Dear Art People,
What a phenomenal opening we had for the Atlanta Printmakers Studio’s Print Biennial! We are excited to share with you the photos from the opening below.
Please come by if you are interested in seeing the exhibition or are interested in any pieces from the print show. The exhibition will run through Friday, April 5th and we will be hosting a Meet + Greet with the juror.
The exhibition features 48 artists from around the world with 67 selected hand-pulled prints.
Artfully yours,
ATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO PRINT BIENNIAL MARCH 8 - APRIL 5, 2019 | KAI LIN ART is pleased to announce our second exhibition of 2019:
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. This year’s Biennial features 48 artists from around the world and 67 selected artworks.
This year’s juror is Eun Lee. Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and has had many roles in academia and service. She was the program coordinator for the printmaking minor at SCAD in Savannah and served as the Conference Coordinator of SGC International, the largest printmaking organization in North America. Also during her tenure with SGCI, she has served as President, Vice President of External Affairs, Chair of the Nominations Committee, Chair of the Awards Committee and Student Representative. She has also served the prior SGEO organization as President and Vice President. Eun received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame and her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
APS HISTORY
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.
For the last several years I have been creatively documenting the retreating glaciers of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in Alberta, Canada, and Montana, United States. There were over 150 glaciers in the park when it was inaugurated in 1910. Today, less than 25 glaciers remain. Owing to the effects of human-induced climate change the park’s glaciers are rapidly retreating and expected to completely cease to exist by 2020.
While the ramifications of their loss are being scientifically investigated my project seeks to document the glaciers through a purely creative lens. Artwork can transcend the realms of analytics and commercialism and generate meaningful dialogues with a broad audience. It is hoped that The Last Glacier project will serve as a historical record of this momentous time of change within the park while offering unique insights into the larger issue of climate change.The Last Glacier project has entailed traveling to the park on an annual basis for the last four years. I have logged over 500 miles on and off trail hiking to the individual glaciers to sketch, watercolor and/or photograph them. This fieldwork has then served as the basis for the creation of original fine art reductive woodblock prints. Beyond its organic language, the woodcut medium is additionally apt for my needs as the carving away and reduction of a woodblock mirrors the ongoing state of the glaciers themselves.
Valerie Zimany examines complex relationships between the East and West, nature and technology, and intimate and public worlds through the lens of her American background and extended education in Japan. Borrowed and appropriated images from the histories of art, nature, and society transform surfaces, and suggest symbolic intersections between these different cultures. Distantly familiar archetypes from 1970’s electronics and design, traditional textile patterns, vintage enameled china, and manga or graffiti overlap to create seemingly improbable combinations. Narratives stretch over forms evocative of botanicals and the body, and are often colored with uneasy sensuality or aggressiveness, yet allure with voluptuous softness. Small vignettes hide in crevices as memories do in the corners of the mind. By clashing colors, forms, and imagery she forces relationships or questions the compatibility, and parallel a feeling of wandering out of place at just the right time.
We cordially invite you to our first Artist Talk of 2019:
Contemplative Artist Talk
Saturday, February 9
3:00 - 4:00 pm
feat. Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney, Todd Anderson, Valerie Zimany, and Blockhead
ENJOY THE PHOTOS + SEE YOU ON SATURDAY!
Patrick Heagney is an award winning commercial and editorial photographer who has been exhibiting his work nationally since 2001. His latest body of work combines sculpture and photography to create whimsical fairytale-like worlds out of cut paper. Each piece in this series uses the setting and characters in it to tell an allegory about love and relationships.
