June 3 – Chris Wright Presents Morbid Anatomy

Chris Wright’s Morbid Anatomy is interactive wooden sculpture…  Lots of puppet like things. There will be show cards, popsicle stick puppets, 3 kinetic masks, one pulley system, and a system of winches. This is going to be art interaction and it will be a lot of fun!

boom! coming to Picaflor March 12

boom! is a collection of art by young artists whose work represents what it means to live in a culture created and dominated by multiple “bubble and bust” cycles. All of the work in this show has been made since the latest bust, that of the Real Estate Boom, by artists who are children of the Baby Boomers.

Prospective Artists include: Jeanie Jo (LA), Quint Stevenson(Bkyln), Joseph Karg(Atl), Lance Turner(Atl), Damien Hirst(UK), The Art Officials(Atl), Nimer Aleck(Atl), and Maria Raquel Cochez(Atl), and Cooper Holoweski(Bklyn).

Jan 29 – Sarah and Harrison Keys – Sibling Revelries – Art Opening

Sarah Keys is an artist who uses unconventional methods with conventional materials. Her medium is part painting, part embroidery, and part collage. This method is one she invented while working towards a BFA in textile design at Georgia State University. Sarah has been drawing, painting, making jewelry and crafting since childhood and gets her influences mostly from books, nature, life experiences, and anything funny, bizarre, or both.

Harrison takes his background in graffiti and a love for drawing to create an unusual look inside his world. The work ranges from minimal line portraiture to the psychedelic and surreal.
Harrison Keys at Get This! Gallery
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Purge Atlanta Presents Raw at Picaflor Studio

A Body Catch a Body

Friday May 14 – Collection Plate

Group Show June 19th – accepting submissions now

Picaflor Studio is accepting submissions for an upcoming art show (opening on June 19th) entitled “If a body catch a body…”. We’re looking for works that visually represent and explore any interpretation of the human body.

This group exhibition is intended to form a collective interpretation of our bodily experience.

Accepting both 2D and 3D works in any media. 3D works must be wall-mountable.

Submission deadline is June 2nd.

Email Kathryn Humphrey (kathryn.picaflor@gmail.com) or Joseph Lazzari (joseph.lazzari@gmail.com) with either Pdf or JPeg images of works you’d like considered.

AT MASQUERADE! Aug 13 and 14 – Strange Days -seeking artists

Picaflor is proud to be the arts sponsor for Strange Days!

The Strange Daze Music and Arts Festival is an event with a purpose. For two days this summer, The Moon and Pluto, an Atlanta-based music-centric community, will shine a light on the exemplary musical talent in the region. In an effort to focus on originality, diversity, and substance, meticulous and extensive consideration has been granted to the applicants for this year’s festival.

For more information, visit The Moon and Pluto

Dave Batterman

Eldo framed print on Black matting $150
Drew and Noelle framed print on Black matting $150	Scott framed print on Black matting $150
April framed print on Black matting $150	Randall and Andrea framed print on Black matting $150

if you are interested in purchasing one of these pieces,
please email Holly Lang

Visit www.battermanphoto.com to see more work from this artist.

Karen Shacham

Untitled White framed print $215	Untitled White framed print $215
Untitled White framed print $215	Untitled White framed print $215
Untitled White framed print $275

if you are interested in purchasing one of these pieces,
please email Holly Lang

Visit www.karenshacham.com to see more work from this artist.

Alana Goldstein

Warrior poem, age 16 20×24 archival inkjet print $150	Spectators 20×24 archival inkjet print $150
Young fighter, age 8 20×24 archival inkjet print $150	Waiting 20×24 archival inkjet print $150
Ache 20×24 archival inkjet print $150	Influence 20×24 archival inkjet print $150

Pine Portfolio Series – on sale at Picaflor Now!

The Pine Portfolio Series is an installment of shows featuring artists whose work is weaved together through certain common themes. For this first show, each artist is a skilled photographer whose eye is expressed through portraiture. While their subjects are vastly different — trapeze artists, young fighters, those at home — common threads pull each image into a larger picture. Learn more about the exhibit and the artists at www.pinepresents.com

The show will close at Picaflor Studio Friday, 26 February, at a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. That said, art will be available for sale after the show. Email holly@pinemagazine.com or call 404.512.8088 for more information.

To view the each artists gallery, click on the artist’s picture.

