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The last (but not least!) of the four 2020 Edge Award Finalists is Jason Sweet @jasonsweetartist Jason creates sculpture, painting, drawing, performance and installation art. His practice centers around his interest in identity, physicalized in works that employ contrasting polarities relating to material, design, and subject matter. In "Boulevard Almost Finished," featured here, he addresses the complexities of the ever-expanding gentrification of Atlanta. Using welded steel..., cement, and enamel, Jason has transformed the elements of urban road construction and repair into a formally sophisticated diptych recalling pot-hole covers and double yellow road lines. Jason received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture from the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. He has exhibited internationally and is a former Assistant Professor of Art at Atlanta Metropolitan State College. He is heavily involved with the Smoke School of Art, a non-profit think tank and collective in Atlanta addressing contemporary philosophy and issues in modern art and culture @smokeschoolartcollective See more

Next up, Dianna Settles @platonicyouth ! Dianna is a Vietnamese-American artist whose work synthesizes traditional Vietnamese and classical European painting styles. Her work delicately depicts marginalized bodies-usually those of her friends and her self-in moments of communal friendship, joy, and stillness. At once hopeful, poetic, and melancholy, pieces like Infinity Doesn’t Interest Me, featured here, simultaneously celebrate these joyful moments and subtly interrogate ...the societal structures in place that are inhospitable to pleasures like leisure and slowness. Dianna earned her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014. Last year she was featured in Of Origins and Belonging at the High Museum of Art @highmuseumofart and completed a 180’ mural in Paris, France, as part of Living Walls’ international exchange program @livingwallsatl . She is currently a resident of the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program @atlantacontemporary and preparing for an upcoming group exhibition at MINT Gallery @mintatl and a solo show at Institute 193 @institute193 . In addition to her studio practice, Dianna runs Hi-Lo Press, an asset in Atlanta’s DIY ecology @hilopress See more

The next 2020 Edge Award Finalist we’d like to introduce is Michael Jones Michael, originally from Dallas, TX, is an interdisciplinary artist who creates murals, collages, mixed media sculptures, and paintings. In his Pavement Series he breaks urban cityscapes and the objects found within themtraffic cones, skyscrapers, cars and churchesinto bold, abstracted shapes and colors. In energetically arranged mixed media compositions such as Disinfected History, featured her...e, Michael captures the constant change the communities within our city are experiencing. Michael was recently awarded the MARTA Airport Station Mosaic commission @marta_artbound and his murals can be seen all over Atlanta in neighborhoods such as Chamblee, the West End, and Buckhead. AND! We are so excited for Michael’s upcoming solo exhibition here at SCHG in February 2021. Stay tuned! @letter75 See more

This week we’d like to introduce you to our 2020 Edge Award Finalists, beginning with Larkin Ford @larkinford Larkin creates paintings, drawings, sequential art, sculptures and video works that combine memory, secondhand narrative, and invented imagery. Themes such as the bodily grotesque and absurdity enliven his work. In this large-scale oil painting titled The Apostles, multiple narratives meld into a bizarre world that is partially invented and partially pulled from memory and direct observation. Larkin, originally from rural North Carolina, currently teaches at Georgia State University, where he earned his MFA @gsu_artdesign

Make an appointment for next week to view mesmerizing Nightwork, the 2020 Edge Award Exhibition by Maria Korol @mariakorol.mk. Sign up using the link in our bio or go to our website

We have plenty of appointments available this week to view Nightwork, the stunning 2020 Edge Award Exhibition by María Korol! Sign up using the link in our bio @mariakorol.mk

Come for a visit to get immersed in the nightlife of immigrant community of Buenos Aires Argentina. A world recreated by a very talented Edge Award winner María Korol. Congratulations to Maria and to the 2020 Edge Award Finalists Larkin Ford, Michael Jones, Dianna Settles and Jason Sweet, who each have amazing work in the front gallery space Make an appointment to see this incredible show in person! Link in bio. @mariakorol.mk @larkinford @letter75 @platonicyouth @jasonsw...eetartist @naugle.space . . #exhibitions #contemporaryartists #atlantaartist #artshow #artexhibition See more

Thank you to everyone who made it to the RSVP reception of Nightwork by María Korol! That was our first opening since February and it was so lovely and energizing to see you all (masks were off for photos only ) View the digital catalog and sign up for an appointment to see the show on our website, link in bio You really don’t want to miss this one! Congratulations to María and to the 2020 Edge Award Finalists Larkin Ford, Michael Jones, Dianna Settles and Jason Sweet, who each have amazing work in the front gallery space

Nightwork, the 2020 Edge Award Exhibition by María Korol, opens this Saturday! With finalists Larkin Ford, Michael Jones, Dianna Settles and Jason Sweet exhibiting in the front gallery space. The RSVP opening reception is at capacity, but you can still sign up for an appointment to view the show on our website, link in bio. On view until November 19. Congrats to all! @mariakorol.mk @larkinford @letter75 @platonicyouth @jasonsweetartist

Install underway for Nightwork by María Korol, 2020 Edge Award Recipient. There are still a few tickets left for the opening reception on October 10! RSVP using the link in our bio

Nightwork, a solo exhibition by 2020 Edge Award recipient María Korol, opens October 10! Tickets for the metered opening reception are very limited - RSVP today! Link in bio. Or make an appointment to see the show during gallery hours by visiting www.swangallery.org. Each of the finalists for the awardLarkin Ford, Michael Jones, Dianna Settles and Jason Sweetwill have work displayed in the front gallery space during Korol’s exhibition.... This exhibition is sponsored by Betty and Bob Edge.

Summer is over and the Summer Invitational is being replaced by a new & exciting upcoming show. Stay tuned! . . . #artshow #emptygallery #staytuned #upcomingshow #contemporaryartgallery