Opening Friday November 6, 2009
 Lucinda Bunnen
Bunnen’s work adorns the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia, the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and the High Museum in Atlanta. Her photography has been featured in several books and publications, including: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. She has also co-authored three books: Movers and Shakers in Georgia (1978), Scoring in Heaven, Gravestones and Cemetery Art in The American Sunbelt States (1990) and ALASKA Trails Tales and Eccentric Detours (1992).
 Helen Durant
Atlanta-born artist Helen Durant explores the unconscious mind and how it contributes to her art. Through the modes of mixed media and collage, she endeavors to not force the content and character of her work but let it emerge out of process, sacrificing control for serendipity. What results is a surprising mix of expressions, from dark and shadowy to lighthearted, and ethereal and everything in between. Having studied with the likes of Herbert Creecy and Marc Chatov, she brings a great deal of skill and intensity the endeavor.
 Babak Emanuel
I have always believed that art moves beyond the narrow confines
of language and explores indescribable dimensions that are visually
immediate and rationally inexplicable.
In response to the conceptual demands of today’s art I have,
while cognizant of art history, remained faithful to those visions
and morphologies that emotionally have defined the purpose and limitations
of Being for me. I am also aware of the fact that the viewer may construct
his or her own interpretations.
I start my work with “concrete visions” and yet I do not
work with an end in sight. The emotional language of my vision guides
me through recondite and mysterious pathways. I work at several paintings
at once and allow for multiple impulses to synchronize in a cohesive
expression. I make forms for form’s sake and I choose not to
have my works understood or to be scrutinized by adherence to a standard.
I want them to be seen for their power to awaken senses and envision
new vistas.
I also want the viewer to take these strands and create their own
personal narratives. I know that my art is interwoven with their desires
and experiences. Just as I know that my own esthetic preferences are
determined by my feelings formed in the crucible of social, historical
and cultural narratives. And yet knowing all this I am guided by the
unconscious forces that lie beyond my reasoning.
I am fascinated by the interplay of accidents and reason. My art pits
rules and order against chaos and the unexpected. Always, entropy
stands face to face with coherent arrangements and their confrontations,
though tragic, are meaningful.
I am deeply engaged with techniques and mediums. They are vehicles
of my emotional yearnings and explorations. Painting, print-making,
photography, installation and digital technology all facilitate my
desires and my quest for meaning and the purpose of Being.
 National Collage Society
The National Collage Society presents it's 25th Annual Show, a juried exhibition of collage artists from across the country, covering a range of styles and methods. Awards will be judged by Danielle Avram of The High Museum.
 Joe Remillard
“Everything I paint describes a moment in time that I cherish dearly. My works are all about specific places, people or events. The people and places I paint are dictated to me by a guiding personal philosophy. I see life as incredibly precious and fleeting, and through my art, I can freeze those brief quiet moments in their tracks. My paintings are a way of fighting time. I don't believe it's a losing battle. I don't want beauty to be transient. I don't want things to change. I don't want the people and places that I love to disappear.”
 Suzy Schultz
Initially intimidated by the prospect of life as an artist, Suzy Schultz put her childhood love of illustration and portraiture aside and became a high school math teacher. At the insistence of a friend, however, she took a job as an illustrator at Network magazine.
Her success there gave her the confidence to finally commit to the artist's life. In 1995, she left the magazine and rented her first studio. Suzy Schultz has since become a widely exhibited and collected artist.
 Ron Sherman
Ron Sherman's photography has been published in national magazines ranging from Time, Life, and Newsweek to Business Week, Forbes and Sports Illustrated. For more than 20 years he has made a specialty of capturing the essence of campus life in photo-essays on more then 130 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.His images, capturing the classic beauty of Atlanta and Georgia, have also beenpublished in three hardcover photographic books.
 Silvershotz Magazine
Silvershotz Magazine features fine art images made with film or digital, in the darkroom or via inkjet, black & white and colour, mixed media or using alternative printing processes. Silvershotz and Mason Murer present a juried exhibition of fine art photography from around the world. Those chosen will have their work showcased in an upcoming issue seen in 16 countries.
 Larry Walker
"Over the past several years my work has centered around some of the following considerations: spatial order in a variety of contextual structures; reactions to humanistic endeavors (with expressive and socio-political overtones) and an examination of spiritual/ emotional aspects of our shared environment... A decided emphasis on dark and light values to establish shape identity and structural integrity within the work has emerged, along with a continuing intrigue with juxtaposition, as a kind of ideographic signature. For the most part, my work has pursued a series format. This approach has allowed me to consider interrelationships between and within such concepts and themes as: internal/external structures; positive/negative attitudes; oppression/ freedom of mind and spirit; hard/soft, fast/slow, shapes and rhythms; life/death issues and; a multiplicity of ideas. Many of these ideas have been revisited from a number of perspectives in my continuing efforts to learn and to understand and my need to generate a visual and expressive dialogue."
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