color & size is new work of still lifes, everyday objects and portraits by Mary Hartman. Gallery profits from run of show are donated to Second Harvest Savannah

Mon - Fri: 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Sat: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Gallery 2424 is pleased to announce the group exhibition One by One including the incredible work of 25 local artists. The exhibition will be on view March 1-April 5, 2024.

Featuring:

Ivy Anderson, Casey Blandford, Savana Burdick-Perez, Monica Cioppettini, Hannah Cunningham, Harry DeLorme, Abby Edwards, Tate Ellington, Maria Garces, Joshua Gary, Derek Larson, Grace Lawson, Charles Mack, Jordan Fitch Mooney, Chris Moss, Kristin Myers, Jennylyn Pawelski, Phoebe Plank, Julio Cotto Rivera, Peter Roberts, Kamryn Shawron, Marcela Sinnett, Nathanial Thompson, Kare Williams, Duff Woon Yong

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In collaboration with ARTS Southeast, Cleo the Project Space is pleased to present Entangled, a series of paintings and a mural installation created by Caitlin McDonagh (Victoria, BC) during her ON::View Residency at Sulfur Studios.

New work in textiles and handmade paper by Savannah-based artist Jennifer E. Moss. To learn more about the artist and exhibition, visit https://www.gallery2424.com/shows/erosion-patterns

The Stories We Tell Ourselves is a series of mixed media works and drawings by Stephen Garrison. By looking at anthropomorphic characters found throughout world religion, mythology, and contemporary fiction. The characters represented here each come from stories or histories in which they embody human personality traits.
The paintings themselves develop as layers which mask or reveal the drawing underneath. There are no physically mixed colors; each hue is the result of the layering of thin glazes of pure color. Each mixed media piece, with paper affixed to wood panel with multiple glazes of paint applied to it, acts as a series of masks. Each viewer may actually perceive them slightly differently, depending on their color sensitivities.
Gallery profits from run of show are donated to For The Love Of Paws.

Learn more at https://www.savannahnow.com/story/entertainment/arts/2024/01/12/savannah-ga-location-gallery-to-show-stephen-garrisons-mythological-creatures/72172715007/

Laney Contemporary is pleased to present Nothing to Fear, an exhibition of new work by Savannah-based artist, Will Penny. Combining traditional art making tools with emerging technologies, including painting, sculpture, video, and found materials, Penny explores the sublimity and absurdity of our encounters and pursuits of the unknown.

Nothing to Fear reflects the impact of the artist’s upbringing in southern Ontario in the 1990s, from the seemingly endless expanses of disquieting farm land to the pervasive cultures of extreme sports, alternative music and satellite television. Drawn to the supernatural and steeped in folklore at a young age, Penny’s work probes the distinct feeling of awe, terror and wonder that initially sparked this fascination. Nothing to Fear highlights the multifaceted nature of the sublime and its existence between aversion and fascination that rests on the edge of human understanding and in the orbit of the ridiculous. This exhibition speaks to the artist’s longtime use of artificial intelligence, programming, video and projection—tools frequently likened to magic and supernatural phenomena due to their apparent seamless and inexplicable capabilities.

Featuring Savannah's own Local Artists and studio members of Cedar House Gallery

On Display: January 12th - February 2nd

Opening Reception: January 12th 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Closing Reception: February 2nd 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Learn more at https://www.cedarhousegallerysav.com/shows-events/2024-local-artist-showcase-opening-reception

Telfair Museums’ Making Marks is a community-based art exhibition that celebrates the therapeutic and rehabilitative aspects of art. Reminding us that art making is for everyone, this exhibition features a wide range of participating artists representing local individuals of diverse ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

Reception: Friday, November 10, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Laney Contemporary is pleased to welcome Birmingham-based artist Amy Pleasant back to Savannah with her second solo exhibition at the gallery entitled FragmenT FOLD bloom. This selection of work is physical; it fragments and folds and allows the body to bloom into what feels like an ancient alphabet of gestures. The work ranges in material expression and engages the whole and the fragmented form in solitude or in serene connection.

Through a variety of shapes, Pleasant’s figures embody gestures and silhouettes of stillness or dynamic interplay. Some fold into themselves while others duplicate into a twin. Still others “bloom” outward into X shapes embracing as much space as they can claim. Throughout Pleasant’s practice, bodies are distilled into shapes that perceptually shift between foreground and background, positive and negative spaces. The body merges with the letter X in Pleasant’s visual vocabulary as both affirmation and negation, holding place as the “I am here” gesture. They are figurative shapes with both qualities, expressing the full capacity of human form and the incredible potential of the body. But X is just one expression as Pleasant’s work explores its own language of shape and gesture, curve, and corner. It undertakes a kind of poetic alphabet of the body in a visual form. It appears these forms have always existed, as if hieroglyphic and timeless.

An MFA Fibers Thesis Exhibition by Katie Hagen

Opening reception: Friday, Nov. 10, 5-8pm

Gallery hours: Saturday, Nov. 11 and Sunday, Nov. 12, 1-4pm

For the past two years, Katie Hagen has been exploring the aesthetics that create delightful surroundings – what we like in our spaces and why. Evolutionary theory and neuroscientific findings tell us that we do best in environments that echo the natural world in some way. These spaces are rich with visual information that feeds our info-seeking brains and they’re dynamic, like the ultimate enriched environment and our early ancestors’ original home: nature.

