Angela Oliver

Mar 26, 2025 | ajc.com | Angela Oliver

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. With its chief characteristic being a breakaway from form, abstraction grants Black artists and Black viewers something they don’t always have in the material world — complete freedom. “It’s about the freedom to be and the freedom to interpret,” says Clarke Brown, special projects curator at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. And it’s a revelation of the abstraction of the Black experience itself.

Nov 5, 2024 | ajc.com | Angela Oliver

When art collectors Esohe and George Galbreath look around, they’re reminded that their love is kismet. And it overflows into the love they have for building and documenting an arts and collectors’ community. Their home in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill neighborhood is warmed by the works of a range of contemporary Black artists, from sculptor Kevin Cole to painter Dizzy Dain to textile artist Big Chief.

Sep 21, 2024 | ajc.com | Angela Oliver

For Dawn Williams Boyd, art imitates life. Her large-scale woven works — she calls them cloth paintings — boldly confront social ills from racism to classism to homelessness. Lately, though, her interest in science fiction literature reminds her that life often also imitates art. “Decades ago, science fiction writers wrote about the time that we’re in right now. This was their future,” says Boyd.

Jul 8, 2024 | ajc.com | Angela Oliver

August 26, 2023, was a magical night for Arielle Geller and Haden Rider. Rider is a vocal teacher and the competition team director in the City Springs Theatre Conservatory program, while Geller is a dance teacher and the competition team choreographer.

Jun 9, 2024 | ajc.com | Angela Oliver

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Repetition is a guiding principle for much of Shanequa Gay’s work that creates patterns with repeated images — such as her signature indigo toile schema. In ”Gateway to the South” at Jackson Fine Art, Gay reclaims the , once a symbol of American colonialism.