Join us for our ARTIST TALK on Saturday, February 9th from 3:00 - 4:00 pm
CONTEMPLATIVE will be on exhibit through Friday, March 1
Patrick Heagney
Evader
Mixed media
36”x 45”
PHE 190G
Patrick Heagney
Mixed media
36”x 45”
PHE 189G
Patrick Heagney
Fond Illusion
Mixed media
36”x 45”
PHE 192G
Patrick Heagney
Senescene
Mixed media
36”x 45”
PHE 191G
TL Patrick Heagney Machine Learning 190514050301 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24”x21” PHE 129G
TR Patrick Heagney Machine Learning 011409031101 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24”x21” PHE 130G
BL Patrick Heagney Machine Learning 04051409172105 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24”x21” PHE 131G
BR Patrick Heagney Machine Learning 11051212514 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24”x21” PHE 132G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 190514050301
Archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24” x 21” PHE 129G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 011409031101
archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24”x21” PHE 130G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 04051409172105
Archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24” x 21” PHE 131G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 11051212514
Archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24” x 21” PHE 132G
Top Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 1301180905 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 36” x 31.5” PHE 135G
Bottom Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 19030118120101 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 36” x 31.5” PHE 136G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 1301180905
Archival Pigment Print, Wood panel, Acrylic, Resin 36” x 31.5” PHE 135G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 19030118120101 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 36” x 31.5” PHE 136G
Top Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 110521251402 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 36”x31.5” PHE 133G
Bottom Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 130118090502 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 36”x31.5” PHE 134G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 04051409172105
Archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 24” x 21” PHE 131G
Patrick Heagney
Machine Learning 130118090502 archival pigment print, wood panel, acrylic, resin 36”x31.5” PHE 134G
Labor of Love Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 124G
Bunny Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 123G
Floating Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 125G
Shelter (Persephone) Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 128G
Complementary Crashes Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 127G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 143G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
9" x 12" PHE 150G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
9" x 12" PHE 150G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
9" x 12" PHE 152G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
9" x 12" PHE 152G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
9" x 12" PHE 151G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 144G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 145G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 146G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 147G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 149G
The Night is Long Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 126G
Labor of Love Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 124G
Bunny Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 123G
Floating Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 125G
Shelter (Persephone) Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 128G
Complementary Crashes Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 127G
The Night is Long Archival Pigment Print 54 x 41 inches PHE 126G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 138G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 137G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 139G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 140G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 141G
Patrick Heagney
archival pigment prints, resin, birch panel
8" x 8" PHE 142G
Long time resident artist of the gallery, Greg Noblin returns with a new series of his signature panelist works. Noblin works to incorporate layers of meaning, symbolism and texture in his artworks through a multistep process of photo collage and panel printing. The final works are a combination of surrealism, photography and landscape supported by organic and inorganic structures. The whimsical and sometimes surreal images offer a glimpse of shared human experiences of struggle, joy, successes and failures. These worlds are a place where nothing is impossible, perception is everything, and reality is what you create.
Join us for our ARTIST TALK on Saturday, February 9th from 3:00 - 4:00 pm
CONTEMPLATIVE will be on exhibit through Friday, March 1
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood panel gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 253
Greg Noblin
Across The Sea
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 240G
Greg Noblin
Height of Encumbrance
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 241G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 252G
Greg Noblin
Joy
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36” x 48”
GNO 243G
Greg Noblin
Lofty Supposition
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 244G
Greg Noblin
Midnight Serenade
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 245G
Greg Noblin
Monolith of Optimism
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 246G
Greg Noblin
Oracle of Dreams
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 247G
Greg Noblin
Persistence of Serenity
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 245G
Greg Noblin
Reach for the Stars
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 249G
Greg Noblin
Secret Garden
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 250G
Greg Noblin
Secret of Twilight
