What a phenomenal opening this past Friday for the launch of our first exhibition of 2023 : Paper Boxes, a solo exhibition featuring all new work from Kevin Palme.
We hope you’ll come by the gallery for a preview of the exhibition* which runs through March 3rd. Enjoy the works and please connect with us at the gallery at 404 408 4248 or info@kailinart.com
PAPER BOXES : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING KEVIN PALME
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our first exhibition for 2023, PAPER BOXES : a solo exhibition featuring ten new artworks from Asheville-based artist Kevin Palme.
Kevin Palme earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Wake Forest University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Palme primarily works with oil paint on canvas.
“We are surrounded by impermanence. Fleeting moments, shifting perspectives, and change all illuminate the fact that nothing in life is permanent. Daily and seasonal transitions, birth, growth and death all remind us of the inevitability of impermanence. Even the most seemingly eternal landscapes will eventually succumb to time. We are left with memories. Abstract and residual, our memories are a means by which we can honor the past and recall experiences, relationships and parts of our histories. Oddly enough, painting feels permanent. It is a means of documentation that can be quick or slow, but one that seems durable and in some ways, timeless. An image left on a painted surface is the tangible result of working with a flexible and changing medium until the arrival of an end. It is a path that allows for a memory to be made into something more concrete than an idea.”
REVERIE : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING PATRICK HEAGNEY
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce REVERIE featuring all new works by Patrick Heagney:
“Chimera…you think you remember exactly what happened. You don’t. Your memories are retellings of a story. Like a message in a game of telephone, each time you repeat the story the more it gets distorted, changed from its original form into something new. Memories are colored by emotions--what you felt when the story began, what you feel when the memory is recalled. When you retell this story, to others or to yourself, you create a new story. Over time, the facts become more altered, less accurate.
After two people experience something together, their stories begin to diverge. Years later, two similar but subtly different recollections will emerge, the differences and overlaps between them obscuring the original events.
An elaborated form of photographic multiple exposure is used to create these images. A subject is photographed against a plain background. That original photo is then loaded onto a digital projector and projected back onto the subject, creating a live double exposure and dual depictions of the subject. While this is happening, the subjects are photographed with a long exposure. The long exposure introduces the element of time, and the subjects move around during this process. The resulting photo is the final portrait.
In this way, two different interpretations of the same people are recorded at once, along with the blurring element of time. By combining two different versions of the same subject, the viewer is given contradictory and overlapping renditions of the event. As a result, they are left only with an interpretation of the story, not an accurate representation of the moment.”
CHIMERA : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING STAN CLARK
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce CHIMERA, a genre-defying selection of new work by artist Stan Clark. In this latest exhibition, Stan takes viewers on a trip through tall-tales, both familiar and strange:
“I’ve always loved borrowing from mythological themes in my art, and this show is no different. Each picture represents a composite of multiple images, as I often splice drawings or fragments of work together to arrive at a finished work of art. This process inspired me to play with the theme of ‘chimerism,’ a reference to fantastical creatures made up of disparate parts from various animals. This idea of taking things that don’t typically belong together and finding ways to make them connect became not just a narrative element but also stylistic approach. In this show, you’ll see images that blur the lines between drawing and painting, between printmaking and collage, between digital vs. analog. You can expect to see pop elements and classical motifs combined in surprising ways, with the results being more magical than the sum of its parts.”
CHIMERA : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING STAN CLARK
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce CHIMERA, a genre-defying selection of new work by artist Stan Clark. In this latest exhibition, Stan takes viewers on a trip through tall-tales, both familiar and strange:
“I’ve always loved borrowing from mythological themes in my art, and this show is no different. Each picture represents a composite of multiple images, as I often splice drawings or fragments of work together to arrive at a finished work of art. This process inspired me to play with the theme of ‘chimerism,’ a reference to fantastical creatures made up of disparate parts from various animals. This idea of taking things that don’t typically belong together and finding ways to make them connect became not just a narrative element but also stylistic approach. In this show, you’ll see images that blur the lines between drawing and painting, between printmaking and collage, between digital vs. analog. You can expect to see pop elements and classical motifs combined in surprising ways, with the results being more magical than the sum of its parts.”
