ArtsXchange’s ‘A Room of Her Own’ Honors 40 Years of Women Studio Artists

Credit: Courtesy of Lisa Tuttle

Credit: Courtesy of Lisa Tuttle

The 23 artists (two of the 25 guests were unable to participate) work or have worked (one famous artist, Beverly Buchanan, has died) in a variety of media that makes a summary impossible. Although the exhibition is limited to painting, photography and sculpture, it includes a photograph of Donna Pickens’ “Prima Mater,” a huge public clay sculpture created next to the AXC’s Grant Park building for the artist-organized conference in 1990. Rethinking the Sacred Image. Along with a gallery art exhibit and panel discussion at the Paul Robeson Theater, the Mother Earth Amphitheater/Sculpture hosted a dance performance in the enveloping earth arms that served as audience seating.

Credit: Courtesy of ArtsXchange

Credit: Courtesy of ArtsXchange

Beginning with founder and current executive director Alice Lovelace-Riley’s work in poetry and photography and continuing through successive generations to genre combinations such as photography, beadwork, and educational design by N ‘Dieye Gray Danavall (Sista Shaman), AXC’s multi-ethnic and multi-disciplinary protests continue. resist easy description. (Poet Theresa Davis, currently head of the literary program hosting monthly spoken word slams, has been at AXC since its inception and is represented in the exhibition by a work of visual art.)

Because it would be tedious to select further from the distinguished artists in this exhibition beyond the few illustrative examples I have given, here is a list as the names are given in the press release, with my own links to additional information for each: Lisa Alembik, Beverly Buchanan, Dana Cibulski, Jaynie Gillman Crimmins, Connie Cross, N’Dieye Gray Danavall, Theresa Davis, Elyse Defoor, Rebecca DesMarais, Mirtha Ferrer, Anna Hamer, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Alice Lovelace- Riley, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Theresa “Wise Mecca” Mingo, Charmaine Minniefield, Barbara Nesin “Batya Tamar”, Donna Pickens, Sankofa Selassie, Karley Sullivan, Chris Tholl, Lisa Tuttle, Laura Vela.

EXPOSURE

“A room of her own: female studio artists from AXC’s 40-year history”

Until June 22 at ArtsXchange’s Jack Sinclair Gallery. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Free. 2148 Newnan Street, East Point. 404-624-4211, artsxchange.org

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Jerry Cullum’s reviews and essays have appeared in Art Papers magazine, Raw Vision, Art in America, ARTnews, International Review of African American Art, and many other popular and scholarly journals. In 2020 he received the Rabkin Prize for his outstanding contribution to arts journalism.

Credit: ArtsATL

Credit: ArtsATL

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