Alana Goldstein
Using photography as a medium, Alana Goldstein tells visually compelling stories that are emotional in manner and reflect moments in time, a trait directs her lens to issues that dominate the news and those that are easily forgotten. Her body of work entitled “Young Fighters” is a collection of images that explore the pervasive violence in American culture. For the past two years, her focus has centered on teens and adolescents, and the issues that directly affect them. This age group’s self-awareness and ultimate vulnerability has the power to expose greater societal issues.

Click here to view Alana’s photos

Karen Shacham
Through portraiture, conceptual and documentary photography, Karen Shacham examines how culture and society inform individual identity, and seeks to expose a truer sense of self-expression. In her trapeze series, Shacham documents several acrobats in Baltimore, Md., peeling back the layers of otherness that confine the performers by merging the fantastical with the ordinary. Something that we see from far away with no personal connection can become, through portraiture, a way to study and humanize what we see as extraordinary. This selection is an example of the documentary storytelling that Shacham weaves through her work.

Click here to view Karen’s photos

Dave Batterman
As a photographer and graphic designer, Dave Batterman specializes in revealing the surreal aspects of ordinary life. His work spans portraiture, music, travel and abstract subjects, often incorporating field recordings and tangible artifacts in his work. His series “At Home” examines the juxtaposition of a person’s current environments and their first memory of home. Through photographic prints and recorded interviews, the viewer is immersed simultaneously in both, breaking down the traditional dialogue between a two-dimensional print and our three-dimensional world.

Click here to view Dave’s photos

Picaflor Presents: Now See This!

Painter/Carpenter Chris Bell is one of 5 local Atlanta artists showing at Picaflor on March 6th. A SCAD graduate, Bell makes use of his technical training in truly unique and organic mediums.

Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, by David Kirby.

Book review by Justin Brooke

In the introduction to his new Little Richard biography, poet David Kirby lets us know right off what kind of book this is going to be, declaring: “If this book were a car, it’d be a hooptie — an Oldsmobile 88, say.”

Kirby proceeds to take us on a fast and bumpy (yet stylin’) ride through the mad career of The Georgia Peach himself: Richard Wayne Penniman. Along the way we’re treated to Kirby’s witty, poetical musings on pop music, the 1950s, the “Old, Weird America”, Gay Macon, and the occasional Chuck Berry zinger. In fact Kirby drives us right into the heart — I mean the birth — of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Strangely, it’s not so much the biography of a man, but the biography of a song. “Tutti Frutti” was Richard’s breakout 1955 single. It must have horrified people when it first erupted from A.M. radios. Kirby asks: how exactly did a song like that come to be?

He begins with Richard’s magical incantation: A wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a lop-bam-boom, a phrase born in the dish pit of the Macon Greyhound Station, where young Richard used it as a way to curse out his boss. We see it evolve from there into a bar song about anal sex, and then (as Kirby claims) into the world’s first Rock ’n’ Roll song.

Try as he might, Kirby is never able to nail down an interview with The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself. The closest he gets is a phone conversation with the man at the home of Willie Ruth Howard, Richard’s cousin. Here, in a hilarious exchange, Little Richard tricks Kirby into giving Willie Ruth 88 dollars.

Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll is a funny, strange, and totally fitting tribute to a long-overlooked genius. Was “Tutti Frutti” really the “first” Rock ‘n’ Roll song, as Kirby insists? Sure, I’ll buy that. And even if you disagree, I think you’ll love this book anyway. Any musician, music-lover, or lover of weirdness should hop on in.

Justin Brooke is a guitarist and one of the frontmen in the Atlanta based band Howlies

Gutterpop Art – For Sale

Picaflor welcomes Gutterpop’s Artari to our gallery. Many of his work sold on opening night but some of the original works are still for sale. Interested buyers contact justin@picaflorstudio.com or call 404.200.0475. If you see any piece that you would like as a print or to commission work by Gutterpop, contact us about that as well.

Gallery

The Picaflor gallery is an attempt to expand access to visual art in the Atlanta community. Atlanta enjoys a rich community of talented visual artists and Picaflor would like to offer our yoga and venue patrons the ability to enjoy their work. Every 6 to 8 weeks, we will have a new exhibit, either showcasing one particular artist or a group of artists who share a common thread.

Another goal of our art gallery, aside from simply offering the aesthetic, is to raise awareness about certain social issues. Whether it be local issues, such as gentrification, or more global issues, like animal rights or the state of the U.S. economy, Picaflor endeavors to do its part to raise awareness through visual media. We believe art is a powerful tool which can motivate us in many ways and we are excited about the ability to extend the work of local painters and photographers to a greater sphere of people in our city.