Dear Friends & Art Peoples,
We are excited to share with you this photo album below from our latest exhibition opening of SERENITY featuring all new works by resident KAI LIN ARTist Greg Noblin.
Thank you to VALENTIN SIVYAKOV PHOTOGRAPHY for taking such awesome photos. If you are looking for a photographer for your event, please contact Val by visiting :: valentinsivyakovphotography.com
Our exhibition of SERENITY will be ongoing through the end of October. Please save the date for our upcoming solo show featuring all new works from Stan Clark which opens on Friday, October 21st from 7-10pm!
Keep Creating!
Yu-Kai Lin // info@kailinart.com // 404 408 4248
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce SERENITY : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING GREG NOBLIN.
Vignettes and single scene narratives. Greg tells these stories as from a single page in a whimsical and magical story book. Greg holds the belief we all have shared common experiences, joy, sadness, elation, love, heartbreak, nostalgia, and desires to break free from the constraints of daily life. As such, he uses animals as a metaphor for these shared human experiences and presents enough of a story to allow the imagination to wonder, yet intently ambiguous for the viewer to impart their own meanings. Bending the boundaries of reality versus perception, Greg creates worlds of imagination and unlimited possibilities.
These ideas are not simply implied in the images themselves. Greg places an emphasis on the physical nature of the actual work. Life is imperfect and he intentionally places or allows these imperfections to be presented on the panel. Instead of a single printed image, for example, Greg chooses to print over several sheets and hand cut the print out, recreating a whole image from smaller pieces. This is symbolic of the human condition being comprised of many parts or experiences to make the whole, or who we are as individuals. In addition there is a purposeful nostalgia aesthetic built into the physical piece to create a hand-made, vintage quality.
Dear Art People,
We are pleased to share with you the photos from our SYMBIOSIS exhibition, Cameron Bliss’ first solo exhibition @kailinart. The show has been extended now through September 30th! We hope you’ll come by the gallery for a visit.
A huge shout out to Valentin Sivyakov for the great photos. For more on Val visit his photography page here
Our next opening will be on Friday, September 16th from 7:00 - 10:00pm, a solo exhibition featuring the art of Greg Noblin.
Cheers!
Yu-Kai Lin / info@kailinart.com / 404 408 4248
Dear Art Folks,
We are pleased to present The Art of Cameron Bliss for our SYMBIOSIS exhibition @kailinart
Please enjoy the artwork and let us know if you might want to tour the exhibit!
With gratitude,
Yu-Kai Lin & Luke Hamilton
404 408 4248 info@kailinart.com
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce SYMBIOSIS : a solo exhibition featuring the art of Cameron Bliss from July 29th through September 3rd in our Grey Gallery.
Exquisitely painted figures that are contorted and ponder-some, inquisitive and reflective, Cameron Bliss studies the female figure in worldly, lavish environments. Her paintings are intricately patterned, ornamental and iconographic, representing a moment in time for each central figure in their habitat. In the tradition of painters as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Edward Hopper, Bliss layers each piece using oil on canvas to invite the viewer into her world of characters in play, in pose, in peacefully enticing gazes. Her love for patterns, wallpaper, architecture, botanicals and clothing brings forth a rich and balanced representation of colorfully alluring paintings that are both imaginative and captivating. The work embodies modernity, the yearn for a simpler time and imbues us to learn that sometimes being is more important than doing.
Symbiosis :: Fact or fiction.
Cameron’s exhibit ponders the question, can one exist without another. Can a pendulum swing if there is no opposition? What if there is no Yang to the yin?
Our FANTASTICAL exhibition will be featured in our main gallery in tandem with SYMBIOSIS.