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
36”x 48”
GNO 251G
Greg Noblin
The King
Gridded photograph on wood panel with gel, pva, tape, tempera, acrylic
48”x 36”
GNO 256G
Greg Noblin
Mindfulness
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, Tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
31.5”x31.5”
GNO 239G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on wood panel with gel medium
60” x 48” GNO 207
Greg Noblin
Mixed Media on Wood Panel
32” x 32” GNO 159G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 233G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 233G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 233G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
32” x 48” GNO 235G
Greg Noblin
photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
32” x 48” GNO 235G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 234G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 234G
The Guardian
Gridded Photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36" x 48" GNO 236G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36" x 48" GNO 236G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Watercolor, Tempera, Gel Medium, Acrylic
36” x 48” GNO 223G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 223G
Greg Noblin
gridded photograph on wood panel with gel medium
30” x 30” GNO 196G
Contemplative 2019
Contemplative 2019
Contemplative 2019
Contemplative 2019
Imagine 2020
Imagine 2020
Contemplative 2019
Imagine 2020
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 231G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 231G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 60” GNO 230G
Bevy of Innocence Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium 36” x 60” GNO 230G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 60” GNO 230G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 232G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 232G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
48” x 60” GNO 227G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood panel with acrylic, tempera, tape, PVA, gel medium
48” x 60” GNO 227G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood, with PVA, tape, Tempera, Acrylic, and Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 228G
Greg Noblin
Gridded photograph on wood & acrylic, tempera, gel medium
36” x 48” GNO 228G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 222G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 222G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
36” x 60” GNO 220G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
36” x 60” GNO 217G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
36” x 48” GNO 221G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
32” x 48” GNO 219G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
32” x 48” GNO 225G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
60” x 48” GNO 224G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
48” x 36” GNO 213G
Greg Noblin
Mixed Media on Wood Panel
32 X 32” GNO 157G
Greg Noblin
Mixed Media on Wood Panel
32” X 32” GNO 155G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with Tape, PVA, Tempera, Gel Medium
32” x 48” GNO 219G
Greg Noblin
Mixed Media on Wood Panel
32” X 32” GNO 161G
Greg Noblin (collab. BLOCKHEAD)
gridded photograph on panel with gel medium
37” x 49” GNO 210G
Greg Noblin
gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with PVA, Tape, Acrylic, Tempura, Watercolor, UV resistant Gel
30” x 48” GNO 181G
Greg Noblin
gridded photograph on panel with gel medium
37” x 49” GNO 209G
Greg Noblin
Gridded Photograph on Wood Panel with PVA, Tape, Acrylic, Tempura, Watercolor, UV resistant Gel
13” x 19” GNO 175G
Greg Noblin
gridded photograph on wood panel with gel medium
32” x 32” GNO 154G
Dear Collectors and Patrons,
We are excited to share with you our first exhibition for 2019 :: CONTEMPLATIVE featuring all new artworks from Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney, Todd Anderson, Valerie Zimany, and Blockhead.
We hope you’ll come by the gallery to see our exhibit which will be on display through March 1st, 2019. If you have an interest in any of the art from the show, please reach out and connect.
CONTEMPLATIVE JANUARY 11 - MARCH 1, 2019 | KAI LIN ART is pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2019: CONTEMPLATIVE (January 11th - March 1, 2019) featuring the artwork of artists: Greg Noblin, Todd Anderson, Patrick Heagney, Valerie Zimany and Blockhead (Chris Skeene). CONTEMPLATIVE features an intriguing collection of image-based artworks and sculptures that entice viewers for quiet and peaceful moments of reflection.
Long time resident artist of the gallery, Greg Noblin returns with a new series of his signature panelist works. Noblin works to incorporate layers of meaning, symbolism and texture in his artworks through a multistep process of photo collage and panel printing. The final works are a combination of surrealism, photography and landscape supported by organic and inorganic structures. The whimsical and sometimes surreal images offer a glimpse of shared human experiences of struggle, joy, successes and failures. These worlds are a place where nothing is impossible, perception is everything, and reality is what you create.
Master printmaker Todd Anderson’s practice involves long-term, team-based projects that investigate ecological changes to wilderness areas caused by global warming. Anderson, who traditionally works in the ancient practice of woodblock printing, has developed a new experimental photogravure process for the works of CONTEMPLATIVE. Anderson is committed to preserving the romantic beauty of the natural world and at the same time drawing attention to the dire and uncertain futures of these landscapes and ecologies. Anderson returns to the gallery with a new series of work featuring the stunning beauty of America’s trees and the devastating impact of the mountain pine beetle.
Patrick Heagney is an award winning commercial and editorial photographer who has been exhibiting his work nationally since 2001. His latest body of work combines sculpture and photography to create whimsical fairytale-like worlds out of cut paper. Each piece in this series uses the setting and characters in it to tell a parable about love and relationships.
