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Review: Herbert Creecy’s paintings at Johnson Lowe — surprising, stimulating
Jerry Cullum April 11, 2025 Herbert Creecy (1939-2003) remains a Georgia-based painter who has yet to be satisfactorily categorized because of the exuberant diversity of... Read more -
Review: New exhibits at Spelman, Johnson Lowe and the Carlos
by Leia Genis March 11, 2025 Jimmy O’Neal’s solo exhibition, Spittin’ Image , which continues at the Johnson Lowe gallery through April 19, takes its name... Read more -
Jimmy O'Neal: 8 Gallery and Museum Exhibitions to See in Atlanta This March
by Leia Genis February 27, 2025 The idiom “spitting image” has sparked debates about its origins, with theories ranging from “spit and image,” referencing divine creation,... Read more
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Cosmo Whyte: The Sea Urchin Can’t Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World at Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
by Noah Reyes October 25, 2024 Occupying a small portion of Johnson Lowe Gallery, Cosmo Whyte’s The Sea Urchin Can’t Swim: Tales from the Edge of... Read more -
Gallerist Donovan Johnson Is at the Forefront of Atlanta's Thriving Art Scene
by Maxwell Rabb October 24, 2024 Donovan Johnson first set foot in Atlanta’s esteemed Bill Lowe Gallery at age 18. The summer before his freshman year... Read more -
Atlanta Art Fair's Lively Debut Postions the City as a rising Art Hub
by Maxwell Rabb October 4, 2024 Long a cornerstone of the music and film industries, Atlanta has often been overlooked when it comes to its place... Read more
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‘It’s a little bit of a testing period’: inaugural Atlanta Art Fair opens with buzzy VIP turnout
by Carlie Porterfield October 4, 2024 The VIP preview for Atlanta’s first major art fair was a hit, dealers and locals said. It is yet to... Read more -
Johnson Lowe announces representation of artist Judy Pfaff
August 24, 2024 Johnson Lowe is delighted to announce the representation of mixed media installation artist Judy Pfaff. Referenced by critics as a... Read more -
Connections at Johnson Lowe and Hammonds House
by Jerry Cullum August 20, 2024 Two very different exhibitions currently on view demonstrate how in visual art — to modify a no longer popular saying... Read more
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Johnson Lowe announces representation of Sergio Suárez
August 9, 2024 Johnson Lowe is pleased to announce the representation of Sergio Suárez. Sergio Suárez is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based artist whose practice... Read more -
BURNAWAY | JUDY PFAFF: A Walk in the Park at Johnson Lowe
By E.C. Flamming June 4, 2024 Judy Pfaff, an icon of installation art and queen of materiality, explores a diverse range of subjects and forms in... Read more -
ARTS ATL | Michael David reflects on friends at Johnson Lowe
By Deanna Sirlin May 23, 2024 When an artist pays homage to his influences and friends in his own work, the result can be meaningful. In... Read more
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Judy Pfaff’s absorbing artificial nature at Johnson Lowe Gallery
By Deanna Sirlin May 13, 2024 It is hard to fathom that A Walk in the Park at Johnson Lowe Gallery through June 28 is Judy... Read more -
Clever | This Artist Adds Texture to His White Walls With Heirloom Farm Tools
By Abid Haque February 6, 2024 This Artist Adds Texture to His White Walls With Heirloom Farm Tools. Navin Norling uses his grandfather’s tools as decoration and inspiration. Read more -
OUTSIDE LA: Atlanta Art Week
by Shana Nys Dambrot Nov 16, 2023 When Donovan Johnson and his new partnership cohort stepped in to renovate and relaunch the once-venerable Bill Lowe Gallery—transforming it... Read more
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Strength in Numbers in Impressive Show of Seven ATL Artists
by Felicia Feaster November 3, 2023 If you had any doubt about Atlanta artists’ ability to hold their own next to national or global talent, “In... Read more -
New York who? Spotlight on Rial Rye, Ellex Swavoni and Wihro Kim - 3 hot Atlanta based artists featured in Atlanta Art Week, 2023
by Clare Gemima October 24, 2023 After meeting so many incredible artists while visiting Atlanta, it was hard to resist broadcasting the sensibilities of several emerging... Read more -
WABE | Exhibition 'Dirty Legacy' by multimedia artist Navin Norling expresses journey through Americana
By Lois Reitzes August 16, 2023 “A distinctly American cacophony” is among the colorful descriptors introducing the Atlanta debut solo exhibition for the multimedia artist Navin... Read more
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Meer Magazine | Navin Norling: Dirty Legacy
July 24, 2023 Notorious public figures, artifacts of commercial advertising, heterogeneous fragments of cultural idioms, and proprietary nomenclatures serve as pivotal points of... Read more -
Burnaway | The Alchemists at Johnson Lowe Gallery
by Folasade Ologundudu May 4, 2023 Curated by Donovan Johnson and Seph Rodney at the new Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, The Alchemists brings together an... Read more -
Ruckus | Review: "The Alchemists" at Johnson Lowe Gallery
By Danelle Bernsten May 4, 2023 Co-curated by Donovan Johnson and Seph Rodney, the Johnson Lowe Gallery’s magnetic group exhibition of twenty-nine Atlanta-based, American, and/or international... Read more
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New York Times | Can a Global Talent Agency Make Atlanta an Art Destination?
