Sliver Space, Chute Space, and the Lecture Hall all open new exhibitions. Join us on Thursday evening to see the new exhibitions, meet some of the artists and curators, have a drink at our bar, and delight in the Atlanta Contemporary community.
The new exhibitions are as follows:
Sliver Space Jamaal Barber Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Chute Space Jamie Harris
Lecture Hall Marryam Moma ICONoclasts
Attendance is free but registration is required. You can RSVP to attend the opening here! As always, parking is free at Atlanta Contemporary! Please park in the Carriage Works lot at the intersection of Bankhead Ave. and Means St.
The bar is card-only and features alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage options.
Tanzanian-Nigerian collage artist Marryam Moma intricately reconstructs repurposed archival paper and mixed media, to create vibrant narratives, delving into the complexities of the Black experience. She highlights Black bodies, their strength and joy, while challenging societal perceptions. Moma’s work is a masterful tapestry of multidimensional stories. Her collages grace international corporate collections like Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks. Her global impact extends to TV programs and prestigious magazines. Recently, one will find several of Moma’s analog collages in award-winning New Brownies Book, non-fiction, 2024. Departing from formal architecture, inspired by the mundane and extraordinary, Marryam Moma creates layered analog collages from apparently disparate elements that uplift and empower. Moma has exhibited in the US and abroad, creating works that foster understanding and inclusion.
Visual language for we, the artists, is a tool used for more than the sharing of words. It is a tool used to evoke emotion, questions, and change; to create our own worlds. Jamie Harris uses it to explore histories, foreign and yet still familiar to her African American upbringing. Layers of memory and tradition littered with rites and ritual of a peoples whose history has been diluted through generations, migrations, and captivity. These stories, watered down through the slave trade are revived through literature, art, and culture. Visual chronicles of the African American Diaspora often center solely on the figure, the political experience, or Trans-Atlantic slave trade. What She finds interesting in these events is how identity is the focal point. But who are We? Are we simply defined by our experiences and the stories of our elders or critical race theory; what is this the measure of our blackness? Selfhood is curated by roles we partake in, the rewards of lived experiences, seeing the next generation persevere, but frequently with love, hurt, and discovery. The black experience is not a monolith, nor should its visual accounts be.
As Jamie Harris finds that our experiences are intersectional and universal, some nuanced with ritual passed on through survival and resilience, she pays homage to the traces left behind. During her practice, she hopes to encounter what every aspect of what her heritage consists of, to express it through a marrying of craft and fine art through the Western lens while celebrating the bridges to her linage. Jamie’s language exists in a world culminated in assemblage and installation made of paint, clay, water, and fire.
Jamaal Barber is a creative, imaginative soul born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking, making it his primary focus.
This is more than just a yoga class—it's an exploration of rhythm, breath, and energy. As Sydney guides you through a mindful flow, while DJs shape the soundscape in real-time, creating a fully sensory, meditative environment designed to ground the body and expand the mind.
Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just beginning your practice, Flow State invites you to embrace the process—investigate, explore, and move with intention.
Bring your mat, an open mind, and get ready to vibe.
Join us for a conversation with Jiha Moon, acclaimed artist and 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, as she reflects on her exhibition Ten Moon and her evolving practice.
After relocating from Atlanta to Tallahassee, Moon’s work has shifted to embrace new environments and influences. Ten Moon features her signature blend of paintings, ceramics, and mixed-media works that draw from Korean folk traditions, American pop culture, and digital iconography. At its center is the Shrine series, where paintings and ceramic objects merge into intimate, dreamlike spaces exploring memory, identity, and transformation.
Moon will share insights into her practice, the symbolism of the moon as a marker of resilience and change, and her exploration of in-betweenness—where the familiar meets the surreal.
Her work is held in major collections including the Hirshhorn, the High Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
This event is free and open to the public.
with a Special Performance by Atlanta Korean Cultural Center (AKCC)
Free
Join us for a special curator talk with Youmi Efurd, curator of the Richardson Family Art Museum at Wofford College, as she discusses two exhibitions currently on view: Shaping Identity: Korean Print in Diaspora and Ten Moon by Jiha Moon.
Shaping Identity explores the relationship between cultural heritage, migration, and identity through the lens of printmaking. Featuring works by Tschang Yeul Kim, Kakyoung Lee, U-fan Lee, Jiha Moon, Yoonmi Nam, Nam June Paik, Jean Shin, Joo Yeon Woo, and Jayoung Yoon, the exhibition highlights how Korean and diasporic artists have used printmaking to navigate traditions, hybridity, and belonging across generations.
Ten Moon presents a new body of work by Jiha Moon that reflects her transition from Atlanta to Tallahassee and her ongoing exploration of identity, memory, and transformation. Incorporating paintings, ceramics, and mixed media, Moon blends Korean folk traditions, American pop culture, and digital imagery into a vibrant, dreamlike language of resilience and renewal.
Efurd will share insights into the curatorial vision behind these exhibitions and discuss how they together reflect themes of cultural continuity, migration, and the evolution of identity.
To close the event, the Atlanta Korean Cultural Center (AKCC) will present a Nanta performance, a high-energy percussion show that celebrates Korean culture and traditions through rhythm and movement. Founded in 2008 by HyunSuk Yang, AKCC has performed at national, state, and local festivals with a mission to build community connections through performing arts and education.
This event is free and open to the public.
