I love to see artists at work.  This week we can. They started Saturday June 4 and have the lifts for eight days but will it take that long?

I don't think they are painting Sunday the 5th so maybe Monday.



Joe Dreher @joekingatl and Fahumu Pecou @fahamupecou and Fabian Williams @occassionalsuperstar
and assistants are painting #enroute big and live this week on the King Memorial MARTA Station. Go watch. Map below.
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A routine high altitude tape pass became a reenactment.

"WonderRoot partners with MARTA, Fulton County Arts & Culture, and The TransFormation Alliance...to launch En Route, a program designed to install public art in select MARTA transit stations...a community-based public art project...

"Fahamu Pecou will create four murals throughout the rail system; the first installation will be at the King Memorial MARTA Station, followed by Oakland City MARTA Station, Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA Station, and a station to be named on a later date." - Wonderroot

Fabian Williams @occassionalsuperstar and Fahumu Pecou @fahamupecou


Joe Dreher @joekingatl suited up.


They work high.


They do lunch.




They chat with fans, come watch, come often.

Easy parking on William Holmes Borders Senior Drive across from King Station.


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I wish city planner presentations were more like Dapper Bruce's.

When I get a triple urban design epiphany, I figure I'm the last to know.

1. On May 20 I saw "The Dapper Comes to the Walkers" in which New Orleans folk artist Dapper Bruce LaFitte presents lovable street scenes. It's at the Atlanta Contemporary through August 7. Go see.

I'm thinking: I wish city planner presentations were more like Dapper Bruce's.

2. On May 23. Atlanta opened its City Design Studio as a popup in Ponce City Market. This is a good thing, keep your eye out for a party.

I'm thinking: I wish city planner presentations were more like Dapper Bruce's.

3. One Saturday May 27 I met Brian Stromquist, an architect at San Francisco office of Ginsler. Brian said architects were trying to incorporate "anticipation and memory" which is what happens in art and poetry.

I'm thinking: Maybe the artists and the city planners could get together once in a while?

Here's how Dapper Bruce does lovable places:


New Orleans artist Dapper Bruce LaFitte is my new favorite renderer of street life.

This is how architecture and city planning professionals do lovable places.



How Dapper Bruce does it



How model builders do it.




How Dapper Bruce does it.



What they teach in architecture school.



Thanks:


Dapper Bruce LaFitte


Thanks to Gensler architect Brian Stromquist who goofed with me for Instagram and put "anticipation and memory into my head."



2016-05-23 Opening day for Atlanta City Studio popup with Kevin Bacon, Tim Keane, Ryan Gravel, Jodi Mansbach, and Vanessa Lira. This is important: they are making Atlanta more fun. Drop in on the 2nd floor of  Ponce City Market.

Do the Nexus Press alums ever mix it up with the zinesters?

I was thinking: Why wasn't the Atlanta Zine Fest at The Contemporary? Underground printing has come a long way but it's got deep roots.


Here is Taylor Moon's zine, Lost in Time and Space, with her self portrait from the new "Murmur Media" space on Broad Street in South Downtown.


Underground printing at maximum quality required expensive equipment and materials with maximum craftsmanship. These artistic avenues remain open while technology has reduced some of the costs. Picture from the superb "Endless Road: A Look at Nexus Press" show at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

The Atlanta Zine Fest would have been perfect amidst the Nexus Prsss show. But our young, fearless, risk oblivious, poor arty crowd looks elsewhere.

"They" are building an arts district from the bottom up in downtown Atlanta, it's even on MARTA. It's edgy, it's risky, it has a big-city feel. It's the perfect place for the Atlanta Zine Fest.


Downstairs at Mammal Gallery.

Thanks to the Goat Farm folks.

CLOSING: "House Portraits - House Painters - Vernacular Cracker" at VintageATL. Please come.
Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm
VintageATL 517 Flat Shoals Ave, Atlanta, Georgia 30316



We have a new pieces by William Mize and Joe Dreher (JoeKingATL).

We have three of Heather McPherson house portraits on loan. Here are re-post that shows some the rest.

Heather's House Portraits of Cabbagetown from ArchtectureTourist.com January 19, 2012

You should consider commissioning Heather to do a house you love.

Full disclosure #1: Heather McPherson is Sam's daughter. Sam McPherson is my friend, my daughter's too. Katherine and I are especially devoted to Sam as only music students can be devoted to a favorite teacher.



