We are pleased to invite you to our fourth off site exhibition:
The Nature of Art
curated by Kai Lin Art’s Emi Noelle Douglas
Exhibition opening
Friday, Nov 22nd, 2024
6:00 - 9:00pm
Atlanta Soto Zen Center
1167 Zonolite Place NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
HARMONY
We are excited to announce our ninth and final exhibition of 2024 :: HARMONY a group exhibition featuring new art from Cameron Bliss, Jamil Fatti, Jason Kofke, Lela Brunet, Marc Boyson, Low Key, Tracy Murrell, Luke Hamilton, Spencer Herr, Stephanie Kolpy, Jon John and Sophia Sabsowitz.
We are pleased to invite you to our curation of The Gallery Condominiums launching November 6th from 6:30 - 8:30pm. The exhibit will run through January 2025 so please drop by for a visit to the exhibition:
The Gallery Residences
2795 Peachtree Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
info@kailinart.com
We are pleased to share with you The Art of CHRONICLES, our latest exhibition which will run through November 29th @kailinart
Please join us for our
CHRONICLES MIXER
Friday, Nov 15th, 2024
6:00 - 8:00pm
And reach out to us if you’re interested in learning more about the show or are interested in any works of art from the exhibition.
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to share with you the photos from our latest opening of CHRONICLES. The exhibition will run through November 29th. Please visit us at the gallery or reach out if you are interested in having a viewing of the exhibition. Thanks to all of our wonderful artists and to Valentin Sivyakov for the fantastic photos!
CHRONICLES
We are excited to announce our eighth exhibition of 2024 :: CHRONICLES a group exhibition featuring new art from Elliston Roshi, Daisy Anne Dickson, Christine Lyon, Derrick Beasley, Tim Flowers, Matthew Sugarman, Elisa Dore, Sierra Kazin, Laura Cleary Williams, Ella Hopkins, Asia Hanon, Teej (Nicholas) Jones, Golnoush Behmaesh, Allen Peterson, Lucas Wiman, Sharon Shapiro, Darya Fard, Azin Yousefiani, and Katya Kim.
Please join us for our LUSTROUS Artist Talk featuring Jeremy Brown, Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney, Pope Ariza & Jon John. Jeremy, Patrick and Jon will be here to discuss their latest body of work:
The exhibition will run through October 11th and we will be hosting an
LUSTROUS Artist Talk
Saturday, Sept 28th, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
*talk will begin at 5pm
Please reach out to the gallery if you are interested in a private viewing or are interested in any of the works from the exhibition at 404 408 4248
Hello! Please enjoy these photos from our latest exhibition of LUSTROUS featuring Jeremy Brown, Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney, Pope Ariza & Jon John.
The exhibition will run through October 11th and we will be hosting an
LUSTROUS Artist Talk
Saturday, Sept 28th, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
*talk will begin at 5pm
Please reach out to the gallery if you are interested in a private viewing or are interested in any of the works from the exhibition at 404 408 4248
We are excited to share with you The Art of LUSTROUS, our new exhibition featuring Jeremy Brown, Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney, Pope Ariza & Jon John.
The exhibition will run through October 11th and we will be hosting an
LUSTROUS Artist Talk
Saturday, Sept 28th, 2024
4:30 - 6:00pm
*talk will begin at 5pm
Please reach out to the gallery if you are interested in a private viewing or are interested in any of the works from the exhibition at 404 408 4248
LUSTROUS
We are excited to announce our seventh exhibition of 2024 :: LUSTROUS a group exhibition featuring new art from Jeremy Brown, Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney and introducing Pope Ariza and Jon John.
We are excited to announce our sixth exhibition of 2024 :: Professor Printmaking Pop Up a group exhibition featuring Marc Boyson, Stephanie Kolpy, Heather Deyling, Luke Hamilton, Alice Stone Collins, Lara Wolf, Donald Keefe, Matthew Sugarman, Carl Linstrum, Adewale Adenle, Allen Peterson, Christine Lyon, Cynthia Lollis, Stephanie Smith, Hannah Adair and Bryan Baker.
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to share with you the photos from our latest opening of ORIGINS featuring Ayana Ross, Stan Clark, Kevin Palme, Alice Stone Collins, Trey Dowell and Cameron Bliss.
Thank you to Valentin Sivyakov for the amazing photos!
valentinsivyakovphotography.com
Please take a look and let us know if you might have an interest in any of the pieces. The exhibition will be on display through August 16h and we’ll be hosting our:
ORIGINS :: Closing + Mixer
Friday, August 16th, 2024
5:00 - 7:00 PM
We look forward to seeing you here at the gallery!
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to share with you The Art of Origins with photos by Valentin Sivyakov and featuring artists Kevin Palme, Trey Dowell, Ayana Ross, Stan Clark, Cameron Bliss and Alice Stone Collins.
