if you are interested in purchasing one of these pieces,
please email Holly Lang
Visit www.battermanphoto.com to see more work from this artist.
Dave Batterman
Karen Shacham
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| Untitled White framed print $215 |
Untitled White framed print $215 |
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| Untitled White framed print $215 |
Untitled White framed print $215 |
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| Untitled White framed print $275 |
if you are interested in purchasing one of these pieces,
please email Holly Lang
Visit www.karenshacham.com to see more work from this artist.
Alana Goldstein
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| Warrior poem, age 16 20×24 archival inkjet print $150 |
Spectators 20×24 archival inkjet print $150 |
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| Young fighter, age 8 20×24 archival inkjet print $150 |
Waiting 20×24 archival inkjet print $150 |
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| Ache 20×24 archival inkjet print $150 |
Influence 20×24 archival inkjet print $150 |
Pine Portfolio Series - on sale at Picaflor Now!
The Pine Portfolio Series is an installment of shows featuring artists whose work is weaved together through certain common themes. For this first show, each artist is a skilled photographer whose eye is expressed through portraiture. While their subjects are vastly different — trapeze artists, young fighters, those at home — common threads pull each image into a larger picture. Learn more about the exhibit and the artists at www.pinepresents.com
The show will close at Picaflor Studio Friday, 26 February, at a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. That said, art will be available for sale after the show. Email holly@pinemagazine.com or call 404.512.8088 for more information.
To view the each artists gallery, click on the artist’s picture.
Alana Goldstein
Using photography as a medium, Alana Goldstein tells visually compelling stories that are emotional in manner and reflect moments in time, a trait directs her lens to issues that dominate the news and those that are easily forgotten. Her body of work entitled “Young Fighters” is a collection of images that explore the pervasive violence in American culture. For the past two years, her focus has centered on teens and adolescents, and the issues that directly affect them. This age group’s self-awareness and ultimate vulnerability has the power to expose greater societal issues.
Click here to view Alana’s photos
Karen Shacham
Through portraiture, conceptual and documentary photography, Karen Shacham examines how culture and society inform individual identity, and seeks to expose a truer sense of self-expression. In her trapeze series, Shacham documents several acrobats in Baltimore, Md., peeling back the layers of otherness that confine the performers by merging the fantastical with the ordinary. Something that we see from far away with no personal connection can become, through portraiture, a way to study and humanize what we see as extraordinary. This selection is an example of the documentary storytelling that Shacham weaves through her work.
Click here to view Karen’s photos
Dave Batterman
As a photographer and graphic designer, Dave Batterman specializes in revealing the surreal aspects of ordinary life. His work spans portraiture, music, travel and abstract subjects, often incorporating field recordings and tangible artifacts in his work. His series “At Home” examines the juxtaposition of a person’s current environments and their first memory of home. Through photographic prints and recorded interviews, the viewer is immersed simultaneously in both, breaking down the traditional dialogue between a two-dimensional print and our three-dimensional world.
Upcoming Music Shows!
March 6- Uncle Daddy & the Kissing Cousins, Company of Ghosts, Walk from the Gallows
Here is a preview of Uncle Daddy & the Kissin Cousins
March 13th- Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon
March 20th- Private Party
March 26th- Benefit Show for Mint Gallery
April 10th- Tom Cheshire’s Annual Tiki Party w The Only Sons, Los Buenos, The Great Crowd
April 23rd- Oryx and Crake, Dare Dukes
May 7th- Benefit for Autism - West End Motel and more
March 8th- Private Party
June 7th- Taylor Hollingsworth, Efren
Picaflor Presents: Now See This!
Painter/Carpenter Chris Bell is one of 5 local Atlanta artists showing at Picaflor on March 6th. A SCAD graduate, Bell makes use of his technical training in truly unique and organic mediums.
Untitled by Chris Bell
Feb 3 - Picaflor sponsors Benefit for Haiti at The Earl
Driven by a desire to help in some way, however big or small, with the current crisis in Haiti, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year, Los Buenos, and Book of Colors will perform a benefit show at the EARL February 03, with all proceeds going to the Atlanta-based CARE International and their relief efforts in Haiti.
“None of us have much money and we realized any donation we made personally would be minor and might not make much of a difference,” said Justin Sias, singer and bassist for Los Buenos and a co-organizer of the event. “We wanted to help give East Atlanta and the folks in our small scene a chance to get involved in helping those whose lives have been devastated by the massive earthquake, and all the small ones that have followed, in Haiti.”
A global humanitarian nonprofit, CARE International is dedicated to fighting issues surrounding poverty.
“CARE came to our attention because they are an amazing international group based right here in Atlanta and has been helping impoverished nations and people for years,” Sias said. “They’ve been there for Haitians since the earthquake hit, and we want to support them however we can.”
Aqiyl Thomas will DJ, and there will be an auction of arts and services at the event, including original art by the infamous Gutterpop and photography services from XXX. Pine Magazine, See Through Souls, Picaflor Studio, Containment Theory Records and the Moon and Pluto are among the many sponsors of this worthy event.