Dear Art People,
We are so grateful for the turn out from our last exhibition opening for Larry Jens Anderson’s commemorative exhibition of artworks he created throughout his career. Our IDENTITY exhibition will be on display through May 2022, we hope you’ll come by for a visit to the gallery to see the works in person. Also a huge thank you to Hank Thomas, Larry’s partner/husband of 38 years.
Please reach out if you would like a tour or are interested in any of the works from the show.
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce IDENTITY: A Larry Jens Anderson Commemorative Exhibition from April 1st through May 6th, 2022 in our Grey Gallery.
We are pleased to present this commemorative exhibition featuring 25 artworks from Larry Jens Anderson, teacher, mentor, and friend.
From his series of All Dick no Jane, featuring elegantly rendered drawings of the classic icon Dick of Dick & Jane, which Larry recontexualizes into a representation of a gay boy in a contemporary setting, to art exploring the meaning of home and the history, shared life journeys and the love and loss that is found under one roof; from delicately deft ink and watercolor line work in Larry’s representation of himself in his piece Learning to Fall, to the whimsy, painterly and seemingly abstract colorfield strokes of thick, gestural pigments that can only be appreciated once the viewer zooms out to realize the moments of veiled painted plumes representing one of Larry’s favorite animals he would visit throughout his career, the pensively grazing cow; from the painted bouquet of wild and seemingly unkept flowers that Larry collected from his garden completed on June 12th, 2016 (the day 50 young gay people were killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL) which he used red paint to convey the loss and extreme grief that had befallen our nation and the LGBTQI community, to a collaged piece entitled The Twins, a diptych created through charcoal, thread, graphite and gold leaf meant to symbolize Larry and his twin brother Terry who had passed in the 1990s from complications with HIV.
This broad and extensive exhibition reflects the life and legacy and lessons of Larry and his ability to capture moments from all that he saw, all that he experienced: the laughter, the loss, the love, the lessons that were imparted through his hands onto the surface of the canvas.
We are so very grateful to have Hank Thomas, Larry’s husband and partner for over 38 years be with us for the opening of this exhibition:
“Welcome to everyone. I was very fortunate to have had 38+ years with Larry. He was a very unique person and I loved him very much. He took his career as a teacher and artist very seriously and felt everyone could benefit from some education of art and art history as it pertains to everyone and affects their life whether they knew it or not. He and I had numerous discussions on what was art and what was not but we always enjoyed our discussions and I always walked away changing my mind. Most of the time. He was a dedicated teacher and loved teaching and finding new talent and the energy of the students. He was always a student and was always learning too.
I hope everyone enjoys the show and I am sure his spirit will be among us. Thank you for coming.
PS We all miss you Larry.”
Hank Thomas
Our FANTASTICAL exhibition will be featured in our main gallery in tandem with IDENTITY. We hope you’ll join us for this commemorative show.
Hello from all of us at Kai Lin Art! We would like to share with you our updated shop for all your art full needs:
We are now open Thursdays - Saturdays from 12:00 - 5:00 pm and by appointment. Contact the gallery if you are interested in a private viewing!
There is a time to be creative and a time to be restful
A time to be inspired and a time to recharge
A time for action and a time for inaction
In the ephemeral, in between space of the unknown and the sublime,
there exists both a spark and a dousing of inspiration
It is within this realm that we vacillate
To not always be ahead, but allow for there a time to be behind
To not always be doing, but allow for there a time to reflect
To catch the yellow light and pause,
To wait at the red light and rest,
To be ready at the green light and go forth,
once more into the abyss that is a creative life
An exploration toward the infinite
A flow forward, gently down the stream
To catch the waves and crash once more into wakefulness
and allow our collective senses to be alerted back
to awareness and aliveness.
We are pleased to announce The Art of Wonder is now up online and on our shop! Please take a look at the show and come by for a visit next time you’re on the Westside. We are open Thursdays - Saturdays and by appointment. Happy December!