So of course I went to Heather's first solo show at Get This Gallery last Saturday. I've followed Heather and enjoyed her work for a couple of years. If you are an in-town architecture tourist, you've probably seen her work. She's getting somewhere.


Here's Heather, coat on her arm next to my tall son, getting a lot of attention at her opening.


Full disclosure #2: I was and I am touched by her house portraits, plywood cut to shape, drawn and painted. The houses are all in Cabbagetown.


But they are familiar to anyone from a Southern mill-town, including High Point where I grew up.

Full disclosure #3: I am impossibly sentimental. Heather's houses made me remember.


My mom preferred the clothesline even after she got a dryer.


This summer I searched for my grandfather's house in High Point. I couldn't find it. It may be gone and the neighborhood isn't so hot now.

If Heather could have painted it's portrait, maybe his great great grands could know him a bit better.


Cabbagetown is a going concern, a real community in a house museum.



Folks put their yard waste on the curb every week.



This end of the house has some stories to tell.



You can do color in Cabbagetown.



Heather shows them as they are today, modern living in a century old setting.



Not all evolution is elevating.


It's uncanny to see them this way. The real houses are shoulder to shoulder with their neighbors. Cut out and separated, these could be anywhere in the rural south.


But this is how they look. Heather's paintings ring true to me.

Full Disclosure #4: You should consider commissioning Heather to do a house you love before it's gone. Architect: This would be an extraordinary gift for your clients.

I'm flabbergasted, honored, and grateful but obviously not speechless. 

Am I the last person to be the subject of a giant mural? If you don't have yours yet, please call Joe Dreher for all your mural needs and do request William Mize as co-muralist.


At 1:30 a.m. Joe (black shirt) and William (white shirt) took a hiatus to see what it looks like in daylight.

See "The Best Darn Art Show Ever Opens April 23 in East Atlanta, Six Days To Go"and Here's the Facebook Invite.

"House Portraits - House Painters - Vernacular Cracker"

April 23 - May 23 2015 at VintageATL 517 Flat Shoals Ave. 30316 in East Atlanta
Opening reception Thursday, April 23, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Friday 11-7, Saturday 12-4

Artists:
Joe Dreher who is on Instagram: @joekingATL
Heather McPherson
William Mize who is on Instagram: @williammizeart

Curated by Terry Kearns


This was the first VintageATL mural. It's by Pill Harris aka @polygonphil shown here December 19, 2014.


Joe and assistants buffed it in the rain.


I kind-of like it white.


Joe set up the iPad, projector, ladder, and extension cord across the street. Big thanks to Listen Up Audiobooks for the window and the electricity.



The projection began at dusk.


Joe went at it with a ladder and one of those wide-body flat pencils.


Up, trace, down, ladder-move, up, repeat.


Joe dotted my eye.


Then the black paint.


That's my glasses.


Joe drew a crowd too. About midnight William Mize (white T-shirt) showed up to assist. East Atlanta came alive at midnight.


All the while Joe took pictures of spectators for his in-house installation. Come to the opening to see if you are in the show.


After a midnight snack at the Midway, Joe and William nearly finished it.


They want to see in daylight.

Come to the opening, then see at your leisure until May 23. Maybe we'll have a closing party too.



P.S.


Glad to join Sharon Dennehey and the other "bigs."

I don't mind telling you: I'm over excited about this thing. I'm curating my first art show and I want you to come. Here's the Facebook Invite.

"House Portraits - House Painters - Vernacular Cracker"

April 23 - May 23 2015 at VintageATL 517 Flat Shoals Ave. 30316 in East Atlanta
Opening reception Thursday, April 23, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Friday 11-7, Saturday 12-4
Closing reception, Thursday, May 28, 2015, 6-9pm

Artists:
Joe Dreher who is on Instagram: @joekingATL
Heather McPherson
William Mize who is on Instagram: @williammizeart

Curated by Terry Kearns


Heather McPherson with her Cabbagetown house portrait, "253 Powell."


William Mize with his life-size mirror-image mural of 627 Tennelle in Cabbagetown.


Joe Dreher with his "moneyless" photo-murals for Living Walls at the Goat Farm.


This is the place: VintageATL and we're changing the looks a little.


I'll be looking out for you.


There's more so tell your friends.


Vivian Mize did the graphics.