“We’re hoping that everyone can make it out and bring a friend ’cause these folks need our help,” said Believe, a member of the Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and a co-organizer of the event. “Help us make this an amazing event.”
Advance tickets are on sale now for $5, and will be $7 the day of show. Go to www.badearl.com to learn more about the show, and learn more about CARE at care.org.
What: Benefit show for Haiti relief through CARE International featuring Los Buenos, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and Book of Colors
Where: The EARL, 488 Flat Shoals Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30316
When: Wednesday, February 3, at 9:30 p.m.
How much: $5 before the show, $7 the day of the show
More details: There will be an art auction and raffle, with all proceeds going to CARE Intl. Pine Magazine, See Through Souls, Picaflor Studio, Containment Theory Records, the Moon and Pluto, Gutterpop, ISP, Dry Ink, are helping sponsor the event.
Jan 29 - Pine Magazine Presents a Photography Exhibit with Alana Goldstein, Dave Batterman, Karen Shacham - music by today the moon tomorrow the sun, club awesome, this piano plays itself,
Photographers Alana Goldstein, Karen Shacham, David Batterman and bands Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun, Club Awesome, This Piano Plays Itself
Feb 27 - Wighat, Tom Thumb, Corey Pallon, Chickens & Pigs
Wighat, Tom Thumb, Corey Pallon, Chickens & Pigs
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, by David Kirby.
Book review by Justin Brooke
Kirby's enthusiasm for Little Richard can be found in this fun biography
In the introduction to his new Little Richard biography, poet David Kirby lets us know right off what kind of book this is going to be, declaring: “If this book were a car, it’d be a hooptie — an Oldsmobile 88, say.”
Kirby proceeds to take us on a fast and bumpy (yet stylin’) ride through the mad career of The Georgia Peach himself: Richard Wayne Penniman. Along the way we’re treated to Kirby’s witty, poetical musings on pop music, the 1950s, the “Old, Weird America”, Gay Macon, and the occasional Chuck Berry zinger. In fact Kirby drives us right into the heart — I mean the birth — of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Strangely, it’s not so much the biography of a man, but the biography of a song. “Tutti Frutti” was Richard’s breakout 1955 single. It must have horrified people when it first erupted from A.M. radios. Kirby asks: how exactly did a song like that come to be?
He begins with Richard’s magical incantation: A wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a lop-bam-boom, a phrase born in the dish pit of the Macon Greyhound Station, where young Richard used it as a way to curse out his boss. We see it evolve from there into a bar song about anal sex, and then (as Kirby claims) into the world’s first Rock ’n’ Roll song.
Try as he might, Kirby is never able to nail down an interview with The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself. The closest he gets is a phone conversation with the man at the home of Willie Ruth Howard, Richard’s cousin. Here, in a hilarious exchange, Little Richard tricks Kirby into giving Willie Ruth 88 dollars.
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll is a funny, strange, and totally fitting tribute to a long-overlooked genius. Was “Tutti Frutti” really the “first” Rock ‘n’ Roll song, as Kirby insists? Sure, I’ll buy that. And even if you disagree, I think you’ll love this book anyway. Any musician, music-lover, or lover of weirdness should hop on in.
Justin Brooke is a guitarist and one of the frontmen in the Atlanta based band Howlies
March 6th - Now See This!
Join Picaflor on March 6 for our next Art Series. We’ve assembled some very cool local artists and bands to showcase and satisfy your creative appetite. stay tuned. more info on the way…
Artists:
Tim McGrath, Jon Hinkemeyer, Chris Bell, Bill Conor (from Liberty), Nathan Morris
Now See This!
Bands for the evening:
The bands that will be playing on March 6 - Uncle Daddy and the kissin cousins, Company of Ghosts, and Walk from the Gallows
March 13 - Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon
March 13 - Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon
Keith Richards Birthday Bash - Chickens & Pigs & Friends
Chickens & Pigs
2009 Artisan Market/Party
All art sold will be well priced!
Gutterpop Art - For Sale
Picaflor welcomes Gutterpop’s Artari to our gallery. Many of his work sold on opening night but some of the original works are still for sale. Interested buyers contact justin@picaflorstudio.com or call 404.200.0475. If you see any piece that you would like as a print or to commission work by Gutterpop, contact us about that as well.
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Q Bert Reynolds
$150
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Hot Dog Fight (Party)
SOLD
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Centerpedence
SOLD
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Artari
$100
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Spaced Invaders
SOLD
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Dug Dig
$150
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Donky Kong Fu
$150
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Frog her
$250
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Drag in layers
$150
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Intervention
$150
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Hold the Pickle
SOLD
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Crabs
$250
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Galley Girl
SOLD
December 4 - Gutterpop Presents ARTARI w The Falcon Lords and Grand Prize Winners from Last Year
Local Pop Artist to Hold Art Show
GutterPOP! artist and designer James Curran will host Artari, an original Art Show inspired by Retro Arcades at Picaflor Studio located at 195 Arizona Avenue on Friday, December 4th beginning at 7pm.
