
10 x 8 in.

Stuart Horodner is director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum. He has held positions at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Bucknell Art Gallery; and was co-owner of Horodner Romley Gallery in NYC. His book, The Art Life: On Creativity and Career, was published in 2012. Horodner's writings and photographs have appeared in publications including Art Issues, Art Lies, BOMB, Dazed & Confused, and Sculpture Magazine, and Surface, among others.

Quashie Interludes: Jade Pinkgil Reverbs, 2019
Acrylic, graphite, colored xerox and collage on paper
22 x 30 in.

Yanique Norman is a multimedia artist whose work primarily deals with privilege and nationalistic ideologies all the while pondering a decolonial future. In an ongoing series that predominately feature collage on paper, video and sculpture, Norman reworks official portraits of Presidential wives so as to allude to a troubled past. Work serves as a reclamation project by reimagining iconic images so as to both reflect and institute a fungible counter narrative regarding blackness. Currently based out of Atlanta, Norman is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA, 2018) and Georgia State University (BFA, 2014). Her work is in the public collections of the High Museum, Hammonds House Museum and the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. In 2018, she was awarded the Susan Antinori Visual Artist Grant. In 2020, Norman would have her first solo museum exhibition at Albany Museum of Art.

Three Types, 2013
Ink and gouache on paper
9 x 12 in.

Iman Person's practice explores the ways in which communication, flora, and biological systems can serve as methods to mediate the self and be used to push society toward an expanded understanding of consciousness. She is interested in engaging with the soft boundaries/boundarylessness that exist within nature, the mind, and organisms of memory to shift our prevailing views of what constitutes as the natural. In 2010 Person received her BFA from Georgia State University and has exhibited her work throughout the United States, including The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Allcott Gallery at The University of North Carolina, and The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis. Internationally, she has exhibited at Ionion Center for Art in Kefalonia, Greece and SoMA Art House in Berlin, Germany. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Tidal Prism, 2019
Acrylic on aluminum
32 x 26 in.

Steve Pomberg is an Atlanta based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and nationally. Pomberg received his BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design and is interested in the reciprocal relationships between painting and photography.

Untitled, 2017
Archival inkjet print
16 x 20 in.

John Prince is a photographer based in Atlanta, GA. He received his MFA in photography from the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Prince's work has been exhibited and published nationally. He has taught photography at Georgia State University and Emory University.

Scarf for Little Edie (Locust Valley Cemetery), 2015
Inkjet print
11.5 x 14.5 in.

Jamie Steele (b. 1985, Atlanta, GA). Steele is director of Camayuhs, an artist run gallery in Atlanta. She obtained her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 upon which she received the John Quincy Adams fellowship. Steele makes use of neon colors, drag aesthetics, and various feminine accoutrements that are often transformed to the grotesque. Steele plays with the edges of taste, questions what is proper, and pushes against the symbology of elegance cauterized in her mind by a conservative southern upbringing. Recent curatorial projects include Feels Warm Like Things Burning, LUMP, Raleigh, NC, 2019, Dodd Bod, a student exhibition at the University of Georgia, 2019, and Very Far Away From Anywhere Else, AA Projects, Vienna, AU, 2017. Her art has recently been exhibited in: The Sea Wants to Take Me, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL, Appetite for Distruction, Wassaic Project, NY, Close Encounters, Beverly's, NYC, Flat Files, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY.

Blue Sponge, 2019
Archival pigment on paper
38 x 53 in.

Riccardo Ullio is a well known pioneering chef in Atlanta and has recently started a second career as a fine art photographer. The underwater images are shot exclusively in black and white medium format using natural light, a unique approach to underwater photography. Riccardo is putting together the last few pieces for his first show in Atlanta which will happen in the fall of 2020.

Untitled, 2020
Vinyl and acrylic on panel
13 in. diameter

Jim Waters received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, and his post-graduate degree in painting and sculpture from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he received a Master of Fine Arts. Waters's work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

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