With gratitude,
Yu-Kai Lin
404 408 4248 info@kailinart.com
By Shelley Danzy, ArtsATL
Nov 22, 2021
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A look at the West Midtown art gallery, a local fixture since 2008.
“What we say is as important as what we do,” Yu-Kai Lin, owner and director of Kai Lin Art, told ArtsATL, “and hopefully they’re aligned.”
Recently awarded TripSavvy’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best Gallery in Atlanta 2021, Kai Lin Art is aligned, indeed. Lin opened his gallery doors in 2008 to create a space that was inclusive, inviting and diverse. He is as engaging as the artwork. “You shouldn’t feel like you need to read a thesis to understand what you’re seeing,” he said.
Lin used to hold eight shows each year pre-pandemic. Now, there’s a group show that continually evolves and changes depending on what’s being sold to collectors and what’s being pulled by interior design firms, art consultants, museums and major institutions. There’s some continuity with what’s being presented as a collective, a curated collection of works that complement one another.
Most of the gallery’s artists are from the Southeast, creating work that has parallels in terms of aesthetic, palette and content. One artist of note, who died earlier this year, was Larry Jens Anderson. The last piece of Anderson’s art, “Learning to Fall,” is on show at the gallery, and Lin is planning a retrospective of his work in 2022.
THE PARTICULARS: 999 Brady Ave. NW, Suite 7, Atlanta. Noon-6 p.m. Thursday and Friday; noon-5 p.m. Saturday; and by appointment. 404-408-4248, or email info@kailinart.com. Lin and his team, Luke Hamilton and Aidan Gorey, gladly welcome all. Masks are strongly suggested. Follow on Instagram and Facebook.
THE LOOK: The gallery is on the corner of 10th Street and Brady Avenue, in what was known as the meatpacking district. It’s a 3,000-square-foot space, with lots of wall space that accommodates 50 to 80 pieces of art. It’s in the midst of other places worth exploring, including Out Front Theatre Company and Miller Union restaurant.
ON VIEW SOON: “Wonder,” a small-works show that will be up for the holidays. It opens Dec. 3 and runs through Jan. 21.
COMING UP: In 2022, look for the Larry Jens Anderson retrospective as well as the Atlanta Printmakers Studio Print Biennial.
SPECIALTIES: Mainly 2D and 3D work, mixed media, or paintings on canvas next to works on wood panel or paper. Some photo-based realism, as well as photo-based illustrative work that’s elevated beyond just a photo. The work is unique, original art, reasonably priced and created in the Southeast. Most of the artists are Atlanta-based or from other parts of Georgia. “Artists have something to say. They create through their rich tapestries of experiences, histories and ancestry that brings them to this time, this place and this piece of art,” Lin said. “You can’t pin down why you feel what you feel, but that’s what makes art soul stirring and really compelling.”
MORE ABOUT LIN: Lin graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music: piano performance. But the visual arts, it turned out, are his first love. “I’m actually an educator broadening the understanding of what it means to be human,” Lin said. “We’re all a work in progress learning from each other through the eyes and ears of composers and the eyes of artists who are creating and allowing people to feel serendipity, to feel inspired and to feel the sublime in the things that they’re experiencing.”
MOST MEMORABLE: Anderson (1947-2021), represented by the gallery since its inception, passed away in August. He was one of Lin’s mentors in life with his words of wisdom, such as sometimes the decision is to not make a decision; sometimes the decision is to do it all. Lin was in Bentonville, Arkansas, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art when he received the news. “It was very poetic to be in a gorgeous museum when I found out my mentor’s gone, but I don’t feel lonely,” Lin said. “The things that we create are the things that are our legacy. [Larry’s] legacy is seen through the lines and the mistakes that became happy accidents: Treasured art on the walls of people’s homes, and in institutions and museums all over the world.”
LAST WORD: “Art is elusive, art is temporal and art is not to be contained. We’re stewards of art. Through history, time and culture, you’ll find it’s the artists who create culture. They create work that really matters to them and that’s what takes us beyond our understanding.”
