The Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) contemporary art gallery in Athens, Georgia, United States.
William Downs is an artist. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Deanna Sirlin is an American contemporary artist best known for her large-scale installations and paintings. Sirlin's art has been shown all over the world and includes massive installations that dominate entire buildings in Venice, Italy, Atlanta, Georgia, London, England, Antalya, Turkey, New Orleans, Louisiana and Evora, Portugal.
West Midtown, also known as Westside, is a colloquial area, comprising many historical neighborhoods located in Atlanta, Georgia. Once largely industrial, West Midtown is now the location of urban lofts, art galleries, live music venues, retail and restaurants.
Amy Pleasant is an American painter living and working in Birmingham, AL.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is a contemporary art museum in Atlanta, Georgia that collects and archives contemporary works by Georgia artists.
The arts in Atlanta are well-represented, with a prominent presence in music, fine art, and theater.
Arturo Lindsay is a Panamanian-born artist and professor of art and art history at Spelman College. His scholarship specializes in ethnographic research on African spiritual and aesthetic retentions in contemporary American cultures. His Panamanian/American identity is reflected in his art, which focuses on African culture in America.
Lorenzo Scott is a contemporary American artist whose work gained prominence in the late 1980s.
Alex Brewer, also known as HENSE, is an American contemporary artist, best known for his dynamic, vivid and colorful abstract paintings and monumental wall pieces. He has been active since the 1990s. In 2002 he began accepting commissions for artwork and over the course of the last decade has established a solid reputation as a commissioned artist, having appeared in several solo and group shows.
Jiha Moon is a contemporary artist who focuses on painting, printmaking, and sculptural ceramic objects. Born in Daegu, South Korea, Moon is currently based in Tallahassee, Florida, after years of living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. She joined Florida State University's Art department faculty in the fall of 2023.
Linda Armstrong is an American artist.
Woody Cornwell (1968–2016) was an American abstract painter and co-founder of Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery in Atlanta during the late 1990s. Eyedrum, in that era, was instrumental in expanding the alternative art scene in Atlanta. He received a bachelor's degree from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), graduating magna cum laude, and received a master's degree in fine arts from Georgia State University.
Radcliffe Bailey was an American contemporary visual artist noted for mixed-media, paint, and sculpture works that explore African-American history. He was based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Craig Drennen is an American artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for his ongoing long-term Timon of Athens project, for which he has produced paintings, drawings, prints, videos, performances, sculptures. His work shows technical agility across a wide range of influences that spans abstraction, representation, and conceptual practices. In a catalog essay, the curator Diana Nawi writes that Drennen's "…multifaceted, dense, and ambitious practice suggests a world of meaning defined by symbols that emerge in different media and coalesce across projects."
Angela Davis Johnson is a community-informed, interdisciplinary artist who migrates between Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Arkansas. Her work is rooted in the traditions of black people in what’s known today as the United States American South and is inspired by the collective ancestral memory of the entire African Diaspora. Davis Johnson uses archival images, acrylic and oil paint, found objects, bluing, fabric, beads, strings, hums, fragments of song and poetry, body movement, and gestures to bridge the happenings of the past, present, and future. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and has exhibited in galleries and museums, including Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center.
Nancy Floyd, born in Monticello, Minnesota in 1956, is an American photographer. Her photographic subjects mainly concern women and the female body during youth, pregnancy, and while aging. Her project She's Got a Gun comprises portraits of women and their firearms, which is linked to her Texas childhood. Floyd's work has been shown in 18 solo exhibitions and is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the High Museum of Art. Floyd is a professor emeritus of photography at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University.
Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar is a Belarusian artist and entrepreneur. She is known for her modern, abstract paintings. Her artwork has been featured in museums and galleries throughout the United States as well as national and international private and public collections. She studied business and fine art in college and she is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina.
Kevin Cole is an African-American artist and educator. He has created more than 45 public art works including a 55-foot long installation for the Atlanta International Airport, and the Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic Mural for the 1996 Olympic games.
Linda Mitchell is an American artist. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, her works have been exhibited widely, especially in the US. She is known for her mixed-media animal paintings and installations. She has two MFAs from Georgia State University in painting and sculpture. Linda combines painted and sculptural imagery, creating multimedia paintings that are intricate, surreal scenes, reflecting life’s complexity – layered with experience, memory, expectations, hopes, and dreams. Linda Mitchell's works have been exhibited since 1982.
