Looking at, looking through
Work by Alice Stone Collins, Codi Maddox, In Kyoung Chun, and Twiggy Boyer
On view: August 18th through September 4th
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 4th, 5-8p
Looking at, looking through features the works of artists Alice Stone Collins, Codi Maddox, In Kyoung Chun, and Twiggy Boyer. Each of these artists convey intimate spaces and their inhabitants through a variety of media, layered and collaged together. From delicately painted pieces encased protectively behind glass or defiantly carving out their own space to intricately cut fragments that overlap, these works tell us about the sometimes complicated and sometimes peaceful nature of existence in certain kinds of spaces and the history that is built there.
Meet the artists
Alice Stone Collins
Alice Stone-Collins is an artist living in Atlanta, GA where she is a faculty member at Georgia Gwinnett College. Alice’s intricate hand-painted collaged pieces ask questions of tradition and to the ties that bind. Her work highlights the tensions between the mundane, the everyday, and the apparent dead.
Alice earned her MFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee and has exhibited her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at KMAC (Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft) based out of Louisville, Kentucky and the David and Julia White Artist Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica. She was also a finalist for the Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship among other honors and awards.
Codi Maddox
I am an Atlanta native and self-taught artist from the Kirkwood neighborhood. I was raised by an artistic mother, so naturally, art was an integral part of my upbringing. Creativity was always encouraged. Though out my time in school I excelled in the arts. Today, art to me has become a way to communicate how I feel and assert my identity. With thee growth and change that Atlanta is facing come also displacement, and a sense of instability. My work engages what it means to from pre-gentrified Atlanta, our community staples and our cultural markers.
In Kyoung Chun
Born in Seoul, South Korea, In Kyoung Chun received the Emerging Artist Award 2012-2013 by the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs. Chun has participated in exhibitions including High Museum of Art of Atlanta, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Poem 88 gallery, Hathaway Contemporary, Mint Gallery, Gallery 72 of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs, Aqua Miami Art Fair, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Albany Museum of Fine Art of Georgia and 1780 Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Art of Richmond.
In the spring of 2020, Chun joined the Atlanta Contemporary Studio program and had her two-person show at Project:ARTspace in New York City. Also on Mother’s Day weekend in May, Chun installed the Flowered Two Circles in front yard of her house for dedicating to the front-line-workers at the hospital and mothers/women who were hard-working for their family and community. She recently participated in the following exhibitions; She Is Here at Atlanta Contemporary, In Search For Home at Dalton gallery of Agnes Scott College and Light Up Midtown in Columbus, Georgia. Chun did her solo show ‘Table and Cloud’ at Blue Heron Nature Preserve of Atlanta this spring. She plans to participate in the ArtFields 2021 in Lake City, South Carolina in April, 2021.
Chun’s work has been included to its permanent collection of High Museum of Art, the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs and Fulton County Public Library of Atlanta.
Twiggy Boyer
Twiggy Boyer is a mixed media collage artist currently living in South Florida. Born and raised in Paris, France, Twiggy studied painting and curatorial studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and graduated with a BFA in 2012. She has been a part of a number of group exhibitions, art publications, and has worked as an elementary art teacher for 8 years. She is now a full time working artist and stay at home mother to a little girl. Her work explores themes of memories and connections through filters of time, tradition and culture often using found photographs as collage elements, drawing and painting. In February of 2020, Twiggy co-founded Photo Trouvée Magazine-- a digital art publication that showcases contemporary artists who use found photographs as a medium in their works.