Credit: ArtsATL
Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce WONDER :: a small works exhibition from December 3rd, 2021 through January 21, 2022. WONDER is an evolving group exhibition of small works just in time for the holidays and will feature the art of:
Fabian Williams, Cameron Bliss, Lela Brunet, Philip Carpenter, Steven L Anderson, Todd Anderson, Marc Boyson, Dale Clifford, Marryam Moma, Patrick Heagney, Elliston Roshi, Greg Noblin, Tracy Murrell, Joe Camoosa, Stan Clark, and Luke Hamilton.
Our FANTASTICAL exhibition will be featured in our main gallery in tandem with WONDER in our grey gallery. We hope you’ll join us for this dynamic exhibition!
We are excited to share TripSavvy awarded our gallery Best in Atlanta 2021 for their fourth annual TripSavvy Editors’ Choice Awards!
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TripSavvy (www.tripsavvy.com) announced the winners of its fourth annual TripSavvy Editors' Choice Awards, which honor the best of the best in the travel industry. After undergoing rigorous review by TripSavvy's data engineers, potential winners were evaluated by TripSavvy's award-winning writers and editors. Returning from last year's special edition awards, which honored pandemic heroes, this year's "Industry Leaders" category spotlights those businesses and innovations promising a bright future for travel.
More than 60,000 businesses across the world were reviewed for the 2021 awards, with fewer than two percent passing TripSavvy's writers' and editors' rigorous testing and standards. The expert-curated winners were chosen for their exceptional service and customer experience. This year's honorees range from iconic institutions like Adare Manor and Royal Horseguards to natural marvels like Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest. In particular, the Industry Leaders category calls out the best of the best, championing the businesses creating the best experiences for their guests and those sparking positive change in the industry and beyond. Some of this year's notable Industry Leaders include Viking Cruises, Send Chinatown Love, and the advent of the digital nomad visa.
"We're excited that the TripSavvy Editors' Choice Awards are back to name the top expert-recommended travel destinations around the world this year," said Molly Fergus, General Manager of TripSavvy. "It's more important than ever to help our millions of readers and consumers travel with confidence, and these winners, whether local staples or household names, are reminders of all the joy and inspiration found in travel."
TripSavvy takes a two-step approach to determine its Editors' Choice Awards winners. First, its award-winning data team uses machine-learning technology to pinpoint outstanding businesses, analyzing both TripSavvy's audience insights and reviews across the Internet. The team matches those findings against TripSavvy's expert-written content to identify those that outrank competitors in quality, considering factors like customer service, value, and category fit. Finally, TripSavvy's seasoned editors and writers scour the results, selecting the most exceptional, noteworthy, and trustworthy businesses and destinations for the final accolades.
We are pleased to announce The Art of Fantastical is now up online and on our shop! Please take a look at the show and come by for a visit next time you’re on the Westside. We are open Thursdays - Saturdays and by appointment. Happy Fall!
With gratitude,
Yu-Kai Lin
404 408 4248 info@kailinart.com
Wow what a phenomenal opening for FANTASTICAL! Thank you to everyone who came to the show. We are so very grateful for your support and friendship.
Please enjoy the photos of the opening. The show will run through November 12th and we are open Thursdays-Saturdays in the afternoon and by appointment. See you by the gallery!
FANTASTICAL exhibiting from September 10 - November 12, 2021. FANTASTICAL is a group exhibition featuring the following artists:
Steven L Anderson, Spencer Herr, Tracy Murrell, Marryam Moma, Todd Anderson, Jeremy Brown, Lela Brunet, Kevin Palme, Stan Clark, Greg Noblin, Larry Jens Anderson, Elliston Roshi, Jason Kofke, Patrick Heagney, Joe Camoosa, Alice Collins, Chloe Alexander, Johnny Warren, Chad Hayward, Cameron Bliss, Luke Hamilton, Marc Boyson, Sophia Sabsowitz and Lisa Hart
