CHIP SIMONE
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
10/20/2011 Atlanta-based photographer Chip Simone and the High's Curator of Photography, Brett Abbott will take an in-depth look at the work on view in the High's The Resonant Image: Photographs by Chip Simone exhibition. The exhibition features 64 of his color photographs made between 2000-2010 during explorations in and around Atlanta and other American cities. Tickets are free and available through the Woodruff Center Box Office at 404-733-5000. Limit 2 tickets per person. Tickets to the Museum are sold separately. Save your ticket stub for a special opportunity to view works in the exhibition following this program.

Tickets are free and available through the Woodruff Center Box Office at 404-733- 5000. limit 2 tickets per person. tickets to the Museum are sold separately. save your ticket stub for a special opportunity to view works in the exhibition following this program.

© Mark Steinmetz

MARK STEINMETZ
BIG STUDIO
12/09/2009 Mark Steinmetz is a street photographer in the purest sense of the word. Influenced by Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, Atget and Cartier-Bresson, it is obvious that Steinmetz knows about the "decisive moment". His strong belief in discipline and consistency mixes with his keen eye, wandering habits and an uncanny ability to know where to stand, to produce brilliant images of life in the American south.

Steinmetz is one of a rare breed of photographer today who develops his own film and prints his own black and white photographs by hand.

Steinmetz' work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and most recently the High Museum of Art. He is represented in Atlanta by Jackson Fine Art and by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York.

He is getting a lot of attention for the success of his three books published by Nasraeli Press: "South Central," "South East" and "Greater Atlanta", the latter chosen as one of Photo-Eye's top photo books of 2009.

Come be inspired by this local talent (he lives in Athens, GA) as he talks about his work, his career path and future endeavors.

© ACP & Beth Lilly

BETH LILLY
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA
10/21/2009 ACP's Public Art Project "Gifted" will engage the public and transform Atlanta through the gift of 1,200 limited-edition, fine art photographs which will be distributed for free to the public during the month of October. Beth Lilly, the project's curator and organizer will discuss the project "Gifted", and how this project is infusing Atlanta with photography in an exciting, unpredictable way that directly impacts Atlantans within the flow of their daily lives. Lilly will discuss how exchange promotes local photographers while encouraging a rich dialogue about the act of giving valuable art for free as well as an oblique commentary on the current economy.

Beth will be joined by some of Gifted's participating photographers in this discussion: Corinne Adams, David Walter Banks, William Boling, John Bohannon, Christian Bradley West, Diane Kirkland, Kathryn Kolb, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Pam Moxley, Laura Noel, Dorothy O' Connor , & Michael West.

For more information about "Gifted", please see gifted.acpinfo.org and ACP 11 Public Art.

© Suellen Parker

SUELLEN PARKER
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA
10/09/2008 Suellen Parker is an artist who uses sculpture, photography and digital manipulation to explore contemporary themes. The scenes depicted feature characters modeled out of plasteline clay. The sculptures are then photographed and reworked in the computer, along with other photographs to create the final photomontage. These characters are fighting against the contradictions that exist between their ideal self and their physical reality.

Suellen was selected as one of 50 promising emerging photographers featured in the important international traveling exhibition, reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow curated by William Ewing of Musee de l'Elysee. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Discover Magazine, the American Photography juried annual and the catalogue of reGeneration published by Aperture. Suellen's work is included in the permanent collections of Sir Elton John, Musee de l'Elysee, and Tel Aviv Museum in Israel. She is represented by Stefan Stux Gallery, New York and Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta. Suellen is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta.