Past
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The Sea Urchin Can't Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World
Cosmo Whyte 4 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 In The Sea Urchin Can't Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World, Los Angeles based artist Cosmo Whyte continues his explorations of race, nationalism, and displacement in what ostensibly culminates in a presentation of land and seascapes. Through a diverse array of media, encompassing drawings, photography, sculpture, and installation, Whyte articulates the dialectical tensions between the foreign and the domestic, mirroring the liminal spaces of migration and the perpetual evolution of identity formation. Read more -
T̶h̶e̶y̶ We Didn't Realize We Were Seeds: We The Roses
Fahamu Pecou 4 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 Featuring new paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Fahamu Pecou's exhibition "They (We) Didn't Realize We Were Seeds: We The Roses" employs "Afrotropes"—a term coined by Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson, referring to the recurring codes, symbols, aesthetics, and concepts emanating from Black culture—to create encounters with everyday objects transformed and empowered through his meticulous process of recontextualization and cultural reclamation. Read more -
Solace in What Remains
Ashante Kindle 4 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 Johnson Lowe Gallery is pleased to present its second Project Space exhibition with Ashante Kindle, Solace in What Remains. Opening on October 4th, with a reception from 6-9 pm, and coinciding with the exhibitions of Cosmo Whyte's The Sea Urchin Can't Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World and... Read more -
Atlanta Art Fair | The Stars, My Destination
Michael David, Judy Pfaff, Sergio Suarez, Yulia Pinkusevich, Craig Drennen, Fahamu Pecou, Navin Norling, Cosmo Whyte and Jimmy O'Neal 3 - 6 Oct 2024 The Stars, My Destination assembles a group of artists whose works reconceptualize cosmology—not as a distant, abstract notion, but as an intimate and mutable system of meaning shaped by personal history, material inquiry, and spiritual exploration. In this exhibition, cosmology functions as a dynamic process of becoming, an ever-evolving framework... Read more -
Invisible Forces
Aineki Traverso, Amy Pleasant, Craig Drennen, Deborah Dancy, Fahamu Pecou, Ilidio Candja Candja, Jiha Moon, Jimmy O’Neal, Judy Pfaff, Kole Nichols, Krista Clark, Leia Genis, Marc Ross, Masud Olufani, Pamela Longobardi, Paula Henderson, Pete Schulte, Rasha 26 Jul - 14 Sep 2024 Invisible Forces delves into the unseen currents shaping human perception, cultural identities, and social narratives. It is an exploration of the hidden elements—cultural, historical, scientific, and psychological—that manifest in contemporary art, influencing our collective consciousness. Bringing together a multigenerational group of artists, the exhibition reveals a universe where invisible forces... Read more -
Nighttime with Dreams and Mirrors
Michael David 19 Apr - 8 Jul 2024 Johnson Lowe Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael David titled Nighttime with Dreams and Mirrors from April 19 to June 28, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Read more -
A Walk in the Park
Judy Pfaff 19 Apr - 8 Jul 2024 For over four decades, Judy Pfaff has boldly defied categorization, dynamically shaping space with her distinctive vision. Her artistic journey has forged a path that now subtly infiltrates the ethos of the Post-Modern avant-garde. Since her emergence in the early 1970s, Pfaff has cultivated a narrative vocabulary that skillfully navigates... Read more -
In Unity, as in Division
6 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 In Unity, as in Division, the fourth exhibition presented by Johnson Lowe Gallery in its inaugural year, unites seven emerging artists from within the Atlanta Metropolitan Area to present seven micro-exhibitions throughout the gallery’s 7,000 square foot space. On view from October 6 to December 2, 2023, the exhibition includes... Read more -
O Silêncio Negro em Forma de Chocolate [Black Silence in the Form of Chocolate]
Ilídio Candja Candja 4 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 Johnson Lowe Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Mozambican artist Ilídio Candja Candja: O Silêncio Negro em Forma de Chocolate [Black Silence in the Form of Chocolate]. This exhibition features a series of the artist’s latest large-scale paintings that, while chromatically vibrant and compositionally poetic,... Read more -
Dirty Legacy
Navin Norling 4 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 Exhibition of Works by Navin Norling titled Dirty Legacy at Johnson Lowe Gallery Read more -
Sleeping Giants
Herbert Creecy, Thornton Dial, Sam Glankoff 18 May - 1 Jul 2023 Thanks to new ways of thinking about art history, especially due to the influence of postmodernist critical ideas, in recent decades, the overlooked or little-known legacies of some of modern art’s most remarkable sleeping giants have been rediscovered and are being appreciated anew. Now honored — and aroused — these artists’ creative spirits and the ideas that inspired them gave rise to distinctive bodies of work for which a new generation of art historians, curators, critics, and collectors have been making room in modern art’s familiar canon and in the broader story of its long, multifaceted evolution.
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The Alchemists
Co-Curated by Seph Rodney & Donovan Johnson 3 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 “This is the only real concern of the artist: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin How is blackness — as a set of ideas, as ways of being, as inherited legacies — transformed in an artist's practice today? This question... Read more -
The Mirror Stage
Michael David 11 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 An exhibition of new works by New York artist Michael David titled The Mirror Stage, also featuring the works of Astrid Dick. Read more -
Wink
Todd Murphy 7 Oct - 22 Nov 2022 Bill Lowe Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of The Estate of Todd Murphy (b. 1962, Chicago; d. 2020, New York) and in fall of 2022 the first major exhibition of work since the artist’s passing. For more than three decades, Murphy synthesized a wide range of mediums including... Read more -
About Now: An Introspective
Jimmy O'Neal 26 Aug - 2 Oct 2022 Bill Lowe Gallery is pleased to present the newest exhibition of works by Atlanta artist Jimmy O’Neal in About Now: An Introspective. In this quasi-retrospective exhibition, new paintings, drawings, sculptures and installation, alongside remastered earlier works, create an immersive platform for a central theme from throughout the artist's three-decade career:... Read more -
The Third Book on Light and Shade
Steven Seinberg 6 May - 11 Jun 2022 In his newest body of work, The Third Book on Light and Shade, American painter Steven Seinberg advances an almost three-decade long exploration of the forces of nature and their cellular connection to our psychic equilibrium. What was once tranquil and undisturbed in earlier iterations, has now become marred with... Read more -
Poet Of A Threatened Eden
Frank Hyder 26 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Bill Lowe Gallery will host its first major exhibition in two years with a grand re-opening to the general public as the world emerges from closures due to the pandemic. On Saturday, March 26, the gallery will debut Poet of a Threatened Eden, featuring a landmark 35-year retrospective of works... Read more