Valerie Zimany examines complex relationships between the East and West, nature and technology, and intimate and public worlds through the lens of her American background and extended education in Japan. Borrowed and appropriated images from the histories of art, nature, and society transform surfaces, and suggest symbolic intersections between these different cultures. Distantly familiar archetypes from 1970’s electronics and design, traditional textile patterns, vintage enameled china, and manga or graffiti overlap to create seemingly improbable combinations. Narratives stretch over forms evocative of botanicals and the body, and are often colored with uneasy sensuality or aggressiveness, yet allure with voluptuous softness. Small vignettes hide in crevices as memories do in the corners of the mind. By clashing colors, forms, and imagery she forces relationships or questions the compatibility, and parallel a feeling of wandering out of place at just the right time.
Blockhead is a pseudonym invented by Chris Skeene in 2011 as a way to explore the thriving free art scene in Atlanta. Inspired by his collection of Pez dispensers and blind box art toys (such as figures by be@rbrick or Kidrobot), Chris uses blockheads to bring variety to the repetition of a singular form. Though much of the inspiration for his work are from machine-made items, blockheads are each hand-carved and painted, thereby highlighting the individuality and uniqueness of each piece. Chris also extends the unique nature of the figures by inviting collaborators to bring their own styles to the blank canvas of a carved blockhead.
CONTEMPLATIVE will be on exhibit through Friday, March 1st, 2019.
Hello artists & art lovers,
We want to thank everyone for an incredible 2018 at Kai Lin Art! We have had some amazing shows and awesome support this year and couldn’t have done it without your patronage.
Our current exhibition, RADIATE, is the culmination of the past 10 years of our gallery and will be on display through Saturday, January 5th, 2019. If you haven’t had the opportunity to see the work, we will be having some extended hours:
This will be a great chance to see the show and meet the artists at the gallery and maybe get the perfect gift for that special someone.
Catch up with us over some seasonal drinks for our last event of 2018!
We will be open for regular gallery hours Wednesdays - Fridays from 12-6pm and Saturdays from 12-5pm. The gallery will be closed the week of December 26, 2018 - January 1st, 2019.
Hello and Happy Holidays!
We are excited to share with you the photo gallery from our 10 Year Anniversary exhibition RADIATE. The show will be on exhibit through Saturday, January 5th, 2019.
We hope you’ll come by the gallery to visit us through the holidays. We will be open for regular gallery hours Wednesdays - Fridays from 12-6pm and Saturdays from 12-5pm. The gallery will be closed the week of December 26, 2018 - January 1st, 2019.
Please let us know if you might have an interest in any of the artwork from our exhibition and we look forward to seeing you at the gallery!
Happy Holidays!
We are excited to share with you The Art of RADIATE :: a 10 year anniversary exhibition! The exhibit is a group exhibition featuring 60 of our artists who have exhibited with us in the last decade.
We hope to see you by the gallery during the holidays and please touch base with us if you might have an interest in any of the pieces from our exhibit.
Dear Friends,
I’m excited to share with you this column The Woodruff Arts Center requested for their Saporta Report:
Why An Art Gallery Is Never Just About What’s On Its Walls
Also, we hope you’ll join us this coming Friday, November 16th, 2018 from 7-10pm for the launch of:
We are so grateful for your support and dedication to the arts over this last decade. Thank you to all the patrons, collectors, artists, curators, museums, corporations, consultants, and creatives that have come through our gallery doors. It is because of your support that we can continue on our trajectory to keeping art alive in Atlanta.
10 years. 500 artists. 97 exhibitions. 27 states. 7,900 cups of coffee, and countless art-filled friendships, I’m so enthused to celebrate a major milestone this year with our Kai Lin Art family.
For 10 years, Kai Lin Art has been a gallery that embodies our mission to cultivating creativity, connection, and conversation through art. We are dedicated to promoting emerging and established artists in the Southeast and beyond. We do this through a uniquely accelerated exhibition calendar with new exhibits every six to eight weeks.
If you had asked me back in 2008 where we’d be ten years from now, I might not have imagined the Kai Lin Art that it is today, with our expansive network of major institutions, museums, corporations, consultants, private collectors, and artists.
The only thing that remains constant is change, and because I consider myself a student and mentor of life, below are eight lessons I’ve learned during the last decade of building our community:
Apply art as an equalizer: The hierarchical perception that art is something unattainable and needs a thesis to be understood is a misconception that should be diffused. Art is all around us, for all of us to share and to be celebrated. If you have a wall, you need art.
