Jerry Cullum

Atlanta

Editor at Large at ArtsATL

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Review: Herbert Creecy’s paintings at Johnson Lowe - surprising, stimulating

2 months ago | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Herbert Creecy (1939-2003) remains a Georgia-based painter who has yet to be satisfactorily categorized because of the exuberant diversity of his aesthetic choices. With “Herbert Creecy: Made in Space, Paintings from 1992-2001,” at Johnson Lowe Gallery through April 19, gallery director Donovan Johnson has curated a show that gives us yet another hitherto unnoticed aspect of Creecy’s sprawling oeuvre.
Review: ‘Call and Response’ at the Carlos Museum is gorgeous, profound

Mar 20, 2025 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. “Call and Response,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through June 22, is one of the most gorgeous and profound exhibitions you are likely to see this year. Carlos Museum Director Henry Kim is correct when he calls it one of the most important shows the museum has presented. Both edgy and appealing, it gives us new ways of looking at how we approach the museum’s collections and how scholars help visitors make sense of them.
Carlos Museum’s ‘Picture Worlds’ vividly links Greek, Maya and Moche pottery

Nov 15, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum |Megan O’Neil

“Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest divisions that museums of art and archaeology confront in terms of addressing ethnically and socially diverse audiences. The exhibition addresses the ways in which three unrelated cultures approached storytelling through pictorial imagery on terra-cotta vessels.
Art reviews: Finding connections at Johnson Lowe Gallery, Hammonds House

Aug 13, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Two very different exhibitions currently on view demonstrate how in visual art — to modify a no longer popular saying — what you see is not necessarily what you get. “Invisible Forces,” at Johnson Lowe Gallery through Sept.
Gallery 100 and 3rd Rail are invisible gems for which you have to search

Jul 31, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Some art galleries present exhibitions for years in highly visible locations and yet remain little known and effectively invisible. Gallery 100 has flourished in an iconic downtown building with no signage and only modest publicity. Meanwhile, 3rd Rail Gallery is the newest iteration of the visual art component of a music and multimedia space similarly operating sans signage since 1997 in Emory Village.
Reviews: GSU and Ger-Art exhibits explore world culture and sense of place

Jun 23, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Two exhibitions currently on display in Atlanta illustrate the growing number of world cultures represented in the city. They also illustrate the difficulty of complete cross-cultural comprehension. ‘Myth Material’ at GSU’s Welch Art & Design GalleryDarya Fard and Lizzy Storm’s “Myth Material,” at Georgia State University’s Ernest G.
ArtsXchange’s ‘A Room of Her Own’ honors 40 years of women studio artists

May 28, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum |Lisa Alembik

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. For the 40th anniversary of the ArtsXchange (AXC), curator and longtime AXC studio artist Lisa Tuttle asked 25 women artists who had had studios at the Southside alternative art space to contribute historic images or new work for the exhibition “A Room of Her Own: Women Studio Artists from AXC’s 40-Year History” (through June 22).
Review: Amanda Grae Platner reveals personal enigmas at Echo Contemporary

Apr 17, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Amanda Grae Platner’s “It’s Still Not Me, It’s You,” at Echo Contemporary Art through April 20, is a body of work with uncomfortable implications about the inability of persons “to acknowledge perspectives outside of their own experiences,” as Platner’s artist’s statement puts it. This goes far beyond the incomprehension of visible behaviors in the case of Platner’s multiple sclerosis, which has invisible consequences that are easily misinterpreted.
A quartet of exhibitions featuring art whose meaning is not what it appears

Apr 3, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. In art, and in life in general, the old saying “there is more than meets the eye” really means the casual or inattentive eye, as well as the eye to which the real story remains hidden even after the eye’s possessor has taken the time to look. Both meanings are in play in four exhibitions currently on view in Atlanta galleries.
Diverse group art exhibits explore the South’s changing identities

Feb 11, 2024 | ajc.com | Jerry Cullum

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. The year has started with shows exploring the South’s many ethnic identities, its historical and environmental issues and the personal identities of the individuals who live in the region. There are also shows that allow close study of purely formalist aesthetic topics. The formalist explorations begin with a show that also illuminates personal identities, although this aspect is distinctly oblique.