Atl print biennial & OCean highway
Opening Reception
Friday, July 14, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through August 25, 2023
ATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO 6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL
+ HONOR BOWMAN HALL’S OCEAN HIGHWAY
We are pleased to announce our fifth exhibition for 2023 : The Atlanta Print Biennial + Ocean Highway.
APS BIENNIAL :: The Atlanta Print Biennial is an international juried exhibition, open to all artists working in hand-pulled printmaking processes. The exhibit is organized by Atlanta Printmakers Studio and hosted by Kai Lin Art, a contemporary art gallery located in the vibrant Westside District of Midtown Atlanta, GA.
OCEAN HIGHWAY :: Named for a segment of Route 17 as it passes through Savannah, Georgia, Ocean Highway is an homage to American two-lane highways and the nostalgic family road trip.
In coastal Georgia, the road between destination cities and towns is lined with moss-covered oaks, palm trees, marshland and at times, an ocean view dotted with atomic age signs for restaurants, motor inns, and the occasional surf shop.
Painter Honor Bowman Hall has long been inspired by the back roads. In 2009 she completed a five week cross-country loop from New York, New York to Seattle, down the Pacific Coast Highway to Los Angeles, and back to the East Coast on two-lane highways, including famed Route 66. This became the subject of an ongoing painting project to capture the spaces in between destinations.
Hotel pools, tiki bars, garages, convenience stores, and signs for family restaurants dot the landscape and populate this exhibition of life on the way from reality to vacation. The pictures evoke a world of summertime trips with stopovers in sleepy towns along the Ocean Highway.
This year’s juror is Miranda K. Metcalf. Metcalf holds a B.A. from the University of Washington in Philosophy and an M.A. from the University of Arizona in Art History, focusing on printmaking. After graduating, she became the Director of Contemporary Printmaking at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington. In 2017 she moved to Sydney, Australia, where she worked with the world-renowned Cicada Press at the University of New South Wales. After two years Down Under, she relocated to Bangkok, Thailand, to take a director position at S.A.C. Gallery. She returned to the United States in 2021 and is a freelance writer, podcaster, and director of the month-long printmaking festival Print Santa Fe. Her podcast Hello, Print Friend is the longest-running print-centric podcast, with over 200 episodes featuring artists from thirty countries. When not working, she is gazing adoringly at her two Thai street dogs, which now live with her in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Atlanta Printmakers Studio (APS) was established to support the fine art of printmaking in metro Atlanta. Founders envisioned an organization that would provide a well-equipped printmaking studio for local artists as well as raise the awareness of printmaking as an art form. In August 2005 the incorporation papers were signed and in December 2006 APS’s 501c3 non-profit status was approved – Atlanta Printmakers Studio was founded.
Local art centers, universities, and galleries made available their facilities and galleries for workshops and exhibits as APS built membership and formed the organization. During the first year APS received many generous equipment donations. However, we needed of a permanent home. After many months of looking at potential studio space APS moved into the Metropolitan Warehouse complex. The doors opened in November 2006 near downtown Atlanta, and classes began in January 2007. Over the years APS has become a vital printmaking resource for artists, collectors, college students and children.
Honor Bowman Hall (b. 1984) is an artist and educator living and working in Savannah, GA. Hall is from Roanoke, Virginia and holds a BA in Studio Art and English from the University of Mary Washington (class of 2006). After moving to New York in 2007, where she worked in the music industry and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hall relocated to Savannah and received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Following her graduate studies, she lived in Anchorage, Alaska from 2013-2017 and was the manager of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA), the only not-for-profit exhibition space in Anchorage solely dedicated to contemporary art.
In addition to her work promoting and programming experimental art and facilitating exhibitions and events at IGCA, Hall also created two large murals in Alaska, including one at the Anchorage Museum, and taught Painting and Design courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Now based in Savannah for a second time, Hall is the Dean of the School of Fine Arts, Dean of the School of Visual Communication, and Chair of Fine Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
Hall graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting in 2014. During her MFA candidacy, she was selected for a solo studio fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York, NY in conjunction with the SCAD Painting Department, and was selected to hold her thesis exhibition in conjunction with SCAD’s annual de:FINE Art event. Since her return to SCAD in 2017 as a member of the faculty, Hall continues to exhibit her work at SCAD. She has produced two murals for the university’s Savannah campus, and her artwork is featured on SCAD busses in Savannah and Atlanta.
Hall has held artist-in-residence positions in Savannah, Georgia, Richmond, Virginia and New York, New York and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Her paintings appear in several public and private collections. She is represented in New York by Contempop Gallery, in Atlanta by Kai Lin Art and online by SCAD Art Sales.
Hall is a member of the Friendship Magic Collective, an ongoing two-person art and music project for which she paints and plays cello. FMC’s most recent exhibition, Homecoming, was reviewed for Art Pulse Magazine #33.