Make creating a way of life: Everyone is creative, and we are all here to create. Everyday, we get the opportunity to create what we want to build in our lives so that we can feel a sense of connection, joy, and improvement.
Find your tribe, build your tribe, expand your tribe: In our hyper-connected world we often don’t stop to realize that we are all a part of a larger ecosphere. We are spokes of a wheel and our lives influence all those in our sphere.
Connect: Every connection, small or large, leads to more connections. Oftentimes we tend to discount the trivial conversations we have on a daily basis. Every encounter is an opportunity to build a more expansive network. Be mindful of how you choose to interact.
Value relationships: The purpose of a gallery is so much more than just a space to collect art. We are continually building relationships and championing artists, nourishing one another so that creativity can flourish. Kai Lin Art is four walls containing and fostering the environment for growth. Besides exhibitions, we nurture community engagement through nonprofit events, fundraising, and celebrating life’s milestones.
Make struggle a part of your progress: It’s only through struggle that we can attain success. Through the routine of our daily practice, I’ve discovered that success is not a destination but rather made up of many small victories. We grow through obstacles, and discover opportunities through challenges.
Create the right environment: Everything communicates. For example, in preparation for every exhibit, we are collectively puzzle-solving. With anywhere between 40 to 80 pieces of art to curate during any given cycle, we set the intention to curate mindfully, so that from the moment you walk through our doors, the reception feels effortless.
Be flexible: We have found success through adapting to the changing tides of our ever-evolving world. The more we hang on to things, the more elusive they become. The more we let go, the more opportunities we have for exploration and abundance.
Building Kai Lin Art has been and continues to be one of my most rewarding experiences.
We hope to see you at our upcoming 10 year exhibition of “Radiate” featuring 75 artists on Friday, November 16th from 7-10pm and running through January 4th, 2019.
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our final exhibition of 2018, RADIATE : A 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY. Throughout the last decade, we’ve worked and exhibited over 500 artists from across the Southeast and beyond. In this retrospective, we have curated sixty artists from our stable to present artwork that best represents their aesthetic. Many of our Kai Lin Artists are creating fresh new artworks for this exhibition.
We are so grateful for your support and dedication to the arts. Thank you to all the patrons, collectors, artists, curators, museums, corporations, consultants, and creatives that have come through our gallery doors. It is because of your support that we can continue on our trajectory to keeping art alive in Atlanta.
Rigby Ink: sourceBehind the gallery name, Kai Lin Art is the owner and founder Yu-Kai Lin. Yu-Kai is a graduate of Emory University and is a long time participant in the Atlanta art scene. Some of his community partnerships include Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Emory University, and The Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2018 Yu-Kai delivered a TedTalk, Living Creatively Through Art and Music and was also honored as Emory University’s Alumni of the Year.
Rigby Ink visited Yu-Kai in his gallery in the Westside Arts District of Midtown Atlanta. There we discussed the community Yu-Kai has helped cultivate and the realities of gallery ownership. Within our first moments of meeting Yu-Kai, his dedication to his role as gallerist shines through with his words. Yu-Kai’s attention to minute detail, self-discipline and his dedication to the artists he supports are conveyed in the thoughts he shares with us.
During our conversation with Yu-Kai he reflects on his experience opening Kai Lin Art, the success he has created, and his vision of the future.
RIGBY INK- You majored in Art in Music-Piano Performance at Emory University. What attracted you to a career in the visual art community?
YU-KAI LIN- All art is similar and interchangeable in that we are creating to express connection, relationships, and our shared human experience. While I was at Emory, I took a hand full of art history courses from Modern Art to Italian Renaissance and I was intrigued by the intersection of culture as it relates to creation and aesthetics. There’s a symbiosis relationship found in art with all aspects of modern life from politics to religion, medicine to architecture. Visual arts is just one component of representing the shared social expression.
“In our brave new world of tumult and division, art is the highest form of hope”
RIGBY INK- How does your experience in music translate creatively into your role as a gallery owner?
