The Fuel And Lumber Company Presents: Contemporary On-Site
works by Douglas Degges, Mariah Dekkenga, Ann Pibal, Eleanor Ray and Nancy Shaver
Opening reception May 18th, 6-8pm
Atlanta Contemporary, 535 Means Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30318
Exhibition Dates, May 2-July 16, 2017
Visit the Atlanta Contemporary website for more information,
https://atlantacontemporary.org/events/programs/contemporary-on-site
Here is what Daniel Fuller wrote about the On-Site series:
Founded in 1973 as an alternative to the more established art and culture hierarchy – Atlanta Contemporary was founded on the principles of engaging in experimentation and risk-taking through varying exhibitions, programming, and support of working artists. Our founders created an artist-run space in the truest sense of the term. Here in the South, we do not see an overabundance of art institutions dedicated to the art of our time which makes exhibitions, performances, screenings, and publications that emerge from artist-run spaces even more important, more vital to what our region has exposure to. Atlanta Contemporary wants to shine a light on some of the current crop of exceptional artist-run spaces operating in our region. Located in our former SHOP (Gallery 6), we invite these spaces for a two month take over. They will have carte blanche to exhibit, play, and experiment.
We look forward to seeing how these spaces reflect, expand, and update the ethos of our own early days.
THE PARTICIPATING ARTIST-RUN SPACES ARE:
Mild Climate (Nashville) August 27th – October 2016
Good Children (New Orleans) November - December of 2016
TOPS (Memphis) January - February of 2017
Institute 193 (Lexington) March - April of 2017
The Fuel And Lumber Company (Birmingham) May-June 2017
About The Fuel And Lumber Company On-Site Exhibition at Atlanta Contemporary:
For the On-Site exhibition at Atlanta Contemporary The Fuel And Lumber Company has assembled a cross-generational group of artists, each of whom employ an innovative approach and commitment to chromatic relationships and the architecture of the picture plane.
Douglas Degges (b. 1986) is a visual artist and educator living and working in Chattanooga, TN. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa and his BA from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. His work has recently been exhibited at The Shed Space in Brooklyn, NY, mild climate in Nashville, TN, and the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Athens, GA. He currently teaches at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville.
Mariah Dekkenga (b.1978) is an artist who lives and works in Doha Qatar and New York, NY. Recent exhibitions include; Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York; Figure 8, Clifton Benevento, New York; Mariah Dekkenga, Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York. She is a current artist in residence at The Firestation in Doha Qatar.
Ann Pibal (b.1969) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and North Bennington, Vermont, where she teaches at Bennington College. Ann Pibal’s acrylic on aluminum paintings are at once brainy and open-ended, hard-edged and intimate. Without privileging one source over another, her work alludes to the robust history of abstract painting, architecture, and graphic design, as well as landscape and the sublime. She is primarily interested in painting as a way of thinking; in all its facets, her work implies a certain shifting, non-settling, ongoing process. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues in the United States and Europe including MoMA PS1, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Feature Inc., Max Protetch Gallery, Meulensteen, Paula Cooper Gallery, ZieherSmith, Rhona Hoffman and The Suburban in Chicago, Slewe Gallery in Amsterdam, Petra Rinck Galerie in Düsseldorf, and dePury and Luxembourg in Zurich. Her work is included in many public collections including The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution. She has received awards from the Tiffany Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Eleanor Ray (b. 1987) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA from Amherst College in 2009 and her MFA from the New York Studio School in 2012. She has been a fellow at the Jentel Foundation, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the BAU Institute in Cassis. Her work has been exhibited at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; Brennan & Griffin, New York; Marc Straus, New York; The Landing, Los Angeles; and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Nancy Shaver (b. 1946) lives and works in Jefferson, New York. For over forty years, Nancy Shaver has used the vernacular mass-market object and the hand-made as the site for work, that slips between boundaries, from a recognized use in the world to another experience of thought or pleasure. Color is the vehicle for this change. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery, NY; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY. She has been in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, most recently in the 57th International Exhibition of Art at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal among others.
The Fuel And Lumber Company (Est. 2013, Birmingham, Alabama)
In our collective past, most American towns had a fuel and lumber company to provide basic goods and services. Believing art and culture to be among the needs vital to the health of any community, artists Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte founded The Fuel and Lumber Company in Birmingham, Alabama to facilitate exhibitions and related programming in the Southeast and beyond. The Fuel And Lumber Company is an idea, not a traditional brick and mortar space, dedicated to contemporary art and community engagement.
Scroll through the images below for installation views and individual works.