Please enjoy the artwork which will be on exhibit through August 16th at the gallery. If you are interested in any of the works, contact us at 404 408 4248.
Happy Summer!
“Narratives” at Kai Lin Art, installation view. (All photos by Valentin Sivyakov Photography)
Capturing stories, thoughts and moments in life can be an artist’s way of sharing who they are and showing it to the world in the most vulnerable way. When you group several artists with varied mediums and demographics, how do you find their commonality? Finding a common thread between artists requires seeing the work from their perspective, laced with their emotions and histories. Kai Lin Art’s current exhibition, Narratives, running through July 12, includes the works of Steven L. Anderson, Todd Anderson, Kiara Gilbert, Landon Perkins and AD “Kaya” Clark, working here under the name Kaya Faery.
Upon walking in, you’re immediately met with Steven L. Anderson’s Tree Rings, which are full of color and energy and portray the vitality of nature and the wisdom it carries. Anderson draws these concentric circles with markers, pens, oil sticks and ink, and the tree rings take shape as each line expands and builds the form into existence, which is full of vibrations reminiscent of what we feel when outside in nature.
Steven L. Anderson, “240 years”.
“My artwork is about the power of nature and the nature of power,” writes Anderson in an artist’s statement. “I have a creative practice that looks to trees and plants as an evergreen source of metaphors for how we experience the world.” Anderson continues, defining his artistic goal as “to make images, things, spaces and situations that fuse the exhilaration of the human spirit with the ferocious beauty of nature to make a palpable, tingling essence.”
Color studies accompany Anderson’s paintings in “Narratives.”
As someone who sees power in the outdoors and the arts, I appreciate Anderson’s Tree Rings being complimented by meticulously labeled color studies, connecting the process to the final form. The works are titled based on the number of lines or, better yet, the years the rings display. The work at the front of the exhibition is titled 240 Years and is striking with the varying use of color and weight of each line in the tree ring. Anderson’s work in the gallery space brings an essential feeling of rest and joy and takes a central focus among the four other artists being exhibited.
Through the gallery’s idiosyncratically shaped space, there are vignettes of the featured artists spotlit to hold the viewer’s attention. Being an independent curator over the last several years, I tend to read the room in an attempt to understand how the art and artists connect to one another. As I move through, I’m stopped by a grid wall of Todd Anderson’s (no relation to Steven) intaglio photopolymer gravure prints of the series, The Last Glaciers of Akshayuk Pass {Baffin Island}. The artist traveled north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island to study the Penny Ice Cap and its retreating glaciers, and these prints are a result of his studies and documentation of the land.
Todd Anderson, “Moulin on Turner Glacier, Baffin Island” (l) and “Melt on Parade Glacier, Baffin Island”.
Regarding this series, Anderson’s artist statement explains, “I have logged over 500 miles on and off trail hiking to the individual glaciers to sketch, watercolor and/or photograph them.” The intricacy and meaning of the prints are further explained as being “drawn with needles and the aid of a magnifier, [offering] extreme amounts of detail that seek to portray the complexity and dynamics of the natural world.” The relational aspect of both Steven Anderson’s and Todd Anderson’s works linked to nature builds on the colloquialism “to stop and smell the roses” with a micro-dive into their personal perspectives.
Work by Kiara Gilbert (installation view).
Continuing to maneuver through the exhibition, I come upon the work of two Black artists, Kiara Gilbert and AD “Kaya” Clark, shifting the perspective of the nature narrative to one that centers blackness and our relation to queerness and selfhood. While different in subject, these works are placed together but siloed from the others in a nook adjacent to the washroom. I can’t help but ask myself, during my personal interrogation of the placement within the gallery, if the optics of placing the two Black artists in an alcove near the washrooms had been fully considered. Nonetheless, I stayed with Gilbert’s work, reading into the emotion of their carved woodblocks covered with black acrylic paint.
Kiara Gilbert, “Out of Reach”.
Gilbert’s artist statement expounds that their work “explores how emotional landscapes are shaped and perceptions of history are misinformed by colonized narratives surrounding the past.” The carved lines into wood create a marker of pain and memory seeking to reclaim the distance the Black community has placed on queerness throughout history. The five-foot die cut relief carving of a figure, Out of Reach entices you to reach back and envision the artist’s own experience and the layered ancestral past. A clear throughline of connective tissue in Gilbert’s work represents the narrative of resilience and loss.
While a Google search on the word “narrative” produces the definition “a spoken or written account of connected events; a story,” how we interpret the artists in this exhibition goes back to the idea of nature versus culture. Our personal narratives can affect how we receive artists’ visual language, and this exhibition could be a vehicle by which to understand more of who each of us is and what we understand of the world.