Gutterpop present Artari at Picaflor w music by The Falcon Lords and Grand Prize Winners from Last Year
The show features over 20 pieces of 80’s inspired mixed media reflective of days spent in the arcade including Galaga, Frogger, Ms. Pacman and BurgerTime. Each original will be available for sale with bids accepted during the evening.
Free wine and cheese will be served from 7 - 9pm immediately followed by local bands Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and The Falcon Lords. 80’s attire not required but highly recommended.
Over the last two year’s GutterPOP! has celebrated the popular art show John Oates WILL Fucking Kill You! and iconic Take your SHIT back to Buckhead series.
For more information call Picaflor Studio at 404.247.6432.
November 20 - Choking Sun Presents Enlist!
Choking Sun is a triumvirate collective of artists who specialize in multi-dimensinal performances, utilizing improvised and composed music, interactive sculpture, video and analog projection, lightshows and ceremonial aspects, to establish immersive environments for the audience.
Click here for a full press release.
Preview art and music at www.chokingsun.com.
Choking Sun at Picaflor!
November 14 - See Through Souls
Music begins at 3 p.m. and includes a rare performance by Tag Team with friends Walk From The Gallows, Los Buenos, What Happened to Your Fire Tiger, TheDolldaze, Cassavetes, Chickens & Pigs, Corey Pallon, Kathryn Humphrey, Wes Ables, The Good Graces, Ramon Wals ~ with DJs Spy Magnet and Press Play.
For more information, visit www.seethroughsouls.org
Window Art Opening!
Oct 30 - Pine Magazine Halloween’s Eve Party w West End Hotel, Los Buenos, Wighat
Pine Magazine Halloween's Eve w West End Motel, Los Buenos, Wighat
Gallery
The Picaflor gallery is an attempt to expand access to visual art in the Atlanta community. Atlanta enjoys a rich community of talented visual artists and Picaflor would like to offer our yoga and venue patrons the ability to enjoy their work. Every 6 to 8 weeks, we will have a new exhibit, either showcasing one particular artist or a group of artists who share a common thread.
Another goal of our art gallery, aside from simply offering the aesthetic, is to raise awareness about certain social issues. Whether it be local issues, such as gentrification, or more global issues, like animal rights or the state of the U.S. economy, Picaflor endeavors to do its part to raise awareness through visual media. We believe art is a powerful tool which can motivate us in many ways and we are excited about the ability to extend the work of local painters and photographers to a greater sphere of people in our city.
Oct 17 - Howlies, Mourdella, The Blue Eyed Goodbyes (ACP Art Opening)
Howlies, Mourdella, The Blue Eyed Goodbyes play ACP Art Opening
Oct 2 - Art Opening for Jess Snyder! Music by Grand Prize Winners, Bury Me a Lion, and Spirits and the Melchizedek Children
Jess Snyder, Spirits and the Melchizedek Children, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year, Bury Me a Lion
Sept 21 - Jack Carter, Jed Drummond, Kira Annalise
Jack Carter, Jed Drummond, and Kira Annalise
Sept 18 - Mice in Cars, Walk from the Gallows, Humboldt Trio
Mice in Cars, The Humboldt Trio, Walk from the Gallows!
Sept 11 - Fox Trotsky, Rabbit, Wes Ables
Fox Trotsky, Rabbit, Wes Ables
Sept 4 - Sick Figures, Cassavetes, Feeding Fingers
Sick Figures, Cassavetes, Feeding Fingers
August 28 - Naomi Lavender, Blake Rainey, Los Buenos, Nadia Marie, DJ Press Play
Naomi Lavender, Blake Rainey, Los Buenos, Nadia Marie
August 14 - Recession Vacation Art Opening
Music for the evening:
Super Music Guests! Rev Rebel and the Sound Supreme and DJ C Lark
August 7 - Mary O. Harrison and the Tiny Tears, the Good Graces, Chickens & Pigs
Mary O. Harrison & the Tiny Tears, the Good Graces, Chickens & Pigs
July 31 - Pistolero, Author’s Apology, What happened to your fire tiger, DJ Press Play
They built their own amps, they record voraciously, and they are true students of rock and roll. They are Pistolero.
Special Guests:
Author's Apology, What happened to your fire tiger, DJ Press Play
July 24 - Jeffrey Butzer
Jeffrey Butzer plays multiple instruments at the same time
“With a solid following continuing to build in Europe, Asia and the US, Jeffrey Butzer is easily one of Atlanta’s new prized musicians with music that is reminiscent of Gainsbourg’s darker days in France, of the thematic explorations of Galt McDermont, and of songs that create the setting of late nights that are experienced but experimentative, the sort of nights we all wished we had more often.” -Pine Magazine
Special Guests:
Tom Cheshire and High Waters, DJ Lil Ray, Mary Miller