YL- Art is therapeutic and music is an audible expression of our soulful intentions: hopes, aspirations, fears, uncertainty, dreams, etc. My music practice as a piano teacher informs all aspects of my practice of being an art gallerist. We are all in the ‘practice of’ our chosen fields and as a creative, it’s my role to push the conversation forward, bring more people into the fold, and create an ever-expanding network of artful enthusiasts. These enthusiasts can choose to take a piece of expression home in the form of a tangible piece of artwork that will transform and bring inspiration to their interior space. Art is a necessity of life and I’m grateful to be a part of the ecosphere of making art thrive in our city.
RIGBY INK- When opening Kai Lin Art, what problem were you solving for art in the Southeast?
YL- In 2008 I had worked in two other galleries throughout my early 20s and learned what to do, what not to do, and what I would do differently were I ever to open my own gallery. I wanted to create an environment of inclusion, of celebration, of connection and of kindness. A cultural convergence of creatives that needed a voice, space, and a champion to fill a void in our community.
An art gallery is a reflection of society and the more galleries we have, the greater connection we feel with each other as an individual and collectively. Our space has become a center for not only the sale of art from creators making art across the Southeast, but the gallery is also an institution for people to spark their curiosities through the lens of art. With each exhibition, we host openings, performances, talks, fundraisers, non-profit events, dinners, birthdays, weddings, etc. I’m grateful to be a catalyst for that connection.
Artist Lela Brunet
Artist Blockhead
RIGBY INK- Kai Lin Art has been open for ten years now while many other galleries have come and gone. To what do you attribute the success of the gallery?
YL- I feel that longevity is proportionate to diligence. A gallery is a place people come to shop for art. Our collectors who’ve had a great experience continue to come back, bring their friends, and keep up with the lives of our artists and what they’re creating. As a docent of art, I try to inspire others and teach people about the importance of what it is they’re seeing. We are all like pebbles in a river floating downstream. Each of our lives changes the course of the river through our actions and intentions.
RIGBY INK- Kai Lin Art hosts several exhibitions each year and in addition to private collectors, your clients include The High Museum, Coca-Cola, and Fox Broadcasting to name a few. How have you built the reputation of the gallery to establish these relationships?
YL- I’m grateful and humbled by the support of all the organizations, corporations, institutions, and individuals that we’ve worked within the last decade. With every conversation, connection, and collaboration, we are co-creating and manifesting. It starts with the art. We have artwork that is compelling, exquisite, reasonably priced, and that people want. We are here to serve the artists that make our gallery what it is and the collectors that need art to fill their walls with inspiration.
RIGBY INK- During your Ted-Talk, you shared the importance of structure and planning in the lives of creators. You said, “plan so that you can play” which really resonated with me. These days we hear the term “self-care” quite frequently, however few people associate responsibility as a means to self-care. When thinking of successful artists that you’ve worked with, what are some of the attributes or characteristics that come to mind?
YL- It’s important to plan free time into your day whether it’s doing something active like taking a walk or running to reading a book, writing or meditating. Unrestricted free time allows our imagination to create new realms of possibilities of what it is we’d like to create in our lives. What makes a successful artist is being persistent, mindful, mindless, creative, connected, networked, collaborative, thoughtful, curious, conversant, obsessive, constricted, free, adaptable, resilient, able to take criticism, an active listener, patient and kind.
RIGBY INK- Looking back over the ten years of Kai Lin Art, what are you most proud of?
YL- I have so much gratitude for my life and the opportunities and experiences thus far. It’s a beautiful world filled with wondrous, luminous, soul-inspiring creations. I’m most proud that I’ve made a positive impact in the lives of others through art. In our brave new world of tumult and division, art is the highest form of hope. Artists are always on the precipice of change and transformation. It’s through our creative lens that we can shift staid beliefs, opinions, mindsets and elevate one another to new planes of understanding, connection, and progression.
RIGBY INK- In what ways would you like to see Kai Lin Art grow?
YL- I’d like to continue our trajectory on the path we’ve built. To maintain, sustain, and flourish into the next level. We have great art/artists and a great network of collectors, museums, designers, consultants, decorators. To keep going, to keep growing, to keep learning, to keep our artists thriving, not merely surviving. I would like for us to continue to make art happen and adapt to the ever evolving, ever changing, ever expanding, endlessly abundant creative spirit that’s inside all of us.
