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Marita Gootee, Joan Myers , Lissa Rivera, Zoe Strauss, Tricia Moreau Sweeney, Tarrah Krajnak,Wilka Roig and others WOMEN TO WATCH - NMWA introduces the exciting and eclectic new exhibition, Women to Watch 2008, which focuses on 32 photographic works by 11 contemporary women. Representing a wide range of styles, methods, and themes, the exhibition introduces the viewer to artists from six states: Marita Gootee (Mississippi), Joan Myers (New Mexico), Lissa Rivera (Massachusetts), Zoe Strauss (Pennsylvania), Tricia Moreau Sweeney (Illinois), and Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig (Vermont) and four countries: Valérie Belin (France), Jin-me Yoon (Canada), Elisa Sighicelli (Great Britain), and Paulina Parra (Spain). Show runs from 3/14/2008 to 6/15/2008 Opening reception on 3/14/2008 at 10:00 a.m-5:00 p.m. Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue, N.W. , Washington, DC, 20005 For more information call 1-800-222-7270 or visit the web site www.nmwa.org

John Folsom John Folsom, Lure of the Low Country - One of the concepts regarding photography that has taken the longest to accept is that of intentional creation. The frontier between photography and the fine arts abounds with examples of the fading boundaries between them. The photographic images of John Folsom, which have been subjected to various manipulations, are an example of this fiction. The works in this exhibition have been fictionalized in the sense that wilderness has been tamed, cropped, filtered and patinated into a more idealized nition of landscape securing Folsom's sense of place. His procedure, in its meticulous treatment of classical subjects, attached himself less to breaking with the past than to tapping its heritage. Lure of the Low Country first began when a collector asked Folsom to photograph Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina. Once an elite huntin area, it is located about 23 miles north of Savannah and sits to the west of Hilton Head Islant. The lands connection to a nature conservancy set his creation in motion in the light of critical recognition. Folsom muses that upon entering Palmetto Bluff, he felt as if he was stepping into a 19th century painting. John Folsom was born in Paducah, Kentucky and earned his BA in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. He was interested in recording movement in space as well as parallel reality pervaded with artiface. Folsom's new work retreats from documentation, applies mixed media techniques and invites us on a spiritual journey down an uncharted path. Folsom has become a painters' photographer. In a most straightforward way, his lush descriptiveness and sense of preserving history has fostered the development of the genre. He is an illusionist who favors the elegance of the mind that appreciates reality. Show runs from 4/2/2008 to 5/10/2008 Opening reception on 4/2/2008 at 6:00-8:00 Location: Fay Gold Gallery, 764 Miami Circle , Atlanta, GA, 30305 For more information call 404 -233-3843 or visit the web site www.faygoldgallery.com

Demetri Papacharalampos Inner Beauty of Flowers - Mixed media and New Media presentations of unusual Botanical Specimens (Shown in parallel with the Frederick Hart Exhibition). Show runs from 4/4/2008 to 5/10/2008 Opening reception on 4/4/2008 at 7:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m. Location: Alan Avery Art Company (formerly Trinity Gallery), 315 East Paces Ferry Road , Atlanta, GA, 30305 For more information call 404-237-0370 or visit the web site www.AlanAveryArtCompany.com

Lily E. Smernou Studies in arts and sciences - Naomi Silva Gallery Presents: STUDIES IN ARTS AND SCIENCES Constructed Photography by Lily E. Smernou. The one-person exhibition showcases a new genre in photography-based fine art. Born out of large number of photographic images, some of the works took years to be completed. The series celebrates the rare, the unusual, and the fantastic. Lily Smernou contrasts photographic discoveries of specimens from diverse fields such as botany and architecture, with invented forms and dreamt mechanisms. Working in the style of magic realism, Smernou constructs images that most often incorporate architectural elements, reflecting her primary architectural background. Physical layers devised to create depth along with inherent perception principles and symbolism, distinguish her work. Smernou explains: My own wonder at the uniqueness and beauty of organic and man-made archetypes, and my fascination with the possibility of synthesizing new forms from existing matter using technological tools, are the main impetuses for the series. Every image can become a point of departure for the viewer. Specimens, mysterious samplings, and fabrications intend to engage the viewers so they may reflect on the notions of illusion and reality, truth and fiction, beauty and novelty. Lily Smernou's work is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Computer Art. Show runs from 4/18/2008 to 5/17/2008 Opening reception on 4/18/2008 at 6:00-9:00 p.m. Location: Naomi Silva Gallery, 75 Bennett Street , Atlanta , GA, 30309 For more information call 404 350-8890 or visit the web site www.naomisilvagallery.com

Ellen Jantzen and other photographers In Your Dreams - 2008 - In your Dreams is an APG showcase for creative responses to the thought that our dreams are often at the center of creative inspiration and deep personal insight. APG and their guest juror Naomi Silva looked for images that spoke without fear to the creative subconscious and revealed the mysteries that we all have hidden in our dreams. The resulting body of work on the APG wall, selected by Naomi Silva, is a diverse collection that showcases many mixed media and photographic interpretations of the inner psyche through lyrical, abstract, and even classic techniques. Show runs from 5/2/2008 to 6/20/2008 Opening reception on 5/2/2008 at 7:30 - 10:00 PM Location: Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, 75 Bennett Street, Space B-1 Tula Art Center, Atlanta, GA, 30309 For more information call 404 605 0605 or visit the web site http://www.apgphoto.org/gallery/2008/04_dreams.sht