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Lauren Jackson Harris is an Atlanta-based curator, consultant and writer. Harris is also the Founder of Black Women in Visual Art and serves on the Board of Directors for Dashboard and will be curating a section of the Inaugural Atlanta Art Fair in 2024.
ORIGINS
We are excited to announce our fifth exhibition of 2024 :: ORIGINS a group exhibition featuring Cameron Bliss, Stan Clark, Trey Dowell, Kevin Palme, Alice Stone Collins and introducing Ayana Ross.
Dear Friends,
We would like to cordially invite you to our
NARRATIVES artist talk
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
4:30 - 6:00PM
Please enjoy the photos from the opening below and thank you to Valentin Sivyakov Photography for the awesome shots!
See you Saturday @kailinart
For the last several years I have been creatively documenting the retreating glaciers of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in Alberta, Canada, and Montana, United States. There were over 150 glaciers in the park when it was inaugurated in 1910. Today, less than 25 glaciers remain. Owing to the effects of human-induced climate change the park’s glaciers are rapidly retreating and expected to completely cease to exist by 2020.
While the ramifications of their loss are being scientifically investigated my project seeks to document the glaciers through a purely creative lens. Artwork can transcend the realms of analytics and commercialism and generate meaningful dialogues with a broad audience. It is hoped that The Last Glacier project will serve as a historical record of this momentous time of change within the park while offering unique insights into the larger issue of climate change.The Last Glacier project has entailed travelling to the park on an annual basis for the last four years. I have logged over 500 miles on and off trail hiking to the individual glaciers to sketch, watercolor and/or photograph them. This fieldwork has then served as the basis for the creation of original fine art reductive woodblock prints. Beyond its organic language, the woodcut medium is additionally apt for my needs as the carving away and reduction of a woodblock mirrors the ongoing state of the glaciers themselves.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
But in my spirit will I dwell,
And dream my dream, and hold it true;
For tho’ my lips may breathe adieu,
I cannot think the thing farewell.
“In Memoriam,” Section 123
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1849
Tennyson’s elegy for stasis, “In Memoriam,” represents a reaction to the collapse of the Renaissance worldview that held man as the measure of all things. The advent of geology in the late seventeenth century expanded our understanding of the natural world by introducing time as a fourth dimension and with it the ongoing erosion and building of landscape. Through this new perspective of geology, terra firma became terra mobilis. When viewing the natural world, we not only experience the emotive magnitude of a given place, but also intellectually imagine the possible past and future of landscape.I spent the formative years of my life rock climbing and continue to do so today. I find the simple act of moving over stone and up mountains informative and fulfilling. For me, climbing is transcendent in that, at the best of moments, I feel like my body is one with rock and that I am riding the terra mobilis that Tennyson alludes to. My artwork is a visual extension of my relationship with the natural world. Artworks from the series The Nearest Faraway Place were created to express the grandeur and mutability of landscape. Drawn with needles and the aid of a magnifier, these works offer extreme amounts of detail that seek to portray the complexity and dynamics of the natural world.
My practice revolves around the theme of ancestral linkages formed through shared experiences in black queer communities. I use print media and sculptural installations to communicate themes of connection and collective memory through repetition and rediscovery over time. I am interested in interrogating the loss between generations of queer people who are often without queer elders to guide them and therefore have an extended adolescence as they are forced to learn how to function in society by repeating the patterns of history.
I employ references from pulp fiction, horror movies, and the bible to create fantastical scenes that speak on concrete experiences in a way that evokes something otherworldly. Print media serves as an accessibility measure as well as an extension of the usage of replication of actions in my work.
Kiara Gilbert (they/them) has predominantly spent their life between North Florida, and Georgia. The artist explores how emotional landscapes are shaped and perceptions of history are misinformed by colonized narratives surrounding the past. Growing up black and queer in the South has given them a reverence for the culture and beliefs that enslaved people cultivated and the ability to center black diasporic perspectives in their life and work. Through the use of print media and sculptural installations, they create scenes that speak on feelings of frustration, love, listlessness, and ancestral loss. They have been a recipient of the Six Creative Grant, the Janice Hartwell Award in Printmaking, a 2019 participant in the Humanity in Action Berlin Fellowship, and a Mint Leap Year Fellow from 2022-2023.
We are pleased to share with you the latest body of work from Steven L. Anderson from our Narratives exhibition which will be on display through July 12th @kailinart
Thanks to Valentin Sivyakov Photography for the incredible photos
For inquiries and availability or to schedule a tour of the gallery, please connect with us at 404 408 4248
Happy Summer!
NARRATIVES
We are excited to announce our fourth exhibition of 2024 :: NARRATIVES, a group exhibition featuring Steven L. Anderson, Todd Anderson, Kiara Gilbert, Landon Perkins and Kaya Faery.