This series of installations is an antidote to the right angles, flat surfaces and neutrals of our often sensory-deprived built environment. Their color, light and impression of movement signal that a space is alive and can sustain us – visual messages that fill us with a flush of delight.

What is your favorite work of art from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection? With a growing collection of over 8,000 objects, that can be a tough question to answer! Fortunately, Telfair’s staff, docents, and member affinity groups took on the challenge and selected 60 works for display in their largest group-curated exhibition to date, 9 to 5.

Things Removed is a meditation on interior and exterior space, both physical and individual. Deriving inspiration from the abandoned natural coverings of animals, it reflects on departures and absences. Exuviae are “things stripped from a body” — so crochet, a process traditionally used to make wearable and functional items like clothing and blankets, can be used to create exuviae that speak to larger natural processes of covering/uncovering.

The cyclical nature of crochet mimics the gradual buildup — and eventual unraveling — of cells in the transfer of energy. Chrysalises are a butterfly’s own exoskeleton — a part of itself through which they transform. Once abandoned, they are a testament to things that are their own making and unmaking.

By Apppointment: email studiocapilla@gmail.com or sam@artssoutheast.org

Ben Tollefson, Angelica Lorenzi, Sara French, Theo Skeete, Neal Hollinger

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 1-6 pm OR By Appointment

Learn more at https://www.cleothegallery.com/

Savannopoly is back with various depicting Savannah locations!

Gallery profits from run of show are donated to Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity

Artists include Stacie Jean Albano, Claire Barrett, Adrienne Berkland, Bob Christian, Julia Christian, Lennie Ciliento, Bailey Davidson, Joy Dunigan, Tate Ellington, Maxx Feist, Mary Hartman, Lind Hollingsworth, Ahmad Jackson, Liza Crowley Judson, Tafy LaPlanche, David Laughlin, Julia Licht, Beth Logan, Heather MacRae, Maddie Grace Maierhoffer, Rubi McGrory, Deborah Sheron Miller, Bernard Nolan, Jennifer Nolan, Michelle Perez, Melody Postma, Dana Richardson, Peter E. Roberts, Bryan Stovall, Lisa D. Watson, Rose Marie Woulfe, Hether Young and Jason Zimmer.

Learn more at https://www.locationgallery.net/

The Savannah Cultural Arts Center Gallery presents “Beyond Sight”, a multisensory exhibition, free and open to the public

The concept of function in the art world has undergone exciting changes, leading to increased creativity and the engagement of multiple senses. Beyond Sight moves away from traditional ideas of art’s purpose and focuses on accessibility and inclusivity. The exhibition includes tactile sculptures, interactive installations, and innovative audiovisual experiences giving viewers a deeper level of engagement.

Contributing Artists: Abigail Tankersley, Joshua Alexander, Larissa Miller, Ray Hummel, Samantha Mack

Learn more at https://www.savannahga.gov/1036/Gallery

In Big Butch Energy/Synergy, Nina Chanel Abney brings together recent large-scale works that examine Black identity and queerness through coming-of-age narratives. The artist broaches these subjects playfully, creating approachable images that focus on her personal experiences as a masculine-of-center woman. Abney executes these works primarily in collage, streamlining the picture plane with a bold, graphic style that highlights the subtleties of the expressions and poses of her dynamic figures. Working on a massive format, she invites viewers to experience the collage’s rich pictorial spaces on the scale of history painting.

In Night Walk, preeminent painter Yu Hong weaves together her personal experiences and memories with significant collective shifts in contemporary China, portraying epochal transformation within sprawling compositions. In six large-scale, richly detailed paintings and three small studies of hands, Yu Hong evokes classical art historical motifs drawn from a variety of sources, including Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa (1818–19), Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893), El Greco’s The Crucifixion (1597–1600), and others, as well as traditional Chinese painting tropes from the culture’s many-centuries-long heritage. The artist’s psychologically rich subjects exist within a riotous tumult of dramatic, otherworldly scenes, establishing a nuanced dialogue between the individual figure and a surreal setting. The disquieting nature of her groupings evokes human fragility and the ever-present social tensions between isolation and togetherness. Yet they also speak to an insistent resilience and the eternal hope that can be found in a landscape of the imagination.

Laney Contemporary is pleased to present Goose, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with New York-based artist Michael Scoggins whose signature style adopts the youthful alter-ego Michael S. as an autograph for large-scale drawings in the form of a monumental, hand-written notebook page. A note can be both casual and layered with heartbreak and humor. Its disarming ephemerality packs an unexpected punch with shifts in scale that can transform the insignificant into the unforgettable. In a casual note, a clipped phrase or a torn page may carry heavy weight as Scoggins uses the graphite of the pencil to point us toward complex and often shared experiences including the inseparability between joy and grief. 

Learn more at https://www.laneycontemporary.com/exhibitions/upcoming-michael-scoggins