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Avisca Fine Art Gallery
507 Roswell Street
Marietta, GA 30060

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KEHINDE WILEY: THE WORLD STAGE: AFRICA, LAGOS ~ DAKAR   Kehinde Wiley, Mame Ngagne, 2007 July 16–October 26, 2008 The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar will feature of a selection of new paintings by former Studio Museum artist in residence Kehinde Wiley from his new multinational “World Stage” series. The exhibition, featuring paintings created during Wiley’s long-term travels in Nigeria and Senegal, is second in this series, for which Wiley temporarily relocates to different countries and opens satellite studios to become familiar with local culture and history (other “World Stage” sites include China, India, Poland and Turkey). Wiley, known for his stylized paintings of urban African-American male youths in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European figurative paintings, continues that process, this time with models in poses based on regional sources. The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street, New York, New York 10027 212.864.4500 fax 212.864.4800

Flow April 2–June 29, 2008 Flow is the first twenty-first century exhibition focusing on art by a new generation of international artists from Africa. These artists are uniquely conscious of, and responsive to, recent African history, global economics and the idiosyncratic culture of the new millennium. Presenting approximately seventy-five works in all media by approximately twenty emerging international artists under the age of forty, this exhibition will feature models of imaginary architecture, wall sculptures of beads and decorative elements, digital photography, new video, paintings and site specific installations, among other media. The artists, who hail from eleven African nations, reside mainly in Europe and North America and travel to and from Africa regularly. The majority of them have never been included in major U.S. museum exhibitions and are virtually unknown in this country. Modeled after Freestyle, our landmark 2001 exhibition, which was followed in 2005 by Frequency, Flow will illustrate the individuality and complexity of the visual art produced by a dynamic generation of young artists, this time with a global perspective. The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street, New York, New York 10027 212.864.4500 fax 212.864.4800

Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection    April 19 – August 31, 2008 Organized by the Norton Museum of Art, this companion exhibition to The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey showcases important works by African American artists from the 1920s through the 1990s. Featured artists include Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Thermon Statom, Bob Thompson, and others. This grouping offers a glimpse at the diversity of aesthetic expression from the African American community since the early twentieth-century. Norton Museum of Art 1451 S. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Phone: (561) 832 - 5196 Fax: (561) 659 - 4689   And related: In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey April 19 – July 20, 2008 Organized by the California African American Museum, this exhibition offers a roadmap to the journey encountered by these collectors as they embrace and acquire art and artifacts. The over 90 objects offer only a sampling of the treasures held by the Kinseys who have spent a lifetime building a significant private art and cultural collection. From slave owner’s documents, to brilliant expressions in paint and glimpses into nineteenth-century private lives, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich heritage which they have been driven to capture and sustain for future generations. Norton Museum of Art 1451 S. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Phone: (561) 832 - 5196 Fax: (561) 659 - 4689

Far from Home Through July 13, 2008 Far from Home explores the various ways that displacement is manifested in creative expression, suggesting very personal transformations alongside wider group dynamics of belonging and exclusion. Whether focused on the individual or larger community, works here stand in dialogue with the expansion of global networks as people relocate and circumscribe their experiences in new places while maintaining connections to homelands and heritage. Featured artists include Ghada Amer, José Bedia, Jane Benson, Skunder Boghossian, Tseng Kwong Chi, Achamyelah Debela, Ruud van Empel, Lalla Essaydi, Maria Elena González, Seydou Keïta, Hung Liu, Ledelle Moe, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Vik Muniz, Youssef Nabil, Brigitte NaHoN, Michel Rovner, Sebastião Salgado, Lorna Simpson, and Renée Stout. Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. Youssef Nabil, Will I ever come cgain, self portrait, Havana 2005, 2005,                                                hand-colored gelatin-silver print North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road. Raleigh, NC 27607-6494 Phone: (919) 839-6262 Box Office: (919) 715-5923

Julie Mehretu: City Sitings August 17–November 30, 2008 Julie Mehretu: City Sitings brings this internationally acclaimed artist’s work to the NCMA for the first time. In her expansive canvases, Mehretu draws on a dynamic array of popular imagery accessible to diverse audiences—maps, urban grids, graffiti, calligraphy—and configures these into an unanticipated, irresistible personal visual vocabulary. Such diverse stylistic references correlate with contemporary urban and transnational realities, including the artist’s own mixed heritage as Ethiopian-American and her itinerant life history. Mehretu’s compelling works reenvision the urban experience and rewrite narratives of exclusion, reconciling divergent histories through her expansive, dynamic compositions. Inspired by community action, historical events, and the built environment, she engages viewers in a new vision of the metropolitan landscape. Organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts in collaboration with Julie Mehretu. Support has been provided through generous grants from the Joyce Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.                                                                            Julie Mehretu, Charioteer, 2007, ink and acrylic on linen North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road. Raleigh, NC 27607-6494 Phone: (919) 839-6262 Box Office: (919) 715-5923

TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art Through May 4, 2008 The artists included in TRANSactions address universal issues and themes, offering insight into important new work being created by influential contemporary artists. TRANSactions highlights artists whose work crosses all media and disciplines, from video installation to sculpture and architectural painting to portrait photography. Significant examples from Francis Alÿs, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Enrique Chagoya, Iran do Espírito Santo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Alfredo Jaar, Gabriel Kuri, Ana Mendieta, Vik Muniz, Gabriel Orozco, Rubèn Ortiz Torres, Marcos Ramirez (ERRE) and Perry Vasquez are included in the exhibition. TRANSactions will be on view at the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, from October 6 through December 30, 2007, before arriving at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, from February 9 through May 4, 2008.   The exhibition will travel to the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where it will be on view from June 22 through September 21, 2008.

Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
June 7-October 15, 2008

This exhibition includes unforgettable images that changed a nation, increasing the momentum of the non-violent movement by raising awareness of injustice and the struggle for equality in the United States. Covering the twelve-year period between the Rosa Parks case in 1955–1956 and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Road to Freedom follows key events such as the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Birmingham hosings of 1963 and the Selma–Montgomery March of 1965.

After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
June 7-October 5, 2008

This exhibition examines the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement while exploring the continuing relevance of progressive social change. The After 1968 artists approach issues of racial identity, commodity culture and political action in response to the legacy of the year 1968, when political unrest and social upheaval dominated the landscape.

Many of the artists in After 1968, including Deborah Grant and Adam Pendleton, created new work in direct response to images in the companion exhibition, Road to Freedom, while others, such as Nadine Robinson and Otabenga Jones, present new and recent work. Deborah Grant worked specifically with photography from Road to Freedom, incorporating the images into her intense collage work. After 1968 also features the premiere of Hank Willis Thomas’ Unbranded series, the first time the series will be shown as a complete body of work. Unbranded represents advertising images from which the text has been stripped, producing a reflection on the historical formation and dissemination of stereotypes.

After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy opens concurrently with Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968, another major exhibition the High is presenting, which is devoted to photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.

Following Atlanta, both exhibitions will travel to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in November 2008, and other venues to be announced.

Martin Puryear
June 22–September 28, 2008

A native Washingtonian who has achieved international acclaim, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) has created a distinctive body of sculpture that defies categorization. Serenely quiet and poetic, his work explores natural forms and materials, especially a wide variety of woods, and it engages issues of history, culture, and identity. In the first American retrospective of the artist's work in more than 15 years, some 48 objects created between 1976 and 2007 reflect the integration of concepts of minimalism.

Schedule: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 4, 2007–January 14, 2008; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, February 24–May 18, 2008; National Gallery of Art, June 22–September 28, 2008; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 8, 2008–January 25, 2009

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Aaron Douglas: African American Modernisty
May 9-August 3, 2008

Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist presents the first nationally touring retrospective of the work of Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), one of the foremost visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition brings together more than 80 rarely seen works by the artist including paintings, prints, drawings and illustrations, in addition to works by several of his contemporaries. Douglas combined angular cubist rhythms and a seductive Art Deco dynamism with traditional African and African American imagery to develop a radically new visual vocabulary. His forceful ideas and distinctive artistic forms made a lasting impact on American modernism. Susan Earle, curator of European and American art at the Spencer Museum of Art, organized the exhibition; Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator at the museum, is the coordinating curator.

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Los Angeles

Kara Walker
Through May 11, 2008

Kara Walker won a MacArthur Award in 1997, and her art—for all its consistent comedy and fury—has seen radical formal experiment since then. Despite her epic history, this show will be the first attempt in the United States to mount a full-scale survey of her work. Arcing a loose narrative from antebellum antics to Hollywood nightmares, the exhibition—curated by Yasmil Raymond and Philippe Vergne—promises some one hundred installations, murals, videos, and works on paper made between 1993 and 2005. The catalogue brims with essays by Vergne and art historians Thomas McEvilley and Robert Storr, among others, as well as an “illustrated lexicon” of Walkeresque themes and a sixteen-page insert by the artist herself.

A New Documentary Film Looks at the Last Fifty Years in African American Art

Colored Frames is  an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of Black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present,
it is a naked and truthful look at often ignored artists and their progenies.

The film includes interviews with Avisca Fine Art artists, Francks Deceus and Ann Tanksley

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Marietta named one of 10 best communities in U.S.
The National Civic League has named the city of Marietta one of the 10 best communities in the nation as a 2006 All-AmericaCity, the oldest and most respected community recognition award in the country. Marietta beat out nearly 600 communities for the award, which recognizes exemplary grassroots community problem-solving. Only four other Georgia communities have won in the award's 57-year history. Marietta was selected for the award for successfully resolving issues through active citizen involvement, volunteer and business resources, efficient government, community vision and collaboration.