By Tariro Mzezewa April 18, 2023 ATLANTA - On a recent weekday evening in this city's Midtown neighborhood, hundreds of people, including Stacey Abrams, the former... Read more -
Frieze | Shows to See in the US This April
From a group show of Black artists at Johnson Lowe to Ignacio Gatica’s multi-media sculptures, here are the best shows to see across the US right now April 14, 2023 ‘The Alchemists’ Johnson Lowe, Atlanta 3 March – 29 April Before we set foot in the gallery, Mark Bradford’s large-scale... Read more -
Artsy | Why Atlanta's Art Scene is Making Waves
by Ayanna Dozier April 5, 2023 The South got something to say.” André Lauren Benjamin (a.k.a. André 3000) uttered these infamous words while accepting the “Best... Read more
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Frieze Summer Issue Johnson Lowe Gallery
by Lisa Yin Zhang April 4, 2023 At Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, a group show centres how Black visual culture is transmuted into wide-ranging practices. Before I... Read more -
Frieze | 'The Alchemists' Ritualizes Black Culture
by Lisa Yin Zhang April 4, 2023 Before we set foot in the gallery, Mark Bradford’s large-scale canvas, Playing Castles (2022), greets us through a window. It... Read more -
Ebony | Sustainability Power Player: Artist Navin Norling’s reclaimed work redefines images from 'Black Americana'
By Delaina Dixon April 3, 2023 Navin Norling’s fascination with sustainable art started on his grandfather's farm. “He was a hardcore recycler at a time when... Read more
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AIR MAIL | The Alchemists
April 1, 2023 With roots in medieval mysticism and magic, alchemy is a process intended to transform a common material into something precious,... Read more -
ArtsATL | Review: “The Alchemists” at Johnson Lowe is a groundbreaking, must-see show
By Jerry Cullum March 27, 2023 The Alchemists, on display through April 29, represents a spectacular new beginning for the renamed and reconceived Johnson Lowe Gallery.... Read more -
Financial Times | The Wonder of Woodcuts
By Victoria Woodcock March 23, 2023 In Tom Hammick’s Bermondsey studio, a new woodcut print is in progress. A plywood board, inked up in broad blocks... Read more
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Ebony | "This Atlanta-based gallery is putting black artists center stage."
By Delaina Dixon March 21, 2023 Art equity has a long way to go for Black artists, but the Johnson Lowe Gallery is disrupting the statistics. The Atlanta-based, Black-owned gallery is presenting The Alchemists, an exhibition featuring works by 28 artists who are constructing new forms of expression rooted in the Black experience and ancestral legacies. Read more -
L'Officiel | Work that speaks to All: In talk with Gary Komarin
by Katerina Leroy March 17, 2023 Work that speaks to All: In talk with Gary Komarin New York-born artist Gary Komarin, the son of a Czech... Read more -
Atlanta Journal Constitution | "Art As Transformation is at the heart of an impressive group show"
By Felicia Feaster March 14, 2023 ‘The Alchemists’ at Johnson Lowe Gallery brings together Atlanta-based artists those outside the city in challenging, rewarding exhibition | Atlanta Journal Constitution | Felicia Feaster Read more
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ARTNET | ART INDUSTRY NEWS
February 6, 2023 NEED TO READ Vienna’s Spark Art Fair Cancelled – The fair that was launched in Vienna in 2021 has called... Read more -
Atlanta's Bill Lowe Gallery relaunches as Johnson Lowe Gallery with new group show, 'The Alchemists', Co-curated by Seph Rodney, PhD
Gallery Press February 1, 2023 Bill Lowe Gallery, located in Atlanta’s Miami Circle, announces a rebrand as Johnson Lowe Gallery under the new leadership of... Read more -
'The Mirror Stage' exhibition reflects human experience from broken to wholeness
City Lights Staff | WABE January 4, 2023 'The Mirror Stage', exhibition by renowned artist Michael David, was created using hundreds of pounds of broken mirror, pushing the... Read more
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In 'Wink' Exhibit, late artist Todd Murphy tips his hat to the Kentucky Derby's forgotten champions
By Kamille D. Whittaker October 14, 2022 The photos that are available of James “Jimmy” Winkfield—a thoroughbred jockey and horse trainer from Kentucky, who was the last... Read more -
11 Artists Leading the Country's Cultural Conversation Right Now
By The Editors, Gotham Magazine November 16, 2022 “I wanted to create a mark that was representative and would reflect society in the time that this physical body... Read more