Bruce Davidson Bruce Davidson Award-Winning Civil Rights Photographer - Jackson Fine Art is honored to present a selection of works by acclaimed Civil Rights photographer Bruce Davidson and includes pieces from Davidson's remarkable 1960s Time of Change and East 100th Street series. The exhibition at Jackson Fine Art comes just one month before the High Museum opens "Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956 - 1968," an unforgettable exhibition curated by Julian Cox. "Road to Freedom" will be the most important art-museum exhibition devoted to Civil Rights photography in more than two decades. The High summer exhibition will include work from 20 photographers, Davidson among them with 15 pieces from Time of Change featured. Davidson's much-lauded Time of Change series developed during four years he spent documenting the Civil Rights Movement in locations from Alabama to New York City. Rather than simply reifying the negative aspects of the years 1961 - 1965, Davidson's images display a sense of community and strength. Davidson reminds us that people lived lives - from heroic to simple - during those turbulent years. In the series, he examines ritual, work, home and family, challenging viewers to reinterpret historical knowledge and imaginings. Davidson's photographs take us beyond the surface of the Civil Rights story, according to Deborah Willis. "As he chronicled these moments, he was acting as both participant and observer." We are given an expanded impression of the Civil Rights Movement. Images like women in fur stoles at a formal social event or children studying in a dilapidated schoolhouse promote humanity, while others like one depicting three women in a bedroom surrounding a portrait of John F. Kennedy impart a sense of irony.Following his recording of the Civil Rights Movement, Davidson was awarded the first grant in photography from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966. He spent the next two years documenting one block in East Harlem, a series that became East 100th Street and was published in 1970. Davidson explains that while working on the series, his idea of "home" became "an old man who grows grass between broken slabs of concrete in a tenement backyard, children behind windows covered by chicken wire, walls with pictures of Christ, Kennedy, and the American flag, and a retired maid in uniform scrubbing her own linoleum floor." Rather than turning the neighborhood residents into objects or even objects of pity, Davidson shows them as humans with determination to survive and create life within tough economic and social circumstances. In Davidson's images, the subjects become agents in their own life making. Bruce Davidson's passion for photography began in Oak Park, Illinois at the age of 10. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University before being drafted into the army. While stationed in Paris, he met Magnum Photos co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson. During the late 1950s, Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for LIFE magazine and became a full member of Magnum Photos. He created important series including "The Dwarf," "Brooklyn Gang" and "Freedom Rides" before receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 to photograph the Civil Rights Movement. The following year, Davidson was honored with a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since the 1960s, he has continued to earn recognition for his work including the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography in 2004. Davidson's well-known series comprise more than 15 books including East 100th Street, Portraits and Time of Change, Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965. His work has also been exhibited in The International Center of Photography in New York, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Smithsonian Institution, The Parco Gallery in Tokyo and The New-York Historical Society and a solo exhibition at the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation in Paris, 2007. Show runs from 5/9/2008 to 7/5/2008 Opening reception on 5/9/2008 at 6:00-8:00 pm Location: Jackson Fine Art, 3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue , Atlanta, GA, 30305 For more information call or visit the web site www.jacksonfineart.com

Kathy Wolfe Kathy Wolfe: Sum of One - Kathy Wolfe is a photographer who has been exploring the boundaries of digital printing and alternative processes for the past 5 years. Her images combine single objects digitally with multiple surfaces and textures to create striking color composites. Kathy's newest works are polyptychs comprised of pigment ink prints mounted on metal. The images are cut into 16 equal squares and each are mounted on the metal. Prior to reassembly the edges of each of the 16 pieces is sanded, wax and oil pastels added for visual impact, and varnished Kathy is a 1984 graduate of The Portfolio Center in Atlanta, GA. Her twenty five year photography career includes fine art photography, commercial work, and black and white documentary weddings and portraiture. She exhibits her work in galleries and art shows around the country and has taught photography in Atlanta for the past 15 years. Show runs from 5/10/2008 to 6/18/2008 Opening reception on 5/10/2008 at 7:00-10:00 Location: The Seen Gallery, 321 W. Hill St. , Decatur, GA, 30030 For more information call 404 377-0733 or visit the web site www.theseengallery.com

Rose M. Barron "Teenage Kicks' by Rose M Barron - The Adolescence series by Atlanta artist Rose M Barron, is a photographic study of youth as complex and engaging human beings. Ms Barron says, 'This body of work focuses on gender roles, behavior, and identity. Think back to adolescence and the images in your mind of what you thought you and your friends were like, this series captures the reality of the subtleness of this beautiful experience.Youth can be a time of soul searching for identity while also being consumed with their own image. It is a time of prime physical condition and vitality juxtaposed with feelings of uncertainty about self. My work presents the complexity of young people and encourages the viewer to engage in in their complex and engaging humanity. Show runs from 5/23/2008 to 6/14/2008 Opening reception on 5/23/2008 at 7:00-10:00 Location: Sycamore Place Gallery, 120 Sycamore Place , Decatur, GA, 30030 For more information call 404 377 7747 or visit the web site