We hope to see you at our upcoming 10 year exhibition of “Radiate” featuring 75 artists on Friday, November 16th from 7-10pm and running through January 4th, 2019.
For more on our gallery please visit us at kailinart.com or 404 408 4248 or info@kailinart.com
For more on the ART of INFINITY and inquiries into availability, connect with us at the gallery and view the exhibit by following this link.
Enjoy the photos below, our exhibition will run through November 9th!
Dear Art Aficionados,
We are excited to share The Art of INFINITY featuring 19 female artists now on exhibit at the gallery. The show features:
70DOT, HANNAH ADAIR, INKYEONG BAEK, LAUREN BETTY, CLAIRE CARSWELL, VALENTINA CUSTER O’ROARK, MAGGIE DIMMICK, GWEN GUNTER, LISA HART, ROXANE HOLLOSI, STEPHANIE HOWARD, ALLISON JAMES, CHRISTINA KWAN, ASLEE LIVINGSTON, LYN MONTAGNE, CARMEN RICE, LUCHA RODRIGUEZ, EMMA J. STARR, AND HANNAH SURACE
Please connect with us at the gallery if you are interested in any of the works from the show. We hope to see you!
We are excited to share with you our exhibition photos from our latest show INFINITY featuring 19 female artists:
70DOT, HANNAH ADAIR, INKYEONG BAEK, LAUREN BETTY, CLAIRE CARSWELL, VALENTINA CUSTER O’ROARK, MAGGIE DIMMICK, GWEN GUNTER, LISA HART, ROXANE HOLLOSI, STEPHANIE HOWARD, ALLISON JAMES, CHRISTINA KWAN, ASLEE LIVINGSTON, LYN MONTAGNE, CARMEN RICE, LUCHA RODRIGUEZ, EMMA J. STARR, AND HANNAH SURACE.
Opening on Friday, September 28
7:00 - 10:00 pm
exhibit runs through November 9th
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our exhibition: INFINITY. This exhibition is a curated group show of nineteen female artists working in a range of styles and mediums. In continuation of our core values of inclusion and equal representation, Kai Lin Art has invited several new and returning voices to the gallery in a effort to represent an often-minimized perspective within the art community and at large.
The styles and subjects of artworks in INFINITY range from playful interpretations of architecture to the abstraction of the natural world. Other works focus around explorations of the mind’s psychological tendencies and obsessions. Techniques and materials range from painting and printmaking to textile design and interdisciplinary practices.
INFINITY FEATURES THE WORK OF : 70DOT, HANNAH ADAIR, INKYEONG BAEK, LAUREN BETTY, CLAIRE CARSWELL, VALENTINA CUSTER O’ROARK, MAGGIE DIMMICK, GWEN GUNTER, LISA HART, ROXANE HOLLOSI, STEPHANIE HOWARD, ALLISON JAMES, CHRISTINA KWAN, ASLEE LIVINGSTON, LYN MONTAGNE, CARMEN RICE, LUCHA RODRIGUEZ, EMMA J. STARR, AND HANNAH SURACE.
Dear Friends,
We are excited to invite you to our Closing Reception of SUBLIME featuring Elliston Roshi, Lela Brunet, Jeremy Brown, Blockhead, and Phil Harris this coming Thursday, September 20th, 2018 from 7:00 - 9:00PM.
Also we have been nominated by CREATIVE LOAFING for the BEST GALLERY 2018! Please vote by clicking here!
Join us the following FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th for the opening of INFINITY: a group exhibition featuring 19 female artists: 70DOT, HANNAH ADAIR, INKYEONG BAEK, LAUREN BETTY, CLAIRE CARSWELL, VALENTINA CUSTER O’ROARK, MAGGIE DIMMICK, GWEN GUNTER, LISA HART, ROXANE HOLLOSI, STEPHANIE HOWARD, ALLISON JAMES, CHRISTINA KWAN, ASLEE LIVINGSTON, LYN MONTAGNE, CARMEN RICE, LUCHA RODRIGUEZ, EMMA J. STARR, AND HANNAH SURACE.