Weekend arts agenda: SoCo enourages sharing … and art

Friday, May 8th, 2009

During last year’s drought, the State of Georgia entertained a grudge over the water supply along the border with Tennessee, a row that was as much a waste of time as it was eerily antiquarian. Fortunately, recent trends in our local arts community show otherwise: The Peach State can get along with its neighbors, after all.

This Sat. May 9 from 8-11 p.m., Beep Beep Gallery opens a new exhibition of drawings and paintings, appropriately titled Southern Comfort. The show features a select delegation from Nashville’s Twist Art Gallery: Duncan McDaniel, Erin Plew, and John Whitten. All three artists are Nashville natives, chosen because they “differ greatly in their respective subjects and techniques, but underlying their imagery there is a tone of disconnect, nostalgia, and an absurd take on violence.” In exchange, Beep Beep offered up locals Ann-Marie Manker and Jason R. Butchter, whose exhibition in Nashville opened last weekend.

The show also gives the excuse to quote Flight of the Concords:

Women like three things: Men in kilts, Southern Comfort, and Chris Isaac’s ‘Wicked Game.’

For more local arts events, visit clatl.com/events or, check today’s visual arts To Do List at BurnAway.org.

(Photo courtesy Beep Beep Gallery)